Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Flotsam & Jetsam
Britain Is Europe’s Cocaine ‘League’ Leader
10:52PM jeff neumann | A new report by the EU’s drug agency places Britain on top of the world’s cocaine consuming nations, with more young Britons having used cocaine than Americans in the same age group. There’s also been an increase in crack smoking. More »
Small Screen
What Are The Most Popular Swear Words On TV?
7:37PM Max Read | The Parents Television Council – the conservative busybodies who like to complain about all the good stuff on TV – has done a study of television curse words. Finally, we can know for sure which are the most popular swears! More »
People
Prince Charles And Russell Brand Swap Obscene Phone Call Tips
Flotsam & Jetsam
Christmas Comes Early For Employees Of Google
1:22PM Business Insider | Google has given all of its employees $US1000 cash “holiday bonuses” and 2011 salary increases of at least 10 per cent, a loyal reader tells us. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:32AM Jess McGuire | You’re about to watch Lisa Kudrow and Meryl Streep being extremely daft in a sketch called Web Therapy. Meryl plays a therapist who likes to “help people realign their sexuality to reflect who they want to be in the world. We take the homo out of sexuality, and we try to help the hetero come… home.” More »
Meryl Streep Is… Camilla Bowner.
9:32AM Jess McGuire | You’re about to watch Lisa Kudrow and Meryl Streep being extremely daft in a sketch called Web Therapy. Meryl plays a therapist who likes to “help people realign their sexuality to reflect who they want to be in the world. We take the homo out of sexuality, and we try to help the hetero come… home.” More »
People
Dustin Lance Black’s Hollywood Hideaway
9:23AM Richard Lawson | The Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter has paid a cool $US1.455m for this 266sqm home that’s “at the quiet end” of an otherwise busy LA street. There he can do whatever he wants, in private, like it should be. More »
Big Screen
Tron Legacy: It’s In The Computer??
8:41AM Richard Lawson | Here’s a new trailer for Tron: Legacy, Disney’s noise-and-light farquel (faraway sequel?) to their 1980s adventure about a hacker who gets stuck inside a computer system of his own making. A million years later, his son goes looking for him. More »
Big Screen
8:39AM Brian Moylan | America’s hippest starlet, Amanda Seyfriend, explains why she would never wear a passé Snuggie to an underling on the set of ‘Now’. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
‘Actually, It’s A Slanket. God!’
8:39AM Brian Moylan | America’s hippest starlet, Amanda Seyfriend, explains why she would never wear a passé Snuggie to an underling on the set of ‘Now’. Image via Bauer-Griffin] 
Music
8:36AM Jess McGuire | I’ve liked this song by Glasser for a little while now, but suddenly and unexpectedly I am utterly obsessed with listening to it at ear-shattering volume. Ages ago on radio, I had a very brief feature on my show called “Sexy or Stabby” where I would play songs that made me feel confused. Did I want to go out and find someone to pash, or did I want to go out and punch someone in the face? This song is full of sensual menace. I love it to pieces. More »
Glasser – “Apply”
8:36AM Jess McGuire | I’ve liked this song by Glasser for a little while now, but suddenly and unexpectedly I am utterly obsessed with listening to it at ear-shattering volume. Ages ago on radio, I had a very brief feature on my show called “Sexy or Stabby” where I would play songs that made me feel confused. Did I want to go out and find someone to pash, or did I want to go out and punch someone in the face? This song is full of sensual menace. I love it to pieces. More »
Small Screen
