Turkey and the Straw

With a less Sensitive Julian this season, could this be one of the
stories for Julian and BrookeDavis this spring?

Let me use this straw as an example.
After all day taking care of the kids, the housework, my mother, your mother, Clay calling all the time, a hitman in Tree Hill, dogs with the munchies roaming the streets and trying to fit my directing career in, my bendy doesn't unbend at the snap of BrookeDavis' finger or anything else.

Poor little Julian, just wants some BrookeDavis attention.
Are you even listening to me?

Don't worry about it, I met this Viagra sales guy. It was like ...magic! He gave you some samples?

Huhhh...you know, I never even thought to asked for samples.

Happy Austin Friday.

Second Cup

Put a pot on, grab another cup, it's National Coffee Day here in the US, and while it seems every day is Coffee Day for Jakewhat about Austin?
Does that mean he likes cream and sugar?

Austin looks more like a coffee and donut kind of guy, dontcha' think?
Even though Jake played the cop.

And with all the pictures of coffee runs and cups in hand none can beat this one.
Maybe it's the sugar and the cream talking.

Go Fish!

Where's Jake? Two days and no coffee runs. Where could he be?

Maybe he's gone fishin'.
Jake now give me the eyes.

Now do the mouth.
Now wiggle your fins.
Swim back and forth.
Flop on the floor and flail like a fish.Heyyyyyyyyyyy.... that's SpongeBob.
Hmmm, I wonder if that tail would work for someone taller?
Hey quit checking out my tail.

To all who are celebrating Rosh Hashanah

L'Shana Tova!

Happy 5772!

J.A.B. and Weave

Back on the first of September Sensitive Julian slipped in a tweet.

Julian ain't so sensitive anymore people. Hold on. 2012 is gonna be a wild ride. - Sept 1

Is Julian Andrew Baker going back to his bad ass ways? Or is he just going to ditch the dye free fragrance free laundry detergent and go for something with a scent?Why Julian does need to be a bit more of a bad ass, let's hope he doesn't lose some of those quirky things that make him mama's little JuJu Bee.


So what do you think? Julian a bad ass? Or will he always be J-Bra sensitive fella?

And for Two Wheel Tuesday...who says just two? Why not go for the Big Wheel?

The BYOBW Race San Francisco every April.
Now that's Bad Ass.

Good to the last drop

Jake's New York minute has turned into more of a moment, as he was seen grabbing coffee with his trusty Mac book again this morning.

So what's he up to hitting the Java trail.

Is he on the hunt for the "best cup of coffee in the world"?
Think he could do outfit.

Tracking down the elusive and retired Juan Valdez?Campaigning for the title of #1 Celebrity Coffee Drinker?

Of is he like the rest of us and trying to find free Wi-Fi because he doesn't have it in his place in the Village?

Don't think he's the only one provokes questions today.

TOP GUN lost auditions. Props to Saturday Night Live. And Bill Hader scares me with his talent ---------> AUS10

Which makes you wonder. Which Bill Hader's impressions he liked more?

Senstive 70's TV icon Alan Alda? Or
Harvey Firestein amazed that the producers don't have a clue about their script:

"I say, 'Ice Man's on my tail, he's coming hard.' I literally said that to a bathroom attendant last night."

And ya gotta wonder how many times "someone" has used "Goose, take me to bed or lose me forever" on him.

Out Spotlight

Slowly there have been a few athletes who have come out over the years, with just a handful while they are still competing in there sport. Today's Spotlight is a college athlete who came out not as gay, but as the NCAA’s first Div. 1 publicly transgender player. Today's Out Spotlight is Kye Allums.

Kye Allums is member of George Washington University's Women's basketball team. Allums was born female and originally named Kay-Kay Allums, however, he now identifies as a male and is currently playing the women's team.

Last year Allums chose to come out as a transgender male.

The 5'11" guard started over 20 games as a Sophomore for GW and was a starter for the team when he came. Speaking to the press after his story came out he said,"Yes, I am a male on a female team. And I want to be clear about this. I am a transgender male, which means feelings-wise, how it feels on the inside, I feel as if I should have been born male with male parts. But my biological sex is female, which makes me a transgender male."

George Washington University issued a statement of support the day after Allums went public in an article for Outsports. He spoke about himself and his decision a news conference the following.

While still biologically a woman, he hopes to transition to a man but not until his playing eligibility is up after this 2011-2012 season. He cannot start hormone therapy or undergo surgery as long as he wants to stay on the women's team.

The question asked by so many was why not wait until then to tell the world?

"That's what my plan was," Allums said. "And then it just got too tough not to be me. I heard people call me a girl and say 'she' and refer to me as something that I wasn't."

He talked about feeling relief after coming out to teammates during his first two years of college, a year before going public.

When Allums came out he was supported and praised by his teammates and his coach. Then, Senior forward Ivy Abiona said the team supported Allums and praised him for "courage and fortitude."

"We're a basketball family," his coach Mike Bozeman said. "And I just immediately felt like I needed to support Kye."

Allums' mom got the news from her child via e-mail. Kye said the e-mail took 15 minutes to compose but five hours to send.

His mother's reaction? "She said, 'I don't have to agree with your decision, but I'm always going to have your back. I'm your mother. … I'm always going to love you.' "

Growing up, Allums was a tomboy. The oldest of four kids, he would often say he was a boy despite being born a biological girl. Around 12, he realized that no other girls behaved or dressed the way he did, so he decided to go along with what the other girls his age did: Putting on make-up, wearing skirts and dresses. After just a year of putting up a feminine front, it was back to the tomboy clothes and wondering why he just didn’t fit in.

“I’ve always felt most comfortable dressing like a boy, but my mom would take all of my clothes from me and she’d force me to wear girl clothes. I’d bring sweats and basketball shorts and put them in my backpack. I’d just change every day when I got to school, and I had to change back before I went home. It was annoying, but it was the only way I could go to school.”

In high school, Allums met other people who acted and dressed like him: They were lesbians. So for the next few years Allums identified as lesbian, finally fitting into a group that he could define. But as time went on, despite their similarities, he realized he wasn't a lesbian either.

But it was after a heated text exchange with his mother during his freshman year at college, during which she referred to him as a "young lady", it clicked, Allums realized that he didn't identify as female, but rather, as male.

Afterwards, he began to identify himself as a transgender male, first to friends, teammates and teammates, then to his coach who he was concern wouldn't be supportive.

Back in June 2010 when coach tracked him down to talk about another issue it gave Allums the opportunity to talk about his transition. He explained, as best he could, that he was a man and had always been a man. The conversation was a bit tough at first but then the tone changed, when his coach told him:

“Why would you think I wouldn’t have your back? I’ve had your back through everything. Our relationship has grown from nothing to this, and now you think I’d just turn my back on you because you told me this? No. I love you and I’ll always be here for you.”

At his press conference following him coming out, Allums spoke openly and "with disarming nonchalance" to the local and national news media outlets following the story. "It feels like a dream, actually."

Being realistic, he expected opposing fans to heckle him but he took it in stride saying "People are going to talk about me until the day I die."

Allums said that others struggling with similar issues have said thank you for sharing his story. "They're proud of me and that feels great."

Asked at the time which was more important: Winning games or inspiring others? "Winning games. And by winning games I hope I do inspire people."

Party Planning

Jumping in the wayback machine.

And today it's back to July 9, 2005 and Jake at Jessica Simpson's 25th birthday party.
A big bash at the birthday girl's parent's home in Encino, Jake joined Jess' then husband, Nick Lachey, her sister and then husband Pete Wentz, Eva Mendes, Mandy Moore, Topher Grace and Joaquin Phoenix and 150 other people wishing her a Happy Birthday.

It does seem a bit random for Jake to be there. Maybe he just can't say no to a charming Texan? And who knows maybe his own Lonestar was part of the Texas contingent representing that night.*

And it looks like the MTV awards wasn't the first time Jake posed with Eva.
And that Lonestar?

Well fast forward a few years, and Jake's party connections connect again.

First with a punchand then with a pumpkin.
*Wonder if that's how Papa Joe got the idea for a story about a single Jess secretly dating dating almost two years to the date from this party.