Matthew McConaughey’s girlfriend of a year Camila Alves is three months pregnant with their first child. McConaughey writes on his personal site (NOT making this up, via Us Weekly)

“my girlfriend Camila and I made a baby together… its 3 months growin in her womb and all looks healthy and lively so far. we are stoked and wowed by this miracle of creation and this gift from God, and so excited for the adventure that will come in raising this child, being a mother and a father, and [shepherding] him or her through this life… thanks for bein fans of me and my work and now this new and miraculous chapter in my life, as me and Camila and our child do our best to just keep livin…

wow, McConaughey”

Interestingly, he wrote the whole thing from the back of a pickup using a only a hayseed, a quarter bag of bud, and an empty two-liter of Sun Drop. Somebody else played the banjo and held his shirt for him.

Vintage McConaughey for my ladies:

Matthew McConaughey told Oprah Winfrey he has a new dog to replace Ms. Hud, the faithful pet he toured America with for 12 years. A snarky guy like me never cry, but I was almost in tears when I heard the story of Ms. Hud:

“Ms Hud, that’s a good woman there… I got her in a pound in Tucson, Arizona, 12 years ago and cancer got her. We went on a road trip from California to Florida and back. She got diagnosed with cancer in Louisiana on the way east. We got her leg amputated on the way back. We went for swims in the river… in Texas, and then we made it back, and the night she got me back home she fell off the bed and looked up and was like, ‘Hey man… I need a little help.’ I took her to the hospital that morning and her hind legs were paralysed… The doctor said, ‘We’ve amputated hind legs before but that’s with dogs who have two front legs.’ He and I looked at each other and I said, ‘Ms Hud, do you wanna be a one-legged dog?’ and she looks up and she says, ‘Let me move on, Pop,’ so we let her move on.”

This story reminded me of my dog Sparky. The cute little beast had no hind legs and balls of steel.

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