A Few News Items…
posted by FinleyIt’s been an interesting weekend, folks. Just in the last couple of days…
- Paris Hilton showed that her ability to embarass herself and others has kept its stride when someone cracked into her cellphone and stole not only pictures (including- shockingly!- personal topless and sapphic shots of her kissing other attractive women, which naturally you’d keep on your cellphone) but also numbers for several dozen celebrities. The phone numbers hit the internet and failry quickly, several of said phone numbers were mysteriously “disconnected or no longer in service.”
- Sandra Dee died on Sunday. Late Middle-aged ex-surfers across the land mourned.
- John Raitt also died on Sunday. Though well known back in the 1940s for his performances on Broadway, he has become better known the last couple of decades as being the father of blues guitar performer Bonnie Raitt.
- And, in an apparent effort to get some overtime over the weekend, Death called in his schmuck little brother Suicude to shuffle Hunter S. Thompson off this mortal coil. Thompson, who took his life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, created the style of writing known as Gonzo journalism. His books include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and his articles were written for Rolling Stone and www.ESPN.com in the Page2 section. One final note- if you don’t believe Thompson was influential, take a look at the number of useless hack bloggers out there who read Thompson, get stoned and think that their resulting stream-of-consciousness ramblings are actually entertaining.
That’s about it, for now. Oh, there was also the Daytona 500 (Lucky was PISSED that Jeff Gordon won the race in the last 3 laps), the NBA All-star game (East meets West, and beats the crap out of it), and the NHL still being cancelled (and the spread of people across the world not giving a crap).
Out.
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