My Girl

I just watched Kelly Osbourne’s dance performance online, from last night’s DWTS. She did a great job and received much applause. I actually had tears in my eyes, seeing how happy she looked that she pulled it off, one of the best dances of the night - tough tomboy rocker chick turned graceful and beautiful. Her parents were in the audience, and to see their reactions, tears streaming down their faces, at how proud they were of her -- say what you will about Ozzie, but that family has been through a lot (multiple drug rehabs for father, daughter, and son; cancer survival; near-fatal accident), and seeing them still come together and act like a close-knit family is amazing to me. You should find the video clip online and watch it.  It’s worth it to see Ozzie brought to tears over his daughter’s debut dance performance. It was sweet. And here you thought he was a hard-core heavy metal dude who didn’t give a damn about anything.

Also in today’s headlines, Mackenzie Phillips has just revealed she had a 10-year (consensual) incestuous relationship with her father (John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas). She also claims he was the one who first shot her up with drugs. Nice. And guess what? He was an easy-breezy lite-FM folk singer.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ~Hermann Hesse