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wow - a world without paris hilton??

i’m not sure whether i should be impressed, scared, or both:

NEW YORK The Associated Press decided to give up a major vice last week: its addiction to stories about Paris Hilton. In the past year, Hilton has appeared on the wire an average of twice a week.

The wire service’s entertainment editor Jesse Washington sent a memo to staffers on Feb. 13 that said, barring any major events, the AP would not run any mention of Paris Hilton on the wire, according to the memo, which was obtained by the New York Observer.

In the Observer article Washington was quoted as saying, “There was a surprising amount of hand-wringing. A lot of people in the newsroom were saying this was tampering with the news.” Washington added that one editor’s response was: “This is a great idea — can we add North Korea?”

The AP was largely successful in the experiment, but Washington said that, unfortunately, her name did pop up in a couple of stories.

(source: oh no they didn’t)

update: the ban is over.  ap called it “more of an experiment”.  they suck.

Kids straight outta Compton, yo

I like this one even better.  About Kidz Bop, why don’t the kids get to listen to the real songs instead of these horribly cheezy imitations?  As a child, I would revolt if my parents forced me to hear this crapshit.  I understand avoiding 2LiveCrew, but all the stuff they duplicate is all pretty PG so why not let them learn what music is really like without dumbing it down or making it really kidsy and annoying?  My parents played David Bowie, U2, Robert Palmer and all this stuff that I still love now cause I grew up listening to it.  I learned about so many REAL artists at that time instead of being spoonfed songs turned generic and kid-friendly.  Basically, I think Kidz Bop is a perversion of music and it needs to be stopped before I take the law into my own hands.  Yeah, that’s right, if they don’t quit producing this shit I’m gonna keep whining about it on the internet.  Take that you cutesy bastards whoring out good songs like they’re chocolate dipped and candy sprinkled for innocent children to consume like kiddie crack.  Take that. 

how to create a scandal . . .

i’m not promising that this is an effective technique cause in all actuality it seems rather feeble to me.

here’s some back story: jake gyllenhaal and mark ruffalo are starting in the film zodiac together. since the film is being released on friday both actors have been doing interviews in an effort to create excitement and interest for the film. popsugar, a gossip site, has attempted, using the provided quotes, to create a little scandal between the two actors (jake and mark) by taking quotes (as far as i can see) out of context:

what jake said:

Mr. Gyllenhaal said he came from a collaborative filmmaking family: “We share ideas, and we incorporate those ideas.” He added: “David knows what he wants, and he’s very clear about what he wants, and he’s very, very, very smart. But sometimes we’d do a lot of takes, and he’d turn, and he would say, because he had a computer there” — the movie was shot digitally — “ ‘Delete the last 10 takes.’ And as an actor that’s very hard to hear.”

And he noted that other members of the “Zodiac” cast had far more experience, adding: “I wish I could’ve had the maturity to be like: ‘I know what he wants. He wants the best out of me.’ ”

what mark said:

“Yeah, you hear stories about him being so hard and intense,” Ruffalo said. “And then I met him, and I immediately just loved the guy and was thinking , ‘Well, when is he going to change? When is this guy that you keep hearing about going to pop up?’ And my relationship and friendship with him got deeper as we went along. I think Fincher, what he has no patience for is incompetence or just a casual attitude toward the work. If you come in and you don’t know your lines and you’re not prepared, Fincher’s going to eat you for breakfast. You know? And so the actors who complain about Fincher are usually the ones who don’t show up knowing their shit, kind of.”

what popsugar says:

Oh, it is on!

maybe i’m just a sad pacifist but i don’t really see the fighting words here. jake kind of complains but it isn’t really about fincher (who i love!!), it’s mostly about himself. mark seems to be responding to things he’s heard before (in a time before jake made is comments monday on letterman). what exactly am i missing?

regardless, you should go see zodiac cause it’s filled with hot actors, the director is rad (save panic room), and it’s based on an interesting true story.

chicken noodle soup: the origins (i think!)

here’s what’s supposed to be the original video:

here’s the video that introduced me to chicken noodle soup:

(i like the look on the kids face at 1:17, he’s funny dorky)

jebus, if you search it on youtube there’s about a million hits. everyone is into this chicken noodle soup thing.

why i don’t have friends: reason number one.

there are many, many multifaceted reasons why i do not have friends. if i tried to make a list it’d go on for days and days and then there’d be no trees left cause of all the paper i’d used and then i’d have to add another reason to the list (reason number seven billion and five: i used up all the trees in the world to write this list and now no one can breath). but i digress. reason number one is that i randomly make stuff like this in my spare time:

who wants to be friends with someone who does that to the discarded halves of her grapefruit . . . and then takes pictures of it???!!!??

jake . . .

of the many reasons i love jake gyllenhall (oh! and there are many!) this is my newest one:

i recognize that the pose is cheesy but jake (yes, we’re on a first name basis.  i dreamed he impregnated me once so i think i’ve earned the right to call him jake) recognizes it too and that’s why i love him.

Chicken Noodle Soup-Off

Watch and learn kids, this is how it is done:

This little guy is an inspiration for wannabe chicken noodle soupers everywhere:

And these guys are the cutest ever!  I could watch them all day…

brandon “waste of space” davis is my hero

mock him all you want - i love him.

Brandon “Greasy Bear” Davis — the man who brought you the “Firecrotch” rant — did himself proud once again by making a total ass of himself at Paris Hilton’s birthday party Saturday night, sending some of the lodging heiress’ guests home early in disgust, and leaving Paris in tears.

The oily heir’s boorish behavior at the lavish 26th-birthday bash began around 10:00 PM, report Rush & Molloy, when he started throwing flowers at Paula Abdul, who was supposed to sing “Happy Birthday” to Paris. Then, it was the flower-holders he was chucking. And finally, after asking Paula to “lick my cock,” he mocked her by talking in a fake-Arabic accent. Paula bolted early, even before crooning.

Then, Brandon decided to ingratiate himself to Courtney Love by grabbing her, making her straddle his waist, and telling her, “I want to squirt on you,” never minding that Courtney’s young daughter was right there.

why doesn’t he have a reality show???

(source: mollygood - you should actually take a look - cord compares brandon to steph from pretty in pink - a pretty astute comparison, i think)

ans

i’m starting to get so tired of this whole anna nicole smith thing.  it’s just a massive circus that doesn’t seem to be going away.  first the everything (her son dying, the paternity stuff, her dying) now the crazy crying judge who makes no sense (what was up with his random in court comments anyway?).  i’m even staring to feel sorry for howard k. stern in this whole mess.  really, how is he the bad guy?  what proof do we have?  all we have is the media casting people in traditional, bound to get attention, roles: the villain, the innocent victim, the good guy, etc.  what was howard k. sterns big crime?  did he let anna nicole do drugs?  yes.  but how exactly was he supposed to stop her?  her mum tried to put her in rehab and look what happened there (i’m not defending her mum - she scares the bejesus out of me).  howard k. stern just looks like a pathetic little man who loved anna (and probably couldn’t get with her) who knew that he had a free ride and wanted to hold onto it.  in exchange he let her do (both person and drug wise) whatever she wanted.  now, apparently, howard k. sterns lawyers have done a “secret” paternity test and discovered that Larry Birkhead (so creepy!) is the babby daddy - it all reaks of weird random cover up to me.  she wasn’t an angel, she wasn’t a good person, and she didn’t seem like a good mum (if those starving the new baby so it would be “sexy” rumors are true) - and what the fuck is the deal with the clown make-up video?  why isn’t anyone trying to get the low down on that??  i don’t know, i’m just so tired of this whole thing - we’re never going to get the full/true story so why is there still so much interest.

i was thinking of posting a “isn’t it creepy how alike larry birkhead and anna nicole smiths son looked?” photo but here’s baby penguins instead.

The Real Dizzle Fo’ Shizzle

Howie wants to reach out and touch you in naughty places. Actually, he’s a complete OCD germophobe so no, he really doesn’t. It’s like he knows that disease is all over you even though you thought you hid your little secret pretty well. Don’t worry about that reoccuring rash, you can play online Deal or No Deal here! WARNING it is addictive if you have no life whatsoever and, don’t kid yourself, Howie knows the truth about that too. Come to the dark side. We have cookies and cheesy game shows.