KEITH RICHARDS claims Mick Jagger is not well-endowed, which could explain the origin of the Mars bar legend.
ROCK'S MOST INCREDIBLE BODY PARTS are listed by Spin magazine. Presley's pelvis was robbed! So was Keith Richards' liver.
PERNICE BROTHERS: There's an interview with Joe Pernice and a legal MP3 for you at Pulse of the Twin Cities.
JOHN PEEL DAY: BBC Radio 1 is dedicating Octoober 13th to the legendary DJ, with concert venues around the UK being invited to stage gigs under the Peel Day banner.
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE'S self-titled album has leaked onto the 'net, but Kevin Drew waxes a little poetic about it. The one-time title track, “Windsurfing Nation” gets praise at the Pitchfork.
20 DYNAMIC SUPER-HIT EXPLOSIONS: the Boston Globe runs a piece on K-Tel Records. All original hits, all original artists.
WILCO has a fever… and the only cure is… more cowbell!
HOW TO IDENTIFY EMOS, indies and screamos (try bugmenot or mary@dealsinwheels.com, 123456).
BAY CITY ROLLER Les McKeown was due to appear in court on Tuesday, charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine.
SUFJAN STEVENS' ILLINOIS is reviewed by the Illinois Times.
PETE DOHERTY UPDATE: The troubled singer actually makes news related to music, as Babyshambles' new single enters the UK charts at number four.
COURTNEY LOVE: Journo Neil Strauss, author of the forthcoming book Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-Up Artists, got so good at pick-ups that he inadvertently picked up Courtney Love while interviewing her for a Rolling Stone piece. Deranged hilarity ensued.
JESSICA ALBA: Apparently, I'm too young for her.
JESSICA SIMPSON: Yesterday, Sylvia Hauser and I were mocking her a bit. Later, Golden Fiddle made me laugh 'til I cried.
EVA LONGORIA AND TOMMY LEE kept going after he licked her face on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. I can't believe I missed that and the Del McCoury Band.
SEAN PENN finds a Men's room in Iran as part of his hard-hitting series for the San Francisco Chronicle.
MICHAEL MOORE is going to a re-education camp.
ALEC BALDWIN is getting the Linda McCartney Memorial Award at PETA's 25th anniversary gala in Hollywood on Sept. 10th, for proving that even a vegetarian diet can cause you to swell up to the size of Marlon Brando. Well, maybe not exactly, but he is being feted.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON: Paparazzi turn her trip to Disneyland into Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
LOHAN LOWDOWN: Ex-beau Aaron Carter channels Sigmund Freud.
HARRY SHEARER thinks August is not a “slow news month,” but that journos are lazy — and points to a story that should get more coverage than missing teenage tourists.
PAT ROBERTSON calls for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but is disavowed by the White House. Conservative bloggers go further, even compiling a list of Robertson's most idiotic statements to date. Mark Daniels thinks it's bad theology also. Granted, Chavez cozies up to Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and even started up a correspondence with notorious terrorist Ilich Ramírez “Carlos the Jackal” Sánchez. He's turned Venezuela into a safe haven for Columbian terrorists. He's even been accused of supporting Al Qaeda. But imho, you don't call for assassinating him; the only beneficiaries of such idiocy are Chavez… and major media during a slow news month, especially CNN.
CRESSIDA'S MOM has got it going on.
THE PASSION of the Robocop?
DIRTY DANCING 3: Nun reprimanded after spreading her legs for a missionary.
BAN THE BRA? Britain could be facing a bra shortage after an European Union ban blocked £50 million of Chinese-made clothing heading for the UK. The director of a Danish lingerie chain borrowed a helicopter Monday morning to secure one of the last EU import licences for bras.
CHILD MOLESTATION on your honeymoon? Anytime is despicable, but on your honeymoon!?
IRAQ: The Christian Science Monitor examines why the Sunnis fear the new constitution. At Publius Pundit, Robert Mayer notes that the language on Islam in the draft is weaker than that of the new Afghan constitution. Article 14 of the draft provides: “Iraqis are equal before the law without discrimination because of gender, ethnicity, nationality, origin, color, religion, sect, belief, opinion or social or economic status.” Article 151 of the draft provides: “No less than 25 percent of Council of Deputies seats go to women.” There's even more analysis from Prof. Brendan O'Leary — an advisor to the Kurdistan government — at Norm Geras' blog; he doesn't think the Sunnis would be able to muster a veto in the referendum. Imho, the interpretation and implementation of any new constitution is probably more important than the document itself — the constitution of the former Soviet Union sounded great, but the reality was much different.
LONDON: A Muslim accused of anti-Semitism and praising Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman — the man behind the first WTC bombing — is to be appointed to a government role in charge of rooting out extremism in the wake of last month's suicide bombings in London.
CULT OF THE iPod: The giant wooden iPod is okay, but how about the solid aluminum mod?
WOXY, a Ken King discovery, is podcasting music news and will soon podcast a show featuring unsigned bands.
ENGADGET found a time machine and went back to the future of 1985, which is a little ironic.
FUTURE MILITARY DRONE PLANES may be modeled on seagulls, diving between buildings, zooming under overpasses and landing on apartment balconies.
GLOBAL WARMING: Colorado's state climatologist has resigned from a Bush administration science advisory team in a disagreement over research into the causes of global warming. Roger Pielke Sr. said the Climate Change Science Program had minimized evidence that factors other than greenhouse gases can contribute to global warming.
GOOGLE is reportedly to launch an instant voice messaging service that would compete with Skype.
SAM, THE WORLD'S UGLIEST DOG, has his own website, blog and even a fan site.
MONKEYS are pulling all-nighters at Wake Forest University for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. At least, that's what they're doing when they aren't hitting the casinos.
FAMILY-RUN GUINEA PIG FARM shuts down after a six-year campaign of intimidation by animal rights activists, including death threats, arson and the theft of the corpse of a family relative.
POST 9/11, Customs will notice if you have green tree pythons, albino pythons, iguanas, frilled-neck dragons, slider turtles and tree monitors in your luggage.
IT'S RAINING FEATHERS in Richmond, CA. No one knows why.
CROCODILE tracked by satellite.
LOVE MOTEL FOR PETS: Yesterday, I had a listing of pet-pampering hotels, but the Pet Love motel, in Sao Paulo, Brazil may have them beat.