Nick Cannon named his new baby daughter Powerful Queen Cannon. [Dlisted]
Trump Cultist charged with assault for breathing, spitting and screaming at a BLM activist in Massachusetts. [Towleroad]
Chrissy Teigen got her nose pierced. [JustJared]
Sarah Sutherland’s jeans make zero sense. [GFY]
Gerard Butler’s latest movie is Greenland…and it sounds like all of his other movies, but that’s fine. Dadcore movies, right? [Pajiba]
How long do you have to live in a place before you can say you’re “from” that place? I say… like, three years? [Jezebel]
More social media stuff about the Hillary/Hilaria Baldwin fiasco. [LaineyGossip]
I also love browsing the Christie’s jewelry auctions. [Tom & Lorenzo]
The best jokes about Hilaria Baldwin. [Buzzfeed]
Riz Ahmed in Dior! This isn’t his best photo, tbh. [RCFA]
Child abuse starting early….
Exactly, Setting her up for a life time of pain, denied vulnerability and diminished humanity.
I get why parents do this but ultimately it’s hamrful.
I think they do it because they see everything as all about them, and their need for attention. If they thought about their child, they wouldn’t put these ridiculous names on them, but they like the attention they get for doing it.
In my home country it’s forbidden to give your kids a dumb name like that to protect kids from their stupid parents.
Well the thing is children of celebs don’t have to worry about resumes or going on interviews. His kids can be named anything, it won’t matter. Well, unless he goes the way of M.C Hammer and loses all his money…but hey I’d love to interview a young lady named “Powerful Cannon” (assuming Queen is her middle name) lol.
Powerful Cannon is a fantastic name for a girl!
She still has to have friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, and the name is weird.
I think the nickname Pow would be awesome.
Fun fact : The Old French nickname Pow means peacock. That would be a great nickname !
Peacock in French is spelled paon and it is not pronounced Pow (though I see how you might think that but it’s the en/an sound in French that I don’t know how to describe).
@ Amelie
Thanks for the clarification but isn’t Pow an old French surname or something? I thought it meant Peacock…my mistake.
I think EVERY ONE of those MAGAts that yell at, spit on, hell…just even GO INTO a public space (where masks are MANDATED) should be arrested and charged. They ARE INTENTIONALLY trying to infect others. Before you say, they don’t “look” sick, think again about just how many people are ASYMPTOMATIC spreaders…and esp. *now*, with this new more contagious mutation…this is tantamount to attempted murder.
WTActualF?: “All Lives Matter!” (Spits into someone’s face during a pandemic.)
I just can’t anymore.
Since the US is litigious, I’m surprised nobody has sued them at least. Go the other route instead of criminal route.
Zowie Bowie and Dandelion Richards offer condolences.
Along with Inspektor Pilot and Apple.
As do Moon Unit Zappa and Pilot Inspektor Lee.
And Kal-El Cage.
North is hands down the worst of the bunch.
Zuma is the worst.
@LP, I don’t think Dandelion is that bad a name for a girl. You already have Iris, Rose, Lilly, Willow etc.
Dandelions are also the first food bees get when they come out of hibernation. If you can, try not to cut your lawn of its first crop of dandelions. Bees really need the food.
Peekaboo Street also signs on!
Picabo Street actually picked her first name herself! She was three years old, so take that into account, but she picked that one and has stuck with it into her adult years.
Don’t forget Audio Science and Tu Morrow.
Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa might have some words.
And as embarrassed teens, both changed their names. Dandelion has been Angela for ages and Zowie is Duncan Jones (Jones being David Bowie’s real last name).
Let us not forget Moxie Crimefighter!
Zowie Bowie was a nickname that was stopped when he was young. He went by Duncan since his teens. David Bowie’s son’s given name is Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones. He goes by Duncan Jones.
Sooo her name is Powerful Cannon LOL. I thought his son’s name with Mariah Carey Moroccan Cannon was bad enough. I guess Queen Cannon sounds better, hopefully she’ll go by her middle name as she gets older or change it altogether.
Oh no. OH NO. That poor kid.
Nicknames are awesome. Call your kid whatever, but at least give them a legal name that’s not going to cause problems for them for years and make them run to change it as soon as they can. I like the judge test – does “The Honorable Powerful Queen Cannon” sound good? Or if they run for office someday. “Elect Powerful Queen Cannon to City Council”.
There is a Dr. Marijuana Pepsi somewhere out in this great country who steadfastly refused to change her name when pressed and who will have instant name recognition for the rest of her life. So, there is power in an unusual name
I moved to New York about 15 years ago. Here I think 10 years is the low-end of standard, but there are also rules that you need to pass before you qualify. For example: have you cried on the subway? (Several times). Can you navigate the subway without consulting a map? (Mostly) Does Staten Island suck? (Yes). The one thing I can’t commit to is ‘stand ON line’. And I still say ‘wicked’ because I’m an ex-Masshole
Yeah, I struggle with this one and it’s hard to say. I’ve lived away from NJ longer than I lived there (and was not born there), at this point but did my formative years, elementary thru high school years, there and also lived there most consecutive years. Lived in Georgia for 10 years and Texas (Austin) for 10 but don’t consider myself a southerner and unless you go back at least 2 generations can’t even consider calling yourself a Texan, lol. Live in New England now and all combined, between years in MA, Maine and RI, I’ve been here the longest (wow, never actually did the math until now) and have also come back after leaving a few times, so guess I’d claim the region as home?
Same here, though with different states. I’m ‘from’ the place where I grew up, from 3rd grade through high school. That will always be ‘home’.
I’m from WNY and say queue.
Hi fellow WNYer!
I’m WNY too!
Way to make your kid the target in the schoolyard.
She’s Black and unfortunately will be a “target” anyways because some kids are raised to be racist a$$holes. Take it from me, I would know what it’s like to be bullied for the color of my skin (I have a very common English name and it didn’t matter one bit).
So true! @ME
The Lainey article about Hillary gave me something new to think about re: who is she really hurting? And that’s that she has been taking space from actual Spanish/Latina/ESL women over the years. A list of the “best dressed Latina women” could have included one more actual Latina woman if they hadn’t included Hilaria. A cooking show segment that focuses on Spanish cuisine could have included an actual Spanish person if they hadn’t included Hilaria. The covers, articles, interviews, features, photo shoots in various Spanish language or Latinx focused magazines would have had more room for actual Latinx, Spanish, Spanish-speaking people if they hadn’t been wasting space on Hilaria all these years. Any time she’s been asked “as a Spanish woman” to share her favorite Spanish songs, movies, foods, books, dances, rituals, whatever, they could have asked an actual Spanish or Latinx person. Anytime a company needed a native Spanish speaking person to promote whatever product and they chose her, that means someone else was denied the opportunity. So while she didn’t claim to be Latina to get into college or to get a special ESL scholarship or whatever, she did take opportunities away from actual Spanish/Latina women, and she was likely chosen many times because she was considered to be a nice, safe, inoffensive, white-European version of a Spanish or Latina woman in America.
Well said ! 100% agree !
Exactly. It’s downright criminal how she’s benefited from a cornucopia of lies. Self-serving narcissistic beech. This southern girl from the southernmost tip o’ Texas has travelled and vaycay’d quite frequently in snow-riddled locales for skiing and what-not. So I’m a Wildling.
I have to ask, is it ok to make fun of dumb baby names, or isn’t it? I once was called a racist by my own cousin for saying “ABCDE” is a dumb name.
It’s conflicting. I don’t think it’s so wrong in the context of mocking the celebrity who named the kid something dumb. Wrong to mock in the presence of the kid. That said, I also think it’s wrong to set a kid up for constant mocking by giving them a “funny” or “cutesy” name for lols.
To me, the line is “is the name a recognized, normal name in another culture/race/religion/etc.?” If it is, mocking it is a bad look. My husband grew up getting teased for him name, which in reality is a very common South Asian name – nothing weird about it, except for the fact that non-South Asians consider it weird. But ABCDE is not a “cultural difference.” Its made up, plain and simple. And yes, calling it dumb is not racist. I think the same of people who take actual, established names and hideously misspell them for no other reason than to be “different” (like MacKenzee and Jenaphr (yes, I’ve met the actual Jenaphr).
Thank you for the replies. (And I would not mock a name if it sounded like it was taken or adapted from another culture. I actually like those). I also have a negative view of names that use titles (Princess, Duke, etc.) because I knew so many dogs with that type of name that they don’t seem appropriate/respectful to use for humans.
Mrs. Krabapple – do we know each other in real life, or are there two kids named ABCDE?
There’s actually sadly 300+ kids named that in the US.
I like that name. Names should inspire and have historical history behind the name.
Ugh what a crappy name
Terrible name thought up by a terrible person.
The hyperlink to the Dlisted article goes back to Celebitchy covering how many Americans would lose medical coverage under McConnellcare in 2017. I kept trying it but I guess I’ll mosey over there.
This is going to be terrible as a child and maybe people will skip the Powerful and just call her Queen or Queenie which I think is cute. But when she is 21 and in a room of 1,000 people. The only name they will remember is hers. That’s an advantage later in life. I have the most generic name possible no one remembers.
I agree Queenie would be very cute nickname for a kid.
Well then uh I’ll wish for something positive. Hope she gets a good education and becomes the first or xx black, female US President.
Powerful Queen….named by a man who only dates biracial women, he’d never be seen with a Powerful Queen🙄
I hate it. But when I see actor Sam Worthington’s son’s name, “Rocket Zot,” Powerful Queen then sounds downright stunning for a celebrity baby’s name. LOL