Starbucks, Snowmen, and Christmas Cups

What's going on with the stupid hullabaloo over Starbucks' red Christmas cups and delicious red-scarfed snowmen?  What is the source of all that negative publicity? A rival coffee shop, a red-and-green-only organization, a snowman-protective movement?

Fio, of course, has her own theory.  She thinks a Ku Klux Klan-type hate group has declared war on Starbucks because the coffee shop developed a social conscience a while back and tried to spread the good word with the rather innocuous "Race Together" message inscribed on its cups.

Therefore, Fio being Fio, she has decided to patronize Starbucks a couple of extra times this season to show her opposition to racism and her support of snowmen and red cups.

On the other hand, maybe Fio and her ilk are being maneuvered.  Maybe Starbucks itself is the source of the outcry.  As 'tis often said, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

What Have You Heard?

Panic, panic! Fiorella got involved in composing a love scene for her next book and almost forgot to write a blog!

Has she told you about the wonderful time she had at her RWA meeting on Monday?  And that THREE people asked her to autograph books?  And that she wore her T-shirt with the cover of WHAT THE HEART WANTS on it?  And that she showed off a print edition of WTHWs?

Has she told you that Forever Yours is starting a publicity campaign for WTHWs this week?  Has she told you she has the promise of another review from a friend?

Has she told you she is going stark raving bonkers--or can you figure that out for yourselves?

Celebrity Snippets

Jennifer vs. Angelina.  Forget about Brad Pitt--it's the belly vs. the breasts to determine who can generate the most publicity,  Jennifer Aniston's supposed pregnancy or Angelina Jolie's mastectomy.
Right now, Jennifer's winning.  If she wears anything other than skin-tight, she's supposedly proved the tabloids right.
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Now that Lindsay Lohan is locked away for a couple of months, there's a new loony tune in Hollywood, and her name is Amanda Bynes.  What is it about child stars when they grow up?
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Meanwhile the Kardashians are dashian from spotlight to spotlight, still with no visible talent whatsoever except being able to have sex in the spotlight.
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And if the ladies, aren't enough, Michael Douglas has told us more about his sexual habits than we really wanted to know.  Um--keep your mouth shut, Mike.

Janistons on the Way?

Fio is amused by the constant teasing--week after week after week--about the status of Jennifer Aniston's uterus, but your cynical blogger doesn't think Justin Theroux's hand placement at the Oscars was anything other than a way of getting Jennifer's picture splattered across more news venues than that of whoever it was that won best actress.  After all, if there are twins in the offing, you can bet a surrogate is carrying them. 

But it is a great publicity campaign. Look--even Fio has written about it.