Babes in the Holy Land

Israel Plans to Revamp Its Image

Israeli Officials Have Approached a Men's Magazine to Promote a More Positive Image of Their Country

All countries carry a certain stereotype: Some associate pasta and emotion with Italy, the queen and bad weather with Britain, flashing lights and high-speed trains with Japan, and conflict and religion with Israel.

Israeli officials at the consulate in New York have decided to try to rebrand the negative image associated with their country and have approached Maxim, dubbed America's most-popular men's magazine, to launch a public relations campaign to help them.

The aim of the project is to change Israel's image from a country associated with constant conflict to a different, sexy, fun and vibrant place.

Maxim is going to run a special Israel edition this July that will promote the country to its 2.5 million readership, and the magazine hopes it will revamp Israel's image in the eyes of young American men.

Harvard Porn Mag Goes Down

H Bomb Loses Official Status

Campus sex magazine fails to sustain initial hype

Nearly three years after its first detonation, H Bomb’s glow has faded.

Although Harvard’s student-run sex magazine is still basking in the aftershocks of the media frenzy it generated, H Bomb lost official student group status earlier this month after failing to meet the requirements for student group recognition.

Said Harvard assistant dean Paul McLoughlin:

"Perhaps there is just more interest on the outside than on the inside," he said. "Maybe everyone wants to read it, but no one wants to work on it."

That could be, although we're more inclined to believe the magazine's former business manager, Vladimir Djuric, when he says: "The combination of Harvard and sex will always hold a certain public fascination... The media frenzy just snowballed until we printed our first issue." Right. Then everyone saw it. So will the magazine be able to recover from this media version of premature ejaculation?

McLoughlin said the magazine staff had another chance to complete its registration by last Sunday, but it again failed to meet the deadline.

It's Führerstodestag

Sixty Two years ago today, the capital of the thousand year Reich, Berlin, was in ruins, after only twelve years of the Nazi regime. For months, it had been pounded from the air by Allied bombers, and now it was being pounded relentlessly by Soviet artillery, bombers, and tanks. Berlin was completely circled by its enemies, who even now were advancing to within artillery range of the Reichstag itself, lobbing shells that were exploding close enough to shake the building. Remnants of the German forces fought a desperate, last ditch defense, even though they were outnumbered and outgunned, with no hope of doing anything more than slowing down the inevitable onslaught by a few days or hours. Adolf Hitler's dream of creating a Reich that would endure for a thousand years, obtaining Lebensraum in the East for Germans to expand into, enslaving the "inferior" Slavs of that land, and destroying Bolshevism, a dream that had plunged the world into war and led to the deaths of millions, both in combat and in the planned slaughter of six million Jews that later became known as the Holocaust, had backfired spectacularly, plunging Germany into nightmare. Not only had he failed to destroy Bolshevism, his gamble in launching a two-front war had led to the destruction of Germany, the deaths of hundreds of thousands German civilians and soldiers, and the mass rape of German women in the East by soldiers in the advancing Red Army. His most hated enemy had allied itself with nations that he had only half-heartedly gone to war with, Britain and the United States, and the combination was too much to overcome. Although Hitler could not know it at the time, his folly had not only delivered the eastern half of Germany into the hands of his most hated enemies, but that domination would last 45 years, nearly four times as long as the Third Reich had endured.

In the bunker below the Reichstag, it was becoming increasingly obvious that it would not be very long at all before the Russians would reach the grounds of the Reichstag itself; within days, if not hours. In the days and weeks leading up to April 30, the mood in the bunker had become increasingly surreal. Hitler issued orders for counterattacks and attempts at breaking the stranglehold the Soviets were developing on Berlin to armies that no longer existed. He pondered models of the intended postwar rebuilding of his hometown of Linz, to which he said that he wished to retire after the war. When news of Frankin D. Roosevelt's death reached the bunker on April 12, Hitler had become jubilant, seeing the death of his enemy as a sign that the Reich's deliverance was at hand, that his enemies would collapse. It wasn't.

On April 20, Hitler's 56th birthday was celebrated, but the atmosphere was more funereal than celebratory. Hitler clearly saw the celebration of his birthday with his enemy well into the maneuver of completing its encirclement of Berlin as profoundly embarrassing, as did the few remaining loyalists in the bunker. Hitler did emerge from the bunker, climbing the stairs to the Reich Chancellery park. Greeting him with the raised arm "Heil Hitler" salute were soldiers from the SS-Division "Berlin" and twenty boys from the Hitler Youth who had distinguished themselves in combat. The whole scene reinforced the hopelessness of the situation. The defense of the Reich capital, relying on boys? However, it was a natural consequence of Hitler's all-or-nothing thinking. To him, it would be either victory or utter destruction, and if that meant throwing boys into combat against battle-hardened Soviet troops with vastly superior firepower, so be it. As he had raged before, if Germany failed then to him it deserved utter destruction. Two days later, at a briefing, Hitler learned that Soviet troops had broken through the inner defenses and were now moving through Berlin's northern suburbs. Hitler was told that an ordered counterattack had never taken place at all. At this news, the reality of the situation finally seemed to sink in, and Hitler snapped. Hitler screamed that he had been betrayed by all whom he had trusted, railing against the treachery of the army and claiming that the SS was lying to him. The troops refused to fight, and all defenses were down.

And then he stopped. He slumped in a chair and cried. The great dictator, the man responsible for starting a world war and who had callously ordered the murder of millions of innocents, sobbed. The man who had expressed no concern over the suffering of his people, and whose "scorched earth" war orders designed to resist at all costs and destroy infrastructure rather than let it be used by the Soviets (some of which had been secretly undermined by Albert Speer and various industrialists, who did not want to increase the suffering of the German people more) cried. He sobbed that the war was over. He vowed that he would stay in Berlin and lead the defense of the city. Then, rather than allow himself to be captured he would at the end kill himself. All urged himself to change his mind, to make an attempt to break out and retreat to his mountain redoubt of Berchtesgaden, there to continue to lead the resistance. His apocalyptic Wagnerian vision of Gotterdamerung would be fulfilled.

The situation continued to deteriorate, and several in the bunker left, preferring to take their chances trying to escape capture or to die in the open, rather than being trapped in the bunker. When Hitler learned on April 28 that one of his most trusted deputees, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, had made peace overtures, it was the final straw, and Hitler went into one more monumental rage. On April 29, Adolf Hitler had married Eva Braun, exchanging vows in a simple ceremony. She had vowed to stay in the bunker with him, and would soon die with him. His last will read:

As I did not consider that I could take responsibility, during the years of struggle, of contracting a marriage, I have now decided, before the closing of my earthly career, to take as my wife that girl who, after many years of faithful friendship, entered, of her own free will, the practically besieged town in order to share her destiny with me. At her own desire she goes as my wife with me into death. It will compensate us for what we both lost through my work in the service of my people.

What I possess belongs - in so far as it has any value - to the Party. Should this no longer exist, to the State; should the State also be destroyed, no further decision of mine is necessary.

My pictures, in the collections which I have bought in the course of years, have never been collected for private purposes, but only for the extension of a gallery in my home town of Linz on Donau.

It is my most sincere wish that this bequest may be duly executed.

I nominate as my Executor my most faithful Party comrade,

Martin Bormann

He is given full legal authority to make all decisions. He is permitted to take out everything that has a sentimental value or is necessary for the maintenance of a modest simple life, for my brothers and sisters, also above all for the mother of my wife and my faithful co-workers who are well known to him, principally my old Secretaries Frau Winter etc. who have for many years aided me by their work.

I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.

Given in Berlin, 29th April 1945, 4:00 a.m.
[Signed] A. Hitler

In another document, his last political testament, he dictated to his young secretary, Traudl Jung:

It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish descent or who worked for Jewish interests. . .Centuries will pass away, but out of the ruins of our towns and cultureal monuments the hatred will ever renew itself against those ultimately responsible whom we have to thank for everything, international Jewry and its helpers.

Regarding the Holocaust, he obliquely but chillingly wrote:

I also left no doubt that, if the nations of Europe are again to be regarded as mere blocks of shares of these international money and finance conspirators, then that race, too, which is really guilty of this murderous struggle will be called to account: Jewry! I further left no one in doubt that this time millions of grown men would not suffer death, and hundreds of thousands of women and children not be burnt and bombed to death in the towns, without the real culprit haivng to atone for his guilt, even by more humane means.

The remainder of his testament was devoted to ramblings about a "renaissance" of National Socialism and the charade of nominating a successor government. His final charge to the successor government:

Above all, I charge the leadership of the nation and their subjects with the meticulous observation of the race laws and the merciless resistance to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry.

[Source: Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw]

Even there, at the end, he could not release his hatred and wanted his successors to continue his persecution of the Jews.

Finally, in the afternoon of April 30, after taking lunch as usual with his secretaries, Hitler retired to his study with Eva Braun. Hitler's followers waited. And waited. No one heard a shot. Finally, according to accounts by Major Freytag von Loringhoven, Traudl Jung (Hitler's staff secretary, and subject of the documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary) and SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch, one of Hitler's bodyguards, Hitler's vale, Heinz Linge, got up the courage to look inside the room, and found Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun dead, Hitler having shot himself as he bit on a cyanide capsul, and Braun having taken a cyanide capsule. His remaining followers carried the bodies into the courtyard of the Reichstag, doused them with gasoline, and set them ablaze. In the meantime, Magda Goebbels poisoned herself and her six children with the help of SS doctor Helmuth Kunz.

Thus ended the life of one of the scourges of the 20th century. Rumors that Hitler had never died continued for decades, mainly because the Soviets never acknowledged that they had found Hitler's remains until relatively recently, when they put a fragment of Hitler's skull on display.

Carson's Foil Tommy Newsom Dies at 78

Tommy Newsom, the former backup bandleader on "The Tonight Show" whose "Mr. Excitement" nickname was a running joke for Johnny Carson, has died. He was 78.

Newsom died of cancer Saturday at his home in Portsmouth, the city of his birth, according to his nephew, Jim Newsom.

Newsom, who played saxophone, joined "The Tonight Show" in 1962 and rose from band member to assistant music director. He retired along with Carson in 1992.

Newsom won music direction Emmys for "Night of 100 Stars" in 1982 and "The 40th Annual Tony Awards Show" in 1986. "The Tonight Show" received five Emmy awards during Newsom's years on it.

"I hope he will be remembered as a gifted musician," Jim Newsom said Monday in a telephone interview. "I'm sure he will be remembered for his wit and deadpan humor on 'The Tonight Show.' And to some of us a certain age, he will always be remembered as Mr. Excitement."

That was the name Carson gave Newsom to make light of his low-key personality and drab brown and blue suits - a sharp contrast to the flashy style of bandleader Doc Severinsen.

"He became a running character in Carson's monologue," Jim Newsom said. "Tommy enjoyed that."

Not long after the Carson era ended in 1992, Newsom remarked that his image as an ordinary guy was "fairly accurate - compared to Rambo."

"I realize things have to end sometime," Newsom said at the time. "I felt regrets at it ending and there was a sense of relief in a way."

Along with his work on "The Tonight Show," Newsom arranged and composed music for Skitch Henderson, Woody Herman, Kenny Rogers, John Denver and other performers.

He also released several albums as a bandleader, including "Live From Beautiful Downtown Burbank" in 1978 and "I Remember You, Johnny" in 1996.

Newsom was born in 1929 and got his first horn for Christmas at age 8. He graduated from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then toured with a U.S. Air Force jazz ensemble during a four-year enlistment.

Before landing his "Tonight" gig, he toured the Soviet Union and South America with Benny Goodman and played in "The Merv Griffin Show" orchestra.

Newsom is survived by his wife of 50 years, Patricia, and their daughter, Candy Newsom

Princess Beatrice drinks William and Harry under the table

It seems anything that her older cousins can do, Princess Beatrice can do better.

When it comes to partying, Prince William and Harry might have set an example running up a £5,000 drinks bill at Soho nightclub Mahiki at the weekend.

But Princess Beatrice appeared more than equal to the task.

The 18-year-old was seen stumbling out of Royal favourite nightspot, Boujis at 3.15am yesterday, looking more than a little bleary-eyed after a night of heavy partying.

Barely able to focus and with her dark make-up smudged around the eyes, she appeared to reel sideways as she staggered outside, sending her coiffured auburn hair flying.

But she quickly recovered, hastily clambering into her waiting carriage under the watchful eye of her minders.

Wearing an eye-catching aqua and black satin dress, accessorised with a sequined blue bow handbag and a black alice band, the elder daughter of Andrew and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of York, enjoyed a night out with friends at the West London nightclub.

Onlookers described how she appeared to be in great spirits, although slightly unstable on her feet.

Muslim women regain virginity in France

PARIS -- Sitting in a cafe near the Champs Elysees, the 26-year-old French-born woman of Algerian descent looks like any other Parisian. But two months ago, she did something none of her friends have done.

She had her hymen re-sewn, technically making her a virgin again.

"I'm glad I had it done," said the woman, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. "I wanted to reconstruct part of my life, to reconstruct myself so that I could feel better about myself."

This 30-minute outpatient procedure, called "hymenoplasty" and costing between 1,500 and 3,000 euros ($2,000-$4,000), is increasingly popular among young women of North African descent in France.

No exact figures exist to say how many such operations are done, but the woman's surgeon says he gets three to five queries and performs one to three hymenoplasties each week. Demand has been rising for the past three or four years.

Doctor Marc Abecassis, whose office is near the chic Champs Elysees, sees the rise in religion among France's five million Muslims fuelling this trend. His patients are between 18 and 45 years old, Muslim, born both in France and in North Africa.

"Many of my patients are caught between two worlds," said Abecassis. They have had sex already but are expected to be virgins at marriage according to a custom that he called "cultural and traditional, with enormous family pressure."

For this woman, the decision to have the surgery came after she broke up with a boyfriend who had pressured her into having sex. Unable to cope with breaking family tradition, she felt a hymenoplasty would help put her life back together again.

Another of Abecassis' patients, a 22-year-old Algerian immigrant who asked to be called Karima, said most young women had the operation to respect their culture or family tradition, not for religious reasons.

In fact, neither woman is a practicing Muslim. They dress, speak and act like other young Parisians, but are also part of a growing silent group of women who juggle traditional Muslim and modern French values.

Opening night crowd for Disney's "The Ant Bully"...

Time Lapse Takeoff from an Airport...

Deep Thoughts from SuperModels

1. ON COURAGE "They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind."
-- Cindy Crawford

2. ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE "Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage."
-- Carole Mallory

3. ON POVERTY "Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery."
-- Beverly Johnson

4. ON FATE "I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that."
-- Christie Brinkley

5. ON PSYCHOLOGY "I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
-- Tatjana Patitz

6. ON ARRIVING "Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."
-- Kathy Ireland, star of 'Alien From L.A.' and 'Danger Island'

7. ON CAREER CHOICES "My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
-- Paulina Porizkova

8. ON PRIORITIES "I would rather exercise than read a newspaper."
-- Kim Alexis

9. ON GEOPOLITICS "Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."
-- Jerry Hall

10. ON INNER STRENGTH "I love the confidence that makeup gives me."
-- Tyra Banks

11. ON DEATH "Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
-- Cindy Crawford

12. ON TRAVEL "I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care."
-- Tyra Banks

13. ON BREAKTHROUGHS "Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling."
-- Gabrielle Reece

14. ON EPIPHANY "I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought."
-- Christie Brinkley

15. ON HEREDITY "My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'"
-- Beverly Johnson

16. ON THE BASICS "It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout."
-- Cheryl Tiegs

17. ON INTRODUCTIONS "I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie."
-- Christy Turlington

18. ON COURTSHIP "The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby."
-- Fabio

19. ON PARADOX "Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone."
-- Tatjana Patitz

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The Captain and Lee

Captain Kangaroo passed away on January 23, 2004 at age 76, which is odd, because he always looked to be 76. (DOB: 6/27/27 ). His death reminded me of the following story.

Some people have been a bit offended that the actor, Lee Marvin, is buried in a grave alongside 3 and 4 star generals at Arlington National Cemetery. His marker gives his name, rank (PVT), and service (USMC). Nothing else. Here's a guy who was only a famous movie star who served his time, why the heck does he rate burial with these guys? Well, following is the amazing answer: I always liked Lee Marvin but didn't know the extent of his Corps experiences.

In a time when many Hollywood stars served their country in the armed forces often in rear echelon posts where they were carefully protected only to be trotted out to perform for the cameras in war bond promotions. Lee Marvin was a genuine hero. He won the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima . There is only one higher Naval award... the Medal Of Honor

If that is a surprising comment on the true character of the man, he credits his sergeant with an even greater show of bravery.

Dialog from "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson": His guest was Lee Marvin Johnny said, "Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima...and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded."

"Yeah, yeah... I got shot square in the bottom and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi. Bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys getting' shot hauling you down. But,Johnny, at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew... We both got the cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. That dumb guy actually stood up on Red beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. Bullets flying by, with mortar rounds landing everywhere and he stood there as the main target of gunfire so that he could get his men to safety. He did this on more than one occasion because his men's safety was more important than his own life. That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends. When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, where'd they get you Lee?' Well Bob... if you make it home be fore me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!" Johnny, I'm not lying, Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew. The Sergeant's name is Bob Keeshan. You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo."

The Doll Squad

SCHNEIDER SELLING OFF GENERAL LEE

Former DUKES OF HAZZARD star JOHN SCHNEIDER is selling the 'General Lee' car he bought from producers when the TV series came to an end.

The actor, who played Bo Duke in the hit series, used the famous car, one of many replica Dodge Chargers, as his own personal ride on the set.
And when the show ended in 1985, Schneider took the car with him and has used it ever since.
Dubbing it Traveler, the car even featured in Schneider's last film, John Schneider's Collier & Co - Hot Pursuit.
And now the actor is parting with his beloved orange motor on auction website eBay, so he can fund a sequel to Hot Pursuit.
A spokesman says, "The car is ranked as one of the most famous in the world.
John has driven it for years, and has raced it in many events around the country. It has a powerful racing engine." The auction runs until the end of the week (ends27Apr07).

In the running to replace Rosie on THE VIEW...

Rosanne Barr, Joan Rivers, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathie Lee Gifford and Connie Chung.

I miss Moms Mabley....

'KIDNAP' BY BOY GEORGE (DUH)

Boy George was arrested after a terrified male escort fled his flat - claiming the singer imprisoned him as a bondage slave... Developing...

hummm....wonder where George Michael was during this?....

Britney Spears Tour Dates

The recently rehabbed mother of two is indeed embarking on a mini-tour of Southern California THIS week.

Performing under the alias "The M & Ms", BS will play at three House of Blues Venues.

In San Diego on May 1st, Anaheim on May 2nd and the HOB in West Hollywood on May 3rd.

Joss Stone and her friend Mr. Chicken...

lesbian festival to be held in Spain

Official website: here

Proud To Be An American

Scarlett Johansson Rocks The Coachella Music Festival

INDIO, Calif. - Actress Scarlett Johansson proved her singing mettle taking the main stage at the Coachella music festival last night.

The star joined reformed Scottish band the Jesus and Mary Chain to sing vocals on the track "Just Like Honey."

Wearing a mini dress, fedora hat and cherry red high heels, Scarlett joined the band on stage three-quarters of the way through their set. The band"s singer, Jim Reid did not tell the thousands in the crowd who their special guest was but hugged her at the end of the song.

Wonder Pill

Pill to boost women's sex drive and help them lose weight

A DRUG that boosts female sex drive while helping women lose weight is being developed by one of Scotland's leading experts on human reproduction.

Professor Robert Millar has been working on a hormone that can be used to treat loss of libido, a problem that affects millions of women each year.

But Millar, director of the Human Reproductive Sciences Unit at the Medical Research Council, said the hormone has the added benefit of suppressing appetite.

Tests of the "wonder pill" on animals have proved successful, but Millar admits a version for humans could be as much as a decade away.

The scientist has spent 30 years researching

Type 2 gonadotropin-releasing hormone, which drives the reproductive system in animals and humans.

Millar said that when female musk shrews and marmoset monkeys were directly injected with doses of Type 2 GnRH, they displayed classic mating behaviour towards their male counterparts.

In musk shrews this was shown by "rump presentation and tail wagging", and in monkeys it included "tongue flicking and eyebrow raising".

However, in an unexpected short-term side-effect, the laboratory animals also ate significantly less food than usual. In some cases this was one-third less than their usual daily diet.

Millar expects that a similar rise in libido and lessening of appetite would be seen in women given the hormone. He will now work on reproducing it in the form of a pill.

Bart bares all in film

In the unlikeliest nude scene since Kathy Bates' hot-tub hijinks in About Schmidt, Bart Simpson will reportedly go full frontal in his upcoming feature film.

According to Newsweek, which got a sneak peek at The Simpsons Movie, "little Bart flashes his little part to the entire world" while skateboarding sans clothing on a dare from dad Homer.

If his full Monty makes it to the big screen in July, the magazine notes, it may be the first time a Hollywood movie has exposed this sort of skin -- albeit in cartoon form -- without being slapped with an R-rating.

Not surprisingly, buzz around young Simpson's sceptre is already nearing fever pitch among pundits and fans.

"That Bart is a cartoon character, and a defiant adolescent one at that, does make the cultural interest in his private parts more complex and intriguing," says Kim Blank, a professor of popular culture at the University of Victoria.

"But the bottom line -- pun intended -- is that Bart, despite the little pixels that constitute his personhood, is an American icon -- a transcendent celebrity who defies age. And we, as a culture, are always interested in seeing naked celebrities, if only to confirm our fantasy that they have what we have."

Although the pioneer of cartoon flesh was Fritz the Cat, which in 1972 became the first animated feature to be rated X, it was arguably Canada's own Heavy Metal that popularized it. The adult-oriented fantasy film has grown into a cult sensation since its big-screen debut in 1981, which was met with a restricted rating due to copious amounts of animated sex and nudity.

More recently, the makers of 2004's Team America: World Police had to re-cut a sex scene involving genitalia-free puppets nine times before the Motion Picture Association of America withdrew the movie's NC-17 rating and replaced it with an R.

Young Simpson's foray into flashing, however, is likely to elicit giggles rather than criticism.

"You have to keep in mind how well we have come to know Bart, and this new nude knowledge represents a small but meaningful extension of that," says Blank. "Bart revealing himself is really us revealing ourselves."

Although Bart's big-screen exhibitionism will be a first for Springfield's first family, cartoon historians will note the Simpsons have enjoyed a long-standing flirtation with the naughty.

The cover of the 1991 book The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album showed a nude Bart sprawled stomach-down on a bearskin rug in a cheeky homage to Burt Reynolds' Cosmopolitan centerfold shoot of 1972.

Then, in 2002, Rolling Stone printed a photo on its table of contents exposing baby Bart's cartoon genitals. The picture -- which was also featured on the cover, sans pint-size penis -- was a recreation of Nirvana's album art for Nevermind.

And according to The Simpsons Archive, the show has aired more than 200 different scenes of implied or pixilated nudity and sexual situations during its nearly two-decade run.

John Alberti, a professor of English at Northern Kentucky University and recognized Simpsons scholar, says any ruffled feathers over such cartoon drawings demonstrates that "it's not the actual parts of the body, it's the meaning attached to them" that counts.

"To me, it's far more disturbing to see Homer hitting himself in the eye with a hammer (in the movie trailer) than to see a little boy skateboard naked," says Alberti.

But Cory Silverberg, a sexual health educator from Toronto, believes critics are letting their jerking knees obscure the reality of the situation.

"I'm always concerned when I hear about child actors being put into uncomfortable situations. But this is not a person, it's a cartoon," says Silverberg.

2007 Swimwear revealed?

Slaughter: Horror at Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat

Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.

The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s PlayStation 2 console.

Guests at the event were even invited to reach inside the goat’s still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach.

Sickening images of the party have appeared in the company’s official PlayStation magazine – but after being contacted by The Mail on Sunday, Sony issued an apology for the gruesome stunt and promised to recall the entire print run.

Critics condemned the entertainment giant, which produces scores of Hollywood blockbusters each year, for its "blood lust" and said the grotesque "sacrifice" highlighted increasing concerns over the content of video games and the lengths to which the industry will go to exploit youngsters.

At the event, guests competed to see who could eat the most offal – procured elsewhere and intended to resemble the goat’s intestines – from its stomach.

They also threw knives at targets and pulled live snakes from a pit with their bare hands.

Topless girls added to the louche atmosphere by dipping grapes into guests’ mouths, while a male model portraying Kratos, the game’s warrior hero, handed out garlands.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare said it was "outrageous" that the animal’s death had been used "to sell a few computer games".

A spokesman said: "We are always opposed to any senseless killing of an animal and this sounds like a gruesome death. We condemn Sony’s actions. It is stupid and completely unjustified."

The party features across two pages of the latest edition of the company’s PlayStation magazine, which was due to hit newsstands on Tuesday but has already been sent to subscribers.

We have reproduced the spread – headlined Sony’s Greek Orgy – here, but have pixellated the image to spare readers the sight of the goat’s decapitated head hanging by a thread of tissue from its corpse, with blood dripping to the floor.

But the magazine’s readers were shown the picture in its full horror.

The article, based on a Sony Press release, shows more vivid pictures from the event under headlines such as Topless Girls! and Flesh Eating?

It asks readers how far they would go to get hold of Sony’s next-generation console, the PlayStation 3.

"How about eating still warm intestines uncoiled from the carcass of a freshly slaughtered goat? At the party to celebrate God Of War II’s European release, members of the Press were invited to do just that . . ."

In God Of War II, which is so violent it has been given an 18 certificate, players follow Kratos into battle against a series of fearsome characters from Greek mythology.

Sony describes it as "an adult-rated, fast-paced bloodbath – and enormous fun to boot", adding that it is "bigger, better and as brutal as ever".

One reviewer said the title featured "the most brutal, visceral combat of any action game".

Former Minister Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East and a long-time campaigner against violent computer games, branded the stunt "distasteful and irresponsible".

He said: "The slaughter of animals is not something that should be done to advertise a product.

"Sony as a global entertainment company has a social responsibility. At this event it failed in that responsibility.

"I think people should think very carefully before bringing games like this into their homes.

"I would understand if customers wanted to boycott other Sony products such as their televisions because of this controversy."

Sony, based in Japan and run by Welshman Sir Howard Stringer, is one of the largest media organisations in the world, boasting global revenues of £40billion from electronics, video games, music, television programmes and feature films – including Spider-Man 3 and Casino Royale.

It is regarded, along with Coca-Cola, Nike and Mercedes-Benz, as one of the world’s most valuable brands.

The company, which released the game in the UK on Friday, admitted that the stunt had been a mistake. In a statement it said: "Sony does not condone or sanction any inappropriate behaviour by its staff or sub-contracted staff.

"It has come to our attention that at the God Of War II launch showcase, an element of the event was of an unsuitable nature.

"We are conducting an internal inquiry into aspects of the event in order to learn from the occurrence and put into place measures to ensure that this does not happen again."

The party was held last month in Athens in homage to the game’s Greek mythology themes. Revellers partied against the floodlit backdrop of the Parthenon.

The Sony spokesman said the animal had not been slaughtered for the event but had been bought from a local butcher by the Greek company hired to stage the event.

What purported to be warm intestines was actually warm offal.

He said Sony’s UK office had been shocked to see the report in the official PlayStation magazine, which the company licenses to publishing house Future. Sony is this weekend recalling the entire 80,000 print run of the magazine.

The offending article will be removed because of the "sensitivity of the general public over issues of animal welfare".

The firm refused to say how the goat died. It is unusual for animals in modern Greece to be killed by having their throats cut, let alone by being decapitated.

It is not the first time Sony has been involved in controversy over its games. In 2004, the PlayStation 2 game Manhunt was banned by High Street stores in the UK after it was linked to the murder of a 14-year-old Leicester boy.

Last September the relatives of a family massacred by a New Mexico teenager addicted to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City launched a £317 million lawsuit against the entertainment company.

And in November, Europe’s justice commissioner Franco Frattini was so shocked by the "obscene cruelty and brutality" of Sony’s Rule Of Rose PlayStation game that he wrote to all EU governments urging tighter controls on the "dreadful game".

Oscar Talk...

When three small town National Guardsmen bound for Iraq are unknowingly dropped into Mexico, their confusion leads them to "liberate" a small village from a band of corrupt Federales.

Two hunters (Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy) who are good with guns get picked up by the Feds to be deployed to Iraq. The plane actually drops them off in Mexico which they think is Iraq and go on to deal with Mexican outlaws. The leader of the gang is named Carlos Santana and so far the most popular joke is for everyone to say "the singer?" after hearing his name said. And no it isn't the singer, but the baddest outlaw in all of Mexico...

Gross! Contest Attracts Public Radio Amateurs

Blood is in the water over at public radio, where top brass has apparently decided that Jesse Camp didn't teach big broadcasters enough lessons back in 1998. Officially, it's the "Public Radio Talent Quest," but Ira "I Am Shattering" Glass is calling it "This American Idol." The game is that people submit a short radio piece, and after a couple weeks of voting, the field starts to narrow and a panel of radio experts/personalities choose the best. If you win--and three people will--you get 10 grand and a mentor, who will help you produce a pilot of your show and shop it to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The big questions, as per the "Talent Quest" website: "Do you have what it takes to be public radio's next great host? Do you have that most elusive of qualities - hostiness? Now is your chance." And just what is "hostiness"? No better way to know then to dig through the submissions, all of which are available for streaming along with comments from their creators and banter between friends.

On the whole, it seems that kids (and olds) have learned about as much about NPR house style from the SNL parodies as they have from the actual programming. Let's see... anemic tonal detachment? Check! Coffee house world music? Check! Subordinate clauses, apposition, and em-dashes? Ballin'! Film professor Jeff Midents crams fifteen clarifying phrases/clauses into his two-minute riff on green-eyed artist Nawi Oleen which averages out for one every ten seconds, enough to give the boy Robert Siegel a run for his money.

Which is not to say there's not life out there. Peep "soultalker" a.k.a. The Pleasure Activist on the topic of liberation and sexuality: "I LOVE 'BODY JOY.' WHAT A GREAT, GREAT NAME FOR A BUSINESS." Also check out GW affiliates Gabe and Kibs' "After the Fact" with Ulysses McLoud, a fictional high school teacher fired for refusing to grade his students ( "It reminded me of one of my favorite books by Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter....I'll admit it, I was sick of these kids getting dehumanized").

Then there's the almighty Nurmi Hasa, a self-proclaimed lover of literature who "divides his time between Second Century Rome, fin-de-siecle London, pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, and 21st Century Cascadia." Make sure to actually listen to this one; doggie starts his piece with a fireside chuckle, then purrs his way slowly through the rest like a big furry cat:

You know, I often feel as though I'm living more than one life, which makes me sort of an intellectual bigamist, I suppose. I mean, there's my real life and my life in books, not to be confused with the lives I lead in music and British television shows.... [My life in books] isn't organized by date or event, it's organized by writer. As in, 'before Hildesheimer,' or 'after Saki.' And I don't read books; anyone can read books. I read writers. If you grab me, I'll track you down and inhale everything you've ever written. Which I suppose makes me an intellectual stalker as well as a bigamist. Like most folk in the rain soaked northwest I always have a tome or two going...

Mr. Hasa has a friend in one Linda Lowen, a 46-year-old semi-professional radio worker who can be seen telling him in a comment thread that his submission was the first she'd heard to give her "a chill, a good one, the kind where your soul shifts and you feel it."

If you're wondering where exactly Linda felt that chill, look no further than her submission, a politically porny yarn about a house by the sea occupied by five wives/mothers who have put their lives on hold for the duties of family. Over a pale, quiet piano, Linda describes her "Momma, I'm So Sorry" fantasy, in which she pairs each of her little women with a "brilliant," "talented" young man, who is paid a cool million to do her bidding so that she can explore her passions. "After six months, with a woman unfettered to do whatever she could dream of doing and a man saddled with what most women do every day," Linda says, her p's and t's light as a feather, "I'd see what those lives were like now that they had been changed by living in each other's shoes. All this would happen in my house by the sea."

Another thing that would probably happen there is drowning, right fellas? According to her bio, Linda was raised Jewish by her "Japanese mother and Brooklyn-born father." These days she's keeping busy doing Zen practice and reconnecting with her Buddhist roots. Her secret talent? "It's goofy: I can hum and whistle at the same time, thus sounding like an alien spaceship approaching."

Mr. Hasa, for one, is impressed and enchanted. While Linda visits other people's pages and posts questions about why more women aren't entering the contest, Mr. Hasa, "a pretty radical feminist... happy to speak up on gender issues," warmly responds to her on her own page: "Lovely production, lovely voice, lovely sentiments. 'Two hundred a year and a room of her own.' Yep. Women sacrifice far too much in this culture. And for what? For men to have the time to blow up little brown children? Nope. Not right."

They go back and forth like this for six more posts, each one more tender than the last. Next thing you know, they'll be meeting up in the local library's private A/V room. No one tell Mr. Linda!

Deadline for submissions is May 14th. Three rounds later, a winner will be announced on September 24. In the meantime, Ira Glass: "Enter the Public Radio Talent Quest. This is no joke."

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Lindsay and her "girlfriend"

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Playboy Black Jack coming to mobiles

The first in a new series of naughty gambling games Erotic games seem to enjoy more widespread acceptance on mobiles than they do elsewhere, and the latest set to contribute to the, erm, unseemly scrum of flesh is Playboy Black Jack.

Developed by Qplaze, Playboy Black Jack puts an erotic twist (if that's not the name of a cocktail it should be) on the casino favourite. What this means is that the better your game, the less clothes the girls on the other side of the table will be wearing. And that is about all there is to it.

Clearly keen to make the best use possible of the Playboy licence, the developer Qplaze has a series of erotic games in the pipeline including�Playboy Poker, Playboy Slot Machine and Playboy Jacks or Better.

Call us prudes, but surely playing these games on the bus is ill-advised? You never know who could be looking over your shoulder, but it isn't likely to be a semi-clad Tera Patrick.

Remove My Man Boobs Dot Com Pleads For Your Help

It's crazy, a bit "out there" but a genius idea! www.removemymanboobs.com is one of the most interesting websites as of late.

A 21 year old male from Australia who goes by the name of "Mr Man Boobs" has set up a donation website where he asks the public to donate money for an operation to remove his larger than normal breasts.

The website contains pictures of his body as well as a progress bar which displays how much money has been donated, as well as a captivating story of the pain and emotions one can face while suffering from the condition (known as Gynecomastia).

Whether or not he will raise the $5,000 is unknown, however it definitely is worth a look (and read) and it must be said that "Mr Man Boobs" has shown a lot of courage and determination to set up the website.

Will he make the $5,000? Let's hope so, because it really is for a good cause. You can visit the site at www.removemymanboobs.com


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Tyra is NUTS...or Gay...

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XXX Church?

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37 Great Quotes

37. “I’m so smart now. Everyone’s always like ‘take your top off.’ Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I’m not stupid.” — Paris Hilton

36. “What’s Wal-Mart? Do they sell, like wall stuff?” — Paris Hilton

35. “The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.” — Michael Jackson

34. “If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.” — Cyndi Lauper

33. “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost an important part of your life.” — Brooke Shields

32. “[I hope] my child will be a good Catholic like me.” — Madonna

31. “It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.” — Axl Rose

30. “I’d rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I’m forty-five.” — Mick Jagger

29. “It’s not that I dislike many people. It’s just that I don’t like many people.” — Bryant Gumbel

28. “I look at [modeling] as something I’m doing for black people in general.” — model Naomi Campbell

27. “When I’m really hot, I can walk into a room and if a man doesn’t look at me, he’s probably gay.” — Kathleen Turner

26. “When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?” — Dallas Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders

25. “We are going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” — NBA player Jason Kidd

24. “Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.” — Charles Barkley

23. “If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it’s Big Business.” — Donald Trump

22. “You know, it really doesn’t matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” — Donald Trump

21. “He speaks English, Spanish, and he’s bilingual too.” — Don King

20. “From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I’ve ever seen on a running back.” — John Madden

19. “Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.” — Yogi Berra

18. “The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” — Joe Theismann

17. “I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.” — Samuel Goldwyn

16. “I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes.” — Vanna White

15. “I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.” — Racquel Welch

14. “I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.” — Britney Spears

13. “I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa.” — Britney Spears

12. “So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” — Christina Aguilera

11. “I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.” — Alicia Silverstone

10. “I’ve got taste. It’s inbred in me.” — David Hasselhoff

9. “I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a clich� of myself.” — Keanu Reeves

8. “I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me.” — Jessica Simpson

7. “Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it’s tuna but it says chicken of the sea.” — Jessica Simpson

6. “I’m sounding worse than Jessica Simpson right now. She’s looking like a rock scientist.” — Tara Reid

5. “I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

4. “I love California. I grew up in Phoenix.” — Dan Quayle

3. “You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.” — George W. Bush

2. “Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.” — George W. Bush

1. “Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?” — George W. Bush

Paris Hilton Autopsy' Educates New York City Teens

NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Paris Hilton's naked "corpse" could
provide an invaluable service to students preparing for prom this season.
An interactive Public Service Announcement featuring the graphic display of
a tiara-wearing, autopsied Paris Hilton with removable innards is designed
to warn teenagers of the hazards of underage drinking. The display also
features Tinkerbell, Hilton's forlorn pet Chihuahua with matching tiara,
and debuts in the trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood where
prom-goers frequently dine, courtesy of Capla Kesting Fine Art.


"Campaign to Rescue Women of Youth" featuring "The Paris Hilton
Autopsy" offers a cadaveric nude Paris Hilton, laid out with twisted body
and opened abdominal cavity on a coroner's table, while her cell phone
remains in her grip. The 'unglamorous' display which includes support
material from anti-drunk driving organizations counters "the disturbingly
glamorized trend of Hollywood's 'girls gone wild'," according to gallery
director, David Kesting.

Paris Hilton, arrested for a DUI last year, previously released a
marginally effective PSA concerning drunk driving. This latest PSA includes
a website by Capla Kesting, which offers high school educators an
icebreaker for discussing drunk driving's consequences. Students are
encouraged to take the virtual field trip at http://www.ParisHiltonAutopsy.com to
view the making of the "Paris Hilton Autopsy" and compete for prizes by
writing Paris Hilton's obituary.

The tableau, created by Daniel Edwards, reminds potential prom queens
no one is impervious to the pitfalls of drinking. Recalling Miss USA's
recent battle to keep her crown through alcohol rehab and Princess Diana's
untimely death due to drunk driving, a skewed hotel heiress's tiara adorns
the lifeless Paris Hilton head.

The PSA also observes the teen pregnancy crisis associated with alcohol
impaired judgment. The "Hilton Autopsy" tragically reveals drunk driving's
heartbreaking collateral damage.

Kesting, advocating teenagers to experience the Hilton display
"hands-on," said, "Paris' internals, which include her small intestines,
and other elements, are removable to assist teens with an empathetic view
of drunk driving tragedy from the coroner's perspective."
UK's Daily Star recently reported Paris Hilton, whose last chilling
portrayal came from 2005's "House of Wax" in a well publicized death scene,
had commissioned Daniel Edwards for a sculpture of her to be placed on Los
Angeles' Sunset Strip.

The Future...The Cone

The Cone Launches on The Jonathan Ross Show
The Cone received raucous acclaim on The Jonathan Ross Show. BBC1 viewers were treated to an entertaining feature devoted entirely to The Cone for being the latest in "auto-freak technology". Jonathan Ross couldn't resist The Cone's charm and alleged .If that doesn't get you ladies you�ve been dead for seven years�, before he proudly, publicly avowed that he was taking it home. The Cone even outdid Jonathan�s wardrobe in terms of boldness and extravagance. Because of the BBC's copyright issues, we're not allowed to show the clip, but we do have a transcript of the show, and it's well worth a read if you fancy a giggle.


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Rush's "Magic Negro" Routine

Rush Limbaugh has obviously learned nothing from the outrage and anger unleashed by Don Imus' unfortunate "nappy headed ho's" remark. Never one to shy away from unfunny "humor", Limbaugh recently played a song parody on his radio show in which an Al Sharpton impersonator (played with stereotypical gusto) sings a song filled with idiotic assumptions about black people and dripping with ignorance called "Barack the Magic Negro".

Perhaps this kind of garbage (set to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon") is someone's cup of tea. Limbaugh does have millions of listeners and they do adore of much of what the man says. Whether he's lampooning former President Clinton's daughter or suggesting Michael J. Fox is exaggerating the effects of his Parkinson's disease. So I don't expect his listeners to desert him over this. What does surprise me is that Vice President Dick Cheney among other major conservatives is still a regular guest on Limbaugh's show and I don't anticipate the kind of repudiations that Don Imus received over his transgression from him or anyone else on the right with regards to Limbaugh.

It is true that Imus was chided because he was on a national cable news network and was perhaps less associated with being a provocateur than Limbaugh. But I still think Cheney and his ilk should refuse to appear on Limbaugh's show from now on. I wonder, will there be any outcry? Are people becoming so desensitized to this now that they just don't care about the inevitable phony apology and/or Al Sharpton protest. I'd like to see calls for Limbaugh's removal not just from the black community but from the supporters of the president and vice-president who are not racist, who don't find "jokes" like "Barack The Magic Negro" funny.

But this will never, ever happen. Limbaugh's entire career and success is based on being petty and juvenile, so one more stupid act will most likely change nothing. Personally, I'm just disheartened that so soon after the Imus controversy came and went the so-called shock jocks and right wing nuts went right back to business as usual, didn't blink an eye and continued to use racism to insult and humiliate.

Woman ‘tricked into sex’ by penis cream treatment

A Syrian-born airline pilot allegedly tricked a schoolteacher from Haverfordwest into having sex with him by pretending he had to administer ointment on the end of his penis, a jury heard Tuesday.

Fadi Sbano, 38, even pretended to know a gynaecologist who advised him on how often to have intercourse with her and whether to thrust "slowly or quickly". And, on the "doctor's advice", he kept a clock on the bedside table to time the sessions.

The teacher put up with the treatment for nine months before telling her doctor.

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Huw Rees, prosecuting, told Swansea crown court: "The allegations here are of rape by deception."

Mr Rees said the pair met while Sbano was based at Gatwick and the teacher was working nearby.

In November, 2000, she discovered a rash of white spots and feared that typhoid, which she contracted on holiday some years before, had returned.

Sbano claimed he was in talks with a gynaecologist who was anxious for a certain cream to be applied, the prosecutor said.

"He (Sbano) suggested he would apply the cream to his penis and apply it inside her.

Mr Rees said the woman found the sessions "Clinical, not at all erotic". She consented only because she believed it was a proper treatment.

"When the insertions took place, and depending on the instructions of his friend, he would thrust slowly or quickly for anything from one to ten minutes,"

Her doctor told her to find out the identity of Sbano's gynaecologist friend but he "became evasive and never gave his name" beyond the word "Ibby".

"It began to dawn on her that he had devised this treatment in order to have sex with her on his terms."

Mr Rees said "Ibby" was traced but said he knew nothing about the treatment.

Sbano was arrested at Heathrow while attending a pilots' training facility.

He claimed the woman had invented the entire story about the "treatment".

Sbano, from Harrow, London, denies nine charges of rape and 11 or obtaining money by deception.

The trial continues.

Jay and Silent Bob

THE PUNCH LINE

"McDonald's has just introduced a Happy Meal with toys inspired by 'American Idol.' The toys include a microphone, sunglasses, and a Paula Abdul shot glass." -- Conan O'Brien

Look...I'm walking...

Japanese fooled in poodle scam

Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.

Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at $1,600 each.

That is a snip compared to a real poodle which retails for twice that much in Japan.

The scam was uncovered when Japanese moviestar Maiko Kawamaki went on a talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food.

She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep.

Then hundreds of other women got in touch with police to say they feared their new "poodle" was also a sheep.

One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.

Japanese police believe there could be 2,000 people affected by the scam, which operated in Sapporo and capitalised on the fact that sheep are rare in Japan, so many do not know what they look like.

"We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company were selling sheep as poodles," Japanese police said, the The Sun reported.

"Sadly we think there is more than one company operating in this way.

"The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain, Australia."

Many of the sheep have now been donated to zoos and farms.

'Monster Mash' Singer Pickett Dies at 69

He does the "Monster Mash" no more. Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was 69.

Pickett, dubbed "The Guy Lombardo of Halloween," died Wednesday night at the West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital, said his longtime manager, Stuart Hersh. His daughter, Nancy, and his sister, Lynda, were at Pickett's bedside.

"Monster Mash" hit the Billboard chart three times: when it debuted in 1962, reaching No. 1 the week before Halloween; again in August 1970, and for a third time in May 1973. The resurrections were appropriate for a song where Pickett gravely intoned the forever-stuck-in-your-head chorus: "He did the monster mash. ... It was a graveyard smash."

The novelty hit's fans included Bob Dylan, who played the single on his XM Satellite Radio program last October. "Our next artist is considered a one-hit wonder, but his one hit comes back year after year," Dylan noted.

The hit single ensured Pickett's place in the pantheon of pop music obscurities, said syndicated radio host Dr. Demento, whose long-running program celebrates offbeat tunes.

"It's certainly the biggest Halloween song of all time," said Demento. The DJ, who interviewed Pickett last year, said he maintained a sense of humor about his singular success: "As he loved to say at oldies shows, `And now I'm going to do a medley of my hit.'"

Pickett's impression of Karloff (who despite his name was an Englishman, born William Henry Pratt) was forged in Somerville, Mass., where the boy watched horror films in a theater managed by his father.

Pickett used the impersonation in a nightclub act and when performing with his band the Cordials. A bandmate convinced Pickett they needed to do a song to showcase the Karloff voice, and "Monster Mash" was born -- "written in about a half-hour," said Dr. Demento.

The recording, done in a couple of hours, featured a then-unknown piano player named Leon Russell and a backing band christened The Crypt-Kickers. It was rejected by four major labels before Gary Paxton, lead singer on the Hollywood Argyles' novelty hit "Alley Oop," released "Monster Mash" on his own label.

The instant smash became a sort-of Christmas carol for the pumpkin and ghoul set. In a 1996 interview with People magazine, Pickett said he never grew tired of it: "When I hear it, I hear a cash register ringing."

While Pickett never re-created its success, his "Monster's Holiday," a Christmas follow-up, reached No. 30 in December 1962. And "Graduation Day" hit No. 80 in June 1963.

He continued performing through his final gig in November. He remained in demand for Halloween performances, including a memorable 1973 show where his bus broke down outside Frankenstein, Mo.

Beside his daughter and sister, Pickett is survived by two grandchildren.

Elvis/Dion Idol Performance

Public eavesdropping

"Attention, all young male adults. You must have your pants up around your waist at all times, or you will be removed from the train.''

-- Announcement aboard Amtrak heading to Portland, Ore.

Dance Off....

Global Warming?

Holmes put on Scientology 'mom classes'

Tom Cruise is making certain his baby daughter Suri is raised a Scientologist from the earliest age.

The Mission Impossible star is going to such extreme lengths, he's now told his wife Katie Holmes she must attend 'mommy classes' run by Scientologists.

Holmes, 28, is said to be offended by the Mission Impossible star's ludicrous demands.

A source close to the couple told US magazine: 'Katie is quite offended.'

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Steven Hawking: won't be able to talk today....Is that a dream come true or WHAT.....

For a few seconds on Thursday, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking expects to feel the exhilaration of escaping his paralysis and floating free in zero gravity.

"For someone like me whose muscles don't work very well, it will be bliss to be weightless," Hawking told The Associated Press in an interview ahead of his planned zero gravity flight.

Hawking, a mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge who has done groundbreaking work on black holes and the origins of the universe, has the paralyzing disease ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

The 65-year-old was set Thursday to become the first person with a disability to experience the Zero Gravity Corp. flight.

Unable to talk or move his hands and legs, Hawking can only make tiny facial expressions using the muscles around his eyes, eyebrows, cheek and mouth. He uses a computer to talk for him in a synthesized voice by choosing words on a computer screen through an infrared sensor on a headpiece that detects motion in his cheek.

He raises an eyebrow to signal "yes," and tenses his mouth to the side to indicate "no."

"I have wanted to fly in space all of my life," Hawking told the AP.

The zero gravity flight in a modified jet that creates the experience of microgravity during 25-second plunges over the Atlantic Ocean should come close for a few seconds.

The jet's interior is padded to protect the weightless fliers and equipped with cameras to record their adventure. Normally, the plane conducts 10 to 15 plunges for its passengers who pay $3,750 for the ride, although that fee has been waived for Hawking.

After the jet has reached its proper altitude, Hawking's assistants will lift him out of his seat and lay him on his back in the front of the cabin for the first plunge.

Other plunges will be made only after the two doctors and three nurses who are accompanying him have made sure he is enjoying it. He won't have his wheelchair and talking computer on the jet with him, although his assistant will bring a laptop and a card with the letters of the alphabet in case Hawking wants to communicate beyond facial expressions.

"We consider ... having him weightless for 25 seconds is a successful mission," said Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity. "If we do more than one, fantastic."

The space tourism company has flown about 2,700 people on the Florida-based flights since late 2004 and began offering them in Las Vegas this week.

Gary A. Leo, president and CEO of the ALS Association, said there should be no medical concerns with someone who has the condition going on a zero-gravity flight, although any person who does should consult a physician.

Hawking is one of the best-known theoretical physicists of his generation and also wrote the book "A Brief History of Time."

He has an ulterior motive for going on the flight other than the personal thrill of weightlessness -- Hawking believes in the importance of private space ventures and the need to reduce the cost of space tourism so that it is accessible to more people.

"I am hopeful that if we can engage this mass market, the cost of space flight will drop and we will be able to gain access to the resources of space and also spread humanity beyond just Earth," he said. "Sooner or later, some disaster may wipe out life on Earth. The long-term survival of the human race requires that we spread into space."

Only a Matter of Time...

A Little Music Experiment

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Mrs McGrath
Vertigo
Just A Gigolo
Deja Vu
One Night Only
Funky Town
Suspicious minds
Smells Like Teen Spirit

Spinal Tap to Reunite

Spinal Tap is back, and this time the band wants to help save the world from global warming.

The heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, "This is Spinal Tap," will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July 7.

The original members of Spinal Tap will be there: guitarist Nigel Tufnel (played by Christopher Guest), singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). Rob Reiner, who both directed "This is Spinal Tap" and played the fake documentarian Marty DeBergi in the film, will also be in attendance.

A new 15-minute film directed by Reiner on the band's reunion will also play at the opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Wednesday. The slate for the opening gala, to be hosted by Al Gore, was previously announced, excepting the Reiner short.

The festival is to open with a showing of several global warming-themed short films produced by the SOS (Save Our Selves) campaign. SOS is also putting on the Live Earth concerts, to be held across seven continents.

Reiner spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday to explain the reunion of Spinal Tap -- a band always known more as a parody of rock `n roll excess than environmental awareness.

"They're not that environmentally conscious, but they've heard of global warming," said Reiner, whose other films include "When Harry Met Sally" and "Stand By Me." "Nigel thought it was just because he was wearing too much clothing -- that if he just took his jacket off it would be cooler."

Spinal Tap has reunited several times since the film, but hasn't for a number of years. For the band -- whose last album was 1992's "Break like the Wind" -- the occasion warranted a new single: "Warmer Than Hell."

Reiner provided a sneak peak at the lyrics: "The devil went to Devon, it felt like the fourth degree/ He said, `Is it hot in here, or is it only me?'"

The director said the new short film explains what the band has been doing with their lives lately. Nigel has been raising miniature horses to race, but can't find jockeys small enough to ride them; David is now a hip-hop producer who also runs a colonic clinic; and Derek is in rehab for addiction to the Internet.

Reiner, 60, has for over 20 years worked with the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental action organization. Though the Spinal Tap reunion will be a lot of laughs, he hopes the SOS short films program and the Live Earth concerts have a substantial effect.

"What I think is going to be nice about this whole effort is there will be marching orders for people," said Reiner. "Not only from a personal standpoint of what individuals can do in their lives, but a macro perspective with respect to the public sector and government."

...and the horse you rode in on

BERLIN - Yes, it is what it looks like - a horse standing inside an ATM.

It started when the animal's owner had a few too many at a local bar on Monday.

For reasons we may never fully know, he brought his horse with him, perhaps because he was afraid of drinking and driving.

Whatever the excuse, in his alcohol laden fog, the 40-year-old man - identified only as "Wolfgang H." - decided he need a few bucks before he rode off into the darkness.

So he stopped at the nearest ATM, but quickly realized he'd had such a snootful, he wouldn't be able to make it home in the cold.

So he did what any normal drunken idiot would, deciding to sleep it off inside the heated bank vestibule.

But what about the steed named Sammy? This wasn't the wild west and the bank thoughtlessly hadn't provided any hitching posts.

That's when Wolfgang apparently decided to use some horse sense and bring the animal inside with him.

And that's where security cameras and a customer who ventured into the ATM in the early morning hours found both of them. The shocked patron promptly called police, who rode to the rescue.

They woke Wolfgang up (there's no word on whether the horse was asleep, too) and sent him on his way without filing any charges.

But that wasn't the end of the story. It's said bank employees were forced to do a little clean up after the impromptu hotel stop.

If you look closely at the picture, you'll see there are some spots inside the automatic teller booth where Sammy made a few deposits of his own.

OUCH!

An X-ray image of the chair leg that was lodged in Shafique El-Fahkri's left eye socket and neck.

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian man who hurled a metal chair at another man, leaving one of its legs lodged 4 inches into his eye socket and neck, was sentenced Tuesday to 400 hours of community service.

Liam Peart, 20, hurled the metal chair during a nightclub brawl in Melbourne in January, hitting Shafique El-Fahkri, 19, who was standing about 10 feet away.

A leg of the chair plunged into his eye socket and down into his neck. Surgeons removed the chair leg in a three-hour operation through the right side of El-Fahkri's neck, according to media reports.

Thinking he had killed the man, Peart panicked and ran. He surrendered to police the next day.

Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps

From Hitler to Pinochet and Beyond, History Shows There Are certain Steps That Any Would-Be Dictator Must Take To Destroy Constitutional Freedoms. And George Bush and His Administration Seem To Be Taking Them All....

Read it HERE.

"I'm a little teapot, see my spout"...

Free at Last: Willie walks....with 1.5 lbs

Willie Nelson and his tour manager were spared jail time Tuesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.

Nelson and tour manager David Anderson, along with Nelson's sister, Bobbie Nelson, and two drivers, were issued citations on Sept. 18 after state troopers said they found marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms on the country legend's tour bus during a commercial-vehicle inspection on Interstate 10.

State District Judge Paul deMahy fined Nelson and Anderson $1,024 each and put both on probation for six months. As part of a plea agreement, the citation against Bobbie Nelson was dismissed.

St. Martin Parish Assistant District Attorney Chester Cedars said he dismissed the citations against the two drivers because there was no indication they "had anything to do with the contraband."

Word spread quickly that Nelson was in this small southern Louisiana town, and a crowd of about 25 fans gathered outside to wait for the entertainer after his brief court appearance. When he emerged, Nelson obliged, shaking hands, signing scraps of paper and posing for photographs.

"Thank y'all," he said, waving as he climbed into a waiting car.

Diary of a 1000 LB Man

November 4, 2003

Hello, world. I am a victim of food. It's crippled me to a bedridden state, leaving me this journal as my only outlet for the pain I feel, which is mostly in my lower back. Did I ask to be a 1000-pound man? Did I ask for an entire birthday cake covered in pepperoni slices? Actually, I did on that second one. It was very good. Note to self: ask mom if there is a way to combine pastry and sausage. If not, tell her I have a disease and that she needs to find a way to do this.

November 11, 2003

Today I saw something that brought a tear to my eye, and later to my mouth. It tasted like Pepsi. It was hour 17 of TV time, and on the screen I saw a guy leaning against a brick wall. Leaning. Perhaps the greatest word in any language. I dream of the day where I can be upright and motionless instead of on my back and motionless. Can you believe that the Make a Wish Foundation rejected my idea of napping while riding a Segway because it was "physically impossible?" They also had a "problem" with the fact that I am 38. The obese are the Jews of the 21st century. Except we'd make a lot more candles.

November 13, 2003

Mom and two social workers rolled me onto the coffee table after leaning it against the wall because they got the bright idea that I wanted to try leaning. Yes, I told them that I wanted to try leaning, but that was my disease talking! Now half of the table is stuck in the wall and the other half is getting removed from my body by surgeons over the next three days. Idiots!

November 16, 2003

My body is now free of all non-ingested glass shards. They thought they found the second table leg, but it worked its way so far in there that now the doctors can't tell it apart from my ribs. So they're leaving it in there. Now I'm sort of like a cyborg! But there is no James Cameron here to film my epic struggle.

November 22, 2003

Today I wrote a letter to the Giant Eagle company about the quality of their trash bags:

Dear Giant Eagle,

As a constant user of your brand of trash bags, I am appalled by your treatment of my demographic. You see, some people out there (as hard as this may be to believe) do not wear pants because these people are hyperobese. Their lifestyle and girth do not accommodate fabric in that area. I am afflicted with this condition and have been for the past 17 years. I use your trash bags to tie around the end of my legs. Or should I say, I used to! My legs are effectively dead, and your bags keep away airborne bacteria and pests who would make a meal of my decaying thighs. However, thanks to the shoddy seams and ineffective drawstrings of your trash bags, I have lost two toes in the month of November alone! Some people aren't lucky enough to have blood pump to all of their body parts. I hope you will remember this in the future.

Yours,
James Slunch

P.S. Please bring back your festive red and green-colored bags. Christmas is right around the corner!

I had better get results.

November 30, 2003

My nutritionist was telling me I need to eat at least one serving of vegetables per day. Nazi. I told him I'd eat anything he wanted me to as long as it was between two waffles. Game, set, match, right? Wrong. Later he brings back some whole grain waffles. What is with this guy? I upped the ante by telling him the waffles had to be the chocolate chip ones with the syrup inside (because sometimes I like to have two kinds of syrup with my waffles). I bet myself eight 2-liter bottles of Pepsi he quits in a week.

December 7, 2003

Pepsi time! I normally only have seven bottles during the day, but this is a little treat ;)

December 12, 2003

Oh shit. I just realized my catheter has been out for three days. This can only mean there is a reservoir of urine pooling somewhere on the surface of my body. Ugh, the guy from the hospice is going to be such a dick about this like he was the last time this happened. He thinks he's all high and mighty because he got to leave his house during the 90s. Heh, maybe I'll forget about it until next month. After all, that clod Jeff took a vow to help the sick. I answer to no one.

I hope someone comes to turn me soon.

December 13, 2003

Tony's Pizza just lost a customer. There must be a new guy there, because whoever came to my house did not understand my "bucket on a rope" policy. It's simple. You throw a rock at my window; I reach over, open it, and lower down a bucket with money in it. You put the food in the bucket and get the hell out of my sight (if I could see you). But no, this jackass rings the doorbell, which makes my mom answer the door, and that is exactly what my bucket method is meant to bypass! I just got bitched at for being a "Greedy Gus who orders a sheet pizza after eating six steaks." Mom brought me a tub of Rocky Road later, though, so I'll forgive her… this time.

December 17, 2003

That turd from the Department of Health and Human Services came back, and this time he brought his little crane. Oh Doug, haven't you realized that no crane can hold me? And there's no way my mom would let you knock down that bedroom wall for a fourth time. Advantage: me.

December 25, 2003

Christmas is here, but I'll never get what I really want. Mom says there is no way to cook that much bacon. At least, not with the deep fryer she has now.

December 30, 2003

Those jerks from The Learning Channel are back again to do yet another documentary on me. Yawn. Oh, and aren't documentarians supposed to not interfere with the lives of their subjects? It seems to me that yelling "You're killing him!" to someone's mother while she feeds her son mashed potatoes just might violate this principle. I was also a little annoyed by all the gagging that one cameraman did. Yeah, that's a colostomy bag. I don't see you coming over here to empty it. Sheesh.

January 5, 2004

I'm a little worried. While reaching for my giant Pixy Stix, I felt a bedsore that was much larger and creamier than my normal ones. Did I roll onto some boxes of Hostess Cupcakes and not realize it? I sure hope so. It itches like hell.

January 6, 2004

Sores hurt so I itch them. They make cake and cream. Mom make ugly face so I itch her too.

January 7, 2004

Itchy. Tasty.

Stevie Nicks On Britney And Lohan

Oh my beautiful Welsh witch! My lady of the lacey shawls and soft boots, and tambourine whacking! Did you know that at her shows she used to be dragged around whilst kneeling on this little wheeled cart so she could scoop up all the roses her adoring Gypsy-dressed motorcycle mama fans used to give her? Like she was divebombing for love! I love her.

Stevie Nicks has spoken out about two of our favorite trashbags .

Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears will regret their wild ways someday, predicts Stevie Nicks, who got coked up, stoned and drunk during her prime with Fleetwood Mac and ended up in rehab. "You are sorry later, that's what I would tell them," Nicks, 58, tells Blender. "If I had gotten it together a little more, I would have had a better career. I would have made a couple more great albums." She adds, "I'm more worried about Britney than Lindsay, because I think Lindsay is a serious actress."

Well said, Rhiannon. Because you know lightning strikes, maybe once. Maybe twice. And it lights up the night!

Talk Show Host Control Issues....

Ringling Brothers creates a new market...

"THE VIEW" from here is....YOU SUCK!!!!

hey, look at me....I'm a loud mouthed, moron, bullshit opinionated, woman who isn't funny and is the guy in a lesbian relationship....whoooohooooo....oh ya and now i'm unemployed again ....

Banned Cartoons...

read more HERE.

The Landlord

Hip-hop says no to 'ho'

Self-censorship of three words urged

NEW YORK -- Russell Simmons and Benjamin Chavis, leaders of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, said Monday that the recording and broadcast industries should voluntarily censor the "misogynistic" words "bitch" and "ho" and the "racially offensive" N-word from future recordings.

"These three words should be considered with the same objections to obscenity as 'extreme curse words,' " they said.

The move comes in the wake of radio host Don Imus' firing over insensitive comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Many activists in the black community have since turned their attention to rap lyrics and begun to question what steps the music industry should take to police itself.

"We recommend the formation of a music industry Coalition on Broadcast Standards, consisting of leading executives from music, radio and television industries," Simmons and Chavis said on behalf of the HHSAN, an advocacy group dedicated to the cultural relevance of hip-hop music. "The coalition would recommend guidelines for lyrical and visual standards within the industries."

Simmons, the prominent hip-hop executive who co-founded Def Jam, and Chavis, a longtime civil rights leader and former CEO of the NAACP, also called for setting up an industry watchdog to set guidelines for lyrical and visual standards.

"We also recommend that the recording industry establish artist mentoring programs and forums to stimulate effective dialogue between artists, hip-hop fans, industry leaders and others to promote better understanding and positive change," they said.

Monday's statement changed course from another one Simmons and Chavis issued April 13, a day after Imus' show was canceled, in which they said offensive references in hip-hop "may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but our job is not to silence or censor that expression."

"Our internal discussions with industry leaders are not about censorship," they said Monday. "Our discussions are about the corporate social responsibility of the industry to voluntarily show respect to African Americans and other people of color, African American women and to all women in lyrics and images."

Many artists, meanwhile, have argued for freedom of expression and believe the issue is being taken out of context.

"I call women 'hos' in my music, but that doesn't mean I'm trying to degrade someone," female rapper Remy Ma said in an interview. "That's just the way we talk. I think (Tupac Shakur) said it best: Once you take the power away from the word, it doesn't mean the same thing."

'Batman' Filming Site Catches Fire

Fire broke out in a vacant post office Tuesday where a movie crew had been filming scenes for an upcoming "Batman" sequel.

District Fire Chief Jose Santiago said insulation inside the building's "very old ventilation system" caught fire shortly before 11:30 a.m., and had nothing to do with the filming. There were no injuries, he said.

"It looked a lot worse than it really was," Santiago said.

The fire was contained to the 16th-floor ventilation shaft in the 17- story building, and most of the flames were extinguished by a sprinkler system, officials said.

The movie crew had been filming there all week, said Pete Kearney, who works next door. Letters affixed to the side of the old post office read: "Gotham National Bank."

"We assumed it was part of the movie," Kearney said of the smoke Tuesday morning.

Adam West and Burt Ward were not availible for comment...

Pregnant cow runs riot across city

A pregnant cow being chased by police and fire fighters caused 25,000 euros ($33,900) of damage on a three-hour rampage through the German city of Hanover.

Uschi escaped from a farm late Monday and became increasingly violent as she encountered shocked drivers and pedestrians in the city.

Pursued by the farmer, television camera crews and 30 police and fire fighters, the Charolais cow lashed out at cars, benches, garden fences and whatever else got in her way during the 5-km chase, authorities said.

After more than three hours on the loose, Uschi was brought down by tranquilizer darts, without harming her unborn calf, fire services spokesman Martin Argendorf said Tuesday.

"She probably won't remember any of it when she wakes up again. But the farmer will, because he's going to have to pay damages of about 25,000 euros," he said.

VT killer hired escort....

He was Creeping me Out'

"I'm just so shaken by this, I don't know what to say."
Chastity Frye says she spent an hour, all alone, with Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui last month.

Frye said "He was so quiet, I really couldn't get much from him, he was so distant, he really didn't talk a lot. It seemed like he wasn't all there." (EXCEPT I GOT PAYED)

Frye works for an escort service. She says, Cho hired her, and the two met at a Valley View motel.

She says "I danced for a little while and I thought we were done because he got up and went to the restroom and began washing. And I said, 'well, do you want me to go? I'm going to go ahead and go'. And he's like, 'I paid for the full hour, you've only been here for 15 minutes,' and then he came back in the room. And I started dancing and that's when he you know, touched me and tried to get on me and that's when I pushed him away." (ya cause people never GET ON AN ESCORT)

I asked Frye if she was afraid at that point: "No, because he went away right away." She said she didn't see any guns, any ammunition, and nothing else that made her feel nervous. (I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING BUT HIS WALLET AND PENIS)

When Chastity Frye saw the news about Cho last week, she thought she recognized him. Then, she says, FBI agents questioned her this weekend. Frye says they tracked her down through Cho's credit card receipt. (SHE TAKES THE MASTERCARD....NICE)

"Well, they asked me what happened, and then they asked me if anything stuck out. (WELL YA ONE THING STUCK OUT) They wanted to know 3 words that described him," Frye said. What 3 words did Frye use? "I used dorky, was one of them, maybe timid and pushy, there at the end he was a little pushy." (WAS JOHN ONE OF THE WORDS...?)

Now, she thinks about the victims, and how lucky she was. (AND WHAT A SHAME IT WAS THAT MORE OF THEM WEREN'T CUSTOMERS...)

Frye said "I don't know what to think. I'm just very grateful that nothing happened then. Sometimes I wonder if I could have said something or done something differently or maybe talk to him a little bit more [but] you know, get him to open up? Right. But I wasn't thinking about that at the time. I was thinking, he was creeping me out, I was thinking about getting out of there." (STIFF HIM ON THE SHOW, THATS THE KIND OF SERVICE SHE OFFERS...)

Don't ask....Don't tell....

Naked porn-surfing Army recruiter arrested

A U.S. Army recruiter in Hackettstown, N.J. is charged with stripping naked, entering a home and surfing Internet pornography sites.

Court records said Jerry Mahaffey, 26, was charged early Saturday morning when police received a call about an intruder bleeding from cuts, the Eastern (Pa.) Express-Times reported Tuesday.

Jorge Arevalo said he was asleep and kept hearing noises but assumed it was his roommate. But then he heard his roommate outside and noises in the house, and called police.

Arevalo said the man had four porn sites minimized on the computer monitor and refused to speak.

However, police got him talking and learned he'd left his clothing behind a nearby bar, and explained his injuries by saying he had been in a fight.

Mahaffey is charged with burglary and lewdness, the report said.

When Capt. America Throws His Mighty Burrito

Florida doctor in superhero costume busted for groping women

Meet Dr. Raymond Adamcik. The Florida man, dressed as Captain America and with a burrito stuffed in his tights, was arrested Saturday night for allegedly groping women at a Melbourne bar. Adamcik was part of a pub crawl in which participants wore costumes.

While at the On Tap bar, Adamcik, 54, allegedly touched the genital areas of two women, according to a Melbourne Police Department report, a copy of which you'll find here. "Because there were so many cartoon characters in the bar at this time, all Captain Americas were asked to go outside for a possible identification," notes the report.

One woman positively identified Adamcik as the superhero who groped her. While being booked, Adamcik asked to use the bathroom. It was then, police charge, that he attempted to flush marijuana, which apparently had been hidden in his blue tights. Adamcik was charged with battery, disorderly conduct, and pot possession. He was released after posting $2000 bail. Sadly, since the Melbourne P.D. was having camera problems, colors in Adamcik's mug shot were rendered poorly (he actually looks more like the Incredible Hulk).

But Adamcik was later photographed at the Brevard County jail, where this clearer photo was snapped.

See the video HERE.

Dance Nite at the Senior Center

JV And Elvis In The Dog House

The prank call that got JV and Elvis suspended.

CBS Radio suspended two hosts from an FM station in New York City today after an Asian-American advocacy organization complained about the broadcast of a six-minute prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant that was peppered with ethnic and sexual slurs.

The call was first played on “The Dog House With JV and Elvis,” a midmorning show on WFNY, on April 5, the day after Don Imus made his comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team on WFAN, another CBS-owned station. The call was then replayed on “The Dog House” on Thursday, a week after Mr. Imus was fired by CBS Radio.

In the skit, a series of apparently unsuspecting employees of a Chinese restaurant are berated by a caller who tells one woman he would like to “come to your restaurant” to see her naked, especially a part of her body he refers to as “hot, Asian, spicy.” The caller also attempts to order “flied lice,” brags of his prowess in kung fu and repeatedly curses at several employees.

In a statement on Sunday, the four New York-area chapters of the Organization of Chinese Americans, an advocacy group, demanded an apology from the show’s two hosts and from CBS Radio, and called for the firing of the hosts and their producer.

In an interview today before the suspensions were announced, Vicki Shu Smolin, president of the organization’s New York City chapter, said she was mystified that CBS would allow the call to be broadcast in the first place and then would permit it to be replayed in the aftermath of the Imus incident. (“The Dog House” has been waging a broad campaign in support of Mr. Imus both on the show and on its Web site.)

Wiccan Symbol on Veterans’ Headstones Approved

WASHINGTON, April 23 — To settle a lawsuit, the Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to add the Wiccan pentacle to a list of approved religious symbols that it will engrave on veterans’ headstones.

The settlement, which was reached on Friday, was announced on Monday by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, which represented the plaintiffs in the case.

Though it has many forms, Wicca is a type of pre-Christian belief that reveres nature and its cycles. Its symbol is the pentacle, a five-pointed star, inside a circle.

Until now, the Veterans Affairs department had approved 38 symbols to indicate the faith of deceased service members on memorials. It normally takes a few months for a petition by a faith group to win the department’s approval, but the effort on behalf of the Wiccan symbol took about 10 years and a lawsuit, said Richard B. Katskee, assistant legal director for Americans United.

The group attributed the delay to religious discrimination. Many Americans do not consider Wicca a religion, or hold the mistaken belief that Wiccans are devil worshipers.

“The Wiccan families we represented were in no way asking for special treatment,” the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, said at a news conference Monday. “They wanted precisely the same treatment that dozens of other religions already had received from the department, an acknowledgment that their spiritual beliefs were on par with those of everyone else.”

A Veterans Affairs spokesman, Matt Burns, confirmed that the “V.A. will be adding the pentacle to its list of approved emblems of belief that will be engraved on government-provided markers.”

“The government acted to settle in the interest of the families concerned,” Mr. Burns added, “and to spare taxpayers the expense of further litigation.”

There are 1,800 Wiccans in the armed forces, according to a Pentagon survey cited in the suit, and Wiccans have their faith mentioned in official handbooks for military chaplains and noted on their dog tags.

At least 11 families will be immediately affected by the V.A.’s decision, said the Rev. Selena Fox, senior minister of Circle Sanctuary, a Wiccan church in Wisconsin.

In reviewing 30,000 pages of documents from Veterans Affairs, Americans United said, it found e-mail and memorandums referring to negative comments President Bush made about Wicca in an interview with “Good Morning America” in 1999, when he was governor of Texas. The interview had to do with a controversy at the time about Wiccan soldiers’ being allowed to worship at Fort Hood, Tex.

“I don’t think witchcraft is a religion,” Mr. Bush said at the time, according to a transcript. “I would hope the military officials would take a second look at the decision they made.”

Americans United did not assert that the White House influenced the Veterans Affairs Department. Under the settlement, Americans United had to return the documents and could not copy them, though it could make limited comments about their contents, Mr. Katskee said.

Americans United filed the lawsuit last November on behalf of several Wiccan military families. Among the plaintiffs was Roberta Stewart, whose husband, Sgt. Patrick Stewart, was killed in September 2005 in Afghanistan.

Ms. Stewart said she had tried various avenues to get the pentacle approved. Late last year, Gov. Kenny Guinn of Nevada, her home state, approved the placing of a marker with a pentacle in a Veterans Affairs cemetery in Fernley, east of Reno. But Ms. Stewart said she had continued to pursue the lawsuit because she wanted the federal government to approve the markers.

Other religious groups that have often opposed Americans United supported the effort to have the government approve the pentacle.

“I was just aghast that someone who would fight for their country and die for their country would not get the symbol he wanted on his gravestone,” said John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, which litigates many First Amendment cases. “It’s just overt religious discrimination.”

...a shoebox just won't do

Man Diversifies by Making Pet Caskets

ALBION, Maine (AP) -- An man is diversifying his wood products business by building caskets for family pets. Matthew Dow, who operates Dow's Wood Products, is making custom-built pet caskets and urns that he is marketing through animal shelters, pet stores and veterinary clinics.

Dow first began making the caskets a couple of years ago after talking to funeral directors, who told him that they could fill a void. An Albion family then hired him to make a casket after the family cat died.

"They didn't want to just throw the cat in a hole," Dow said. "They wanted something to put the cat into."

A year later, the family ordered another casket for their family dog.

Dow comes from a family of woodworkers and is carrying on in the family tradition - but in ways his forebears would probably never have imagined. When Dow first mentioned his pet casket idea to others, they responded with amused skepticism.

Now he's trying to turn the venture into a viable enterprise.

He has a brochure in which he lists four casket sizes ranging in price from $95 to $395. The boxes are made of pine and are lined in satin, and customers can buy engraved brass plaques for an additional fee.

The biggest challenge is getting the word out.

"I had many people telling me I had a great product at a reasonable price, but I needed to advertise," he said.

One casket takes Dow about a day and a half to make, but he can produce up to six of the same size in three days once he has his tools calibrated to that model. For now, though, all his orders are custom-made.

"What I'd like to do is to be able to get up enough inventory so if somebody needs one today, it is right here," he said.

Daffy Duckeroo

Uplifting...

...it all seems vaguely familiar...

Girls 'just felt right' murdering friend

TWO teenagers who wanted to experience murder told police it "felt right" to strangle a friend and bury her body in a shallow grave beneath her West Australian home.

The 17-year-old girls, who cannot be named due to their age, today faced a sentencing hearing in Perth Children's Court after pleading guilty to murdering Eliza Jane Davis in the small coal mining town of Collie on June 18, 2006.

As the girls sat stony-faced in court today, Prosecutor Simon Stone said they had confessed that after partying with Eliza on the Saturday night they decided to kill her.

"Sunday morning me and (her) woke up, and we were just talking, and for some reason we just decided to kill her," one of the girls told police in her interview.

"We just did it because we felt like it, it is hard to explain," the other girl said.

"I knew we had wanted to kill someone before.

"We knew it was wrong, but it didn't feel wrong at all, it just felt right."

The girls planned their attack and changed into old clothes.

One of them snuck up behind Eliza as she was reading, wrapped speaker wire twice around her throat and quickly tightened it as the other held her down, trying to press a chemical soaked cloth into her mouth.

"She started not being able to get her breath, and we just kept going," one of the girls said.

"She was just yelling at us `What the f**k, what are you doing' .. `Oh you freaks, what's wrong with you psychos."

Mr Stone said they chose to strangle Eliza because one of them had to return to Perth that afternoon and they wanted a quick and "non-messy" killing.

"As our friend, we did not really want her to suffer," one told police.

"We didn't really expect to get away with it.

"We were willing to take the risk."

The girls regretted the fuss the killing caused but neither felt remorse for their dead friend, Mr Stone said.

"If she had died another way it probably would have bothered me ... but it just did not," one girl said.

The girls reported Eliza missing after they buried her and pretended to help her family look for the dead girl.

The girls turned themselves in several days later, walking into separate police stations and directing authorities to where they buried her body.

Mr Stone told the court the girls had no remorse and were holding back on the reason behind their cold-blooded, premeditated, sadistic killing.

"It is a mystery your honour, what happened."

He said the girls had discussed killing someone else and one had prepared for homicide by killing two kittens.

"Whilst together (they) will continue to pose some risk to others in custody."

Mr Stone called for sentences of life in prison.

The hearing continues tomorrow.

Linda Ronstadt's soulful rendition...

...sounds like an invitation

AKA: Jizz & Jet

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Like it or not, the two Coreys are back

A&E is preparing a reality show that revolves around ... Corey Feldman? Incredibly, yes. And he’s bringing Corey Haim back from obscurity with him in The Coreys: Return of the Lost Boys. According to Variety, “Feldman is married and going back to acting, while Haim is broke and homeless.” How uplifting. Not satisfied with torturing us on TV only, the pair are also writing columns for MSN. The article notes that maybe now fans can get their letters answered, as if the Coreys were Simpsons caricatures of Ringo Starr or something. I doubt they have any of that old fan mail anyway, as they were most likely burning it in barrels for heat until A&E called.

Catholic Church takes its cues from Motel 6

It’s a travesty when the Catholic Church has to literally sell guilt. According to The Washington Post, “the Archdiocese of Washington is ... using ads on buses, subway cars, a Route 301 billboard, 100,000 brochures and radio spots in an effort to get people back to the confessional.” Waning interest in the elemental rite has been attributed to busier weekends, a culture that promotes irresponsible behavior, and people’s inability to even recognize sin these days (hint: it looks like this). The rise in self-help and therapy is also recognized as a factor, and maybe that’s the model confession should follow. If nothing else, the marketing is shrewd. The tagline, “The light is on for you,” may ring a bell. A slightly different version did wonders for Tom Bodett and Motel 6.

Keira: Sex scenes in films liberate me

Keira Knightley has admitted that shooting sex scenes in films makes her feel "liberated".

The actress is known for exposing parts of her body in movies, and first appeared topless on film at the age of 15 in The Hole.

When asked about her nude scenes in latest film Domino, she replied: "Sex scenes are easy. I don't really have a problem with them. Actually it's quite liberating in the movie 'Domino' to be out in the middle of the desert completely topless with a beautiful Venezuelan guy. I was very lucky."

She admitted that she used a body double in certain parts of the movie however, revealing she is more sensitive about certain parts of her flesh being on show: "I did have a body double for my bum but not on my top. I don't have a problem with that."

Mexico City residents gear up to go nude

Many Mexico City residents are gearing up to take their clothes off, in anticipation of a renowned photographer's arrival in the Mexican capital.

The photographer, Spencer Tunick of New York, is known for persuading whole crowds to strip and pose for photographs, The San Antonio News-Express reported.

Four years ago in Barcelona, Spain, Tunick persuaded a crowd of 7,000 people to get naked for the camera.

"If I am feeling crazy, maybe I will do it," Lilian Lopez, 18, said as she rested from rollerblading on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. "I think I'd be embarrassed."

But many are enthusiastic, even thrilled, about the idea. Mexico City is more liberal than the rest of the country and is known as a place where outrageous behavior is tolerated, the newspaper said.

Participants must sign up online to pose, and security will be in place outside the photo site so participants will not get their clothes or valuables stolen during the shoot, the newspaper reported.

Fishing & Sex...two great things go great together?

Fishing Sim Meet Japanese Sex Game

Standard erotic games? Boooring. They need a little something to spice them up. Something like a good old fashion fishing sim. Meet Chou Kanojo, a eroge-meets-fishing sim casting its reel this July in Japan. Actually seems like a fairly smart idea! And that's exactly what Chou Kanojo does by mixing a fairly realistic fishing simulation game with unrealistic erotic game conventions. Not exactly peanut butter and jelly, sure, but it could work.

Slippery Slopes

ScanSafe Reports up to 80 Percent of Blogs Host ‘Offensive Content’

ScanSafe, the pioneer and leading provider of Web Security-as-a-Service, today issued its latest monthly Global Threat Report. Among the report's key findings, up to 80 percent of blogs contain potentially offensive content, which can range from adult language to pornographic images, and about 6 percent of blogs host malware. The most requested blog-related site during the month was blogger.com.

The ScanSafe Global Threat Report is based on real-time analysis of more than 7 billion Web requests scanned and more than 12 million Web threats blocked by the company in March on behalf of its corporate customers. It is the largest analysis of Web security threats based on real-world traffic.

Just in time for Family Court...

Baby's daddy = Eddie Murphy

Creepy Commercial 101

Study Suggests Vasectomy-Dementia Link

Ties to Rare Form of Dementia Seen in Early Research Must Be Confirmed

Having a vasectomy may increase a man’s risk of developing a rare form of dementia, early research suggests, although more study is needed to confirm the finding.

Researchers at Chicago’s Northwestern University found that men with a neurological condition known as primary progressive aphasia, or PPA, were more likely to have had the sterilization surgery than men without the disorder.

PPA is a rare condition characterized by a steady loss of language skills.

It primarily occurs after age 50. Those with the disorder have increasing difficulty expressing themselves and understanding speech.

“We definitely aren’t saying that having a vasectomy causes this condition or that men should not have vasectomies,” researcher Sandra Weintraub, PhD, tells WebMD. “It is way too early for that. We need to do more research to understand this.”

Vasectomy and PPA

Weintraub, a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, says she began investigating a possible link between PPA and vasectomies after a 43-year-old patient asked her if his sterilization surgery might be linked to his PPA.

He discussed the issue at a support group meeting of men with dementia, and it turned out that eight of the nine men in the room with PPA had had vasectomies.

“That is when we decided to do a systematic investigation, but it took some time because this is not a common disease,” Weintraub says.

The researchers surveyed 47 men with PPA undergoing treatment at Northwestern’s Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center and 57 men without dementia who were volunteers from the community. All the men were aged 55 to 80.

The researchers concluded that more than twice as many men with PPA had undergone vasectomies as men without the dementia -- 40% vs. 16%.

In other preliminary research, Weintraub and colleagues found no difference in vasectomy rates between patients with Alzheimer’s disease and men without Alzheimer’s

Why Vasectomy May Increase Dementia Risk

Weintraub theorized that vasectomy may raise the risk of the rare dementias by breaching the protective barrier between the bloodstream and the testes.

When that barrier is broken, as occurs with vasectomy, sperm become exposed to the bloodstream. In response, many men who have had the surgery produce antisperm antibodies.

These antibodies may affect the brain, causing damage which can lead to dementia.

But this is only speculation, and Weintraub says she hopes to conduct much larger studies to better understand the issue.

American Urological Association spokesman Ira Sharlip, MD, agrees that few conclusions can be drawn without such studies.

He points to earlier concerns about vasectomies, including research in the 1980s suggesting an increased risk of atherosclerosis in men who had undergone the procedure, and research in the 1990s suggesting a link between vasectomy and prostate cancer.

None of those concerns turned out to be valid, Sharlip says.

Sharlip is a clinical professor of urology at the University of California, San Francisco.

“There have been many large, epidemiological studies comparing vasectomized and nonvasectomized men, and none of them have shown any health risks associated with vasectomy,” he says.

“Vasectomy is the single most reliable form of birth control that exists. I would hope that men would not be frightened by this study, which is very preliminary,” says Sharlip.

Gram Parsons By Keith Richards

Like I know the blues, Gram Parsons knew country music -- every nuance, every great country song that was ever written. And he could express it all -- the music from Nashville and Bakersfield, California, the stuff from Texas -- in his singing and songwriting. But he also had intelligence and honesty. That's the kind of guy I like to hang with. Also, he loved to get stoned. At the time, that was an added plus.

I first met Gram in 1968, when the Byrds were appearing in London -- I think it was a club called Blazes. I knew the Byrds from Mr. Tambourine Man on; the Stones had worked some shows in California with them back then. But when I saw them at Blazes with Gram, I could see this was a radical turn. I went backstage, and we hooked up. Then the Byrds came through London again, on their way to South Africa. I was like, "Man, we don't go there." The sanctions and the embargo were on. So he quit the Byrds, right there and then. Of course, he's got nowhere to stay, so he moved in with me.

Basically, we hung around together, like musicians do. We'd spend hours and hours at the piano, swapping ideas. Gram and I both loved the songs of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant -- the Everly Brothers stuff they wrote. We both loved that melancholy, high-lonesome shit. We were always looking for the next heart-tugger, looking to pull that extra heartstring.

As a songwriter, Gram worked very much like I do, which is knock out a couple of chords, start to spiel and see how far it can go. Rather than sitting around with a piece of paper and a pen, trying to make things fit neatly together, if you just get on the microphone, things come to you. Lines come to you that you wouldn't dream of, because they have to come to you in a split second. Gram liked to do that. But he would also work very hard -- harder than I ever did -- on honing it down.

It's difficult for me to pick one of his songs as a favorite. "Sin City," on the Flying Burrito Brothers' first album, is great. I love "I Can't Dance," on GP. But you'll never get a full portrait of him from one or two songs.

Mick and Gram never really clicked, mainly because the Stones are such a tribal thing. At the same time, Mick was listening to what Gram was doing. Mick's got ears. Sometimes, while we were making Exile on Main Street in France, the three of us would be plonking away on Hank Williams songs while waiting for the rest of the band to arrive. Gram had the biggest repertoire of country songs you could imagine. He was never short of a song.

The drugs and drinking -- he was no better or worse than the rest of us. He just made that one fatal mistake -- taking that one hit after he cleaned up, still thinking he could take the same amount. And it was too fucking much. But he didn't get into dope because of us. He knew his stuff before he met us.

I think he was just getting into his stride when he died. His actual output -- the number of records he made and sold -- was pretty minimal. But his effect on country music is enormous. This is why we're talking about him now. But we can't know what his full impact could have been. If Buddy Holly hadn't gotten on that plane, or Eddie Cochran hadn't turned the wrong corner, think of what stuff we could have looked forward to, and be hearing now. It would be phenomenal.

In a way, it's a matter of lost love. Gram was everything you wanted in a singer and a songwriter. He was fun to be around, great to play with as a musician. And that motherfucker could make chicks cry. I have never seen another man who could make hardened old waitresses at the Palomino Club in L.A. shed tears the way he did.

It was all in the man. I miss him so.

Will he Snort Again?...

Keith Richards' mom died on Saturday in the UK, and the question is – will he be snorting her too? The Rolling Stones guitar god spent most of the last week looking after his 91-year-old mum, who bought Keith his first guitar when he was 15 years old. Of course, as we all remember, Richards caused a worldwide sensation when he said that he'd mixed his father's ashes with cocaine and snorted them. He later retracted the comment, saying that his remark was "lost in the usual slanting.

There's a Riot Going On....

Doctors fight to save Willy....

HORRIFIED diners watched in shock as a maniac sliced off his manhood in a crowded pizza restaurant.

The 35-year-old Pole burst into the Zizzi eaterie in central London and grabbed a knife from the kitchen.

He then leapt on a table and dropped his trousers as customers fled screaming.

A witness said: “There was blood everywhere. Everyone ran out of the place.”

Surgeons battling to save the severed willy tried to sew it back on in the first UK op of its kind.

Quick-thinking cops recovered the organ from the restaurant floor after subduing its crazed owner with CS gas.

The manhood was packed in ice and taken with the man to London’s St Thomas’s Hospital.

A spokesman there confirmed doctors had attempted to re-attach it, but the hospital refused to say whether the procedure had been successful.

The 200-seater restaurant on The Strand in central London was packed with runners and spectators from Sunday’s Marathon.

Sales rep Stuart McMahon, who was eating supper with his girlfriend, said: “This guy came running in then charged into the kitchen, got a massive knife and started waving it about.

“Everyone was screaming and running out as he jumped on a table, dropped his trousers and popped his penis out. Then he cut it off. I couldn’t believe it.

“The staff were really upset and there was blood everywhere.”

Police sped to the scene and restrained and handcuffed the man. Several diners were treated for shock by ambulance crews.

A spokesman for the Zizzi restaurant chain said: “It all happened in a matter of seconds and was obviously extremely frightening and distressing. The manager and staff bravely helped evacuate the restaurant.”

Last night cops were trying to establish the Pole’s background. He had left no identification in the clothing he discarded. A source said: “We believe he’s Polish and 35. We don’t know if he has a history of mental illness, but he’s clearly not a well boy.”

A Met Police spokeswoman said: “Officers arrived to find a 35-year-old man with severe self-inflicted injuries.

“No other people were injured and the man was not arrested. He is now stable in hospital.”

The man will be assessed by psychiatrists following treatment for his wounds and is expected to be held under the Mental Health Act for his own safety.

The diner remained shut yesterday for a clean-up operation. It was due to re-open last night.

The Royal College of Surgeons confirmed this was the first time that anyone in the UK had had their penis sewed back on.

After controlling the blood loss, doctors had to repair the blood supply and reanimate the tissue by rejoining the arteries and veins under a microscope.

Top Italian plastic surgeon Dr Nicolo Scuderi said of the operating technique: “We don’t know how much sensitivity and function will be regained.”

Sex in Advertising - A Feminist Response

‘I only feel like a real man when I treat women like collectible possessions that I can flaunt.’

‘I need a steady supply of women who have no choice but to take money to pretend that they like me.’

‘I’m an arsehole but that doesn’t matter because I have entitlements.’

‘I’m an entitle arsehole.’

‘I get to wear clothes because I’m higher status.’

‘I’m only able to fuck people I have utter contempt for.’

‘I can’t think of women as human beings with feelings because it makes my penis flop.’

‘I know my days are numbered so I’m trying my darned hardest to keep up apperances.’

Why You Shouldn't Swallow Ocean Water

Josie Maran

Josie Maran is stunning. Part supermodel. Part bikini model. And reportedly bisexual. The perfect package.

Can you tell the difference?

Star Wars Celebration to feature really cool balloon

George Lucas is throwing a huge party for the 30th anniversary of his Star Wars release. He is taking over the LA convention Center for a week ending memorial day 2007. Look for the force to be with everyone as the post office is releasing Star Wars stamps at the same time...

Andy Rooney to replace Katie Couric on CBS Evening News...

CBS's $15 million experiment of hiring Katie Couric has not paid any dividends. Six months into her tenure as anchor of the "Evening News," Couric has actually fallen in the ratings from her predecessor, Bob Schieffer, sparking talk within the network that the former NBC star will soon be shown the door really really soon.

Don't expect Katie in the fall....watch for her to FALL into cable instead...talks are ongoing for Andy Rooney to replace her...

Marin Donating Copies of Art Collection

Cheech Marin is donating copies of works from his Mexican-American art collection to some of the nation's best-known museums and universities.

Recipients include the Smithsonian, UCLA, the San Antonio Museum of Art, where the collection debuted in 2001, and Marin's alma mater, California State University, Northridge.

The 60-year-old actor-comedian says he'll donate 50 sets of high-quality digital prints of "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge," which has been on tour for about five years.

Marin has voiced roles in animated films such as "Cars" and "Oliver & Company." His acting credits also include roles in the "Spy Kids" movies and the TV series "Judging Amy" and "Nash Bridges."

No word on if the prototype for the rolling paper inside Cheech and Chong's revolutionary Big Bambu will be included in the donation.

Restaurant manager offered woman for sex

LANCASHIRE, England -

The owner of a popular Lancashire restaurant had sex with a Czech prostitute and offered her to his staff, a court heard.

David Steer QC, told the court that Mohammed Islam, 40, of Nelson Street, Hyde, ran the India Cottage in Samlesbury, and bought the woman for sex on February 9, 2006.

"He had sex with her and told others that she was available for sex – the agreement was that she was there for sex with everyone," said Mr Steer QC.

Islam was later arrested and told in a police interview that his friend – Shiraz Uddin, 49, of Parsonage Street, Hyde – called him and said there was an Arabic girl they could have sex with in Manchester.

Islam went to Manchester and paid £50 to take the girl to the India Cottage, the court heard.

Previous to this move, the jury was told that she had been working in Manchester at various massage parlours.

Bobby Slayton...Man on the Street

HECKLER...the movie

See the trailer HERE

Gibson Guitars Go Digital

The new Gibson Les Paul has gone digital. The cutting edge guitar gives you incredible recording control and new effect possibilities. The Gibson HD.6X-PRO
lets you record and apply a different effect to each string separately.

Read all about it HERE

Mannequin Clampdown

BAHRAIN - THE MUHARRAQ Municipal Council has initiated a crackdown on what it claims are sexually explicit posters and provocatively dressed mannequins.Chairman Mohammed Jassim Saleh Hamada said the council had received many complaints from residents, especially women, who believe that these fly in the face of their traditional values.

While the council's rules against sexually explicit displays have been in place for a long time, Mr Hamada said implementation has been lax.

The council has already ordered municipal authorities to make daily inspections to identify violators.

'The mannequins are wearing see-through clothing that show their breasts," he said.

"And the posters that are on display at video stores are very offensive.

"There are pictures depicting men embracing women, kissing them, with their breasts uncovered. Others show singers wearing skimpy clothing. It seems that baring breasts has become a normal thing in our society these days," continued Mr Hamada.

He warned that licences of any violators would be revoked.

He also welcomed a parliamentary proposal to outlaw men working at women's lingerie shops.

Colbert drops a bomb

Considering he's already pranked Wikipedia and weaseled his way into online polls aplenty, here at News.com we're actually kind of surprised that Comedy Central talk show host Stephen Colbert took this long to instigate a self-promoting "Google bombing" campaign.

Google bombing, in case you're unfamiliar, is a method of directing mass links that contain a particular line of text to a certain site, which then bolsters that site's ranking on Google when that line of text is used as a search query. The most famous Google bomb was probably "miserable failure," which directed to George W. Bush's presidential biography for quite some time before Google switched a few algorithms around in order to eliminate the verbal pranks.

Well, sorry, Google, you've got another "bomber" on your hands, and this one has an insane pack of followers behind him. Earlier this week, Colbert announced on his late-night show, The Colbert Report, that he wanted to rank first on Google's search results for the phrase "giant brass balls." (A tad lewd, yes.) Colbert-idolizing bloggers, however, thought that just wasn't good enough, and decided to try to put him at the top of Google's hierarchy for the phrase "Greatest Living American."

The power of crowds worked, apparently, as a search for "Greatest Living American" now directs to the official Colbert Report Web site, ColbertNation.com. But it might not be there permanently; Google might have to invent a new "algorithm" specifically for Colbert. Unfortunately, that'd probably just inflate his ego even more.

Bob Weir and Sammy Hagar

Rockers Bob Weir and Sammy Hagar embrace after Hagar makes a surprise appearance with Weir and his band, the Ratdog, at the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival, an Earth Day event in Golden Gate Park San Francisco.

a very special girl...

JACK NICHOLSON'S 70th

Hollywood veteran JACK NICHOLSON hired 70 scantily-clad waitresses to help celebrate his 70th birthday at a GBP100,000 ($950,000) party yesterday (22Apr07). The Departed star hired the young women - one for each year of his life - to keep guests entertained during the celebrity-packed birthday bash at his Hollywood Hills mansion, where he blew out candles on a seven foot (2.13 meter) long cake. A guest says of the actor, who claims to have bedded over 2,000 women: "Everyone's wondering just how many of the girls Jack already knows as well as a guy can know a girl - if you know what I mean!"

Birthplace of James T. Kirk

Star Trek enthusiasts are seen participating in a parade during Trek Fest XIX in Riverside, Iowa. Nearly 20 years ago the small town was recognized as the official "future" birthplace of James T. Kirk by Star Trek producers after it was written in an episode that he is born in a small Iowa town March 22, 2228.

Boris Yeltsin dies

Boris Yeltsin, who clambered on to a tank to bury the Soviet Union, then led Russia falteringly through its first years of independence, died aged 76.

World leaders showered Yeltsin with tributes for bringing freedom and democracy to Russia after decades of totalitarian rule, and pushing through market reforms that, though brutal, helped turn Russia into a vibrant economy.

But he was resented by millions of Russians who lost their savings to his economic "shock therapy", lost sons in his war against Chechen rebels and watched him - at times apparently drunk - blunder through international summits.

See loins in the fountain...

A 40-year-old office clerk made a splash at Rome's Trevi fountain when she went for a swim, naked, in the Renaissance masterpiece in front of a crowd of tourists.

"The water is everyone's. I was hot," Roberta, who did not give her last name, said, as snapshots of her appeared in all Italy's major newspapers on Monday.

The Trevi featured in the 1960 classic film "La Dolce Vita" in which screen diva Anita Ekberg went for a dip in the fountain wearing a skimpy black dress.

But swimming in the fountain is prohibited and Roberta, from Milan, now risks a hefty fine for public indecency.

In 1995, German supermodel Claudia Schiffer also waded into the fountain for an advertising campaign for designer Valentino.

Columnist Chronicles Life With Cancer

A sense of humor helps, Lauren Terrazzano says, when you're dying of cancer. If there's a heaven, the newspaper columnist wrote recently, she plans to have a drink with John F. Kennedy Jr., who crashed near Martha's Vineyard, and then "thwack him on the head for flying that night in the fog."

And, if she somehow winds up in hell, she wants to meet the guy "who invented the tape that keeps your IV in place. I will proceed to wrap him in it, like a mummy, and then peel it off. Slowly.

"I hope he is very hairy."

Described by colleagues as a tenacious, hard-nosed street reporter, Terrazzano has drawn praise for sharing her own story in "Life, With Cancer," a column she has been writing in the Long Island newspaper Newsday since October. Diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago at age 36, her right lung has been removed and she has undergone extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

In a recent column, she announced that doctors have given her two to three months to live.

"The disease has advanced despite all of these treatments and we really don't know what the future holds," said Terrazzano, who covered the JFK Jr. plane crash, the TWA Flight 800 disaster and many other high-profile stories in the decade she has been with Newsday.

She continues to cover news for the paper when she's able, in addition to writing the column that runs every Tuesday.

Terrazzano recently celebrated her first wedding anniversary, with New York Times reporter Al Baker.

In her columns, Terrazzano has written about the inappropriate things people say to cancer patients because they don't know what else to say, and about breaking the myth that people with cancer are heroes, "when really we're just like everyone else."

She has taken shots at the tobacco marketers, opined about aspiring first lady Elizabeth Edwards' battle with cancer and written about the stress the disease has on loved ones.

And despite the fact that so many aspects of cancer are depressing, she insists there is room for humor.

"I use humor sometimes as a device to make the writing easier and to put people at ease," said Terrazzano.

"My goal was to tackle the taboo subjects of the disease that the mainstream media often fails to do," she said. "We so often cover the news aspects of cancer, the scientific breakthrough or even the sob story, yet there are so many other avenues that go unexplored."

The response to her column, Terrazzano said, has been "staggering."

"I expected response on a local level, but I've gotten at this point thousands of e-mails from readers, some as far away as Saudi Arabia.

"Readers mostly thank me for having the guts to say what they'd like to say, and for 'getting it' from the perspective of a cancer patient. Nothing makes me happier than when someone clips out my column and puts it on their refrigerator," she said.

Karen Joy Miller, a breast cancer survivor who heads a support group in the Long Island city of Huntington, said her organization is buzzing about the column.

"She has lung cancer, but it's not about one type of disease," Miller said. "Her column has increased awareness to the challenges that we all face. It allows a lot of people who are reticent to tap into their own feelings and insecurities."

"Lauren's struggle, unfortunately, is not unique," said Michael Seilback of the American Lung Association of New York. "Her column has really hit home with a lot of people."

Terrazzano also has won professional accolades, including the top prize in the science/health reporting category of a contest run by the Silurians, the nation's oldest press club.

When Newsday cartoonist Walt Handelsman won his second Pulitzer Prize last week, he said Terrazzano's columns frequently beat his work as the "most e-mailed" item on Newsday's Web site.

"I really draw strength from her," he said.

In the column in which she announced her bleak prospects, Terrazzano reflected on life, and death.

"I have seen people like my grandfather live simple but happy long lives. He died when he was 93. On the opposite end, in my job as a reporter, I have seen 3-year-olds die at the hands of abusive parents.

"Nothing really makes sense when it comes to death."

Read Terrazzano columns: http://tinyurl.com/2sldgs

I do nothing all day...DOT COM...

well... I wouldnt say he actually does nothing, HE'S LIVING HIS DREAM, SEE IT HERE.

Ahhh...the tube top.....

Exclusive: Conan O’Brien in SF

When Conan Obrien's Late Show tapes in SF CA Monday, April 30, 2007 -
Friday, May 4, 2007 look for a segment taped this past weekend where Conan and Bob Saget are filmed entering the most famous adult venue on the planet. You heard it here First...

Earth Day 2007

It Does Somebody Good...

Will Al Gore Run For President After All?

He may not seem to be positioning himself to run for president in 2008, but former Vice President Al Gore may indeed give it a shot.

Gore Team Told To 'Stand By' For Presidential Run

The more time that passes, the more it seems that former vice president Al Gore may indeed run for the White House next year.

According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, staff members who worked on Gore’s unsuccessful presidential bid in 2000 have been approached to work on a possible campaign for 2008.

“I was asked whether I would be available towards the end of the year if I am needed,” one of Gore’s former campaign workers reportedly said. “They know he has not ruled out running and if he decides to jump in, he will have to move very fast.”

Gore has repeatedly said in the past that he has no plans and no intention of running for president again. But in politics, that particular language is ambiguous – meaning that it doesn’t fully rule out a bid.

Just two days ago, Gore’s former boss, President Bill Clinton also mentioned the possibility that Gore might run again.

During an interview with CNN’s Larry King on April 19, Clinton said, “You’ve got the prospect that Vice President Gore might run.”

Although former campaign workers acknowledge that Gore himself has not asked them to prepare a 2008 presidential campaign, they say he has not asked them not to, either.

Gore supporters are said to believe that the current Democratic frontrunner, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, may win the nomination but that she cannot win the actual election. Given this belief, and Gore’s priorities on climate change, it is possible that the former vice president has received new motivation to take aim at the White House.

Numerous websites are also campaigning to “Draft Gore” into the 2008 election, which feature an online petition that has already been signed by more than 70,000 people.

New Zealand Porn Sting

Shop keepers have been caught on camera handing porn to children as young as 13 - illegally selling underage adult magazines, including Hustler, Playboy, fetish titles and one labelled Kinky 40-Plus.

One Tauranga dairy sold R18 material to a 15-year-old, even after he revealed his age.

In an unusual move, the Department of Internal Affairs said it would investigate the 11 shop keepers busted by the television show Target in the sting, which covered 14 stores in four cities over two weekends in February and April.

"The results of this latest Target survey are disturbing, and we will be in touch with the retailers identified in the programme," a DIA statement said.

"While the department prefers voluntary compliance, retailers should be aware that we will prosecute if that approach is not working."

Target producer Simon Roy said two actors were sent to stores in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Mt Maunganui to try to buy restricted magazines.

The actors, aged 15 and 13, used an Eftpos card that was programmed not to work, so sales were not finalised, and the actors could not break the law.

But retailers must ask for identification before selling restricted magazines with pornographic content.

Eleven of the 14 stores would have sold porn to the 15-year-old - and three of those also tried to sell to the younger boy, sent there three weeks later.

Quote of the Day

"I couldn't be more excited right now if Kate Mara was dancing to 80s music in front of me wearing nothing but a pizza bikini."

Cherry Blossom Confection

Giving its famous chocolate covered biscuit something of a makeover, Kit Kat manufacturer Nestle has come up with this rather novel cherry blossom variety.

Crisp red bean powdered praline wafers covered in piquant cherry blossom flavored white chocolate.

Here’s how to have a break…KIT KAT^® style:

1.	Push the wafer out of the wrapper.
2.	Score your nail along the foil-wrapped wafer fingers.
3.	Break off a wafer finger at a time.
4.	Snap a wafer finger in half and ... enjoy!!!

Get some HERE

6 Degrees of Samuel L. Jackson

See Sam HERE

Arnold unleashes his inner pimp

Schwarzenegger lets MTV 'pimp' his ride

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to MTV to promote Earth Day with an 800-horsepower car that runs on renewable biodiesel fuel.

The governor's appearance on a special Earth Day episode of the popular show "Pimp My Ride" set for Sunday is the latest environmentally themed event for Schwarzenegger, who drew international attention for signing a global warming law last year.

For the show, videotaped earlier, mechanics installed the powerful engine in a converted 1965 Chevy Impala, producing a vehicle that accelerates from zero to 60 mph in three seconds.

The governor said the converted car's emissions of greenhouse gases will be 50 percent lower than a comparable gas-powered car. And biodiesel fuel can be made from recycled products such as vegetable oil.

"We take this cool show and they did something, and added something that was environmentally hip," Schwarzenegger recently told a student crowd at Georgetown University.

When Schwarzenegger ran for governor in 2003, he was criticized for popularizing gas-guzzling Hummers. He has since reduced his personal Hummer fleet to four, two of which he says have since been converted to run on alternative fuels.

Book causes "...sleepless nights..."

A Bentonville man is seeking $20,000 from the city after his two teenage sons found a book on lesbian sex on a library bookshelf.

Earl Adams says his sons were "greatly disturbed" after finding the book, titled "The Whole Lesbian Sex Book."

Adams says the book caused, "many sleepless nights in our house."

Adams wants the city to pay $10,000 to each of his sons under Arkansas' obscenity laws. However, the city's attorney dismisses Adams' claim as baseless.

The library's advisory board voted earlier this month to remove the book from circulation. Board member George Spence says he found the book crude, but say it could be replaced with one taking a, "more sensitive, more clinical approach."

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Blue Angel Down at Airshow

The latest information on the crash of a U.S. Navy Blue Angels: Blue Angel number 6 of the precision flying team crashed Saturday into a Beaufort neighborhood during an airshow, killing the pilot. The death was confirmed by Beaufort County Coroner Curt Copeland. No further details were released, but as of this report, there are no injuries or fatalities on the ground.

The jet went down at end of the air show. Four other planes landed and a fifth continued to fly circling over the smoke. According to witnesses at the scene, the P.A. system said thanks for coming out and that an autograph session has been canceled. CNN is reporting that the Beaufort County coroner’s officer reports one fatality.

Links:

US Navy Blue Angels Website

Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort

Beaufort Air Show, 2007 Website

Meat Seasoning Inside Shotgun Shells

Season Shot is the name of a new type of live ammunition containing buckshot loaded with meat seasonings.

When you shoot a bird (with a real shotgun) the buckshot disintegrates inside the flesh and releases its flavorings.

The idea came about with two guys who wanted to find a solution towards people breaking their teeth on buckshot when eating pheasant or turkey.

Season Shot comes in varieties of Cajun, Lemon Pepper, Garlic, Teriyaki, and Honey Mustard. Supposedly, they won't be available on the market inl 2007.


Visit Season Shot at: http://www.seasonshot.com

Just set it on the counter....

World Record Tumor

Today In History - April 21, 2007

Today’s Highlight in History:

On April 21, 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.


On this date:

In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.

In 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence.

In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut.

In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the “Red Baron,” was killed in action during World War One.

In 1940, the quiz show that asked the “64-dollar question,” “Take It or Leave It,” premiered on CBS Radio. (64 dollars is cq)

In 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.

In 1975, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after ten years in office.

In 1977, the musical play “Annie” opened on Broadway.

In 1986, a vault in Chicago’s Lexington Hotel that was linked to Al Capone was opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera; aside from a few bottles and a sign, the vault was empty.

Rectal Impaction Following Enema with Concrete Mix

by Peter J. Stephens, M.D., and Mark L. Taff, M.D.
from the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 8(2):179-182, 1987.

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This article describes an unusual rectal foreign body resulting from homosexual anal erotic activities. The patient had used an enema containing a concrete mix which became impacted and required surgical removal. The use, abuse, and complications of enemas are reviewed.

During the last 20 years, sexual habits have changed in western society. Both homosexuals and heterosexuals have shown an increasing interest in anal erotic practices, including the use of enemas for sexual enjoyment. We report a case of a klismaphiliac who had an impacted foreign body in his rectum followin an enema with a concrete mix.

CASE REPORT

A 20-year-old man presented to the emergency room complaining of rectal pain. A well-nourished, well-developed man without signs of intoxication was admitted in no apparent distress. Digital examination of the rectum revealed a stony hard mass. Abdominal plain films showed a vertically oriented, low-lying radiopaque object in the rectum. A spherical radiolucency was noted in the upper pole of the mass. A blood alcohol level was negative. No other drug testing was performed.

Upon further questioning, the patient said that approximately 4 hrs earlier he and his boyfriend had been "fooling around." After stirring a batch of concrete mix, the patient laid on his back with his feet against the wall at a 45-degree angle while his boyfriend poured the mixture through a funnel into his rectum. After the concrete mass hardened, it became so painful that he sought medical care.

Under general anesthesia, the anus was dilated and two Foley catheters were inserted alongside the rectal mass to relieve suction. A concrete case of the rectum was delivered without incident. The rectal mucosa was intact with a hyperemic and edematous appearance.

The patient was kept overnight and discharged uneventfully the following morning. The attending physician recommended a psychiatric consultation, but the patient declined.

PATHOLOGIC EXAMINATION

Examination of the specimen revealed a perfect concrete cast of the rectum, measuring 12 X 7 X 5 cm and weighing 275 g (Fig. 2). A thin layer of feces coated the surface and crevices. Grooves in the mass were consistent with rectal mucosal folds. A layer of concrete was chipped off the upper part of the specimen and revealed a white plastic ping-pong ball. This corresponded to the radiolucency observed in the abdominal x-ray.

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A Gathering of Spiders

Elephant Basketball

Australia's hippy capital fears freedom at risk

NIMBIN, Australia (Reuters) - The pungent smell of marijuana fills the air outside The Rainbow Cafe in Australia's hippy capital Nimbin as a shopkeeper smokes a joint during a coffee break.

Across the road the Hemp Embassy is busy with shoppers inspecting bongs and pipes, as well as hemp T-shirts and hats, while a few enjoy a joint of marijuana in a side room.

"Hey mister, want some weed," says a voice in a dark corner of the Nimbin Museum, a cave-like labyrinth which tells of the hippy birth of Nimbin following the Aquarius Festival in 1973.

Selling and smoking marijuana may be illegal in Australia, but in Nimbin on Australia's fertile northeast coast authorities unofficially ignore the pot smoking.

Nimbin's marijuana smoking reputation is global and busloads of young foreign tourists, too young to ever have encountered a real hippy, arrive each day to get high or just wander through the village's shops which still promote the hippy way of life.

"Nimbin is a pot town," says Andrew Kavasilas, president of the Nimbin Chamber of Commerce, as he draws on a reefer of marijuana inside his Nimbin Cafe.

Nimbin's hippies are gathering for a wake at his cafe and a couple of grey haired women in kaftan tops and cotton pants chat and smoke marijuana, while two men playing chess roll a joint.

"Its a relaxed, alternate town. If you fit in, you fit in," says Kavasilas, who inspects the Reuters business card on the table and declares it would make good filters for his joints.

NIMBIN'S BIRTH

Nimbin was originally a dairy town, perched on a ridge surrounded by lush valleys. In 1973 the town was on the verge of closing when a group of university students held the Aquarius hippy festival in a nearby paddock.

An abundance of cheap land and buildings, and the prospect of growing potent marijuana in fertile cow paddocks, saw many hippies put down roots and build an alternate culture.

In its early years Nimbin struggled to survive with hippies constantly clashing with authorities over issues such as drugs, unauthorized communal housing and the environment.

Today Nimbin's rainbow-colored shops, such as Bringabong, the Hemp Embassy and the Rainbow Cafe, are heritage listed.

Nimbin's communes, one of which is 2,000 acres, now boast state-of-the-art ecological houses. The village's Rainbow Power Company exports alternative energy generating technology.

"Nimbin has changed from an isolated alternate culture to this village which is mainly tourism," says Michael Balderstone, a former stockbroker who arrived in Nimbin 20 years ago and now runs the Hemp Embassy and lobbies for marijuana to be legalized.

Even ageing hippies like Wavy Gravy, the master of ceremonies at the 1969 U.S. Woodstock festival, pilgrimage to Nimbin. Shuffling down the street with walking stick in hand and wearing a ban the bomb T-shirt, Gravy says he admires the communal vibe.

Other visitors just look confused as they gaze through shop windows at books like "Conversations with God", "Anti-Gravity and the Unified Field" and "Extra Dimensional Universe".

VULNERABLE

But Nimbin's relaxed attitude towards drugs has left it vulnerable. Five years ago hard drugs such as heroin and ICE entered Nimbin, fuelling violence especially among its youth.

Nimbin's hippies joined police in cracking down on the hard drugs and backed the installation of CCTV cameras in the main street.

"People worked with police to get rid of hard drugs from the town because they saw their sons and daughters going down a road to nowhere," says Peter Robinson at Nimbin Lifestyle Real Estate.

Nimbin has won its battle against hard drugs, but its reputation for tolerance continues to attract drug addicts and those with mental health problems.

"Its a bit of a refugee camp for people from the war on drugs," says Balderstone. "This is the last bus stop for people with mental health problems. They get accepted here."

"Its a bit of a problem for us. We end up with a lot of homeless and mental health people."

Nimbin's belief that marijuana should be legalized and regulated is no longer merely a hippy principle. Marijuana is a multi-million dollar business and parents fear their children are mixing with criminals and may be jailed for dealing to tourists.

"Lots of good families have left Nimbin because of the street dealing," says Balderstone.

But many hippies fear the biggest threat to emerge to Nimbin's lifestyle comes from Australia's rampant coastal development, driven by cashed up retiring baby boomers.

Coastal homes at nearby Byron Bay cost over A$1.0 million (US$830,000) and developers are eyeing the picturesque valleys and ridges around Nimbin, a one hour drive from the coast.

"To attract development they want to sanitize Nimbin and get us off the street," says hippy Elbereth Evenstal as she sets up her hand-made jewellery stand.

Many hope the inevitable development will be small-scale and environmentally sensitive, but they fear for their hippy lifestyle. "We have been free for a long time. It will be a pity if we lose this freedom," says Balderstone.

First Imus, Now Savage...

Protesters ranging from La Raza Centro Legal and the Bay Area Lawyers Guild to representatives of public stations KPFA and KQED demonstrated against right-wing talk show host Michael Savage outside KNEW radio on Friday (April 20), according to a report in the San Francisco Daily.

"To remove Don Imus from the radio and not remove people like Michael Savage is hypocrisy," protest organizer Steve Zeltzer told the SF Daily. "Michael Savage is much more flagrant in his racist, sexist and homophobic comments."

Savage (pictured), whose real name is Michael Weiner, has attacked Muslims, Jews, transgendered people, immigrants and many other goups, Zeltzer said.

"We support the First Amendment but we don’t support the public airways being used in this manner," said Zeltzer, who hosts his own cable access program.

KNEW program director Bob Agnew said he had no comment about the demonstration. Savage's show is based in San Francisco and is syndicated by an arm of Clear Channel Communications to more than 400 stations nationwide.

The protest comes amid talk by Democrats of restoring what was known as the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to give opposing political points of view equal time. The FCC scrapped the rule in 1987. A year later, Rush Limbaugh started his national program, followed by a number of other conservative hosts.

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Lust for Life - Iggy is 60

Iggy Pop, punk's godfather -- and now its grandfather -- shows he hasn't lost a step

Have a happy birthday, Iggy, old dog. May you, and we, always rock, all night, until we blow away.

Eye Smoking

Latex Rules...

NO, it will look really cool when it's finished...

Turtle Boy

This Emperor has No Clothes

Bush: Be sure to question odd behavior

TIPP CITY, Ohio -- President Bush said on Thursday that mass shootings are a reminder that people must be willing to raise a red flag about others' disturbing behavior.

"One of the lessons of these tragedies is to make sure that when people see somebody or know somebody who is exhibiting abnormal behavior, you do something about it, to suggest that somebody take a look," the president said during an appearance at a high school here.

His war on terror speech came after a moment of silence for the victims of the Monday shootings at Virginia Tech in which 33 people, including the shooter, died.

In a question-and-answer session, the president was asked by a student what he thought should be done to ensure safety in schools.

He said he didn't want to draw conclusions from the Virginia case because "they're still digging out the facts." But he suggested that concerns about privacy violations, while understandable, may be preventing people from taking needed action.

Gunman Cho Seung-Hui had been accused of sending unwanted messages to two women. He was taken to a psychiatric hospital on a magistrate's orders and was pronounced a danger to himself, but was released for outpatient treatment. Also, Cho's twisted, violence-filled writings and menacing, uncommunicative demeanor had disturbed professors and students so much that he was removed from one English class and was repeatedly urged to get counseling. A video rant Cho mailed to NBC in the middle of his Virginia Tech rampage only added to the disturbing psychological portrait.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said she did not know whether Bush had seen any of the video. But it was clear he was aware of it.

"If you are a parent and your child is, you know, doing strange things on the Internet, pay attention to it and not be afraid to ask for help and not be afraid to say 'I am concerned about what I am seeing," Bush said. "I think it's very important for us not to comment until it's all said and done, but that other cases there have been warning signals - that if an adult for example had taken the signals seriously, perhaps tragedy could have been avoided."

Bush said the reeling community in Blacksburg should take heart from its support in the rest of the country.

"It really speaks to the strength of this country, doesn't it, that total strangers here in Ohio are willing to hold up people in Virginia in prayer?" he said.

Patty Smith's 12 Album....

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The Cheap Seats

Rolling Stone to archive every issue on DVD

Rolling Stone magazine will release its entire printed history on DVD in the fall, coinciding with the celebration of its 40th anniversary.

Archive software firm Bondi Digital Publishing is scanning over 115,000 pages from more than 1,000 issues, using a proprietary platform previously used for the New Yorker and currently being deployed for Playboy. Bondi will publish the DVD under an exclusive licensing arrangement with Wenner Media, the closely held parent of Rolling Stone.

The DVD, "Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover: The First 40 Years," will cost $119.99. It will allow users to search for every article, photograph and review that appeared in print, even the infamous five-star love letter that editor Jann Wenner gave his friend Mick Jagger's last solo record in 2001.

"It may have been a little over the top," Wenner said of his contrarian review.

Rolling Stone, which Wenner founded in San Francisco in 1967, launched the careers of such writers as Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, and Cameron Crowe, as well as photographers including Annie Leibovitz and Mark Seliger.

Fresh from celebrating its 1,000th issue last year, Rolling Stone will publish three 40th anniversary issues, beginning Friday with a double issue featuring interviews with key artists and newsmakers from the baby-boom generation, such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Martin Scorsese and Jagger.

Movie of the Week

Tahna: “Smells fresh… like a summer’s day.”

Cynthia: “Is she calling me a douchebag?”

I’d happily watch sloe-eyed porn starlet Jezebelle Bond re-grout her bathroom tile for 80 minutes, so for me, the abundance of sex and nudity that fills Teenage Cavegirl’s hour-and-twenty-minute running time was like Christmas morning all over again. In fact, I think there’s more fucking (albeit strictly soft-X) in Cavegirl than any of writer/director Fred Olen Ray’s recent DVDs, including The Erotic Dreams of Jeannie, The Erotic Escort Company, and Curse of the Erotic Tiki (are you sensing a theme here?). And he’s certainly got the right people to carry out a lot of vigorous on-screen balling; in addition to Ms. Bond, Cavegirl’s cast includes pro pornstars Evan Stone, Nicole Sheridan and her husband Alexandre Boisvert (a.k.a Voodoo), and Lezle Zen, along with softcore starlet Kennedy Johnston, who’s no slouch in the dirty-dirty department herself.

The plot? Oh, yeah, there’s a plot – Cretaceous-era cutie Tahna (Bond) and her throwback boyfriend Tiko (Stone) step through a time portal and wind up in L.A.’s Bronson Caverns circa 2004, where they’re discovered by amateur rockhounds Boisvert and Johnston. Boisvert declares her the scientific find of the century, but Johnston’s more interested in how Tahna’s ass looks in her animal-skin bikini (later, she gives it a closer inspection in a long and sudsy bathtub romp). After introducing Tahna to the miracles of television and underwear, Boisvert shows her off to his scheming science professor (Ray regular Jay Richardson) and his biznatch assistant (Sheridan). Richardson, of course, sees dollar signs in Tahna’s A-cups, and takes her to his lab, determined to drain her prehistoric memories with his scientific gizmo.

That may seem like a lot of shenanigans to swallow just to look at Jezebelle Bond’s tits, but trust me, the sex to exposition ratio in Cavegirl is something like 3 to 1 (basically, there’s a ten-minute fuck scene every fifteen minutes). And the story itself – yeah, it’s not Quest for Fire, but it’s amusing in a sort of ‘60s nudie-cutie way, and the cast carries it off with tongues planted firmly in cheeks (and other places), especially Stone (who is again funnier than most mainstream comic actors), Sheridan, and Richardson. Oh, and there’s even a few CGI dinosaurs, so really, you’ve got nothing to lose from watching Teenage Cavegirl. Can you say the same for any of the Hollywood movies currently in theaters? And do any of them offer porn stars, dinosaurs and naked cavegirls – in the same film? I thought not.

You ought to write a letter of thanks to Fred Olen Ray for delivering so much entertainment on so little a budget. Mine’s in the mail right now.

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Dutch escort agency to service geek virgins

Dutch escort agency Society Service has set up a special service for geek virgins looking for that elusive first sexual encounter.

Sociology student Zoe Vialet set up the agency last year, Ananova reports, and admits she's had "a lot of demand from virgins" - most of them from the IT sector. She explained to De Telegraaf: "They are very sweet but are afraid of seeking contact with other people. They mean it very well but are very scared."

Zoe has a crack team of five girls "specially trained" to pop geeks' cherries. However, those readers tempted to avail themselves of their charms are warned it's not just a case of stump up the cash, insert your floppy in the drive, eject and then off for a pizza.

Au contraire, you'll be expected to hone your skills over a extended period, as Vialet insisted: "Every booking lasts three hours minimum. Longer is possible, shorter not. We take the time to take a bath together, do a massage and explore each others body. When the date is over, you will have had a fantastic experience, and you will be able to pleasure a woman."

And just in case you thought you might just try and get a real squeeze for a bit of mutual body-exploration, think again. Vialet warned: "You better practise before having a girlfriend. Woman expect men older than 30 having had some experience. Some men need a little bit of help. But it makes them happy and they are glowing .There is nothing more terrible than dying as a virgin."

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