Thursday, December 25, 2008
Letter From The Editor
11:26AM Jess McGuire | How’s your Christmas Day going, dear readers?
Mine started quite badly when my dog, totally underwhelmed by the spirit of the season, stole the sandwich I’d made for breakfast and stupidly left on the table while I ducked outside to give him a bowl of dog food. Clearly mama raised no fool, but she did raise a thief. That said, hosting Summer Breakfasters on RRR from 6am was surprisingly fun, and I forced the lovely Ryan Egan to play my favourite Kenny Rogers festive tune ‘Kentucky Homemade Christmas’ on the radio while I ate cabanossi (I am away from my family this year, so I needed to keep up with some McGuire family traditions…) and gasped with joy at the message/lyrics/keychange.
Anyway, I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Day Off From Work. And I also wanted to ask… what are you doing on the internet, eh? Log off! Log off! Get out amongst the real world, you crazy web fiends!
But hey – before you go, would you like to check out a couple of my favourite Christmas-flavoured tunes after the jump? More » 
DEFAMER AUSTRALIA IS YOUR GOD NOW
10:28AM Jess McGuire | Ahem. Remember earlier in the year when, like some kind of straight girl-bending Uri Geller (Gal-her?), I made Vanessa Amorosi and Ruby Rose indulge in ladylove at the ARIAs with only the power of my mind? Or something quite like that but sort of less exciting and impressive?
I’VE DONE IT AGAIN.
Ladies and gentlemen, in case you missed it last night…
And now let me take you back in time to December 2007 and check out what I predicted whilst in the midst of demanding the newly out Tim Campbell begin dating Anthony Callea: More » 
Romcoms Cause Cancer Of The Hope-Nodes
6:04AM Seth | We didn’t need a scientific study to confirm for us that romcoms are detrimental to your health. Now infect us, impossibly handsome and emotionally available Patrick Dempsey, with your deadly McDreamy rays! More »
Courtney Love is Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ Hate Crimes
5:29AM Kyle Buchanan | Perhaps looking to shore up her gay bona fides after the “No, I voted Yes on 8″ debacle, Courtney Love has broken her vow of blogging silence to report a Kardashian-fuelled gay bashing. More »
Ghosts Of Christmas Trashed: Anna Nicole Brings Tidings Of Comfort And Joy
4:56AM Seth | We trust our generous gifts of various awful things have succeeded in coaxing the last holdouts among you out from your Grinch lairs, and towards the CRT glow of the Defamer hearth. More »
Tim Burton + ‘WALL-E’ ÷ Goggle-Eyed Knit Dolls = ‘9′
4:12AM STV | As creative partnerships go, the one teaming Tim Burton with Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov and a half-dozen or so animated post-apocalyptic rag dolls isn’t one we had on our 2009 wish list. More »
How Disney Killed Off Its Billion-Dollar ‘Narnia’ Franchise
3:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Disney announced today that it will not continue filming the Chronicles of Narnia series, prematurely snuffing an enormous franchise that the studio had clearly positioned as its Harry Potter. Here’s why we’re not surprised. More »
Stiffed Warner Bros. Sues CBS Over ‘Two and a Half Men’
3:30AM STV | Throwing a litigious lump of coal in its friend’s stocking, Warner Bros. TV leveled a breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS seeking $49 million in unpaid licence fees and production costs for Two and a Half Men. More »
Reacquaint Yourself With ‘Howard the Duck’ This Christmas
3:10AM Seth | The gifts keep on coming: Go head. Unwrap it. That’s right! George Lucas’s Howard the Duck, in its gloriously awful, crimped-headed-Lea Thompson entirety. More »
