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APPLES IN STEREO are the soundtrack to the new HP photo ad.
KEITH RICHARDS apologizes for saying Mick Jagger has a small package. But he doesn't really say it was untrue.
BUSH REFUSES TO RESPOND TO WOMAN: It's not Cindy Sheehan.
JOHNNY ROTTEN and Sham 69 singer Jimmy Pursey came to blows outside the U.S. embassy as they queued for visas.
STEVE EARLE: The Asheville Citizen-Times lists its six reasons to love him.
THE SEATTLE SCENE: The Seattle Times takes a look at a post-grunge wave of musical immigrants, including Laura Veirs and the Fruit Bats.
MOUNTAIN GOATS: Indyweek plays Scrabble with frontman John Darnielle.
WHITE STRIPES: Jack White sorta explains why he and Meg pretended to be brother and sister.
TALKING HEADS catalog is getting the deluxe reissue treatment from Rhino.
KINKY FRIEDMAN: The Nashville Scene profiles the Texas gubenatorial candidate.
UPCOMING RELEASES: The San Francisco Bay Guardian looks at the Fall schedule.
AIR GUITAR: The World Championship results are in.
SUGE KNIGHT shot at a party honoring Kanye West in Miami. I guess the hurricane wasn't enough to hold everyone's attention.
BRADGELINA UPDATE: Jolie is calling Pitt her husband. Meanwhile, Ashlee Simpson would like to be Pitt.
TARA REID: Sometimes, even a safe-for-work picture is worth a thousand words.
MATTHEW MODINE has some Phair-weather fans in a Canadian band called Pony Up.
THE COEN BROTHERS and CHARLIE KAUFFMAN are getting into radio dramas.
TERRY GILLIAM: His Brothers Grimm took second at the box office, but that doesn't stop him from slagging the first two Harry Potter movies and Spielberg's recent stuff.
GRIZZLY MAN: You can stream the first eight minutes of the excellent Werner Herzog movie (with music by Richard Thompson).
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES: Teri Hatcher gets a retraction of that story about her having fun in an old VW van in her yard, even as she denies rumors of an eating disorder. Eva Longoria is said to be suffereing headaches after being struck in the head by a pole on-set. I wonder if that falls under Workers' Comp?
REDFORD AND NEWMAN, together again?
NICOLE KIDMAN knows how to get movers to be careful with her stuff.
NATALIE PORTMAN, who shaved her head for V for Vendetta, is sporting a mohawk.
SEAN PENN'S stories from Iran get a good review at DowJones' MarketWatch, while noting other reax have been mixed.
CHELSEA CLINTON and IAN KLAUS: Splitsville.
JANE FONDA plans to introduce British MP George Galloway on his U.S. speaking tour. Galloway was expelled from the Labour Party for inciting Arabs to fight British troops and inciting British troops to defy orders. Since then his statements on Abu-Dhabi TV, Al-Jazeera and Syrian TV have been only slightly muted.
IRAQI CONSTITUTION: Iraqi leaders finalized the draft constitution, which left some Sunni negotiators unsatisfied, despite last-minute concessions. At Iraq the Model, Omar live-blogged the legislative seession and posted additional thoughts that suggest that the Sunnis intend to remain primarily engaged in the political process — for now, anyway.
IRAQ II: Agency France Presse reports that “General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed concern about a 'growing gap' between the US public's downbeat perception of the war on Iraq and that of the troops fighting it… Unlike others in the US administration, Myers did not blame the media coverage for the gap. Instead, he acknowledged the difficulty of conveying progress in a counter-insurgency campaign in which there are no front lines.” Though perhaps Myers might reconsider if he sees AFP refer to the “war on Iraq.” Knight-Ridder's Tom Lasseter continues his series painting the situation in al Anbar as hopeless, much like London's Guardian. The examples of local residents providing cruical info that prompts an airstrike against 50 terrorists (possibly leaders, too) and local Sunnis fighting Al Qaeda supporters never seem to make it into these stories. Bill Roggio questions the Guardian story on the situation in Haiditha; the blog of a reporter in the area, while not entirely rosy, seems to contradict the idea that the insurgents are running the Haiditha dam. Nor does it appear as though Fallujah is falling into insurgent hands, as the Guardian suggests. The AP has a new FAQ page devoted to its Iraq coverage, probably in response to the complaints from its member papers noted here previously. My favorite part is where the AP claims that it “also writes frequently about reconstruction efforts — outlining both the progress that has been made in renovating schools (in a story earlier this summer)…” “Frequently” = “earlier this summer?”
CULT OF THE iPod: The gadget is replacing DJs at weddings. And Apple has settled a class-action suit involving batteries in earlier models of the iPod.
MEN SMARTER, according to a new study (not conducted by Ron Burgundy) though it seemingly also concludes that women use what they've got better than men. Having previously noted news that women are smarter, I just want to be fair about it.
IOWA MAN walks off with an artificial leg worth 17K… without paying.
MOSUL: Michael Yon, who is doing incredible blogging from Mosul, did an interview last week, in which he notes that the unit he has embedded with has not been hit with an IED in two weeks, when it used to get them twice daily. Coalition forces killed a major facilitator of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in northern Iraq, during operations in Mosul. Col. James H. Coffman Jr. was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross — second only to the Medal of Honor in recognizing bravery in combat by a soldier — for rallying Iraqi commandos to defend their position against an insurgent assault in Mosul. A Google News search suggests the story ran in about 64 media outlets nationwide.
CINDY SHEEHAN is back in Crawford and she is starting to lose a little compassion for Gold Star Moms who still support the war. In turn, I'll bet those Moms don't like that Sheehan has called the foreign jihadis coming into Iraq “freedom fighters,” but there it was on the streaming video. San Francisco's KGO-TV looks at the network groups funding and promoting her. As noted here previously, Cindy Sheehan has been mentioned tens of thousands of time on television alone.
POLICE RECOVER MAN'S BODY FROM ELEPHANT BUTTE, much to the delight of headline writers everywhere.
ROBOTS are playing online poker.
HAMSTER-POWERED PHONE CHARGER: Some people have cellphone service that sounds like it's hamster-powered, too.
HOGS ROAR: Chattanooga city officials agreed to relax enforcement of a noise ordinance as about 12,000 Harley-Davidson bikers arrived Friday for a national convention along the city's typically tranquil riverfront… with millions of dollars to spend.
CATS sometimes bite the hand that strokes them. Scientists are studying why.
DOGS sometimes get lost. Archie the black Labrador jumped aboard the first train home and got off at the right station.
ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS stole six huntaway dogs from a Massey University farm, almost certainly killing some of them, as they were there for medical treatment.
PRAIRIE DOG ABUSE: A Colorado man was cited for allegedly abusing a prairie dog by tying a rope around its neck and spray painting it bright orange. Imho, an Old Testament-style punishment is due.
L.A. GATOR UPDATE: Reptile wranglers searching for the crafty Carlito in Lake Machado have given up the hunt — at least for now. Abraham Amezcua, 35, who was selling T-shirts reading “You'll Never Catch Me” in English and Spanish, said the gator may not be seen for a long time.
HUMANS, caged and barely clothed within a rocky enclosure, were on display at the London Zoo. It's a mad house.
CHICKEN: Dark meat can now be transformed into white meat.
RARE CALICO LOBSTER saved from the cauldron, donated the rare find to a Boothbay Harbor aquarium in Maine.
BEE SWARM attacks elementary school in Silver Spring, Maryland.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S RACING PIGEON has flown the coop.
GEESE are competing with guard dogs.
MAN WAKES UP WITH SHEEP and is sure it was pregnant. Police did not ask how the young man came to that conclusion.
