Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux did their Christmas cards together. [LaineyGossip]
Are these Brad Pitt quotes new? I think he‘s said this before. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
This video of a big sister calming down her baby sister is awesome. [Videogum]
How is JWoww‘s bikini top staying on?!? [Amy Grindhouse]
Elisabetta Canalis versus Stacy Keibler: who looks better? [Moe Jackson]
Pres. Obama did some Christmas shopping for Bo & the girls. [Jezebel]
Kris Humphries got booed like crazy at the Nets game. [Bossip]
Prince William busts a move. [The Frisky]
The Cracken is in NYC now. Watch out, NY Celebitches. [Radar]
All about Britney Spears‘ $92,000 engagement ring. [Life & Style]
Kanye West will FREAK OUT if you throw your business card on stage. [PopBytes]
Eva Longoria gets a Ken Paves blowout. [Hollywood Rag]
A billionaire‘s daughter got herself an $88 million dorm room in NYC. [LimeLife]
The UK bans Taylor Swift‘s Covergirl ads. [Celebs]
These LOLBabies are really cute. [CityRag]
Honor Alba-Warren is getting a Barbie Mustang convertible! [Bitten and Bound]
Look at how huge Gisele & Tom Brady‘s house is. [Starpulse]
Best friends animal society does so much good work– team Jen on this one
Wow! You give a shout out to an animal group over St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital? The same place that treats sick children at no cost to their families? Double wow!
Uh, just because she gave a shout out to the animal charity donation doesn’t automatically mean she dissed the children’s charity, does it?
You have nothing more important to complain about than that? Animal charities are often overlooked, and there is a great need. She listed the children’s hospital first on the card. That should help you get some sleep tonight…..
Shout out to Best Friends Animal Society over St Judes. My charities are all aniaml charities because they are far more neglected and they deserve money too. Don’t get me wrong: St Judes is a fabulous entity to give to, but don’t forget the animals. I’m not a Jen Aniston fan, but I do have a higher opinion of her now.
I agree!
i agree. at least she donated.
and to all the people talking about the “pr” stuff.. what do you think AJ does..
it brings attention to the cause.
I’m glad they …er… she is donating some money to charity, but I don’t know why it’s necessary to announce it on an Xmas card. Are they saying we were going to give you a gift, but we gave the money to charity instead? If not, then why mention it on the card as if they’re trying to tell people “See how generous & great we are?”
I don’t know… I guess I think that when giving privately to charity, it’s better to do it quietly. Unless… was this done as part of a promotional deal with St. Judes & the Best Friends Animal Shelter? Is this a card that you can buy from these organizations?
Yes It’s meant to be in lieu of a gift a lot of people do that . My only question (not a put down just curious) if you donate money in someone elses’ name is it still a tax write off?
When I saw this article & pic, the first thing I thought of was a Seinfeld ep when George handed out cards like this but made out to a fake charity, because he didn’t want to spend any money on his fellow co-workers.
I was a non-profit fundraiser for 10+ years (ugh – crappy job). It is absolutely a tax write-off, even if it’s in honor/memory of.
Yep, it’s a tax write off. Just like if you donate in the memory of someone that’s a write off too.
@Kelly & Bluhare thanks. Just thinking it would be great if they requested that instead of gifts people give to X charity in their name(Of course maybe they did do that and we don’t know about it). Regardless I believe both charities are deserving.
@anne_000 Me too!! The Human Fund, money for people.
@mln: I remember reading that she had asked her friends to donate to charity instead of giving her gifts for one of her birthdays (probably her 40th). Maybe she and her group of friends always donate in lieu of gifts.
Anne_000: She’s donating the money in that persons name-she’s not just telling the person that she donated to a charity, woo hoo for me.
This is a very common practice. They mention it on the card so you know which charity it was that they donated to on your behalf. People in the entertainment industry do it a lot because you ‘know’ so many people in superficial ways that you can’t get them all personalized gifts. Giving to charity in lieu of getting a throwaway gift is much better in my opinion.
Personally, I like getting cards like these from folks I don’t really know. I don’t get something I don’t want and someone else gets something they need.
Why try to spin this into something negative?
EDIT: It appears to me that they had these made. I don’t think you can just purchase these off the web as they seem oddly specific but I could be wrong.
@ Heine – I know they’re custom-made. I was wondering if this was done in conjunction with St. Judes & the animal shelter, because it seemed to me so very impersonal.
I can understand if one is sending out these cards from one organization to another or from a business acquaintance to another, but otherwise, I don’t see the point of mentioning it from one friend to another if one is not going to give them a gift in the first place. It sounds more like self-promotion than anything else if this is the case.
And, imo, if one is going to donate on a personal level, then it should be done privately, not publicly.
Anne_000: How is a card more impersonal if they’ve custom made them with two separate charities that are important to them named on the card? It’d be more impersonal if it were a stock card from each organization with their names stamped on the bottom.
Why would you give a card to a friend that said, ‘hey we gave to a charity in your name’ and not mention the charity in question? That doesn’t make any sense. And how is it self-promotion to give money in someone else’s name and mention it only on a card that you’ve given them? Are you pulling my leg?
They aren’t donating on a ‘personal level’. They are gifting a donation on behalf of the person who received the card. They haven’t done it publicly either. Someone clearly took a picture of a card they received and sold it to someone. Doing it publicly would have been making a press announcement and releasing beautifully photoshopped pictures of the cards like the Kardashians.
Is it Opposite Day where you are?
EDIT: If this double-posts, sorry!
@ Heine – I think it’s impersonal when you send a personal card to a friend saying you’re not giving them a gift, but will send an organization the gift instead. Did the friend receiving the card ask that a donation be made in his/her name? No. So why announce it?
She might as well have written “I decided that in lieu of giving you an Xmas gift, I’m going to spend the money that I would have spent on you on someone else.”
Again, if this card was given to people who were merely business associates, then being impersonal is fine. After all, did they expect a gift anyways? Probably not.
Of course this card would go public. “The Hottest Woman In the Entire World” and her highly-publicized relationship sends out their 1st joint, custom-made Xmas cards and nobody will post it on the internet? Of course, JA knew it would go out & whose to say it wasn’t from her camp that did it?
Friend or not, personal or impersonal, if I would be getting this card I would be happy that on these supposed joyful days, people (and animals in this case too but the rest of my reply doesn’t make sense :D) who haven’t got much luck in life are getting some Christmas/holiday warmth too. That there are people out there who think of others. If even Aniston (of all people can do it), why can’t others?! Too many people who can barely sustain for their primary needs, need to go through these days all alone sometimes without hope for a better life. It’s all about sharing not getting, needing and wanting. I think if you expect gifts to feel like a real “personal” friend than you’re not a real friend at all and that’s not what Christmas is supposed to be. And I’m sure real friends will appreciate your friendship even if they can’t decide for what charity you’re donating and not giving them gifts. Not for me it is. All details.
Personally, I have enough in my life, no need for more materialism, why would I be jaded at my friend (or business partner) for not giving me a present? I get their friendship 365/365, that doesn’t need to be verified on ONE day. Besides, getting gifts is what corporate businesses expect you to do: waste money to make them richer. Charity >>>>> Corporates any time, any where because those people deserve it and are actually helped.
One last thing, even if they did leak it, I don’t see any difference between publicizing it with photo-ops or any kind of statements. It sheds light on the charity (I never heard of them and including them in “my favorites”, any kind of info is much appreciated) and maybe it convinces people to donate too so this is a win-win situation either way. Why piss on it if you know the less fortunate are going to be helped?
It’s weird how much attention celebrity Christmas cards are getting this year. I don’t remember anybody ever caring before.
That being said, I like the charity cards. I’d rather my friends gave something to a great charity than we exchange some stuff we don’t really need.
They’re now considered “Holiday” cards.
Most people have become apprehensive about actually using the word Christmas.
Yeah…ain’t it great?
@Mac Oh please no one is apprehensive about Christmas. If I know that someone celebrates Christmas I say Merry Christmas. If they are Jewish I say Happy Hannukah, if I don’t know what/and/or if they celebrate I say Happy Holidays. I don’t get why people are offended by that. It’s pretty much the same concept as not wishing someone a Happy Birthday in June if they were born in February.
Well that’s a shame considering the holiday is called Christmas. Guess we’ll have to take Christmas away and have Holiday! So are we getting rid of Kwanzaa and Hanukkah also? Should December just be the month of Holiday??
LoL I’m sorry but, it’s Christmas. It’s a Christmas card. I don’t care if you aren’t religious or anything. The day is Christmas. Just like if you’re European living in America, July 4th is still Independence day. You don’t have to celebrate it, but you can call it by it’s proper name. CHRISTMAS!
It is odd to me how people are supposedly apprehensive about Christmas and the meaning, yet, they still take the day off to be with familes, friends, what have you. Still have parties, dinners, celebrate. If they do not believe in Christmas, and the meaning of it why not just work. Why celebrate it.
Been watching too much O’Reilly and his tired “War on Christmas” have we?
NOT EVERYONE CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS. In December there are SEVERAL RELIGIOUS holidays. Hannukah, Christmas, Soltice, and Kwanzah etc . December 25th is Xmas but today is the second night of Hannukah and SOLSTICE.So if you got a card today it could hypothetically be a Solstice card or a Hannukah card. If you only want to send Xmas cards (I’m condensing for purposes of space not some rabid anti Xmas feeling) then only send them to people who celebrate Xmas.
Oh and actually there is no actual mention of Xmas in the Bible by the way. Many biblical scholars believe Christ was born in the summer. The church put Xmas in December to coincide with Pagan festivals and most of the Christmas traditions borrow from old Pagan ones so that people could continue their old traditions.
@Thea Most people don’t have the say to dictate whether they work on Christmas and if some major corporation chose to open their doors and make Christmas an optional holiday I’m sure the Xmas Nazis would be the first to call for a boycott.
Happy Holidays!!!
I don’t get this whole “OMG War on Christmas!!!” thing.
If something is referred to as “holiday” vs. “Christmas”, it in no way affects anyone’s religious beliefs, how they observe the holiday, or what their family does. No one is in any way prevented from celebrating however they choose.
I don’t understand why anyone gets worked up about it. There are real injustices and religious persecutions in the world – someone saying Happy Holidays! isn’t one of them.
Really? I’m a regular churchgoer and this is not something that gets my panties in a bunch. Lots of cultures celebrate non-Christian holidays this time of year. I know a fair number of Jews (in addition to people of other religious backgrounds), and I include them in my gift giving and card lists in a manner that tries to be respectful to them. Such basic civility is hardly going to cause the downfall of our times.
That is a wonderful gift to get– if I got this card and said a donation was made on my behalf, I would be delighted and not get snippy and judgemental abotu it. Good is good.
Hands up who has donated lately, anyway?
MY hand is up.. but I donate all year. Not just at Christmas time. Mainly because I have more money during the non holiday time to give.
I think it is a nice thing, but I don’t like people to make a donation in my name. I don’t care what it is. Let me do that. If you give to an organization do it yourself. You can tell me about the organization and if I like it then I will donate.
I know it sounds snippy. but I just don’t like it. If someone choices not to give me a gift for the the holiday.. I don’t care. Just don’t give in my name. let me do it
(I guess I’m weird that way)
@ lisa – ITA with u.
I think you are right. There are a lot of charities that people see fit to donate to that other people do not agree with.
Lisa: Who wouldn’t want to give money to St. Jude’s or Best Friends Animal Society?
I’d be peeved if someone gave to a group that was clearly against my personal beliefs or had a history of misusing funds or general corruption. I can see see then why it might be irritating.
But I don’t see anything wrong with someone giving to charity in someone else’s name if the charity is politically neutral and does good work.
Just my two cents by the way, just adding another opinion.
I don’t have problems with people giving, but it should be up to me which charity, if it is in my name. Both of those are excellent charities, don’t get me wrong. But I think it is better if the person says that “In Lieu of gifts to me or flowers at a funeral, etc.” please give to such and such in this person’s name. That way whoever writes the check gets the tax write off and the other person gets their name on the rolls. This way it is, “I gave in your name, to my favorite charity, (but I get the tax break)”. Probably not what is intended, but that is the truth of the matter.
Maybe they should have asked their friends what their favorite charity is and give in their name to that one. Seems more personal that way.
@Jenny YES!!! I so agree.
Yeah, Lisa, you are ‘WIERD” IN THAT completely not getting the point way. Do you even have friends??
You know lisa, I just have to tell you this one gift I received that was a charitable donation that peronally, I would challenge you to have a problem with. 🙂
My mom bought a milk goat for a family in Africa in my name. A family made up entirely of children, as they had lost both parents to AIDS. A milk goat is a priceless gift to such a family – a source of constant nutrition for the children. It made my cry.
I have. I’ve been donating all year. And all the “ladies” who’ve been irked that Jennifer Aniston DIDN’T ASK THE THOUSAND OR SO RECIPIENTS OF HER/HIS CHRISTMAS DONATION CARDS WHAT THEIR PET CHARITY IS…seriously, take a chill pill, you’re sad and bitter people.
Seriously. Sorry she’s not Angelina, she is who she is, and for crying out loud…puppies and babies will most likely live another day because of her donation. BUT..BUT…BUT..it wasn’t YOUR pet charity, all of the sudden she’s a selfish wh-re.
My God, listn to yourselves. Do you look at your family member or best friend and say the same thing? Are you 2? Grow the f–k up. Jesus.
the weird thing is that its one card for two different organization ..this is really strange ..unless unless its
for brad’s mom Jane who might be the link for both..hmm
Please tell me that was meant to be a joke that fell flat.
why joke …? st john pediatric which part of st Jude is the one Jen and Jane were doing charity with before ..but this not the strange thing is why 2 organization for one card.
It has nothing to do with Jane Pitt why bring her into this? They may have done charity work together nearly a decade ago but Jen continues to do work for St Jude(She did a series of commercials for them that aired in movie theaters over the summer). Jen has moved on I assume she’s still cordial with Jane but that doesn’t mean she has anything to do with this.
As for the 2 organizations maybe Justin likes the second one.
Call me crazy, but I think the link is that Jennifer and Justin gave to both charities as Christmas gifts for friends and collegues.
I think that’s the connection you’re looking for. 🙂
um, I don’t know how to navigate this site. You never know if someone responds to what you wrote unless you come back and find your post.
anyway, I don’t get what you are saying AT ALL. She’s supposed to send two individual cards?? She is giving them some attention and showing what her interests are. I think it’s really lovely. Of course, she wouldn’t send two separate cards. She did send two separate donations. That’s all that matters.
I don’t always ‘get’ when people do this — put a donation in “your” name — I truly don’t — but I am also happy she included an animal org. which I agree they all need more attention. I’m not familiar with BFAS so I will have to see if it meets what I think is important…
I’m shocked (not really) that she even sent out a joint card with someone she’s been allegedly dating for only 6 months.
Well if they opted to give a donation in the name of their friends instead of a Christmas gift, maybe their friend thought they may as well sell the image of the card and buy themselves something nice. I think that if a person asks for a donation in lieu of gifts that is wonderful but I think its tacky to make a donation rather than give a gift. I wonder if they are going to give the person the tax receipt that comes with their gift or keep it for themselves????
Maybe that was Heidi’s card.
You have to remember too the majority of her friends are wealthy so what else would you give them. They have everything.
I really don’t understand why anyone thinks giving money to charity as a Christmas gift is tacky (particularly when the gift recipient is wealthy and the last thing they need is another present). I think it’s wonderful and in the true spirit of Christmas. I’m not a religious person, but it really bothers me how secular Christmas has become. For so many people it’s all about “stuff” (getting presents and giving presents). I think it’s pathetic that something as good hearted as donating money to causes supporting ill children and animals is being twisted into something negative.
Not weird at all. I asked everyone to donate in my name this year and I donated as well. Good for both of them! And yes, I sent out cards to people telling them $$ was donated in their name.
She’s always given to charities…has just been low-key about it…
And the friends who got these cards are probably people who don’t need to have another material thing purchased for them…so I love the giving to charity thing!
Exactly. All her friends probably have tons of money and can afford anything. Why buy a rich person another expensive gift? Giving the money to charity is the best, imo.
What is “low-key” about releasing a press announcement of you Christmas card?
There’s no proof that Jennifer Aniston is charitable. Not now. Not ever.
She didn’t release a press announcement of the card.
And she has supported St. Jude’s for years and if you take two seconds to look around on google, you’d see that she does plenty of charity work-she just doesn’t make announcements for every little thing she does.
Just read the post about Kris H being booed at a game..
I hope for his sake he can wash the stink of these people off him sooner than later.
lesson learned son. Lesson learned
I think the media (especially us weekly and E!) are the ones trying to spin this. They purposely left out the crucial detail that Kris was playing an AWAY game. He plays for the New Jersey Nets, but was playing in New York agains the Knicks. Why would Knicks fans cheer for an opponent? The “boos” weren’t directed AT HIM per say, it was directed at his team! That is how all sports are, but US Weekly and E has an agenda against Humphires because they are bought by the Kardashian Klan.
I love it when people gift in this manner. Everyone prospers & it reflects the true meaning of Christmas.
ITA
My in-laws sponsored a child to attend school for a year in my name. It was a wonderful Christmas gift, I have all the vases, candle sticks and sweaters to last a life time –
I think the card is tasteful and supports good causes. Not tasteful, Tom Brady & Giselle’s over the top monstrosity.
mln76 let me make it more clear
why not 2 cards?
one for st Jude /jen justin
one for animal best friends /jen justin
its not logical to send one card with donation letter for two different organization..unless they r sister organizations or one Representative ? you got my point now ?…i am not talking jen history of donation and relation but i thought maybe jane pitt is the link since they were both doing this long time back together..
I still don’t see what she has to do with this. It’s one card because they are sending a joint card ‘as a couple’.
i will be more clear..
i’am not discussing joint couple card actually my argument is
i don’t send my sister and mother one card( despite the content) unless they r living under the same roof…otherwise the logic says i must send sister one card signed by me and my bf ..and send another to mom signed by me and bf .
since the donations made for different organization ( not under the same roof)how they can send one card only ! got it? does it seems appropriate ?
unless the card given to a someone represent both..
So you think she should send 2 cards?That seems odd? and I still don’t get why Jane Pitt got involved? I bet that Jen wanted St Judes since she’s been involved with them for a while and Justin wanted the Animal charity possibly because it’s something he’s passionate about? I think it’s obvious they just sent out a bunch of cards listing the charity they donated to. I am sure if the recipient wants to investigate further they can find out which charity was donated in their name.
This Jane Pitt nonsense is absurd. How could she possibly be the “link” – link to what? Does she have mind control over JA? Are you saying JA is trying to hold onto Brad by sending two separate holiday cards??? I mean, come on. I can’t believe I’m even bothering to ask these questions, but it’s just nutty.
And also, sending separate cards to people who don’t live together has absolutely nothing to do with listing two organizations on the same card!!! It’s clear that English is not your first language, but this is just plain logic.
THANK YOU KELLY! That bizarre connection where there is none was just weird.
jen did not involve with st Jude before jane pitt get her into it
second..its very polite and out of respect to direct your intention to one receptionist since its formal and not family..i find it weird ..2 list 2 organization in one card specially when these two are totally different unless it made to be announcement…
thx my case is rest..n yes English is not my first language n yr sense in logic does not impress me either.
ml67 you r so obsessed with jolie that you can’t believe jen might be in good relation with an old friend like jane.
@toto in my previous comment I said that I believe that Jen and Jane are on good terms. You seem to be obsessed with involving Jane where she doesn’t belong.
OH, for god’s sake. One more time with feeling, and then I give up.
Toto says:
“why not 2 cards?
one for st Jude /jen justin
one for animal best friends /jen justin
its not logical to send one card with donation letter for two different organization”
YES IT IS logical. Why in god’s name (you can tell I’m fired up and an ex-Catholic; the next step is Jesus Bloody Christ) would anyone send two holiday cards to the same person? It’s a total waste of paper and makes absolutely no sense.
I don’t know why I’m bothering, it will obviously not get through.
” Lisa says:
December 22, 2011 at 12:28 pm She’s always given to charities…has just been low-key about it…”
LOL! How do you know? Significant charitable giving or other acts of charity by people as famous and public as Aniston are do not stay hidden for long.
Anyway I would hope that she gives much since she has received so much for doing so little – that goes for all 6 of the Friends costars.
Some people publicize every dime they give to charity, others don’t. She recently bought a painting for $450,000 at the Artists For Haiti auction-so there’s that which was publicized but she doesn’t like being in-your-face about her acts of charity.
She said something about celebrities and charity a long time ago that people kept misquoting to say that she doesn’t do charity but the gist was that she doesn’t do charity to expand her fame consequently she doesn’t make a big deal out of her charity work.
LOL! Please. Everything she does is to expand her fame. Being in PSAs for St Jude’s knowing they would be shown not only on TV but in movie theaters was ALL about keeping her face out there.
Her whole involvement in St Jude’s only came about because of Marlo Thomas pressuring her to do the PSAs. It’s not as if she takes a personal interest in these kids once the cameras are gone.
I remain amused by your “knowledge” of all these “secret” charitable acts allegedly committed by Aniston.
@Katherine, if the cameras are gone, how do you know she doesn’t take an interest in those kids? You’re amused that people think she does charitable work because they think they “know” something, but you assume that she does not because apparently you think that you “know” something. How is that different? Answer, it isn’t.
She is friends with Marlo Thomas and helps out a good cause. That really ought to be enough for anybody who isn’t bat-shit crazy.
“RobN says:
December 22, 2011 at 2:12 pm @Katherine, if the cameras are gone, how do you know she doesn’t take an interest in those kids?”
I know this because the child who she posed with in a PSA said so. I know this because the mother of the child she posed with said so.
This very sick child went into remission in the year between the shooting of the PSA and a red carpet Jennifer did. When she was asked on the red carpet about the child, she knew nothing and was surprised that the child was in remission. The child’s family said that the little girl was disappointed that her efforts to stay in touch with Jennifer, whom she started to idolize after the PSA shooting, were ignored.
That tells me what I need to know about Jennifer’s “work” with St. Jude’s. It’s mind boggling that Jennfier didn’t take the initiative to reach out to this little dying girl. It’s even worse that she didn’t respond to her communications. It takes so little to make a child happy. She could have done all kinds of simple, inexpensive things or instructed someone to do it for her.
She may send checks to some charities or participate in celebrity events but we have yet to hear of or see Jennifer really expend her time working for a charity. Spare me the excuse that she’s quietly doing it. There is just no indication that is happening except in the minds of her fans. She has no problem publicizing herself when she does give, e.g., that silly Oprah show, Haiti, selling those dolls for the orphanage, this holiday card.
Though the sentiment is a nice one, it is a PR move and though I realize taste is very personal, I find the card itself tacky looking. And I don’t care how much it cost. IIRC elsewhere it has been described accurately as looking like the wine list at Dracula’s restaurant.
To everyone – fans and nonfans – enjoy your holidays. In the spirit of the season I’m going to find one nice thing to say about Aniston.
Two really awesome charities. Well done, J’Anthrax!
WILL SHE EVER GO AWAY? EVERY DAMN DAY
WE DONT CARE..THE CHRISTMAS CARD IS LAME
I cant believe your comment!! Whats wrong with you? What a beautiful thought this card is. Why be so negative. People like you are the ones that are not happy with their life at all.
THEY MUST HAVE SENT THE CARD TO THIS SITE
CANT WAIT TIL HE WAKES UP AND LEAVES….
Why would they send their card to just one Canadian blogger (and no other blog/media sites)? Not everything is a conspiracy.
That’s one tacky card. More impressive to have bought simple cards rather than the cost of “creating” and printing those cards – which was not insignificant I can assure you.
Aniston simply remains clueless.
I know I shouldnt even go here. But Katherine…..I find your comments tacky. It’s Christmas and she’s donating to a good cause. I’m sure if it was Brad and Angelina’s name on the bottom of the card you’d be saying the opposite.
She’s being gracious and tasteful!
I’m going to go right there with you & agree.
I wouldn’t care whose card it was. It looks tacky in that photo. More like something I’d expect Zsa Zsa Gabor would have sent out. That’s apart from anything else about the card.
Christmas or not we can’t allow good taste to fall by the wayside – unless of course it’s 8 life-size reindeer figures driven by a life size Santa figure in his sleigh with 9 blinking red noses which I am putting on my roof as we speak. 😉
Naughty me to speak ill of the tasteless during this holiday season.
Everyone always has a friend who will sell you out….The card maker, the friend of a friend, a relative. etc..
Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck…
How to live in a world that’s politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to “Elves”,
“Vertically Challenged” they were calling themselves.
And labor conditions at the North Pole,
were alleged by the union, to stifle the soul.
Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety,
released to the wilds, by the Humane Society.
And equal employment had made it quite clear,
that Santa had better not use just reindeer.
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid,
were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid!
The runners had been removed from his beautiful sleigh,
because the ruts were deemed dangerous by the EPA,
And millions of people were calling the Cops,
when they heard sled noises upon their roof tops.
Second-hand smoke from his pipe, had his workers quite frightened,
and his fur trimmed red suit was called “unenlightened”.
To show you the strangeness of today’s ebbs and flows,
Rudolf was suing over unauthorized use of his nose.
He went to Geraldo, in front of the Nation,
demanding millions in over-due workers compensation.
So…half of the reindeer were gone, and his wife
who suddenly said she’d had enough of this life,
joined a self help group, packed and left in a whiz,
demanding from now on that her title was Ms.
And as for gifts…why, he’d never had the notion
that making a choice could cause such commotion.
Nothing of leather, nothing of fur…
Which meant nothing for him or nothing for her.
Nothing to aim, Nothing to shoot,
Nothing that clamored or made lots of noise.
Nothing for just girls and nothing for just boys.
Nothing that claimed to be gender specific,
Nothing that’s warlike or non-pacifistic.
No candy or sweets…they were bad for the tooth.
Nothing that seemed to embellish upon the truth.
And fairy tales…while not yet forbidden,
were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden,
for they raised the hackles of those psychological,
who claimed the only good gift was one ecological.
No baseball, no football…someone might get hurt,
besides – playing sports exposed kids to dirt.
Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passe.
and Nintendo would rot your entire brain away.
So Santa just stood there, disheveled and perplexed,
he just couldn’t figure out what to do next?
He tried to be merry he tried to be gay,
but you must have to be careful with that word today
His sack was quite empty, it was flat on the ground,
nothing fully acceptable was anywhere to be found.
Something special was needed, a gift that he might,
give to us all, without angering the left or the right.
A gift that would satisfy – with no indecision,
each group of people in every religion.
Every race, every hue,
everyone, everywhere…even you!
So here is that gift, it’s price beyond worth…
“MAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES, ENJOY PEACE ON EARTH”
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This is hilarious! thanks for posting-i’d never seen it before (:
And the same to you. HO HO HO!!
Awesome work! Loved it.
I can’t help but think of the Kartrashians. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn they sent these cards to people in the media who they knew would possibly release it.
If JA and JT wanted to leak their Christmad/Holiday card, I would wager that they wouldn’t do it via an exclusive cellphone pic to a Canadian gossip blogger. Everyone is linkin back to Lainey – as far as I can tell, she really is the only one to post this. Maybe some recipient’s assistant snapped the shot and passed it to her.
Now the Beckhams sent their cards to multiple media outlets and then got huffy when someone posted it online.
Call me cynical I guess. But I would think that no one would risk releasing this unless they knew for a fact it wouldn’t put them on Jen’s bad side. I would bet most celebs send out cards but this is the only one I’ve ever seen on a gossip site besides the trashians. It of course is a much classier card. Of course it could have been someone in her publicists office because it is a good way to spread good will. Whatever I am not going to read too much into it.
@mln76
I get the cynicism, and that’s perfectly valid. I’m not trying to make a big deal out of it either, I think that if it were something by her publicity team, it’d have gotten out to a more prominent American blogger or something, and not exclusively to one that does not seem to particularly like Aniston or Theroux.
Idk. In addition to this one and the one from the Kardashians, I’ve seen the aforementioned Beckham card, and one from Keiffer Sutherland (he pretends to tackle a Christmas tree). *shrugs* I am admittedly pretty nosy. 🙂
I think that’s nice, and 2 great organizations to give to. I wouldn’t want someone donating in my name to a sketchy or controversial group, but those two are great organizations who I’m sure appreciate any support.
I would assume cards like those go out to business associates, acquaintances, firms or companies, etc, and one of them made it public. Our office gets lots of cards from clients and other contacts like that.
Tom and Gisele’s house is nuts. Live well and enjoy your success…but damn. That’s ridiculous.
I just clicked on the link.
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Best Friends Animal Society? Wow, I had no idea. Now if she would come out and make public her support for animal rights, I would hold her in a different light. Still don’t like her, but love her involvement on this issue.
When has Best Friends been linked to AR? God, I hope not.
Very nice of them to remember St. Jude’s! merry Christmas, Jen.
I would be really happy if a friend did this for me. I say that because most people send out a ton of Christmas cards and that’s all. (some people include one of those bragging letters with them) Jen and Justin are sending out a ton of Christmas cards and donating money to charity.
I doubt any of their rich friends expected actual gifts anyway.
I dunno, it’s nice to be able to send out a card like this, but personally I’d appreciate a Hallmark card with a scribbled sentence more.
If my friends made donations in my name to animal rescue societies and children’s hospitals, I would be honoured. I would also be touched that they knew me so well.
Yeah, but when you think of it who DOESN’T care about at least one of the two- animals or children. It’s somewhat of an impersonal gift, but for a really nice reason. I just wouldn’t go ahead and say it took knowing someone well to do it 🙂
want your privacy huh jen? prove it, go away from the media for just one,.. 1 week, not promoting anything, why should we care about this or you?, give people a chance to miss you, fame whore, you have nothing going on right now, lay low, jen should be embarrassed after that fake, ridiculous title people were bashing her for …., now the reason i clicked on…was to comment on, brad comments and the Obamas, brad is so at peace and in a good place right now, congrats on the nom, well deserve, the pres. girls has gotten really big. Obama cute family man.
s why did nt you go to brad s sight .,
umm, i did, but he is also in this one, and i mentioned the obamas, too. is that OK with you? sorry, I’m not kissing this publicity seeking,fake, person butt, because she was dumped by brad and capitalize on it and then turned right around and did the exact same thing she was complaining about to somebody else,… now continue with your sympathy for her, because there is nothing else about her to admire. okie dokie.
I’d rather get Kiefer Sutherland’s card.
I think it’s a nice gift but kind of tacky to do that in a publicity stunt….you see celebrities like Bono, Sandra Bullock donating low key…not Jennifer Aniston…and plus I think it’s so insensitive to send a couple christmas card (I don’t recall jennifer doing this the past few years) after the way they treated poor Heidi.
Bono and low key in one sentence? Umm no :D. That’s man’s ego is bigger than an economic crisis! What does he really do besides shaking hands with world leaders and cashing in on his humanitarian side? There’s a lot of controversy when it comes to his goodwill. He’s greedy and egotistical. Compared to him, Aniston is the most selfless person on the planet!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2010/sep/23/bono-one-millennium-development-goals
Bullock her donations are also well-publicized so unless you know some of her work that isn’t documented, feel free to share. I don’t understand what low key is anyway. Either you make it public that you do charity work or you don’t. If you don’t than it’s not low key but umh no key/secrecy and there’s no way you could know that since you don’t know her personally (I presume) :). Face it celebs do goodwill under the public eye. It’s maybe the way they do it that stands out from others. Bullock is sincere in her work, it’s not a PR-stunt. I refuse to believe that and she probably does secretly donate a lot too but when she goes public with it, it’s not low key at all. But it’s not a PR-stunt either (unlike Kardashian or Hilton do).
Enought posting for today, too tired…
I hate to point out the obvious, but if Bono and Sandra Bullock were doing it low key, then you wouldn’t even know they are doing it. They are perfectly capable of doing it anonymously and through foundations, but they don’t. They all use their name to generate publicity for their favorite charities and for themselves.
Nothing really wrong with it, but let’s not pretend that celebrities you like donate only through the goodness of their hearts and celebrities you don’t like do it only for publicity.
Dear Jenny
I couldn’t click on the reply button under your reply but I found your post the most obnoxious thing I have ever read!!! You mean to tell me that when your friends donate from the goodness of their hearts, they have to check with you first for your approval before sending you a card? FU!!! You are not that important! If you don’t like or appreciate the charities that your friends donate their time, service and money then keep it to yourself. And donate your money, time and service where you want. In these hard times when money is tight, no one should tell anyone where they should donate they money!
@ crtb
dat’s tellin her.
I think you’re being too harsh. I personally at least partially agree with her, even though it may be impractical. If there’s a donation being made in my name it WOULD be nice if I had some say in where it was going. But it’s not likely that someone is going to ask me where I want to donate that money. But again, I would PREFER if I was choosing where it was going. I think you jumped on her a bit too much.
Everything she does is to expand her fame. Being in PSAs for St Jude’s knowing they would be shown not only on TV but in movie theaters was ALL about keeping her face out there.
There about a dozen other celebrities who are also involved with the PSA with St. Judes. So what you want us to beleive is that the other 11 people are sincere except Jennifer OR that all of the celeberties are doing this to keep their faces out there? Are you really that studid? Or do you really hate Jennifer that much that you beleive this?
HO, HO, HO !
It was a nice gesture. Charities need the money and it’s great they did that. Extra PR never hurts but it’s still nice. The animals and children don’t care why she donated.
Perfect reply Cerulian . The BS doesn’t
Do a thing for kids and animals
How are people not talking more about the small country Tom and Gisele slapped into Brentwood? That house is borderline vulgar.
Ok not enough posting 😀
Agree with you…I would say she definitely crossed that line!
I thought Bundchen was/is pro-green living.
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2011/11/28/gisele-bundchen-wins-best-green-international-celebrity-at-international-green-awards/
That house is NOT ecological. I’ve heard about that project before and I found it ridiculous then because she doesn’t need it (who DOES?!). Maybe she does have adjustments to make it ecological though but she still doesn’t need that big of a house for her family.
Yep, totally agree with you guys. That house is obscene and ridiculous. People in some places have to live without any comforts or luxuries and to be able to wake up in that homage to excess every morning and not realize how wasteful you are being with your own money is frankly very sad. Shame on these two.
Wow, Lainey was certainly nasty about something nice that two people did for the holidays. Good for them. Bad for Lainey.
so what some want is jennifer to send 2 cards to everyone , SHE BEEN WITH ST JUDES FOR A LONG TIME ,
Her poster from Wanderlust dropped today as well.
As they say, timing is everything.
Making a donation that gets released publicly is NOW a good thing, on that I agree, but for ALL celebs not just those you like.
So when should she have sent Christmas cards then? May?
Last week, the week before or even a few days ago, okay as an example.
But May would have been a big NO since Heidi was still living with him.
But really, whatever. Next.
Those St. Jude’s commercials bring me to tears.I’ve already lost my father, an aunt, an uncle, a cousin(36years old)to cancer so anything Jen or anyone else is doing to bring attention or funds to the St. Jude’s progrom deserves nothing but praise.My mother has lymphoma and my mother-in-law has had breast cancer.My worst fear is that one of my children would have cancer and I don’t know how I’d cope but I know that I wouldn’t kick someone for helping whether it were for tax writeoffs,publicity, or because they have a good heart.You can fault Jen A. for lots of stuff if you’re so inclined but imo you’re reaching on this one.I’d far rather someone make a donation in my name than give me the same sweater that doesn’t fit year after year.If I were financially able I would happily support St. Jude’s.
@Heine says:
December 22, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Since I couldn’t respond upthread I do it here. I never said I would not give to St. Judes or the Animal Shelter. I support several charities. And my friends, family and co workers know this. My point was if you are going to give a donation in someones name to your supported charities then you should ask them. If I donate to my charities and put your name on it then I don’t think that is per say a gift to you. I am supporting a charity I am involved in that is important to me. If I want to donate in your name, then I find out what charities are important to YOU and that is where I make the donation. I give to the charities that have some meaning to me it is what I would do no matter what. I just feel if I am going to give someone a gift it would be to something that matters to them. Children and animals mean something to everyone. But just because it is a children’s charity or Animal one, does not mean I may want to support it. Regardless of the emotional pull.
I said it was a nice thing.. just not what I would do. I think I have a right to disagree with the method. Even if it is going to a good cause or causes in this case.
considering her Christmas card list is probably thousands of people long, and includes not just her personal friends, but people she’s worked with, service people, the guy who cleans her pool, the woman who blow dries her hair, even some people she barely knows. . . plus all of Justin’s contacts. . . well, expecting a personalized donation to each person’s favorite charity would take months to figure out.
she sent out Christmas greetings, she gave her hard earned cash to good causes. what’s not to like?
signed, a complete brangeloony (but charitable good works are charitable good works no matter who does them).
This is the same card she sends out every year. Just added Justin’s name and the Animal shelter
Nice gesture.
ok done. this is not that interesting and yes I have made waaaaayyy too many comments on it.
Happy Holiday to all..
NO hypocrisy from me, Jen actually repped St. Judes forever and if she’s getting rich people to give their dough to a good cause, then you best believe I support that. Good for her. That’s what she should be doing more of instead roasting in the damn sun all day. Whether it’s for the publicity or what, the money is going to help animals and kids.
I don’t know anything about this “War on Christmas” crap because Bill O’Shady hardly ever says anything of intelligence or relevance, but I do believe that there is an ever growing attack on the Judea-Christian faith. I’m Messianic Jewish so i get the best of both worlds, and I noticed in our media and the shifting in social mores that don’t attack another faith or anyone’s sexual orientation. You’ll get lambasted. But if you’re a Christian or a real Jew (not thee posers who make a mockery of the faith) people will come at you hard core and no one bat a lash. Hating Christians is perfectly fine. JMO
“my number one charity is ‘my wrinkles inc.’, i treat them like they are refugees. i’ll be sending out christmas cards (creased-style) soon made of recycled paper”
My Gaydar goes off when I look at Justin…hmmm.
Ugh – boyfriend-girlfriend holiday card?!? That is something a silly sixteen year old girl does – or a desperate-to-get-married 40 something. Either way, it’s weird and feels desperate. Does her boyfriend look like the world’s biggest douche in that pic or what? Yeah, I’m SURE he helped to donate ANYTHING to a Christmas charity. It’s so obvious that he’s using her – I’m sure he couldn’t be bothered to get his unemployed butt off the couch to get a bag of Cheetos. She looks ridiculous with him – she slumming it for sure.
How DARE they give out cards to their friends saying they donated in their name to charities!? Tacky Tacky Tacky! What if I don’t like helping small sick children or animals!!? Why would they not give their friends a nice sweater or a snow globe!!!? This is a DISGRACE.
really? sarcasm, I hope…
Definitely sarcasm 🙂
Coo,
I feel like you’ve totally nailed the douche on the head. I really don’t think he’s that into her. But karma is a bitch and you sometimes you get what give. I feel like Jen, is not evil per se, but she is not this goody two shoes that people seem to think she is. She does a lot of manipulations and side talking out of her mouth. And if he is using her, it’s not more than she deserves for being the big hypocrite that she is.
And I feel like while Justin isn’t poor, he is the kind of guy that will let her foot the bill. Just for the fact that he didn’t have the courtesy to let his ex that he cheated on Jen with keep the place and pay a few months of the rent but instead had her move out…says it all.
Out of curiosity, how do we know that he didn’t break up with his ex and give her a few months to find a place before she moved out of the apartment he owns? We don’t actually, do we? It could well be that she had known for months, was given time to find a new apartment (no mean feat in NYC) and Justin and Jen went public once that delay expired, despite that she hadn’t moved out yet.
Wendy, we know that Justin didn’t break up with Heidi Bivens before May 2011 and ‘give her a few months to move out of his apartment’ because they were photographed out as a couple on April 25, 2011.
That, incidentally, was just a week before Jen’s PR guru said that Jen and Justin became a couple, and three weeks after a fellow director at Lifetime said that Jen introduced Justin on set as her boyfriend.
@Wendy you yourself admit there was a strategy in place to launch the new relationship by Jen’s PR team. So that implies that the relationship was more than just a couple of weeks old in April or May when Jen and Justin were first publicly linked. It’s not credible that after the 3rd date she would call up People Mag because it would cause a major embarassment. And as for the repeated discounting of Heidi’s mother as not really knowing what was going on in the relationship. Heidi’s mom is her spokesperson I believe and they seem to be close. Her statement in fact is that she spoke to Justin about it herself and he personally denied a relationship with Jen.
@Victoria. I AGREE COMPLETELY!!!
@Wendy we don’t know that but the fact is Justin and Heidi were out as a couple only weeks before the first People story came out about Jen and Justin (which Heidi denied) just saying the evidence concurs with an overlap. No one is perfect.
Did Heidi deny it, or did her mother deny it? I remember the mother doing so, but that doesn’t really mean anything other than the mother didn’t know.
As for them having been seen together, if you think of the number of celebrity couples who are seen out and about one week and then announce their separation the next, being seen together might not really mean very much.
@Wendy you and I both know that Justin and Heidi weren’t a celebrity couple. Believe whatever you want.
I think it’s obvious that Jen’s team most certainly had a strategy in place for how to introduce her relationship. Theroux and his ex may not have been a celebrity couple, but he was about to be outed as part of one, wasn’t he?
I find it interesting that the fan site dedicated to him announced at the beginning of April that they were going offline. Kind of hard not to think that the timing was no coincidence. Also kind of hard to think that he told the fan site admin before he told Heidi. Just sayin’
If you want to talk about “a man who isn’t into her” then let us talk about Justin and his ex. He dated this woman for 14 years and he never put her name on his lease? Why? Because he never thought of her as someone that he planned to keep in his space forever. Had her name been on the lease, she wouldn’t have had to move since the apartement would have also been hers.
Good Stuff Jen and Justin.Its always good when celebrities can show us that in a world of greed,wars and strife that caring can always be shown
how lame to send out cards with a dude you’ve known (hired) since 6 months tops. and did you see the card? the letters J and A were capitalized as if to imply it’s all jen’s work. i lol’d
wait….didnt Brand and Angelina have a child less than 6 months into their relationship????, So Jen and Justin can’t have a christmas card together 6 months into their relationship but Brad and Angelina can have a child??
stop dragging angelina into everything jeez. makes jen look really bad (as in still being relevant due to the ancient triangle) let’s stop mentioning triangle related shit altogether as part of xmas and a new year’s resolution 😉
Jolie is far more generous than her.
A possibility that hasn’t been mentioned, when donations are made by high profile people is it encourages others to do the same!
I recall several celebrities donating to Katrina victims and beseeching others to do the same.
This is when the “keeping up with the Jonses”
Impulse has a pay-off!
No matter what the motivation there’s a positive pay off…ce la vie!!
Olivia there is a big difference. AJ and Brad didn’t cheat and homewreck, Aniston and Justin did. When Brad and Angelina conceived Shiloh his marriage to Aniston was over. Aniston and Theroux go together by cheating and lies. Thats the difference.