Thursday, May 28, 2009 - Page 2
People
10:35AM Jess McGuire | Back in July 2005, the nation finally realised just how multi-talented award winning actress and singer Bec Cartwright was when she recited a poem she’d written about her romance with tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt at the couple’s nuptials. If you don’t mind, I’d like to revisit Bec’s masterpiece. More »
TIME MACHINE! Remember When Bec Hewitt Wrote Poetry?
10:35AM Jess McGuire | Back in July 2005, the nation finally realised just how multi-talented award winning actress and singer Bec Cartwright was when she recited a poem she’d written about her romance with tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt at the couple’s nuptials. If you don’t mind, I’d like to revisit Bec’s masterpiece. More » 
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:05AM Jess McGuire | You know, I always forget that the Dynamic Hepnotics were an Australian band! Soul Kind Of Feeling, anyone? More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:05AM Jess McGuire | You know, I always forget that the Dynamic Hepnotics were an Australian band! Soul Kind Of Feeling, anyone? More »
Online
Why Is It Called ‘D,’ Anyway? The Twitterati Wonder
8:28AM Ryan Tate | The Twitterati weren’t themselves: Caroline McCarthy was mistaken for airline staff; a Guardian writer turned into one of the Stepford Wives and a professional tattoo aficionado found himself destroying art. More »
Print
Thomas Friedman Enrages The Proles Of The Globe
7:40AM Pareene | Globe-flattening moustache habitrail Thomas Friedman, who’s never met a hype-spouting CEO he wasn’t incredibly impressed by, is no friend of the working man, this we know. But he’s currently ruining labour talks at the Boston Globe, just by being his annoying self. More »
Music
Chris Brown To The Internet: ‘I’m Not A Monster’
7:29AM Richard Lawson | Rihanna-beating Chris Brown is promoting a new album (who isn’t these days, amirite?) so he took the time to make a little YouTube video proclaiming the record’s crazy dopeness, and also to thank the real fans and not the haters who think he’s a monster. Which he is.
Flotsam & Jetsam
Procter & Gamble Instructs You How To Shave Your Balls
6:55AM Hamilton Nolan | If more dudes shaved their balls, that’s like, thousands more razors they can sell every year. Every little bit helps. [via Adfreak]
Print
Tom McGeveran’s The New (Interim) New York Observer Editor
6:39AM Hamilton Nolan | Staff favourite Tom McGeveran has been named the *interim* successor to departing New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan. Hopefully the paper lasts long enough for him to become the full-time successor. More »
Small Screen
Carrie Prejean Funcomfortable Fox & Friends Guest-Host Gig
6:32AM John Cook | Noted beauty contest loser and porn model Carrie Prejean guest-hosted on American morning show Fox & Friends this morning, and she basically dry-humped hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade the whole time. Easy Carrie! Brian and Steve won’t get you anywhere. If you want the permanent gig, you’re gonna need a loofah. More »
Music
Breathy Blonde Sings Again
4:17AM Hamilton Nolan | Well well. If you didn’t get enough of Scarlett Johansson’s ruinous crooning with her thoroughly unnecessary vanity album of Tom Waits covers, it is your lucky year: she is putting out a musical album, again! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
