Happy Valentine’s Day!
Here’s a video from D. Woods, formerly of Danity Kane, to all you Grinch’s who just want this day to be over with. If you don’t have a Valentine, you have work to do in the ’09. If you do have one (or two), why are you on the Internet today?
Spotted on NecoleBitchie.com.
Below is my Valentine Aroma Gram to all of my Sandrarose.com readers. It smells like a rose. Just scratch the screen and sniff. 
It’s a Boy For Mummy M.I.A.
Sri Lankan star M.I.A. (“Paper Planes”) gave birth to a boy, according to online reports via Contactmusic.com:
Indian gossip website DesiHits.com was the first to report the Paper Planes hitmaker, who performed on her due date at the Grammy Awards (08Feb09), gave birth to a baby boy on 12 February (09).
In a recent interview, the singer/rapper revealed she thought her child would be a boy, stating, “It doesn’t matter to me if it’s a boy or a girl. If it’s a girl she will be a tough girl, but I think I may have a boy because I have a pointy stomach.”
M.I.A., real name Maya Arulpragasam, was so worried about going into labour at the Grammys, she had an ambulance, stretcher and golf cart on standby – and her fiance Benjamin Brewer used a stopwatch to time her contractions shortly after she came off stage following her performance with Jay-Z, T.I, Lil Wayne and Kanye West.
The baby’s dad, Ben Brewer, is the biracial son of Edgar Bronfman Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group, who comes from one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Canada.
Bronfman Jr.’s marriage to Brewer’s black mother, Sherry Brewer, was a source of contention between Edgar Jr. and his dad, Edgar Bronfman Sr., the wealthy heir to the Seagrams liquor fortune.
Bronfman Sr., considered by some to be racist, wrote in his memoirs:
“I very much wanted for him to end the relationship, because I told him, all marriages are difficult enough without the added stress of totally different backgrounds. Sherry offered to convert [to Judaism], which though well intentioned, was not the point.”
Edgar Jr. and Sherry had two more children before divorcing in 1991.
Video: Kids Protest Changing Name of Their School To Barack Obama High
Talk about school spirit. High school student “Brody” says:
I think it’s ridiculous that they want to change the name to Barack Obama High School! What has he done so far? Until he does something as president, we can’t say that he’s the greatest president there ever was. He hasn’t done anything yet.
Celebs Out & About: Taraji P. Henson & Sanaa Lathan
Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, left, wearing a gorgeous Zac Posen gown, posed with her boo Sanaa Lathan, center, and Wendy Raquel Robinson in one of the sponsor lounges at the 2009 NAACP Image Awards last night.
Taraji and Sanaa chat with Rosario Dawson
Photos: Wireimage/Getty
Now That Rihanna’s Face is Busted, Guess Who the New Cover Girl Is?
Diamond is “Cover Girl Beautiful!” As celebrity photographer Derek Blanks says, she’s confident and sexy!
Change Is Good
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Man Who Started TV Network To Show Muslims in Positive Light, Beheads Wife
A Buffalo, NY man who started a TV network to show Muslims in a positive light, beheaded his wife who provided the inspiration for the network, according to police.
Muzzammil Hassan, 44, is charged with 2nd degree murder in the brutal beheading of his wife Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. The murder took place on Thursday (2/12) in the Orchard Park office of their company, Bridges TV.
The NPR (National Public Radio) profiled the Hassans in 2004. They talked about starting “A new cable network for Muslim-Americans” after 9/11 to “inform and entertain Muslims and, at the same time, give viewers who aren’t Muslims a glimpse into” their culture.
They described traveling from Buffalo to Detroit a few weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, and came up with the idea for the new network after hearing some “derogatory remarks about Muslims” on the car radio.
The couple separated last year and police say the victim had an order of protection against her estranged husband.
The murder weapon was not recovered.
