Billionaire John Goodman adopted his girlfriend as his daughter. And it gets worse. He seemingly did it to protect his assets from a law suit in a drunk driving case.
Soooo . . . Can he now be arrested for incest?
Blogs and Articles in No Particular Order
For those of us who remember Soul Train, Barbara McDowell writes a tribute to Don Cornelius, who passed away this week. Love, Peace, Soul, & Silence. My thanks to Barbara for the tip about John Goodman.
New York Times Best Selling Author and Heckuva Guy James Rollins released an updated description of his upcoming Sigma Force novel, Bloodline.
Best Selling Author and Angel of Awesomeness Vicki Hinze shares her wisdom in Interviewing Tip: Focusing Your Remarks. Watch for her visit to Bayard & Holmes on February 22. 
For Immediate Release: Author Bryan Thomas Schmidt Joins Madonna in No Nipples Policy. I can only say I’m relieved after reading this funny posting.
Jayrod P. Garrett asks the question, What do I Need to do to be Black Enough?
Laird Sapir stirs up trouble with Grudge Match: Seuss v. Slim Shady. Who gets your vote?
Julie Glover provides us with Six Ways to Say, “You Spineless Weakling.”
A critical question today. Who Owns Your Personal History? via Lonny Dunn at ProNetworkBuild.
Spring isn’t so far away, and K.B. Owen gets us started with Backyard Gardening.
Catie Rhodes steps into the creepy world of Celebrity Ghosts.
I have long said that everything I need to know about writing I learned from belly dancing and Kristen Lamb. And James Rollins and Vicki Hinze and Ryne Douglas Pearson. Jill Kemerer explains How Choreography Helps a Scene as she visits P.W. Creighton’s blog.
Shawn Hopkins holds Part 1 of The Magnificent 7 Interview Event with such esteemed authors as Ryne Douglas Pearson and Larry Enright.
I am deeply touched by Maxwell Cyn’s blog about his son, Joshua, a 21-yr-old diagnosed with acute T-cell leukemia in December. There are ways that we can help Joshua and his family at A Life-Changing Event – Leukemia.
An Amazing Moment from the always real Chaz at One Direction Forward.
Finally. The perfect beauty solution.
What do you think? What should we do with this Sugar Daddy and his Little Darlin’ daughter?
All the best to all of you for distinguishing between your spouses and your children.
Piper Bayard–The Pale Writer of the Apocalypse
Great mash-up. Love the new look!
Thanks, Susie. Good to see you.
Always a great mash-up. I clicked on several links here. Thanks for including my spineless weakling post. You may need creative ways for saying that when you’re President Piper and regularly dealing with Congress.
Good thinking, Julie. I’m sure these will come in handy.
Honored to be included in this mashup, Piper! As for the Goodman guy, can we take our cars and do onto him what he did while driving drunk? There is a special place in the underworld waiting for him. Maybe the longtime girlfriend will get greedy to get her “child’s” part early. He better keep one eye open as he sleeps.
That’s exactly the plan. She will get her third of the trust for his children right away, and he will have access to it through her while keeping it protected from the lawsuit. And I agree with you. Daddy had better watch out for accidents. Thanks for stopping by.
Love the new look, and a great mash-up. As for the billionaire pig, how about we use him as a dartboard? What a jerk!
Dartboard would be good. I’d like poison darts for him. The ultimate in avoidance of responsibility and entitlement. Kills a college kid while drunk and all he seems to care about is protecting his billions. I doubt he’s suffered a moment of remorse. Thanks for stopping by.
Great mash up, Piper! Love the new digs…and Thank you for the mention!
And for the record: Adopting your 40 year old girlfriend = 8 shades of super creepy. There are. No. Words.
Yep. Super creepy. Good to see you, Laird.
Thank you for the mention, Piper! I’m new at blogging and grateful to have folks read my work. First time I think i’ve seen a mash up. I think when I am more comfortable and trying to do this daily I’ll try it. Thanks for your support!
And Adopting your Girlfriend=Creepy. Enough said.
You bet, Jayrod. Welcome to the blogosphere, and thanks for stopping by.
Hi, Piper! Thanks for including my gardening post in your mashup! As always, you’ve given me a good laugh, and lots of great posts to read (after I do my writing for the day, lol). Love the Photoshop “commercial” by the way, esp. the micro-jargon beads!
Isn’t that a hoot? I’d like to have a fotoshop makeover every day before I leave the house. Good to see you, Kathy.
Love the mash-up.. and love the layout!
I read about that whacko and the adoption thing… *sigh* The world has gone nuts!
Great post, Piper.
Thanks, Darlene. Glad you enjoyed it.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the Fotoshop video – wowzers! Blew me away.
Love the line-up!
I was glad to find that. And here I was considering changing my position about aging gracefully. I’m so glad I don’t have to.
Loved Fotoshop. It really does work. My husband is a photographer and does all my pictures. I always have him make me look a little better. ::laughs::
Am off to read “Who Owns Your History” and am preparing to get scared. Some of that stuff reads like a true horror novel.
It’s even creepier that so many people don’t care who owns their history. The right of privacy is so very crucial to our freedom, and a whole generation is growing up without any. Thanks for stopping by, Catie.
Heard about the miscreant’s ploy. Almost crashed the car because I was banging my head on the steering wheel. Rich people amaze me. They’ve got the bucks and they will go to any lengths to keep it. I can’t dig anything up from the recesses of my brain to do to the @#%$&!. And I can be very creative when it comes to revenge fantasies. This blog is a keeper because I want to hook onto the links and absorb the awesomeness.
So glad you like it, Tom. Thanks for stopping by.
Awesome mash up. So many funny titles! And that first article?! I couldn’t believe it. How very Woody Allen.
I thought of him, too. Sort of the reverse. I don’t even want to know what goes through that man’s mind when he’s dating his daughter. Either of them. Good to see you, Jess.
Sooo… whether Mr. Moneybags should spend a little time studying the Florida State Dept of Corrections from the inside depends entirely on what he does next. I love the dilemma he’s bought for himself: Keep my money and never have sex with my girlfriend again or give in to temptation and do the time for the crime.
Oh and, has anyone stopped to consider that Miss Trophy might just decide that, since she’s now independently wealthy, it’s time to trade in her 40-something for a couple of 20-somethings?
I’m just sayin…
Time for the new daughter to introduce her new “daddy” to a few new bondage techniques:
“Oh don’t worry daddy…this will only hurt for a moment…suffocation is all the rage now Daddy…all the Daddies are doing it…OOO daddy…daddy wake up…if you don’t wake up in the next 180 minutes I’m going to dial 911!…I’m so sorry daddy…I thought you would like bondage fun Daddy.I thought you would like phenobarbital in your Scotch daddy..”
I was saddened to hear about Cornelius. I never got to watch his show because I was never home on weekends but I was aware of his work. Younger readers might find it harder to relate to the fact that black Americans were very clearly at best second class citizens in the “liberal” entertainment industry in the 60s. Some people actually complained when Burt Bacharach (an American musician/songwriter with lighter skin) and Dionne Warwick (one of the greatest singers of the century and an American with darker skin) performed on the same stage together.
Given the conditions of the time Cornelius pulled off a remarkable feat by getting his show on the air.
LMAO. I wonder what he has on her that would keep her from offing him and keeping his money. And I agree with you about how remarkable it was that Cornelius got on the air with is show back then. I watched it often. I found it very interesting since all I heard on the radio where I lived was country western music. Thanks for the laugh.
Uhm…does Fotoshop carry a product for men? At my age this exercise thing is becoming a real effort. No matter how long I look at my weights they won’t pick themselves up. I keep having to do it myself and it’s pretty boring.
Lol. Have you ever actually tried telekinesis? I think if you just believe enough you might be able to lift those weights without moving. It could be a compromise you can live with.
I saw this news story online the other day and was too horrified to click it and see why he adopted his girlfriend. Then a fellow Tweeter shared the story with me. Greedy and Creepy. IMO.
Greedy and creepy, indeed, and it’s hard to say which outweighs which as far as I’m concerned. Thanks for stopping by, Tiffany.
That guy is too creepy for words and I think the parents of the kid he killed should get his billions, not his floozy girlfriend/daughter. Ewww.
Fun mash up today! I need to head over to K.B. Owens’ blog to brush up on gardening. Maybe she has tips on how not to kill anything. That would be a good start for me.
Lol. I need lots of tips like that, too. All of my plants want to run away from home. Thanks for stopping by.
RE: The perfect beauty solution.
I do occasionally wonder about the disparity between the real world and the augmented world. This is nothing new; I believe mankind has always compared itself to unreal standards, imaginations if nothing else.
Perhaps the guy adopting his GF is a further point along this same continuum of un-reality. A manifestation of the warppedness of some of our society’s thinking.
Whatever. Life for many of us continues to get more vividly real. When we are dealing in truths, we are on the pathway to more and more freedom. Falsehoods on the other hand continually constrict and imprison us. I’ll take the former thanks.
Ciao.
Chaz
I’m with you, Chaz. Though there’s a great deal of wisdom in the saying, “The truth shall set you free, but first it will make you miserable,” I’ll still opt for the truth. Enough with the play acting. I want what’s real. You make a good point about the continuum of un-reality. I think it will get more real to him when his girlfriend offs him for the money. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Love the new look, Piper, and your mash-ups are always excellent … my bookmarked list grows ever longer. Top marks for super-sleaziness with the rich guy/criminal and his girlfriend/daughter. Bring back burning at the stake!
Seriously. He’s up there on both my white collar criminal and drunk driver hate lists. Thanks for the compliment, Patricia, and thanks for stopping by.
Awesome-looking mash-up and hysterical video. My son is taking digital arts in school. Think he’ll be just the person to work with me in this area–especially the diet and exercise part, lol.
Thanks for sharing this, Piper!
That’s a great idea, sending your son to learn digital arts. I think I need to get one of my kids into fotoshop. Thanks for stopping by, Joanna.
Fantastic mashup, Piper! And wow… What a sharp blog makeover. As for Mr. Goodman, I’m envisioning him and his wife-ter on Dr. Drew’s celebrity rehab. Or jail.
Lol. Personally, I prefer to see them in jail, but they would probably use it as an excuse for a reality TV show. Thanks for the compliment. Good to see you, August.
Hi Piper. Another good laugh. I have to wonder why Mr Goodman didn’t adopt a dog instead. Perhaps he couldn’t find a dog with his kind of standards.
Cheers!
Lol. Perhaps he thinks his girlfriendaughter will be more loyal than a dog.
I think it’s disgusting that this jerk murdered someone and is worried about his money. Karma will take care of things.
I would like fotoshop- it would be much easier then dieting and working out
I agree with you that it’s despicable that he is more concerned about manipulating the system to keep his billions than he is about the fact that his drunken spree took the life of a young man. Unfortunately, his behavior, attitude, and complete lack of responsibility are not inconsistent for devoted alcoholics. Thanks so much for stopping by.