Howie wrote a thank you note for all the birthday wishes on his myspace page. View it here:

A Huge Thank You

Thank you to all of my WONDERFUL fans who sent ‘Birthday Wishes’ to me! It was very thoughtful and I deeply appreciated it.

Howie

Credits: Howie’s MySpace

Happy Birthday To Howie, He Turned 35 today! Many best wishes to you on your day from Into Backstreet!

StarShine will be interviewing the Backstreet Boys this Friday in Atlantic City. If you see Sandy, feel free to say hello! If you have a question for the Boys, you can send it in here: submit@starshinemag.com, if we think it would fit in with our interview, we’ll ask the guys and tell them YOU asked it! Lookout for the interview, exclusive photos and a review of their concert at the House of Blues!!

Source: Starshine

Kim Martin, a friend of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys posted a blog with pictures and a little blurb on Nick. Here are the pictures and the words from Kim.

I just recently got back from Nashville, TN where I hung out with my favorite backstreet boy, Nick. : ) I had the greatest time of my life and I realized how “out of reality” my life really is. Sure, it’s great- I get to travel constantly, I live in a city that never sleeps, and I always have nice things. Well, Nashville is amazing. It’s absolutely gorgeous and it’s a REAL life and I could completely see myself living there. The people are so nice, it’s so green, and I’m sure being there with Nick made things a little bit better as well.

Anyway, this week I will actually be home! But not for long… I leave for North Carolina for my grandpa’s 80th birthday Sunday and I will be going from North Carolina straight to New York. I will be gone from August 3-15th… I’m excited to see my family and hang out with them as well. Then I will be meeting the Backstreet Boys on tour for a bit on the East coast immediately after… and THANK GOD they are done touring after the first week of September and then Nick and I are going on a road trip together… He wants to see a ghost town and I want to go sailing… so we are going to do all of the above! : ) Should be fun.

More from Kim Martin’s Blog
Source: BSB Squad

Leighanne Littrell’s Bag line, WyleeBags has a new blog section, on it she’s announced a sale:

June was our best month yet in sales for Wylee Bags!!!!! Thank you to everyone! In appreciation of your business, we here at Wylee would like to extend our Mini bag sale as well as Add our Back Packs to the sale!!!! All back packs and mini’s will be on sale until August 22!

Source: Wylee Bags Blog

FRIDAY, JULY 11

Saw KEVIN RICHARDSON from the Backstreet Boys at Lucky Devils on Hollywood Blvd on Friday night with three blonds and another guy. While eating, AJ from BSB spotted him from the street and came in to say hello. What are the odds? Kevin looked the exact same, AJ was much more bearded than I remember.

Source: Defamer via Emilia at IB Forums

Thanks to Emilia for the lowdown on the situation:

Here’s the deal the email says vote for them now. But we can’t. As MTV is doing 2 categories a week. The only award the boys can be nominated for is Best Pop Video and maybe Video of the year. I doubt they can get video of the year nomination. But maybe Best Pop video for Inconsolable. Ok since MTV is doing 2 categories a week we have to wait until Friday at 8pm EST on FN MTV to vote for the next two categories which includes best pop video. Here’s the email thebackstreetboys.com sent.

Help Nominate BSB For 2008 Video Music Award
MTV is letting YOU decide this year’s VMA nominees! Help The BSBs earn as many nominations as possible - just go to VMA.MTV.com to cast your nomination and check back to see who got the top votes! Time is short - VOTE NOW and help the guys rack up nominations for “Helpless When She Smiles” and “Inconsolable.”

Not sure if I posted on the old forum. So I’ll post this here.

Search with the Backstreet Boys is a search engine that offers you a chance to win cool prizes every time you search. You earn swag bucks with those bucks you can get prizes like BSB merchandise, gift cards, electronics plus more. Click here to check it out.

http://searchwiththebackstreetboys.prod … &rb=107043

You don’t get the swag bucks each time you search. It happens randomly. You’ll get a message saying you won this many bucks. I think every 20 searches you’ll get 1 swag buck. Since June I got two 5 dollar amazon gift cards for only 60 swag bucks each sent to my email. One in June and one earlier this month. This is legit they even have updates on BSB from their official myspace blogs. It’s for US/Canada people only.

If you’re gonna register and repost about this somewhere else use your own link. Each member gets their own link so people can register using your link and you’ll see a list of people who joined by clicking your link. I think you even get bucks if someone registers under your link.

Source: IB Forums

According to Buch Walker, Brian will be a judge for Independent Music Awards which is going to be in December, 2008. Read article here.

Source: Mike @ LD

We’d like to mention a new Elite Affiliate, We Still. This wonderful site is run by Stephanie, and she does such a great job! It’s a lovely site about Backstreet and provides fans with lots of media and information, in French no less. Go check it out!