Yeah, what bothers me about that image isn't that it's topless, but that it's a fairly sexual image -- wrapped in bedsheet, mussed-up hair, bright lipstick, and so on. And it's not so much that it's a sexual fifteen-year-old, but that this fifteen-year-old's sexuality is being spotlighted in a photo shoot totally orchestrated by adults. (There have also been some photos recently of her goofing around with friends, that had some shots of her lying across a guy's lap and pulling aside her tank top to show her bra strap and some other stuff like that, and I've got much less problem with those, because they seemed like her just being a kid.)

I thought I read somewhere that her parents had left for the day during the topless part of the photo shoot, but that her tutor and grandmother were still there.

I found this which seems to be the end-all of the Curtis topless kerfuffle, and really? People cared? Don't get me wrong--I think she looks majorly hot, but why is that a big deal? There's no scandal there!

Then I read on...

"I've let my hair go gray. I wear only black and white. Every year I buy three or four black dresses that I just keep in rotation. I own one pair of blue jeans. I've given away all my jewelry, because I don't wear it," she says.

Huh. Wearing only black and white is an interesting choice. That I could never make. Same with the one pair of blue jeans. Does she just do laundry all the time?

Reminds me--reading magazines in doctor's offices yesterday morning they showed Ellen Barkin's taste in dresses--I forget the designer, but they showed her in four versions of exactly the same dress, just different colours. Nicely enough they were giving her props for knowing exactly what flattered her.

I am more creeped out by the incesty vibe than the topless young woman vibe

Ah, see, I'd read nothing about her father's direct involvement in the provocative (wow, it's hard for me not to type provocateuse there) photos. Just that the pictures were vetted on the spot.

Disney's having a hell of a time with its child stars. Course, this scandal is pretty mild, comparatively.

There's a robin building a nest right outside my window!

Goodnews is my router works ffine. Bad news is that my laptop may be toast. This post is courtesy of our PS3. If you think the iphone keys are tough to use, try a gaming controller.

Need a bluetooth keyboard stat.

Does she just do laundry all the time?

I read "I own one pair of blue jeans" as "not 20 different pairs", rather than as "I wear jeans every day (and they're always the same pair)".

There's a robin building a nest right outside my window!

OH! That reminds me that I saw my first dead baby bird of dead baby bird season this morning. Fallen from one of the two nests under my back porch awning. bummer.

er...not to gloom all over the happy robin story.

Cash, you can plug a USB keyboard into the PS3 -- cheaper and/or you might have a spare hanging around, if it's just for temporary use. "Typing" with a game controller is utter hell.

Miley and her father:

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