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Alex James Welcomes Baby Girl

Karl Erikson — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:11:00 GMT

Congratulations to Blur bassist Alex James and his wife Claire. They welcomed their first daughter in late August. The darling little girl came in at 8 lbs., 3 oz. and has been named Athena. Alex and Claire are already parents to Geronimo, 4, and 2-year-old twins Artemis and Galileo.

In his column for The Independent, Alex said:

"Our daughter arrived last Thursday, 8lb 3oz. I’ve been gazing at her, as one does. A tiny toad hopped inside yesterday and as I held it in my palm on my way to the pond for lost frogs, all the miraculous quick glimmer of a new life was there in my hand. Frogs and princesses: they’re more similar than I thought."

Uh, yeeeeeah. Child Protective Services are said to be on the way to James' house. Look at that photo. It's like they're in some weird compound or something, making their own clothes out of old lava lamp boxes. And who names their freaking kid Geronimo?

And just in case you don't think you know Blur, they have one of those songs that has been used around a trillion times in commercials.

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Hayden Panetierre: Angelina's My Hero

HerBadMother — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:02:00 GMT

Heroes hottie Hayden Panetierre says that she wants to be Angelina Jolie when she grows up.

Panettiere, in Washington, D.C. for the Forecast Earth Summit by The Weather Channel, told People magazine that she would be honored to be thought of as 'the next Angelina Jolie' when it comes to activism. "Absolutely," said the Heroes star. "She was definitely one of my inspirations growing up and she was definitely somebody I looked up to."

Inspirations while she was growing up? God, she's so young. She probably doesn't even remember Gia Angelina, or Hackers Angelina - you know, back when Angie was just a hottie, and not a humanitarian crusader packing a horde of children on her back and leading Brad Pitt around by the nose. Still, Hayden's to be commended for being, probably, the only red-blooded Angie-fan who would rather be Angie than do Angie. That she looks at Angie and sees an older-woman-slash-potential-mentor is actually really, really sweet. It makes me feel old and dirty, but that's neither here nor there.

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