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WHO'S LEFT is going to tour next year. No Rock and Roll Fun manages two tweaks without mentioning the lyrics to “My Generation.”
SOUTHERN ROCKERS talk about southern rock in a web exclusive to the Oxford American.
BILL CLINTON has a mix CD for you.
PASTE MAGAZINE gets profiled by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And no such piece would be complete without lists from the mag's publishers and editors.
PAYOLA: Carl Wilson looks at its past and future.
LEONARD COHEN is almost broke, his retirement savings whittled down from almost five million dollars to 150K. Lesson: don't put all of your money into a company 99.5% owned by your personal manager. I thought everybody knew this.
SIN CITY came out on DVD yesterday, for those who were waiting to enjoy Jessica Alba in the privacy of their own homes. Be warned, however, that there are next to no “extras,” almost guaranteeing that Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez will try to hit fans up for the “collector's edition” later.
TOM-KAT UPDATE: Holmes still gushing over Cruise. You would almost think she was under contract.
THE DA VINCI CODE: Shooting on the film adaptation of Dan Brown's runaway bestseller at Lincoln Cathedral began yesterday against the backdrop of demonstrations outside led by a nun.
JOHN CLEESE says his three American wives were beautiful, but had emotional problems.
IRAQ: Arthur Chrenkoff apparently hasn't been promoted yet, so he has another round up of under-reported news from Iraq. For example,the United Nations' News Service reports that nearly a quarter of a million Iraqis of all ethnic and religious groups have taken part in meetings to help draft their country's new constitution. Ninety-three percent of children have been vaccinated against polio. Electricity generation is well above the prewar peak, despite sabotage. The vast marshlands of southern Iraq, almost drained out of existence by Saddam, are recovering far more quickly than anyone had even dared to hope. “Operation Iraq Children,” begun in March 2004 by actor Gary Sinise and author Laura Hillenbrand, has shipped more than 200,000 school kits to kids needing supplies. That's just scratching the surface.
PETE DOHERTY UPDATE: When he got stopped at Norwegian customs over the weekend, the troubled singer got the full rubber glove treatment. I guess that prior job experience as a gay prostitute came in handy! Doherty and another band member were fined 8000 Krone (£700) for attempting to bring crack cocaine and heroin into the country.
MARILYN MANSON is defended by a priest, albeit a priest who moonlights with his own heavy-metal band…
MADONNA is in the hospital after falling off a horse while celebrating her 47th birthday. Madge cracked some ribs and broke a collar bone and a hand, but she seems to be on the mend. I would go with the Catherine the Great joke, but the truth is that the Empress passed on in the same way as the King did 28 years ago yesterday.
ROBERT CHRISTGAU, Dean of pop music critics, goes public with plans by the Village Voice to slash payments for a substantial proportion of the writing in the paper by 20 to 45 percent.
BABY TERROR SUSPECTS: Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the U.S. because their names are the same as, or similar to, those of possible terrorists on the government's ''no-fly list.” As much as I might dread being trapped on an airplane with an inconsolable infant, I think a little profiling by age might be in order here.
SEALED WITH A KISS: The language of love expressed with postage stamps makes a bit of a comeback after the invasion of Iraq. With inflation, I suppose the punchline has to be updated: “If you want to lick it, it's a dollar.”
KIERA KNIGHTLEY loves being called a nasty b*tch by director Tony Scott.
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING and love the gossip.
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN officialy denies he's running for President.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. getting married this weekend?
DEMI MOORE AND ASHTON KUTCHER want to expand their family. They feel married, except for the actually not being married thing.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON gets an apology from the producers of The Island, who tried to blame the flop of the film on her and Ewan MacGregor.
BRITNEY SPEARS Able To Give Perfect Oral Sex! That's an actual headline. Insert “headline” joke here.
LIONS think Mini Coopers might make a tasty snack.
ELEPHANTS overcrowded at a national park in Zimbabwe move into the northern resort town of Kariba.
FISH steals pole, lures fisherman to his death. Poor guy needed a bigger boat.
MODERATE MUSLINS issue a statement which, among other things, laims that equating “extremism” with the aspirations of Muslims for Sharia laws in the Muslim world or the desire to see unification towards a Caliphate in the Muslim lands indicates ignorance of what the Sharia is and what a Caliphate is and will alienate and victimize the Muslim community. Read the whole thing. If you're unsure as to what Sharia means, Ms. Aayan Hirsi Ali explains a bit of it in the context of Iraq and Canada, which is apparently a Muslim land — who knew? And when you read the group statement's references to freedom of speech, keep in mind that the statement itself is almost certainly a response to press coverage like Sunday's piece in the Observer, which notes — among other things — that the Muslim Council of Britain's secretary general thought that “'death was perhaps too easy” for Salman Rushdie, given his great crime of writing a book deemed blasphemous by Islamists.
CINDY SHEEHAN is complaining that her peace vigil is becoming a media circus. Surprisingly, that's what happens when you offer yourself up for non-stop interviews, the Today show, another whirlwind of interviews, interviews with some network shows, a photo shoot for a Vanity Fair article and four interviews with CBS in a week. BTW, the blurry picture at the right is Ms. Sheehan and callous, insensitive President Bush kissing; for some reason, she's removed it from her family website, but Google cached it.
YOUR MOTHER SAID YOU WOULD GO BLIND: But it's the pictures that are to blame.
TRIPLE-X DOMAIN has been delayed over concerns that it would encourage more porn on the net. Not to mention the issue of who would be master of the domain.
GOOGLE has quietly been shopping for miles and miles of “dark,” or unused, fiber-optic cable across the country for the past year, along with superfast connections. Is the gatekeeper of the world’s information about to become one of the globe’s biggest broadband Internet providers?
NANOTECH: Carbon nanotubes crafted into the shape of a Y could revolutionize the computer industry. Research has shown that Y-shaped carbon nanotubes are easily made and act as remarkably efficient electronic transistors.
A COMPUTER WORM caused problems for CNN, ABC News and The New York Times on Tuesday.
JUST SEE IT: Nike has come out with contact lenses, called MaxSight, that are meant to replace sunglasses.
CULT OF THE iPod: More on the patent dispute that may force Apple to pay Microsoft ten bucks per gadget. Maybe Microsoft employees won't have to hide their iPods anymore.
DOGS are a staple at the Bau House Cafe in Seoul, South Korea… as customers, not an entree. (Thanks to Debbie.)
DOGS: The newest greeter at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in West Fargo, ND, is Lucky, a golden retriever puppy. The Rev. Dave Syverson: “I used to get 300, 400 handshakes. Now that number is less than 10.”
GIANT CAIMAN IN L.A.: Since a gardener spotted it last Friday, people have tried to glimpse the 200-pound reptile wading and sunbathing at Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park. It has acquired a nickname matching its Latin American roots and its penchant for tortillas tossed by visitors: Carlito.
COPPERHEAD ROAD: More than 100 of the snakes overrun a yard in Marion County, Arkansas, on the way to hibernating, months ahead of schedule.
RABBIT SAVES MAN'S WIFE: Banging and jumping up and down in her cage one night alerted the husband that his wife seemed to be sleeping heavily with her eyes wide open.
BAD HOMING PIGEON: Right address, wrong country.
