Thursday, June 2, 2011
Flotsam & Jetsam
Baby Rats Ground Qantas Passenger Jet
9:20PM jeff neumann | Flight attendants on a Qantas domestic flight in Australia found five baby rats just hanging out in a nest in the cabin today. The flight was grounded so that airline staff could kill the nasty little stowaways.
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Vampire Woman To Lady Gaga: ‘Let’s Not Do Things Half-Assed’
5:47PM Seth Abramovitch | Body-modification superstar Mariajosé Cristerna enjoyed a surge of popularity recently when photos of the “Vampire Woman of Mexico”, as she is better known, went cross-platform viral – popping up on everything from supermarket tabloids to Fox News and The Huffington Post. More »
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Ellen And Portia’s $US60m Love Shack Can Be Yours
3:31PM Seth Abramovitch | The house that Ellen DeGeneris and Portia De Rossi’s love built is now on the market: Bought in 2007 for $US29 million, it now encompasses three neighbouring properties, purchased because they had “visual access” to the main residence. [Real Estalker]
Music
3:29PM Jess McGuire | New favourite song alert! This track from Fatty Gets A Stylist gets an enthusiastic thumbs up from yours truly. I am particularly enamoured with the “WHOOOAAAAAOHHHHHH” that concludes the rather beautiful chorus because it sounds like something from a kick arse eighties pop song, and I love kick arse eighties pop songs. More »
Fatty Gets A Stylist – “The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child”
3:29PM Jess McGuire | New favourite song alert! This track from Fatty Gets A Stylist gets an enthusiastic thumbs up from yours truly. I am particularly enamoured with the “WHOOOAAAAAOHHHHHH” that concludes the rather beautiful chorus because it sounds like something from a kick arse eighties pop song, and I love kick arse eighties pop songs. More »
Music
Here’s Beyonce’s New Single
3:29PM Matt Cherette | In “Best Thing I Never Had”, the new single off of her upcoming album, 4, Beyonce sings, “So when I think of the time that I almost loved you, you showed your ass and I saw the real you.” More »
Small Screen
Stephen Colbert Starts An Emmys Feud With Jimmy Fallon
2:21PM Matt Cherette | On tonight’s Report, Stephen Colbert lamented the fact that he always loses to The Daily Show at the Emmys before giving viewers a peek at all the networks’ screener packages. To his dismay, Colbert discovered that NBC was using his image in the screener for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – so he decided to get some revenge. More »
Music
12:33PM Jess McGuire | Early in April, Little Red released the video clip for their song ‘All Mine’ and it is rather wonderful visual accompaniment to a sweet little ditty. The Vine, of course, were all over it and that’s where I saw it for the first time. Sorry I forgot to pass on the virtual heads up! More »
Little Red – “All Mine”
12:33PM Jess McGuire | Early in April, Little Red released the video clip for their song ‘All Mine’ and it is rather wonderful visual accompaniment to a sweet little ditty. The Vine, of course, were all over it and that’s where I saw it for the first time. Sorry I forgot to pass on the virtual heads up! More »
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12:23PM Jess McGuire | Somewhat surprisingly, McDonalds has come out and admitted their coffee tastes like absolute rubbish. The surprise isn’t the discovery that their caffeinated beverages are subpar – anyone who has ever consumed a half-decent latte could confirm that for you – but rather that the fast food giant has actually admitted this fact to the public. This admission is probably kind of confusing for Oprah viewers. More »
McCafe: It’s A Little Bit Shithouse.
12:23PM Jess McGuire | Somewhat surprisingly, McDonalds has come out and admitted their coffee tastes like absolute rubbish. The surprise isn’t the discovery that their caffeinated beverages are subpar – anyone who has ever consumed a half-decent latte could confirm that for you – but rather that the fast food giant has actually admitted this fact to the public. This admission is probably kind of confusing for Oprah viewers. More »
Music
11:13AM Jess McGuire | Ahhh, some classic Split Enz for your listening pleasure today. Here’s a clip of the band performing (miming?) the song on Countdown back in 1979. Nice make up, guys! And would you look at how cute the Finns are, bless their baby-sized cotton socks. More »
Split Enz – “She Got Body, She Got Soul”
11:13AM Jess McGuire | Ahhh, some classic Split Enz for your listening pleasure today. Here’s a clip of the band performing (miming?) the song on Countdown back in 1979. Nice make up, guys! And would you look at how cute the Finns are, bless their baby-sized cotton socks. More »
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