1 – The main point of this article is that Chili from R&B/Hip-Hop wondergroup TLC turned down a very lucrative and influential movie role so that she could stay at home with her newborn son. As sweet as that is, I think the real key to the article is the fact she named her son Tron. Holy crap! I was gonna do that. I’m so depressed now. What am I going to do with all those neon-piped baby clothes I had special ordered? Maybe I could get away with naming it MCP… [via Starpulse]
3 – I actually have one of these in my room. The ribbon isn’t even real fabric, it’s clear tape colored over with a sharpie… [via Garfield Minus Garfield]
4 – Doctors are hoping to get hold of Keith Richards body after he dies to find out how he has lived so long with his lifestyle as it is. You might think doctors are real smart or something, but they are missing two key elements here: First, Keith Richards has been legally dead for seventeen years. His body and brain only function now purely off the adrenalin built up over years of cocaine and high powered blotter acid. Two, the moment his body finally stops working, it will surely crumble to dust like Dracula or that dude from the Mummy movies. Have fun testing 98-year-old sand piles, Doc. [via Starpulse]
5 – Somehow I thought since the culture of Egypt brought us some of the Great Wonders of the World and how they seemed to be so extremely civilized before most of the world caught onto what that really meant, this would all translate into a society that didn’t arrest people and sentence them to 3-5 years in jail for being gay. I guess the gay rights people should think of changing their logo from the triangle to something looking less like a pyramid before Egypt has them all shot for copyright infringement. [via Yahoo]
7 – For those of you out there who like to laugh and help out a wonderful cause, which should cover all you out there, except Lex Luthor, he’s kind of a grinch, everyone else should tune in this Sunday night to Comedy Central’s A Night of Too Many Stars comedy benefit to help fight Autism. It’s being hosted by Jon Stewart and you can only imagine where he will go when the chains of the Oscar hosting are loosened. TiVo is set to stun (and chortle). [via Starpulse]
9 – There is nothing more amusing and partially adorable than public signage just missing the mark on getting the correct meaning across. My personal favorite from this list: “Touching Wires Causes Instant Death. $200 Fine” [via GorillaMask via Asylum]
10 – First Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo and the flailing internet searcher got mad. Now NewsCorp, which owns MySpace as well as a ton of other properties, is joining in with Microsoft to nail down the seemingly hostile takeover of Yahoo. If this somehow all got approved, I’m starting to smell monopoly claims, and I don’t mean people bickering over Park Place, although why is it I always land on that one and never Boardwalk? What the hell! [via Variety]
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1 – Now Google has finally reached the point of full cultural integration. A young, upcoming flash-in-the-pan Hip Hop star, named Teyana Taylor, has released a track under the masterful hands of Pharell called Google Me. Click here to listen to it [via PerezHilton]. Honestly, the beat and the flow = good stuff, the chorus and concept = borderline retarded.
2 – Back in the day it seems the Hell’s Angels were dangerous on land, but completely inept on the water. They hatched a plot to kill Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones but failed in prime hilarious fashion:
“Mangold said the men tried to reach Jagger by sea. “The boat was hit by a storm and all of the men were thrown overboard,” he was quoted as saying. They all survived but made no other attempt on his life, Mangold said.”
I don’t know who this Mangold person is, but he should be getting phone calls from the studios right about…now! This has all the trapping of Will Farrell’s next mildly entertaining Saturday afternoon movie fare. [via The Superficial]
3 – A final goodbye to Jeff Healey. I won’t write out his whole bio, since the people over at Starpulse have already done such a great job of it, but I will say that Angel Eyes is an amazing song and is in heavy rotation in my “Heartwrenching Songs of the Eighties” folder in ITunes. What? You don’t have a folder like that on your computer? Uh huh. Sure, I believe you. Oh, in case you didn’t know the other amazing thing about this truly talented guitarist, he was blind. Yep, now don’t you feel productive?
4 – Marion Cotillard went from being the widely respected winner of the Best Actress Oscar for Mome La to being the widely chuckled at actress who made some badly worded comments about the 9/11 attacks and the landing on the moon:
“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends.
“We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated “money-sucker” that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
She said: “It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them.”
“Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.”
So what did we learn here today? First off, never give awards to the French, they just don’t appreciate it. Secondly, never say something in a interview you can’t blame on too much cough syrup. Lastly, there are indeed still people who don’t believe we’ve landed on the moon, even though we can send robots to Mars. Sure, that makes total sense. I’m going to go back to banging my head against a wall until more knowledge and facts fall out.
5 – Simon Pegg has blasted Warner Brothers and McG for the complete mishandling of his creation, the TV show Spaced. Evidently the pattern of stealing witty and intelligent comedies from Britain and repackaging them, making them terrible and keeping the same name does make some of the original British creators a bit miffed. [via FilmDrunk]
6 – The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, just finished a two day visit to Iraq and he wrapped up the whole affair by saying “No one likes the U.S.” OK, I’ll admit we are not the most loved country in the world as we would like people to think. It’s not all teddy bears and rose parades when we come to town, but coming from Iran that statement holds just a little bit more irony. When Switzerland or Jamaica starts saying no one likes us, then I’ll be worried about our global image. If we are only being bad mouthed by crazy dictators who continue to talk about wiping other countries off the planet and ignoring absolutely huge parts of world history, I think we are still in the safe zone then. [via CNN]
7 – I was really hoping for a cool red beam or some nifty sound effects when I clicked on a link that said “Shoots Reporter with Ray Gun”. But it turns out this is an actual weapon, not one in my imagination, so it’s not nearly as cool. [via GorillaMask]
8 – Office Dare for the day: Ask a female colleague if you may borrow a lipstick. Then pocket it and walk away.
9 – It seems we can’t stop the battle for worst movie ever made this year. In the last few months we’ve seen Blond Ambition open to $64 per screen average, then The Hottie and The Nottie came in with a whopping $2,000 weekend total, now we get Witless Protection which is currently running a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and is officially being turned away by Canadian theaters. I hear someone shouting, it’s soft but you can just make it out, it sounds like Uwe Boll yelling, “See!! Someone is worse than me!!!” [via FilmDrunk]
10 – Ummmm…ouch:
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