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One More Thing: Los Angeles in Movies and TV [Nostalgia]
Last night's New York movies and TV post seemed to make people happy, so it would be kind of unfair to ignore our main competition as a location for silver and little screen productions. Besides, it's a wise blogger who holds onto a promising theme until it's bled dry. So! La-la Land, Hollywood, City of Angels... the choices are practically endless. Heck, that's where they make all the movies and TV shows! What's your favorite? I'll get us going after the jump.
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Reporter Goes Crazy, Frantically Masturbates in Public [Media Matters]
The 24 hour news cycle affects everyone differently, and horribly. A television reporter in Hong Kong has resigned after he was caught committing self-love on the top tier of a double decker bus. Former Asia Television journo Chiu Yu Kit admitted to the act in court, but explained that he was merely trying to "ease his stress" when an off-duty cop caught sight of him standing up on a seat facing the window and taking in the local color while taking care of himself.
A judge put Kit on a one year good behavior bond and suggested that he take up exercise or socialize with other people to relax. But, as everyone in the media knows, spending time with other media people only makes things worse! Look what happened to Lou Dobbs!
The article also notes that, last month, "a 'lonely and disturbed' Hong Kong man became stuck and had to be freed by emergency services after attempting to have sex with a park bench."
Things are tough all over. [Straits Times]
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Visits the RNC [Clip]
Granted, this ckip of Late Night With Conan O'Brien star Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's trip to the Republican National Convention is a couple days late. But, hey, it just went up on Youtube yesterday. And besides, as NBC always says, if you haven't seen it yet, it's new to you! The Fox News/Ann Coulter strap-on joke alone is worth watching. Canine comedy after the jump.
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Cool Graffiti Shadow Art [Photography]
"I saw this walking home from the train station after I was at the Speakeasy Illustration show in Toronto. The crosswalk box thing made this shadow on the ground and someone drew a most perfect Batman face on it! I laughed so hard when I saw it. So unexpected and awesome! Spotted near the corner of Iroquois Shore on Trafalgar road in Oakville Ontario." [flickr via Neatorama]
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Britney's Mom Throws Down on Awful Svengali Scum [Sam Lutfi]
Britney Spears' mom has a tell-all book coming out which is sure to become a Lifetime Network original movie. In it, Lynn Spears accuses the singer's former "manager"—control freak and all around vile-sounding human—Sam Lutfi of grinding up pills and secretly dosing Britney to keep her docile while he insidiously took over her life. He also allegedly threatened that the troubled pop star would be heading to the morgue if he was ever out of the picture: "If you try to get rid of me, she'll be dead and I'll piss on her grave," Lynn says Lutfi told her just days before Britney's forced stay at a psychiatric facility.
According to Lynn, Lutfi once kept Britney "quiet for three days" by lacing her food with ground sleeping pills. He also, says Lynn, controlled Brit by convincing her that only he could help her win back custody of her kids.
"Take the pills. You should do what I tell you to see your babies," Lynn says Lutfi warned Britney.
"She was sad, floundering, ripe for a predator to come along. Britney was open to this man who rode in on a white horse.
"Within a month of meeting, Sam was in complete control of [Britney's] life. He appointed himself as her gatekeeper, and there was no one he wanted to keep the gate closed to more than Britney's family," Lynne writes.
The elder Spears also accuses Lutfi of disabling Britney's cars (which was probably for the best), hiding her cell phones and chargers, and, bizarrely, hiding her pet dog London from her and then producing the animal and claiming to have found it himself.
A judge eventually issued a restraining order against Lutfi and Britney's dad Jamie now oversees her affairs. [NYP]
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JIM GIBBONS DIVORCE INSANITY: America's worst ... [America's Worst Governor]
JIM GIBBONS DIVORCE INSANITY: America's worst governor and alcoholic adulterous sex-assaulter crook Jim Gibbons and his power-crazed wife Dawn are finally getting the divorce everybody always knew they'd get, and it's going to be ugly, and the court documents are hilarious. [My Silver State/Las Vegas Gleaner]
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Scott McClellan Can't Ruin George Bush Junior's Day [Happy As Ever]
The great George W. Bush delivered the commencement address at Colorado's Air Force Academy today, the same day that his former hobbit slave was publicizing mean books about him. Here he is this morning "chest-bumping" a graduate, who has probably already died in Iraq. [AP Photo]
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John McCain's Biggest Fan: 'Your Name' [Outdoor Advertising]
Ooh looky it's another Kustomized Kampaign Trinket for you, the reader! For just $250, you can show the world that YOUR NAME totally supports JOHN MCCAIN. But are there any names or phrases that Gramps McCain won't accept on his Prideful Outdoor Banners?
We encounter this stern warning: "Demeaning or derogatory names or phrases are not acceptable."
Ken L.
hahahahaha so no "RUN NEGRO RUN"?
Sara S.
no "Truck Nutz for John McCain"
Ken L.
Oh he would only notice really old-fashioned derogatory names and phrases.
Jim N.
no, that is acceptable for mccain
Ken L.
So, no BALDERDASH banners
Jim N.
yeah, not even the TINIEST picture of a lady's ankle!
Ken L.
RAPSCALLIONS MOST UNWELCOME!Personalized McCain Outdoor Banner [JohnMcCain.com]
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Even Little-Girl Hillary Was A Conniving Monster [Abc Afterschool Special]
We usually don't like to encourage the comedy YouTube jokes because none of them are funny, or it's something you can watch on the TeeVee, later, on your sofa or whatever, eating your "carry out." But this is great, although it's unrealistic to have an ultimately likable little girl in the role. Also, the dude who is married to Rebecca Romijn directed this. [YouTube/Big Lead]
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Scott McClellan's A Big Hit! [Mission Accomplished]
SEE WHAT EVERYONE'S SAYING ABOUT SCOTT MCCLELLAN'S NEW #1 BOOK, GEORGE BUSH JR. MADE VAGUE ERRORS!
"I would think if he harbored such deep feelings about things he wouldn't have and shouldn't have accepted the press secretary job in the first place." — ARI FLEISCHER, bald press secretary before Scott McClellan.
"Total crap." — DAN BARTLETT, former White House communications director.
"Left-wing logger." — KARL ROVE, White House turd blossom.
"I totally agree." — NANCY PELOSI, known Liberal.
"Why don't you learn something about the monument." — HILLARY CLINTON, civil rights leader.
WHAT A BOOK! (Now let us never speak of it again.)
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