Archive for April, 2009
hitler in your home
before he became a dictator and decided to take out millions of people, hitler gave it a go as an artist. 15 paintings and sketches believed to be his earlier works sold for $143k at a british auction house recently. although the works are signed a. hitler but cannot be 100% authenticated, the historical documents [...]
‘houseboat’
last week everyone was abuzz about the house that ruth didn’t build (the new yankee stadium). i wonder if we’ll show the same interest in the ‘houseboats’ (i.e., the naval fleet) that we helped build due to our voracious apetite for credit when they go on display this week in china in celebration of the [...]
woooolly funny for some reason
growing up (and still) there’s something about the words “woolly mammoth” that make me giggle. my sister and i used to go around saying woooooolly mammoth for no reason. so you can imagine my delight in finding a wolly mammoth story to report on. a perfectly preserved body of a one month old woolly mammoth [...]
skanky spice
nadja benaissa, a pop star in europe was arrested for having un-protected sex with three dudes (fans, i guess) and not telling them that she was h.i.v. positive (one of the dudes is now h.i.v. positive). of course, she’s denying the charges and says she should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
benaissa’s career was launched [...]
another bus tour
spotted: a bus full of tourist traveling down the streets of nyc on the gossip girl tour. with all the activities in nyc, do people really think this is the best way to spend their time. even with quick stops at the new york palace hotel where C (chuck) and S (serena) live, at constance [...]
more nascar coverage
fox news and myspace announced a new partnership called ureport that will give “the global MySpace community the ability to share their citizen journalist produced content with the myspace community, as well as have the chance [...]
glue factory reference would be inappropriate
a u.s. open polo companionship was postponed this weekend in wellington, florida when 14 horses from one team suddenly became fatally ill. after two horses collapse and vets were unable to revive them, five others started to fall. the seven eventually all died at the polo club and seven more died as they were being [...]
