I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Kanye West was arrested this morning at the Los Angeles Airport. The story goes that the arrogant musician and his bodyguard were walking through the American Airlines terminal, where a photographer was trying to take their picture. Kanye flips out and he and his bodyguard proceed to grab the guy’s camera and smash it to bits. Then the bodyguard spots a TMZ camera man and goes loco on that guy too, all the...  Read More »

…all the random things that happened today….. 1847 – “Oh, Susannah” was sung in public for the first time. Stephen Foster sold the rights to the song for a bottle of whiskey. 1963 – “The Great White Wonder” first appears in a record store in Los Angeles, CA. The “bootleg” of Bob Dylan songs is believed to be the first bootleg album. 1875 – “Professor Tidwissel’s Burglar Alarm” was featured...  Read More »

This is by far the craziest house I have ever seen. Trassenheide, Germany — A businessman who put up a house in Germany upside down, with its gabled roof poking into the soil, said it was intended to be “an experiment for the senses.” Polish-born Klaudiusz Golos said he would admit visitors to the extraordinary building from Thursday onward. It has been erected among other, more normal-looking private homes at Trassenheide in Germany’s...  Read More »

How to Handle Fame from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit I handle fame by not being famous…I’m not famous to me. Bob Marley Whether you’re a celebrity, a politician, a MySpace star, dating someone famous, a well-known author, and even if you look different in a small town, you might be uncomfortable with being recognized wherever you go. Any one of us could become famous (even if just in our own towns) at any time, and...  Read More »

Yes, that kind of human waste. SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – San Antonio unveiled a deal on Tuesday that will make it the first U.S. city to harvest methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into clean-burning fuel. San Antonio residents produce about 140,000 tons a year of a substance gently referred to as “biosolids,” which can be reprocessed into natural gas, said Steve Clouse, chief operating officer of the city’s...  Read More »

Remember Color Me Badd? You know, that singing group of four guys who were all too eager to “sex up” girls everywhere? Yeah, they gave me the creeps too. Well anyway, one of them has been arrested for threatening to kill his girlfriend….. Bryan Abrams, one of the singers in the terribly awesome R&B band Color Me Badd, was arrested in Oklahoma City last Friday on charges of domestic abuse and assault and battery after allegedly threatening to kill...  Read More »

The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards were last night. I don’t have cable, however, so I was unable to participate in viewing. If you’re in the same pathetic boat I am, here’s a summary of the night’s apparently lack luster ceremony. …the show began, Britney spoke like three sentences — that was the entirety of her appearance as a performer, and she did all of it with the microphone hiding half her face from the camera — then these...  Read More »

Back in January I told you about Sean Penn and James Franco making a movie in San Francisco about assassinated city council man Harvey Milk. Well the trailer has hit the internet, and I must say that I think it’s going to be a great movie. Not only because a couple people I know are extras, but also because it’s a story that needs to be told. Harvey Milk was a pioneer and a hero. The film stars Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, James Franco as Milk’s boyfriend...  Read More »

Ok, so I don’t know if it’s because I’m from Berkeley, but I see absolutely nothing wrong with a transgendered person being a contestant on America’s Next Top Model. In fact, I hope Isis wins. Take that, Clark! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a brief rundown. The 11th cycle of America’s Next Top Model started last night (Wednesday) on the CW, and this year one of the contestants just happens to have been born male. Isis appeared...  Read More »

Charlie Brown is off in a corner somewhere crying his heart out. The voice of his best friend Snoopy died yesterday at the age of 91 (that’s in human years). Bill Melendez joined the Walt Disney Co. in 1938, where he worked on the classics Fantasia and Pinocchio. In 1941 the Mexican-born animator went over to Warner Bros. and helped give life to several characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. In 1959 Bill Melendez met Charles Schulz,...  Read More »

Happy first day back from a 3-day weekend everyone! Is it just me, or should every weekend last three days? Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer; allergies start to rear their ugly heads and kids go back to school. Unless they’re the kids where I live and are on the lame ass track system so they go to school for three months then have one month off. What the heck is up with that? Anyway…..did you do anything fun this weekend? I went...  Read More »

Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain has picked a woman for his running mate. A woman with less experience than his arch rival Barack Obama, whom McCain himself said was way too inexperienced to be President. So, you have to have experience to run the country, but second in command can have no idea what they’re doing and still be Vice President. Ah, politics. Nothing says election year like classless mug slinging… John McCain picks a lady to be...  Read More »