Daredevil Numero Uno, Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel, has died today at the age of 69. Immortalized in the Washington’s Smithsonian Institution as “America’s Legendary Daredevil,” Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980. Although he dropped off the pop culture radar...  Read More »

If you think the product ads of today exploit women as sex objects and sets the woman’s movement back, get a load of these ads! And you thought a half-naked woman selling toothpaste was bad….(be sure to read the actual ad tag line below each picture)… 1921: If you can answer YES to the question, you are obviously using pure mild Palmolive soap that will leave your skin radiant. 1930s: You do all the household chores – and still look fresher...  Read More »

Nicole Richie is having a baby. Have you heard? And like any celebrity expectant mother, her baby shower was over the top. Follow the yellow brick road… Nicole Richie looks great in this picture – nice and healthy. But, is it just me, or does she look totally and completely uncomfortable being a Hilton sandwich? More pictures of Nicole Richie’s baby shower at InStyle.com Nicole Richie Opens Up About Her Pregnancy – People.com Fun...  Read More »

If Anna Nicole Smith was alive, she would be turning 40 years old today. I remember looking at her Guess jeans posters and wondering what she would look like at 40. But thanks to Howard K. Stern and other toxic people in Anna Nicole’s life, we will never know. With all the insane chaos surrounding the aftermath of Anna Nicole’s death, it can be easy to forget what Anna Nicole Smith was really all about, and who she really was deep down inside...  Read More »

I’ve never been a fan of Carson Daly. And now I’m really not. From everything I’ve seen, he’s a jackass. And now, he’s also a scab… ‘Last Call with Carson Daly’ Plans To Defy Writers Strike And Resume Production LOS ANGELES, Calif. (November 27, 2007) – NBC’s “Last Call with Carson Daly” is about to become the first late-night talk show to defy the writers strike and resume production. Daly, who is not...  Read More »

Today is Monday, and that’s a big downer, but I had a wonderful long weekend and it was just the mini vacation I needed to help propel me through the end of the year. More Monday songs: “Monday, Monday” by The Mamas and The Papas “Rainy days and Mondays” by The Carpenters “I don’t like Mondays” by Boomtown Rats “Blue Monday” by Fats Domino “Come Monday” by Jimmy Buffett Fun facts about Monday: It...  Read More »

As many of you know, I have a picture on my site that may or may not be Anna Nicole Smith in a body bag. This post has generated more hits and comments than anything else on here. The comments range from loving thoughts of Anna Nicole to berating me as a person for posting such a picture. But those comments don’t bother me since most of the people that leave them have not read anything else I’ve written; which is a whole other pet peeve. But I digress… Every...  Read More »