I had a brief conversation with a guy from Detroit who was visiting Calypso’s Cave where this pic was taken. We were speculating about who might own the super yacht. He liked to think that it might be Tiger Woods. I think most Americans richy-rich types stay in the Caribbean with their seven figure toys. To find other self portraits, go to the source at DigiCass.

I live on an Island in the Mediterranean. I haven’t lived here long enough to be able to spell Mediterranean without thinking about it really hard, but I have gotten used to seeing really, really expensive boats.

The luxury yacht business is booming, supply cannot keep up with demand. The picture is just a randomly chosen big yacht. Brad and Angelina are having a 240ft one built to specs.

I was snorkelling last year and I had an enjoyable chat with a couple of bikini clad french girls that had swam to the shore from one of these fancy yachts that was anchored at the mouth of the bay. I’m not sure if they were more amused about the octopi that I was reporting about or by the novelty of speaking English to a slightly bashful, middle-aged goof. Did I mention that the boat was really nice?

Anyway, the conspicuous consumption by Pitt and Jolie follows on the heels of a hasty adoption of a fourth child, one that Pitt was rumored to have had reservations about. I’m talking about the adoption, not the child, I’m sure he will accept and love the child.

The story about the yacht purchase also follows reports of Pitt saying that four kids was enough for now and that he wanted to take time to get to know thame all before they added anyone else to the family.

I don’t know these people, but I have known other people. Sometimes couples buy stuff as a way to distract themselves from relationship issues.

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A few words to press or sources or whatever have resulted in multiple reports of Angelina’s intention to put the breaks on her movie career. I think that if this is for real, she should consider setting up a comfy home office near the kids playroom and starting a new career in blogging.

Of course people would then accuse her of breaking up the happy relationship between Will Wheaton and teh Internets.

Maddox had a blog, I think that it was ghost written. I think that it was satirical. I think that it was unauthorized. I think it might be defunct now.

There are reports that Angelina has begun the process of adopting a child from Vietnam.

Angelina Jolie has two adopted children and one baby that is her biological daughter with Brad Pitt. There has always been the probability of more, she has made no secret of her desires for a big family. After a certain number of children, there can be a negative public perception. I am not sure what that number is, I don’t think it is written in stone. My wife is an only child and she is looking askance at this latest news. I have three siblings and I am holding of on making any judgments about Angelina’s decision for now.

The reality is that Angelina has a lot of resources, and hopefully a lot of love to give to children and when she adopts an orphan from a developing country, that child is almost certain to have a better life that it would otherwise. Another reality is that with every additional child added to the family, the amount of one on one time that each child gets is reduced. I think there is a point where it is just wrong for her to adopt more children. Maybe five is the upper limit. Maybe four, Brad and Angelina only have a total of four hands to hold.

Brad Pitt has a bit of an architecture fetish and Angelina is all about helping desperate cases. The old city of New Orleans seems like the perfect place for them to play house. They just bought a $3.5 million mansion in the French quarter.

I think it might be a better place than some to raise a family with a variety of ethnicities as well. It’s too bad that there is a problem with violent crime in the city, which has surprisingly stayed pretty much the same on a per capita basis after Katrina.

Kate Kretz is an artist who has spent much of her life in France. She now calls Florida home. Her introduction to American culture as a fully-formed personality might account for her contemplative take on celebrity. Go check out the pictures of her piece on her blog.

Angelina Jolie is kind of sarcastically deified by the artist. Jolie is floating in the sky with a Walmart checkout area below her and her children held close. Influences as far as the classical posing of the figures are Van Dyke and Raphael.

I would have to say that the work was probably designed to elicit media attention in exactly the same way as last year’s nude Britney Spears sculpture. It may be a matter of taste, but I would say that this painting is ten times better than that sculpture. It will not get as much attention because Angelina Jolie is not naked.

My title makes it sound like a vacation but they were actually on a mission to bring attention to the plight of Colombian refugees. Angelina Jolie described the situation as “the greatest humanitarian tragedy in the Western Hemisphere” .

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie handed out presents to the children at a refugee camp on Christmas Day.

Colombian singer/songwriter Shakira has been tireless in her efforts to improve the lives of refugees. Many of the people driven from their homes during two decades of conflict still live within Colombia.

Angelina Jolie was on Jay Leno’s show 5 times.  She was on Ellen Degeneres’ show.  She was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart twice.  Angelina was on Conan twice and Rosie twice too.  All the COMEDIANS should try not to take it too personally when Angelina is quoted as saying that Zahara Jolie-Pitt is the funniest person she has ever met.  Angelina is clearly biased, and Zahara most likely has fresher material to work with.

Published reports have claimed that the unmarried father of Angelina Jolie’s children’s mother - Jane Pitt - wants to spend some time with her ex daughter-in-law Jennifer Aniston over the holiday weekend.

This is the worst writing I have seen in ages, it makes absolutely no sense. It also song tagged me with I’m my Own Grampa , thanks a lot.

The writer goes on to cast aspersions on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for not travelling to the US and A to celebrate thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a secular holiday with a pagan heritage during which people supposedly thank the Christian god before commiting the cardinal sin of gluttony. Americans also associate it with another sin sloth.

I love turkey, and America…I’m just sayin’ is all.

It’s becoming clear from various incidents that the security team for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not an easygoing bunch. Even before they garnered the most recent spate of bad press over the school incident, I suspected that there is a long term campaign to make paparazzi decide that it simply isn’t worth it for them to bother.

Here’s the problem with that strategy: The harder it is for paparazzi to get photos of a celebrity, the more those pictures are worth. Photographers are already willing to break the law to get pictures. They are willing to put people and their children at risk by mobbing them or chasing them in traffic. There are always going to be a few of these guys who are willing to take a punch in the face, too. I think a better option than fighting so hard against them is to court them in an organized and safe way.

As far as the racism charge goes, I don’t have enough information to formulate an opinion.

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