Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Flotsam & Jetsam

Which Troubled Couple Wants To Reunite?

11:33PM Hamilton Nolan | Today in hypocritical moralistic scolding: A troubled celeb couple that’s getting back together, a “wacky” celeb whose parties feature alcohol(!) and noodz, a secret drinker musician named S****n S*****s, and a pop star joins the Mile High Club. More »
People

Kelly Bensimon Can’t Get Any Love From Gerard Butler

9:00PM the cajun boy | Gerard Butler rejects Kelly Bensimon, Adam Lambert’s fans throw sex toys at him, Ashley Olsen is surprised she didn’t end up like Britney, Ryan O’Neal gave his 11-year-old son cocaine, Joan Rivers hates Jon Gosselin and Madonna plagiarizes a poet. More »
People

Why Won’t The Media ‘Roaches’ Leave Poor Gwyneth Alone?

4:50PM the cajun boy | Pity poor Gwyneth Paltrow. If being the wife of a rock star, a movie star and a writer of death-cult newsletters weren’t hard enough, she’s also forced to deal with the stupid “roaches” in the media at Manhattan charity galas. More »
Radio

Mike Goldman Is Selling His Gold Coast Apartment, Moving To Sydney

4:49PM Jess McGuire | Good news for Sydney-based fans of Mike “Girlfriend” Goldman – there’s a very good chance you’ll be spotting him wandering around the harbour city soon as he’s put his Gold Coast apartment on the market and he’s moving to Bondi. More »
Small Screen

Paula Abdul Announces She’s Leaving Idol, Or Is She?

1:58PM the cajun boy | Tonight Paula Abdul announced that she’s leaving American Idol. Bonnie Fuller then stepped up to call shenanigans on Paula. All of this played out on Twitter, naturally. More »
Small Screen

Channel Seven Launches New Cooking Show ‘My Ripoff Rules’

12:33PM Jess McGuire | Watch out, Channel Ten! Channel Seven saw what you did there with the whole MasterChef/ratings bonanza thing, and they’re quite happy to shamelessly jump upon the cooking show bandwagon in order to grab themselves a tasty slice of the viewer pie. Wait, am I mixing my metaphors? I suppose the cooking show bandwagon could be serving pies. Let’s move on, shall we? More »
Radio

Austereo Loses Major Advertisers

11:25AM Jess McGuire | Uh-oh. Even though The Kyle & Jackie O Show is off the air (admittedly, this was the choice of host Kyle Sandilands but whatever), Austereo is still suffering in the wake of the lie detector scandal with major advertisers no longer wanting to be associated with the Austereo brand. More »
Music

Pink Loves Nothing More Than Grabbing A Vegan Parma At The East

10:15AM Jess McGuire | Last night I was enjoying a post-trivia knock off with the staff at The East Brunswick Club and one of the managers piped up – very nonchalantly – that Pink had popped in recently. I casually raised one eyebrow in an adorably quizzical manner and said “Really?”, then took another sip from my martini. Just kidding! I screamed “BULLSHIT! WHAT? WHAT? WHEN? WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME EARLIER?” and then dribbled some beer down my chin in excitement. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

9:18AM Jess McGuire | Today’s selection comes from Born Dancin’, who described it on his blog as follows. More »
Online

Flickr Loses A Few Thousand More Pictures With No Recourse

8:54AM Ryan Tate | A Flickr user is complaining loudly that the photo service allowed 3,000+ of his photos to be deleted by a hacker with no warning. Now they’re supposedly gone forever. When will Flickr start making backups? More »