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Who Wants to be a ShamWhore? Anyone? Bueller?

Vince Shlomi, a.k.a. the ShamWow guy, is being sued by his former assistant, Jennifer Kosinski, who claims he wanted her to be his love slave. She alleges that he also tried to buy her eggs for 20K, and that he tried to pay her to sleep beside him in bed.

Kosinski is suing ShamWeirdo for intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil battery.

If you recall, ShamWTF?!? was arrested in 2009 for battering a prostitute -- read the details here. Yikes.

Let's see if you can Slap Chop your way outta this one, Shlomi.

Posted on April 6, 2011 and filed under News, WTF?!?.

1500 Take Part in "SlutWalk"

Toronto Sun -  A Toronto cop who warned women that dressing like sluts can attract sexual assault was reprimanded and underwent “further training,” Chief Bill Blair said Sunday.

Blair called Const. Michael Sanguinetti “inexperienced,” adding the officer uttered “something stupid and he’s apologized.”

The constable’s comment sparked outrage, prompting more than 1,500 protesters to stage a “SlutWalk” Sunday from Queen’s Park to police headquarters on College St.

Click here to read the rest of the story.

Posted on April 4, 2011 and filed under News.

Headline of the Day

From UK paper, The Sun:

Tits Bouncing Back in Warmer Weather

Tits are bouncing back in British gardens, a survey reveals.

Sightings of the much-loved birds leapt, with blue tits up 22 per cent and great tits rising 12 per cent.

Coal tits have increased by 24 per cent, while the number of long-tailed tits soared 32 per cent the past year.

Their comeback follows fears for their future after the long cold snap from October to March in 2009-2010.

Read the rest of the article here.

 

Posted on April 1, 2011 and filed under News, WTF?!?.

PETA: Babies Suck!

Um... this is loco, man.

We all know how gung-ho PETA is about spaying and neutering pets. Now, they're trying to stop human breeding, as well.

They're having a contest. The winner receives a free vasectomy. I am so not kidding.

From the contest offer:

It's a two-fer: Get your animal companion fixed, and get yourself fixed too! Human overpopulation is crowding out animal life on the planet, and dog and cat overpopulation is creating a euthanasia crisis that is a crying shame. Disappearing wilderness, vanishing water resources, and pollution is the price that future generations will pay for more human births, while losing their lives is the price that millions of homeless dogs and cats pay when guardians neglect to "fix" their companion animals.

To enter, get your dog or cat spayed or neutered, then submit an essay answering the question, "Why should PETA neuter you?"

Contest runs through April 27.

 

 

Posted on March 30, 2011 and filed under News, WTF?!?.

Another Nail Debacle for Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown's fingernails bring problems. This time, she was kicked off a Royal Caribbean cruise because she went nuclear after missing her manicure-at-sea appointment.

When she showed up three hours late and the salon wouldn't accommodate her, Foxy fah-lipped the hell out.

Security reportedly removed her from the salon then banished her to her room, where she remained under supervision until the ship docked a couple days later in the Cayman Islands, where she was booted off the boat. Supposedly, she was then escorted to an airport and flown home.

If you recall, Foxy faced assault charges in '04 due to allegedly attacking two nail salon workers. Then, in '07, she allegedly assaulted a beauty store employee.

Posted on March 29, 2011 and filed under Celebrities, News.

Scandal!

Oh, the irony!

David Schubert, the Las Vegas Deputy District attorney who prosecuted Bruno Mars and Paris Hilton for cocaine possession, was busted Saturday night...

... for cocaine possession.

 

 

Posted on March 21, 2011 and filed under News.

SXSW Time!

In case you've been hiding under a rock, SXSW is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. The music portion starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday. Here is the lineup list. Crazy, right? Soooo many bands. Incredible.

My top five (in random order):

1. Aceyalone

2. Klaxons

3. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

4. The BellRays

5. MSTRKRFT

 

 

 

 

Posted on March 14, 2011 and filed under News.

Aha!!!

I've been racking my brain for days over something quite ridiculous, but potentially accurate. OK, so, watching that Galliano rant on YouTube gave me the distinct feeling that I'd seen something like it before.

It just came to me: The Burke Dennings character from The Exorcist. Remember? He was the director of Chris MacNeil's Georgetown movie shoot. He shows up at her house party, gets super-obnoxious drunk and launches into a drunken verbal assault on the elderly house manager, Karl.

The dialogue:

Burke Dennings: Tell me, was it public relations you did for the Gestapo or community relations? Karl: I'm Swiss! Burke Dennings: Oh, of course. And you never went bowling with Goebbels before either, I suppose? Nazi bastard. Cunting Hun! Bloody damn butchering Nazi pig!

So, ya' follow me here? I could be way off, but I'll let you be the judge. Sure, the Jew is the one hurling the insults this time, but it's the drunk/big nose/Nazi thing that causes me to call similarity. Whaddya think?

John Galliano = Burke Dennings... sort of.

Posted on March 2, 2011 and filed under Fashion, News.

Unkle Karl "Furious" with Galliano

Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's chief designer, isn't remotely pleased with John Galliano, according to WWD. “I’m furious, if you want to know. I’m furious that it could happen, because the question is no longer even whether he really said it. The image has gone around the world. It’s a horrible image for fashion, because they think that every designer and everything in fashion is like this,” Lagerfeld said. “This is what makes me crazy in that story."

“The thing is, we are a business world where, especially today, with the Internet, one has to be more careful than ever, especially if you are a publicly known person. You cannot go in the street and be drunk — there are things you cannot do,” he continued. “I’m furious with him because of the harm he did to LVMH and [chairman and ceo] Bernard Arnault, who is a friend, and who supported him more than he supported any other designer in his group, because Dior is his favorite label. It’s as if he had his child hurt.”

Reports are surfacing that Galliano is headed to Arizona rehab center, The Meadows, whose celeb client list includes Donatella Versace, Elton John and Tiger Woods. According to the Addiction Resource Guide, the cost for a 35-day Meadows stay is $33,500.

Posted on March 1, 2011 and filed under Fashion, News.

Dior Fires Galliano

Dior officially fired John Galliano today.

"I condemn most firmly the statements made by John Galliano, which are a total contradiction with the essential values that have always been defended by the House of Christian Dior," Dior's president and chief executive, Sidney Toledano, said in a statement.

The house first suspended Galliano last week after two women told police that he hurled anti-Semitic slurs at them, which the designer vehemently denied. Then this week, a video from 2010 surfaced, showing Galliano making anti-Semitic remarks to two other women, saying, "People like you ought to be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers would all be f***ing gassed. I love Hitler."

Here's the footage of the 2010 rant.

Warning: Contains views/language that some may find offensive.

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UPDATE: Galliano is reportedly heading to rehab.

Posted on February 28, 2011 and filed under Fashion, News.

Dior Suspends John Galliano!!!

Scandal! Dior designer John Galliano is on suspension following claims of an antisemitic rant. Here's Daily Mail's coverage:

‘John Galliano called me Jewish whore...with ugly eyebrows': Art historian in row with designer tells police he threatened to kill her boyfriend.

British fashion designer John Galliano allegedly grabbed a respected art historian’s hair and called her an ‘ugly, disgusting whore’ with a ‘dirty Jew face’ and no dress sense during an unprovoked attack in a Paris cafe.

Curator Geraldine Bloch, 35, has told officers investigating the alleged assault that the designer, who is close friends with celebrities including Madonna and Kylie Minogue, insulted every aspect of her looks, from her ‘ugly eyebrows’ to her ‘cheap thigh boots’.

During the incident, which has seen Mr Galliano arrested and suspended from his job as chief designer at Christian Dior, Ms Bloch claimed he even threatened to kill her boyfriend, receptionist Philippe Virgitti, 41.

She has claimed Galliano concluded his tirade with: ‘I am the designer John Galliano!’ while striking the trademark ‘rock star’ pose with which he often ends his couture shows.

Details of the alleged incident emerged in French newspaper Le Figaro which claims to have seen police statements taken from the couple.

It came as Mr Galliano launched legal action against Ms Bloch, who is French, and Mr Virgitti, of Asian background, for defamation, after Dior made the decision to suspend him during the police investigation.

The alleged attack took place on Thursday night in La Perle, in the Marais district. There were ‘dozens’ of witnesses to the violence, which started soon after 9pm after Mr Galliano had reportedly drunk the alcoholic equivalent of two bottles of red wine.

Galliano allegedly told her: ‘You’re so ugly I can’t bear looking at you. You’re wearing cheap boots, cheap thigh boots. You’ve got no hair, your eyebrows are ugly, you’re ugly, you’re nothing but a whore.’

Read the rest of the story here.

Posted on February 26, 2011 and filed under Fashion, News.

Sweet Justice! Bird Kills Man!

(AP/Los Angeles Times) - A Central California man who was at a cockfight died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb, officials confirmed Monday. Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, of Lamont, was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he was injured in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30, the Kern County coroner said.

An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental "sharp force injury" to his right calf.

Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt said it was unclear if a delay in seeking medical attention contributed to Ochoa's death.

"I have never seen this type of incident," Sgt. Martin King, a 24-year veteran of the sheriff's department, told the Bakersfield Californian.

Ochoa and the other spectators fled when authorities arrived at the scene of the fight, King told the newspaper. Deputies found five dead roosters and other evidence of cockfighting at the location, he said.

No arrests were made at the cockfight.

Read the rest of the story here.

Posted on February 8, 2011 and filed under News.

No one's safe in a recession...

 

Luxury footwear label Jimmy Choo is about to go up for sale.

Following the results of a strategic review, Choo's private equity backers have recommended putting the label up for sale.

According to Reuters, the sale could fetch about $805 million.

 

 

 

 

Posted on February 7, 2011 and filed under Fashion, News.

Death from Above 1979 Reunite!

Fantastic news, kids.

Canadian dance-punk/noise-rock duo, Death From Above 1979, are back together.

Wheeeee! Cartwheels!

I was deeply saddened five years ago when I learned the world would no longer be graced with the majesty of Sebastien Grainger and Jesse Keeler's heavy, synth-laden, seksi grooves. Today, I celebrate the resurrection of their fabulousness.

The news was confirmed via a statement from Grainger on the band's web site:

"Jesse  and I have decided that what we can do together should not be denied."

What's to come? They'll let us know.

"As this all takes shape, we will reveal it to you," Grainger states. "All of it happening, as it always has, in our own way."

Fasten your seatbelts, my friends. It's ON!

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Posted on February 6, 2011 and filed under Music, News.

The White Stripes Call It Quits

The White Stripes have officially broken up. According to a statement on the band's Web site: "The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore. The White Stripes belong to you now and you can do with it whatever you want."

The band explains the reason for the break up is "for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way."

I would like to personally extend thanks to Jack and Meg White for releasing this statement today rather than tomorrow. Considering tomorrow is Chinese New Year, and red clothing is customarily worn, had the Whites' statement been released then, I wouldn't have known who was celebrating CNY and who was mourning the red garb-loving White Stripes' demise.

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Posted on February 2, 2011 and filed under Music, News.

Spring is Near!

Considering the fact that it's currently 9°F and my pipes are frozen, it's hard to believe that spring approacheth. Nevertheless, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this morning. This means we only have two more weeks of winter.

Sorry, Phil. Not buyin' it, man.

The National Climatic Data Center says Phil is correct about 40 percent of the time. Just sayin'.

I'm gonna go use my neighbor's toilet now. Awesome.

Happy Groundhog Day.

Posted on February 2, 2011 and filed under News, Weather.