Monday, June 15, 2009
Flotsam & Jetsam
Which Married, Nice-Guy Actor Is Giving A Stripper $20,000 A Month?
11:43PM Richard Lawson | Today we have a saucy nightclub chanteuse, a drunken reporter, a recovering actress, an actress too busy driving through garage doors to recover, and a nice guy actor who maybe isn’t so nice. More »
Online
The Internet Screws Foreign Reporting
11:41PM Hamilton Nolan | Current TV freelancers Laura Ling and Euna Lee are locked in a North Korean prison. Do you know whose fault this is? That’s right, the internet’s! It’s true. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Megan Fox Is Totally, Painfully Single
10:21PM the cajun boy | Megan Fox affirms that she’s single and looking, Sienna Miller claims to have never been on a date or had a one-night stand, Susan Boyle is suffering from exhaustion, and Jon and Kate celebrate their anniversary apart. More »
Online
CNN Debates Twitter’s Relevance While Ignoring Important World Events Being Reported On Twitter
6:47PM the cajun boy | Over the weekend CNN’s Howard Kurtz asked the burning question, “are we going overboard with this Twitter business?” Meanwhile, CNN virtually ignored an event overseas with the potential to alter world history, an event reported extensively by Twitter users. More »
Online
Have You Been Facesquatting?
11:37AM Foster Kamer | Yes, Facesquatting: proportionally, the dirtiest term possible for the most inane thing it could be applied to, which, in this case, is taking a Facebook user name that’s not yours. And now it’s a hysterical, brainless internet meme. More »
Music
10:21AM Jess McGuire | Would you like to consume a delightful Australian tune? Would that help fade your Monday blues? Very well. Here is a song I’ve been flogging on the iPod for the past few weeks especially. Get some Go-Betweens up you! More »
The Go-Betweens – “You Can’t Say No Forever”
10:21AM Jess McGuire | Would you like to consume a delightful Australian tune? Would that help fade your Monday blues? Very well. Here is a song I’ve been flogging on the iPod for the past few weeks especially. Get some Go-Betweens up you! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
8:56AM Jess McGuire | Last time I was sick, I decided to select a Pigs In Space video as Clip Of The Day as a tribute to my swine flu. But since everyone is claiming to be suffering from swine flu these days, I’m attributing my latest bout of illness to the rather old school cat AIDS. So here is a cat. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
8:56AM Jess McGuire | Last time I was sick, I decided to select a Pigs In Space video as Clip Of The Day as a tribute to my swine flu. But since everyone is claiming to be suffering from swine flu these days, I’m attributing my latest bout of illness to the rather old school cat AIDS. So here is a cat. More »
Small Screen
BBC’s Satellites Get Iran-Jammed
7:00AM Foster Kamer | Fitting: while CNN gets a Twitter beatdown for neglecting to adequately cover the Iranian election, the Iranian government’s blocking the BBC’s (stellar) reporting of the aftermath following yesterday’s results. Peter Horrocks, the (very pissed off) BBC chief, writes: More »
Small Screen
Roger Friedman: Celebrity Scientologists Got Me Fired From Fox!
3:15AM Foster Kamer | Wow: Roger Friedman’s accusing prominent Church of Scientology members Tom Cruise and Kelly Preston of conspiring against him, and he’s citing this as the reason he was fired from his job as a showbiz columnist in a lawsuit against Fox. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam