Thursday, July 16, 2009

Flotsam & Jetsam

Which Actress Cheated On Her Fiance With A ‘Geeky Dreamboat’?

11:44PM Richard Lawson | Today we have a lucky actress who got to get it in with a “geeky dreamboat,” a poor girl going on a terrible eating bender, some weird thing about a TV show, and an Emmy monster. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Will Gerard Butler Be The Next Man To Humiliate Jennifer Aniston?

10:10PM the cajun boy | Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are probably boning, Mischa Barton has a serious “medical issue,” Jon Gosselin’s new lady is a walking white-trash stereotype, The Hoff parties with Lady Gaga, Madonna has “bingo wings” and Robert Redford gets married. More »
Big Screen

New Harry Potter Officially A Juggernaut

8:45PM the cajun boy | Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince opened on 3,003 American screens at midnight and hauled in $US22.2 million, shattering the previous midnight screening record of $US18.5 million set by The Dark Knight. [LA Times]
Online

Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller Stepping Down

4:52PM the cajun boy | Jim Spanfeller, the CEO of Forbes.com and the man largely credited with turning the magazine’s website into a dominant source for financial news on the web, is stepping down at the end of the Northern Hemisphere summer. More »
Print

Newsweek CEO Must Have Skipped The ‘How Not To Fire Employees’ Seminar

4:48PM the cajun boy | The way Newsweek employees get fired now: Shamelessly and publicly, via mass emails from their boss singing the praises their incoming replacements while encouraging their co-workers to wish their shit-canned asses “bon chance” on the way out the door. More »
Music

Rob Mills – “Ms Vanity”

4:15PM Jess McGuire | Ha, remember when Millsy released “Ms Vanity”? I totally forgot about it until reading his plea for marriage equality – it inspired me to check out his Wikipedia page and relive his finest moments. More »
Online

Awww, Rob Mills Supports Gay Marriage!

3:06PM Jess McGuire | After reading through the list of the Crappest 100 Songs Of All Time on The Punch, I began perusing the site to see which other knowledgeable slightly famous folks were offering up their opinions on things. I spotted former Australian Idol star (and the Aussie who met Paris Hilton in 2003 and proceeded to get all up in dem guts) Rob ‘Millsy’ Mills staring at me, and lured by his handsome mug, found myself reading his piece It’s time to allow gay marriage in Australia. More »
Music

Crappest 100 List Of All Time

2:29PM Jess McGuire | Website The Punch reacted to the Triple J Hottest 100 Of All Time results by publishing a list of their own called Crappest 100: The Worst Songs Of All Time. I know what you’re thinking right now – “Jess, you got the title of your post wrong! You meant to write ’songs’ where you accidentally wrote ‘list’” I make no mistakes*. More »
Small Screen

This Afternoon Has Been Cancelled… Does Anyone Care?

12:02PM Jess McGuire | Yesterday it was announced that brand new Channel Nine show ‘THIS Afternoon’ has been cancelled after less than a month on air. I didn’t see it so I can’t comment on the quality of the show, but I was mildly repulsed by its shouty title so I can’t say I was rooting for it. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

9:25AM Jess McGuire | Naomi sent me today’s clip in an email with the subject “this is your next youtube clip of the day “. I cannot confirm she used some kind of mind control voodoo magic keyword hypnotism on me, but the facts speak for themselves – I’ve made this the next YouTube Clip Of The Day. Naomi, can you also help me stop smoking and clean my room? Cheers. More »