Sans Celebrity... or What's in a Name?

As I lay in bed watching the news reports of the chaos and destruction in Louisiana and Misssissippi, I wondered why there haven't been any major celebrities in the headlines with opinions or donations or any kind of fundraising campaign. When the tsunami hit, there were celebrities up the yin yang going on the air and urging people to help out. Around this time in '97, celebs couldn't wait to express their outrage over the Princess Diana incident. Where are the celebrities now when an entire American city has plunged into utter pandemonium? Only one celebrity (and I think he'd much rather be referred to as an actor) did anything to help and that was Morgan Freeman. Alrighty for him raising money with an online auction. He's smart enough to know that most Americans are too fat and lazy to get up out of their chairs, so he cleverly constructed the fundraising auction and all the proceeds went to the American Red Cross.

But other celebs were less than generous with their help to the relief effort. Britney Spears, aren't you from Louisiana? Donate some of that money you were putting into that joke of a reality show to the real Chaotic that is going on right now. She's about to have a kid, so I'll ease up on her.

The naming of the Spears child made me scratch my head the same way I scratched it when Gwenyth Paltrow and Chris Martin named their child Apple. There's serious fruit like Plum and Peach, then there's silly fruit. Apple is a silly fruit, and so is Mango. But back to Britney... London? London Preston Spears. Apparently, it's the city where she met Kevin Unemployed. I mean Kevin Federline. It's also the city where Madonna lives. Coincidence? Hmmm... If I had a boy, I'd name him Remington Steele Magallano. And if I had a girl, she'd be called Veronica Mars Magallano. Hey, people name their children after fruit and cities and you're rolling your eyes at me for naming my kids after my favorite television shows?