Ashlee Simpson Gives Birth?

Pete Wentz just updated his official site to say:

“Due to breaking news and scheduling conflicts, I will not be appearing on Larry King Live tonight, though I am a big fan of the show and look forward to appearing on it in the future. I also look forward to the chance to continue supporting civil rights and speaking out against the passing of Proposition 8 and others like it (I’m looking at you Arizona and Florida) whenever and wherever i can.”

Pete, 29, and Ashlee Simpson, 24, were married this past May. Ashlee is probably in labor or has already given birth…

-- protest tomorrow, prop 8

Tomorrow there will be protests all across the country about California's backward slide into ignorance. Lets not rest until gay ppl are recognized as equal...

-- tornado shelter?

In the Denver airport, something I never really think about...

Jennifer Aniston blasts Angelina Jolie

Jennifer Aniston has branded love rival Angelina Jolie “uncool” following the actress’s admission she fell in love with current partner Brad Pitt when he was still married to the former Friends star.

Jolie recently revealed she and Pitt “fell in love” on the set of 2004 movie Mr and Mrs Smith, a whole year before Pitt and Aniston divorced.

The quote contradicted their previous claims they only hooked up after the split was made formal.

And it has prompted Aniston to break her long silence on the subject, in an interview with the December 2008 issue of Vogue magazine. What Angelina did was very uncool.

The 39-year-old says, “What Angelina did was very uncool.” Just last year, Jolie offered to meet Aniston in her own interview with the magazine. She said at the time, “If she wanted to (meet) then I would be open to it.”

-- sudden notice, but I'm flying to Seattle tomorrow

Hoping this is me in a few days...

Dan's in Washington state on a business trip and we realized I could fly out for free on a frequent flyer extra plane ticket. Yay! I'm leaving in the morning. Will try to keep up with NaBloPoMo via phone if I don't have internet access. Final destination: Whidbey Island (in the Puget Sound, not too far from Vancouver, Canada).

I was here six years ago and absolutely LOVED it. Here are some of Dan's photos from that last trip:

Whale watching, can you tell I was a wee bit chilly?

Bizzaro statue in a strip mall parking lot. wtf?
I am totally going to look for this,
see if it's still there.

Hiking on Third Beach, Olympic peninsula.

Sunset over the Pacific. I love the wildness of the shore here. Having grown up with the Jersey shore's very tame and developed beaches, I am drawn like a magnet to the opposite side of the country with its magnificent cliffs, jagged rocks and secluded coastline. I love the Northwest.

Perched on an overlook,
writing at Deception Pass State Park.

It's 11:30pm, maybe I should start packing.

"One More Time" for Britney Spears?

A year ago, Britney Spears was taking court-ordered drug and alcohol tests, had fired her managers, was losing custody of her kids, and some journalists were preparing her obituary.

This week, she was caring for her children like any mother would when she rushed 2-year-old Jayden James to a hospital after a bad reaction to something he ate. As for her career, only one week ago she was on stage performing with Madonna and on the brink of an extraordinary musical comeback.

Industry watchers wonder whether Spears, 26, can win back the young, fickle fans now accustomed to watching her fall apart, or if she can stage a comeback like pop diva Mariah Carey. She spent several years in a slump before rebounding to charttopper status with 2005 album "The Emancipation of Mimi."

"You can only have so many second chances and this is definitely one of those now or never moments," said Ellen Carpenter, a senior editor at Spin magazine.

Ten years after she burst onto the world stage as a perky 17-year-old and scored hit songs including "... Baby One More Time," Spears seems to have pulled her life and career out of the toilet with a hit single, a new album due out in December, a tell-all documentary and talk of her first tour since 2004.

Spears' first single "Womanizer," off her Dec 2. album "Circus," was a good omen. It leapt to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in October and went to No.1 on iTunes charts in Canada, France, Spain and Sweden.

But in an era of falling record sales, the big money in the music industry is made through live shows. Spears, who has done only a handful of live performances since 2005, is expected to launch a world tour early next year.

"Nothing in this economic environment is a slam dunk," said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of concert magazine Pollstar.

"When an artist stays off the scene for a couple of years, it is impossible to tell how much that audience has gravitated elsewhere until you put tickets on sale," Bongiovanni said.

Spears made headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2007 and early 2008 -- shaving her head, partying without panties, two hospitalizations for psychiatric checks, losing custody of her sons and giving a laughable performance at an MTV Awards show.

As the sexy young pop star who sold more than 60 million records in her heyday gave way to an erratic, disheveled divorcee, her musical and personal obituary was being written.

"Last year, it didn't seem like she would ever come out of it. Her falling apart was bigger than anybody, even Michael Jackson. I don't know if anyone in pop music has fallen that low and come back," Carpenter said.

But since February, when Spears' father Jamie took over her business and personal affairs, the singer has reunited with the manager who made her a star, won three MTV Video Music Awards, recorded her sixth studio album and relaunched her Web site.

She will mark the release of "Circus" with a November 30 TV documentary about her darkest days and an appearance, on her 27th birthday, on U.S. TV chat show "Good Morning America."

Still, Bongiovanni said it may be hard for fans to separate Spears the pop star from Spears the pop problem. "Are they coming to see you because they think a train wreck is about to happen, or because they really like your music?" he said.

Lindsay Lohan Calls Barack Obama "Colored"

Lindsay Lohan calls President-elect Barack Obama "colored" in a new video.

"It was really exciting. It's an amazing feeling. It's our first colored president," the Mean Girls star, 22, told Access Hollywood when asked about the election.

"I'm so thrilled to be part of the country while that's going on, and that actually came to fruition," added Lohan, who often voiced her support for Obama during the campaign.

The actress also says celebrities played a part in getting out the vote.

"I think what Leonardo DiCaprio did, and what a bunch of other celebrities did on MySpace was great...just to encourage people to vote," she said.