author Petras once analogised celebrities to superheroes, who could choose to deal with world problems in their very own, extraordinary way:

• naked people can be the solution to high crime rates in the U.S. "I could turn on just about any television channel in Europe and see full nudity. And their crime rate is a lot lower than ours. Go figure." it's definitely getting hot in here for rapper Nelly.
  
• guess who should have gone to Copenhagen 2009: sweet dear Drew Barrymore who "took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal" in a Chilean village and found that awesome thinks the way to save the environment is to "shit in the woods."
• this is the best perhaps Obama should listen to actor Dustin Hoffman, who has a brilliant idea to the end of war: "When a lot of dogs are on the beach, the first thing they do is smell each other’s asses. The information that’s gotten somehow makes pacifists out of all of them. I’ve thought, 'If only we smelled each other’s asses, there wouldn’t be any war.'"

and so celebrities are like the new blondes. they're pretty people, they're on the news, and everyone loves them because they entertain. except that they're smarter than blondes 1.0 (well, there're always exceptions to exception). and below are just some of my favourite blonde superhero moments the past weeks.

• "I really hate vaginas. I'm allergic to vagina. But I can't say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five or six hours. But I wasn't exactly prepared. I had no idea what to say to these girls. Thank God I was hungover." not Neil Patrick Harris; it's Robert Pattinson, who covers the tenth anniversary issue of Details magazine with his head next to a vagina. probably for 12 hours. the air has since been cleared, that the vagina quote was just a joke, and Pattison's learnt the hard way that he should never "talk about vaginas, people are very sensitive about them!"

• "And I think to myself about that one girl or those hundreds of thousands of girls who meet that guy at a club who makes them feel like they belong and they don't have that negotiation. We all know that having sex without a condom is ... Russian roulette." a very apt advice from Lady Gaga, or her nipples, at the MAC Viva Glam anti-HIV campaign, London. fret not, safe sex only means more sex to Gaga - "I want to make it fashionable to have safe sex. You must be safe. You can have sex with hundreds of people with a condom on and get nothing. If you have sex without one, then you could get all sorts of problems."
• "Politics is compromise," said Matt Damon, who feels Obama has compromised too much. "I'm disappointed in the health care plan and in the troop buildup in Afghanistan. Everyone feels a little let down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away. But real change comes from everyday people. You can't wait for a leader."

actually, superhero celebrities are even better starting point than "everyday people," like the We are the world 25 for Haiti crew. what's better therapy than laugher, from Saturday Night Live!