A Work at Home Mom’s Blog

Other than the occasional celebrity train wreck that captures my attention, I’m not real big on celebrity news. But I found something out last night that I just had to share: Peter Tork, former Monkee and current Shoe Suede Blues frontman, has cancer.

Cancer is a scary thing. I’ve lost a dad and three grandparents to it, and my aunt is a survivor. The good news in this case is that Peter’s prognosis appears to be good. A biopsy indicated that the cancer has not spread, and he is having surgery today (March 4th, 2009) to remove what they’ve found. You can read more at Peter’s website.

I’m a Monkees fan from way back. Not back when they were the kings of the world, because I wasn’t alive then, but I started watching their show when it came on MTV in the 80s. I was just a kid then, and they were the first music group I went totally gaga over.

I got older and pursued new interests, but a couple of months ago I heard about their movie, Head. I never knew they even put out a movie, and the more I heard about it, the more I wanted to see it. So I borrowed it from Netflix, and I loved it. That renewed my Monkee interest, and I started looking for my old favorite songs and seeing what the members were up to now.

I always really identified with Peter, because he was so… different. Kind of like me, only cooler. I looked up some of his new stuff online, and I was blown away. He’s just got so much talent. And even at the age of 67, he’s still a cutie pie.

Anyway, I just wanted to share the news in hopes that my readers would send some thoughts and prayers his way. I hope he gets through all this with no complications, and that he can eventually come back to North Carolina so I can see him perform live.

I like a little bit of good old fashioned celebrity gossip every now and then. It makes me grateful that I’m not living in a fishbowl, and reminds me that even though famous people seem to have it all, the have problems too.

CelebrityGossip.com is a new entertainment gossip website that I’m fond of. It aggregates all of the latest celebrity news, and allows readers to vote on each piece of gossip. Those of us who are too busy to seek out gossip from its many sources can go there and get the latest and greatest from all of them.

If you have a burning need to know the absolute latest on your favorite (or least favorite) celebs, check out Celebrity Gossip. If it’s in the entertainment news headlines, they’ve got it.

I haven’t been following celebrity news much lately, but there are some things that the media wants to make sure you know about even if you are living under an enormous rock. The latest on Britney Spears, for example.

It appears that she has once again checked herself into and out of rehab quicker than most people change their socks. This, following a weekend of head-shaving, tattooing, and partying. The girl does get around.

Seriously, I hate to see anyone going through such apparent emotional problems. I can’t say the past couple of weeks’ events particularly surprise me, though. I just had a feeling about Britney Spears from the time she first burst onto the scene with “Oops I Did It Again” that there was something amiss. Maybe it was a total fluke, but that feeling turned out to be dead-on.

I wish Ms. Spears the best, and hope she can get back on track. Now that she’s rid of that goof Kevin Federline, maybe there’s a ray of hope.