Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Art Wednesday: Maurizio Bongiovanni

from Beautiful/Decay:

"Maurizio Bongiovanni’s paintings look like the effects of the past, or perhaps the future making its stamp on the present. But what makes Maurizio’s imagery even more effective is his choice of mundane subjects. Birds – sweet, chirpy, perched – suffering the effects of having fallen through refractive cracks… or their existence stretched as they fall toward some unforseen black hole?"






Oh Yeah, This'll Work Out Just Fine


According to that most reliable news source, Us Weekly, Bristol Palin and Baby Daddy Levi Johnston are getting married, but they haven't told The Quitter:

"'We got engaged two weeks ago,' Bristol, 19, tells Us Weekly. 'It felt right, even though we don’t have the approval of our parents.' Bristol and Levi, 20--who famously called off their previous engagement two weeks after welcoming son Tripp in December 2008--tell Us Weekly they reconnected three months ago while working out a custody plan for their 18-month-old son. 'I really thought we were over,' Levi tells Us Weekly. 'So when I went, I had no hope. I think we both just started talking — and then we took Tripp for a walk.' Says Bristol, 'When he left that night, we didn’t hug or kiss, but I was thinking how different it was. He texted me: 'I miss you. I love you. I want to be with you again' ... I was in shock...It is intimidating and scary just to think about what [Sarah's] reaction is going to be. Hopefully she will jump on board.'"

Let me get this queer:
They decided, via text, to reconcile, so I guess that means he FaceBook proposed, and the ceremony will be a la Twitter? But here's what I love about these two dumber than dumb kids: they give an interview to a magazine about their engagement and yet say they haven't yet told Mama Grizzly Bore?
I guess US Weekly isn't one of those many many publications that Palin reads whenever they come across her desk?

BP Republicans

When the oil spill began in the Gulf, many people, including President Obama, wanted to hold BP accountable.
These Republicans quickly leapt to the defense.....of BP.

Ladies and Gentle-Ladies, your The BP Republicans:

Congressman Joe Barton, the top Republican-BP on the committee overseeing the oil spill and its aftermath, delivered a personal apology to BP, saying the $20 billion fund that President Obama directed BP to establish to provide relief to the victims of the oil disaster was a "tragedy in the first proportion."

As criticism mounted in the wake of Joe Barton's apology to BP, R-BP Representative Steve King came to his defense. "I think Joe Barton was spot-on," King said on the conservative Laura Ingraham radio show.

Kentucky's R-BP Senate candidate Rand Paul leaped to the defense of BP, calling President Obama's efforts to hold the British company accountable for the Gulf Coast oil spill "un-American."

On a conservative radio show, Sharron Angle — the GOP-R-BP nominee for Senate in Nevada — called the Gulf oil spill victims' relief program a "slush fund." When a caller suggested the BP payout was extortion, she agreed, saying, "Government shouldn't be doing that to a private company." Her solution to the energy crisis is to "deregulate" the oil industry.

Representative Michele Bachmann [R-BP Minnesota] defended BP, criticizing the Gulf Coast oil spill fund — designed to aid spill victims — as a "redistribution of wealth."

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Take A Little Time To Enjoy The View...And Tell Them To Get Their Facts Straight


GLAAD ain't happy with Barbara Walters and The View.

Well, not so much Walters, since she was off that day, but with dimbulb Sherri "I believe the world is flat" Shepherd and guest host D.L. Hughley. In fact, GLAAD has taken out this full page ad in Hollywood trade magazine Variety blasting The View.

It seems that during the June 22 episode of the show, cohost Sherri Shepherd and guest host, comedian D.L. Hughley, blamed increased HIV rates among straight African American women on black men who are secretly gay, AKA "on the down low."

D.L. Hughley: "When you look at the prevalence of HIV in the African American community, it's primarily young women who are getting it from men who are on the down low."


Sherri Shepherd: "It's so big in the black community with women because they're having sex with men who have been having sex with men."




Well, guess what D.L. and Sherri? You're wrong. The Variety ad, cosigned by the Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition, reads in part: "The Centers for Disease Control has publicly disproven this myth. And since June 22, thousands of people have written to ABC, asking that The View provide correct information to viewers. Unfortunately, those requests have been greeted with silence from both ABC and The View."

Shame on you.

It's okay to have a View, but at least get the facts straight.

Pattinson v Love


It seems that a movie on the life of Kurt Cobain is in the works, and one of those Twilight vampires was being talked about as playing the lead, and Courtney love, i.e. Mrs. Kurt Cobain, wasn't having it.

It seems that Crazy, er, Courtney, Love shot down the rumors, saying it would be "stupid" and "just wrong" for Robert Pattinson to play the part.

Not much of a feud, though, because Pattinson actually agrees with Love, saying:
“I love Nirvana, but I love them a bit too much – I’d be embarrassed [to play Kurt Cobain]. I didn’t get offered it. For one thing, I’m too tall, and I can’t sing like him, I’m nothing like him. It’s ridiculous."

And then, on Love's protestations that it'd be stupid for him to be in the movie, Pattinson adds:
"You see all these comments, like from Courtney Love, saying, ‘What the fuck! He’s totally wrong for it’, and I’m like, ‘I fucking said no, you dick!”

Game on.

Screw that Team Jacob/Team Edward bull, whose Team are you on in this catfight?

New Hope For PWAs and The HIV+


According to the New York Times, President Obama is planning to unveil a new national strategy to curb the AIDS epidemic by slashing the number of new infections through education and awareness, and increasing the number of people who get care and treatment if they do test positive.

Perhaps he is feeling a little fierce.

Obama is calling for steps reduce the annual number of new HIV infections by 25 percent within five years, and while the report acknowledges that “increased investments in certain key areas are warranted,” the administration does not propose any major increase in federal spending. Obama hopes to redirect money to areas with the greatest need and to the most at-risk population groups, including gay and bisexual men and African-Americans.

There are many people today who, because HIV+ Americans are living longer and thriving under new medications and treatment, think that the crisis is over, or, at the very least, that the spread of HIV is on the decline.

Not so.

Every nine-and-a-half minutes, another American is infected with HIV, and yet there are thousands upon thousand s who receive no treatment whatsoever; and many more who don't even know that they are HIV+.

But, with proper care and treatment, most people could prolong their own lives and reduce the spread of the virus to others. To that end,m the Obama administration has set a timetable at 2105 to increase the numbers of the newly diagnosed patients receiving clinical care to 85-percent--up from 65% today.

This, first-ever, national AIDS strategy has been in the works since the start of the Obama administration, but comes at a time when many in the LGBT community are angry at budget cuts and the loss of AIDS programs, like AIDS Drug Assistance Program [ADAP].

Those activists believe it is time to revive that same sense of urgency that gripped the United States in the first years after discovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Public attention to the HIV epidemic has waned, because HIV is treatable; many people now think that it is no longer a public health emergency.

But, and these are the facts:

  • Far too many people infected with HIV are unaware of their status and may unknowingly transmit the virus to their partners. By 2015, the proportion of people with HIV who know of their condition should be increased to 90 percent, from 79 percent today.
  • The new health care law will significantly expand access to care for people with HIV, but federal efforts like the Ryan White program will still be needed to fill gaps in services.
  • Federal spending on HIV testing and prevention does not match the need. States with the lowest numbers of HIV/AIDS cases often receive the most money per case. The federal government should allocate more of the money to states with the highest “burden of disease.”
  • Health officials must devote “more attention and resources” to gay and bisexual men, who account for slightly more than half of new infections each year, and African-Americans, who account for 46 percent of people living with HIV.
  • The HIV transmission rate, which indicates how fast the epidemic is spreading, should be reduced by 30 percent in five years. At the current rate, about 5 of every 100 people with HIV transmit the virus to someone in a given year. If the transmission rate is unchanged, the report says, “within a decade, the number of new infections would increase to more than 75,000 per year and the number of people living with H.I.V. would grow to more than 1.5 million.”
The Obama administration report also finds that there is increased discrimination against people with HIV, which creates a major barrier to people getting tested, and seeking treatment. Many HIV+ Americans fear losing their families, jobs, even their homes, if news of their HIV-status would become known. To that end, the administration promises to “strengthen enforcement of civil rights laws” protecting people with HIV.

It's an uphill battle, again, but with continued pressure on the White House, and our representatives in Congress, we might be able to increase awareness, increase treatment, decrease the number of exposures, and protect and care for those already infected.

Really, Melissa? Really?

Every once in a while you see something that makes you wonder What in the hell are they thinking? I saw just such a thing yesterday. See, Melissa, over at Shakesville, had this to say about Snookie, of Jersey Shore infamy:
I love absolutely everything about this picture, but mostly her expression, which slays me.This photograph is the Mona Lisa of our time. That is all.
Now, I'm not sure I necessarily agree--actually, I know I disagree--but I would like to be around 500 years from now to see if Snookie still has any resonance with any type of culture--modern, pop, trash--at all, like the Mona Lisa.
See, for me, Snookie isn't this year's Mona Lisa. She's more of this year's Dogs Playing Poker. And, not anything to do with how she looks, but just as a key to her place in pop culture.

Monday, July 12, 2010

They Really Don't Come Gay Friendlier Than Tom Colicchio

Personally, I'm not into bears, but that's just me.
Still, this story is cool and fun and totally gay and totally straight.

The Gay Men loves themselves some Tom Colicchio and his baldness and stockiness and manliness. And he loves the attention so much that he practically demanded to be on a float in the Gay pride Parade.

"I was on Andy Cohen’s show on Bravo [Watch What Happens, which films in Los Angeles] and said I was mad at the bear community: The gay Pride parade was going on, and no one had asked me to be on a float."

The show was overwhelmed by callers and now Tom Colicchio is gonna be on the Bear float at next year's LA Pride Parade.

As a gay man, I love people that are openly gay and out and proud and just being themselves, but I get a little tinglier.....er, more tingly.....at the idea of a straight man so openly embracing the idea that gay men find him hot and attractive.

Way to go, Tom!

DesignStar: Flower Power...or...Put The Petal To The Metal


As usual, the show begins with the losers from last week returning, minus one--Big Hat Trent--and within an instant of entering the apartment, Courtland declares that things will be better without Trent, because he is to blame for this lackluster season.

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Then Alex gets the I haven't proven myself so I have to step it up edit, which doesn't bode well for him this week. It's one of those normal competition catchphrases that I love, along with the effervescence of I'm not here to make friends and I'm in it to win it!

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THE CHALLENGE
This week’s challenge involves flowers. The designers are to make an evening gown entirely of items found in a flower shop and....what?....oh yeah.....That's Project Runway.

On DesignStar, the designers choose a flower that inspires them the most, and then the team's, Men and Women + Dan, flowers are bouquet'ed--I know, not a word--into one bunch and they will have to design a room where each of their flowers are represented, but the room must has a cohesive feel.

Suddenly, I'm struck with a great idea!

Why not combine Project Runway and DesignStar and have each designer pick an outfit off the runway and then form teams to design an apartment where each design is represented and yet the room is a cohesive blend of all the designs.

What's that? They've already done that this season?

Oh, maybe that's why this episode feels like a retread of something they've already done.

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MEN

They decide that their bouquet is clean and easy and soft and minimal--made up of Michael's Ranunculus, Tom's Tulip, Courtland's Calla Lily and Alex's Snapdragon.

At the space--a 650 square foot studio apartment--the men set about dividing the room into spaces, and seating areas....dining....sleeping...eating...flower arranging. Michael says that the Ranunculus makes him think of open shelving; I say Huh? Tom sees the room as more of flower form, not color, and sees the light through the petals and wants to create a luminous space.

I think Tom is luminous, but I digress.

Anyway, they want to use finishes and textures to play up what the flower represents, and decide to use an array of paint: matte and eggshell and semi-gloss. Alex, fearing the premonition of his earlier statement, takes charge of the paint order like a waiter tackling a party of twenty. He is scribbling and erasing and rewriting and muttering.

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This will come back to bite him in the ass. Which it does.

Alex bought the wrong paint. Flat. Flat? FLAT? Courtland goes all semi-gloss-apeshit: The number one rule is semi-gloss, semi-gloss, semi-gloss! It is the beginning of the end, I fear; Armageddon is upon us and it looks like flat white paint. Michael begins to hyperventilate and weep, mostly, I think, because he wants Tom and Courtland to hold him, because his idea of texture and tone and finishes, seems to fly out the window.

At this moment, I think I see the ghost of Joan Crawford enter the room and slap him, hard, across the face. For an instant, I actually like Joan Crawford.

Courtland Calla Lily turns his back on the Flat Wars, and wonders where oh where his flower will appear ion the room. And because he's building the shelves, he creates a story about how shelves are like Calla Lilies, not how Calla Lilies are like shelves. I smell desperation, and I am so hoping it's Low VOC Semi-Gloss desperation.

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Alex, also forgetting about his paintastrophe--not a word, I know--turns his attention to his Snapdragon art project, which is a series of squares painted in soft dreamy colors, hung on the wall. He is right on his A game.

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Tom races around the room like a bull in heat--I wish--huffing and puffing as he lifts lamps and rugs and vases and couches and even Courtland around the room. Each other man, except Alex, who is painting squares on his hand, does their impression of Tom doing his impression of Meg Ryan doing Sally's orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally.

All those men huffing and puffing. I need a break. So, while I'm away, take a look at the Men's Room, er, for lack of a better phrase.

WOMEN + DAN


Their bouquet represents all things romantic and Bohemian, with Nina's Orchid, Dan's Daffodil, Stacey's Carnation, Casey's Hyacinth and and Emily's Wax Flower Weed.

On the drive to the space, Dan tries to get the women to focus less on building and more on design so that he'll be able to have his voice, er, daffodil, heard. He, like any good man, just wants to shop instead of build. But Nina keeps muttering about building a coffee table.

Dan, I fear, is doomed.

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The women and Dan shop for furniture that has romantic shapes and lines because they're all about the romance. Look at the romantic legs on that desk.....ooh that chair is romantic.....kiss me, Dan. At the apartment, they decide to use Nina's tried-and-true-because-she's-done-it-once-already-this-season method of taping the walls and creating moldings. I feel sleepy because I have seen this before.

As usual, Dan the builder comes out, and he's hammering and sawing and hanging and screwing.....screwing himself out of the competition, I fear. The only saving grace was that there was a nice lingering camera shot on Dan's, er, derriere as he left the apartment to get back to his woodworking shop.

The ladies, well, not Nina because she's a bitch, worry that Dan isn't doing enough of his own design work. Nina, instead, calls Dan her assistant. I shout at the TV: Dan! Look out for that bus! Nina's driving it right at you!! Dan! Daaaaaaaaan!

Nina puts her bus driving license away long enough to create a mural for the wall; another idea that she has trotted out and beaten to death right before our eyes. A mural? With bold colors and squiggly lines? She.Is.A.Genius!

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Take a look:

THE JUDGES WALKTHROUGH
This time the teams are allowed to stay in the presence of the Three Queens as they tour the spaces. This way they get to hear them mutter and stammer and order gin martinis.

In the woman's, and Dan's, apartment, the muttering includes We’ve seen that before which is said in front of a never-before-scene mural. There is a bit of I don't see anyone in this room when they tour the men's bedroom.

I think that's crazy talk. I see all of the men in that bedroom, I shout.

For me, the women's apartment is too much. The wall color and the fake moldings; that mural....Nina; it's kind of a mishmash to me. But the men's space seems, well, soft and clean and minimal, which is what they set out to do.

THE JUDGING
Monkey wrench!

The judges no likee either team completely so they'll evaluate each one individually.

They call out names: Nina, Courtland, Dan...who says Thanks...signalling that he doesn't know good design from a hammer, and Alex.

Bottom Four!

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The judges likee Tom's luminosity and biceps, or was that just me. They also give props to Casey, Stacey, Michael, and Emily, though no one wins or has immunity or has to take their shirt off. No ladies, not you.

Nina, Courtland, Dan and Alex head off to make their host presentations.

In the judges chambers, they begin to rip apart the designers, from stem to petal.

Courtland starts to talk about the Calla Lily and how it blankets itself and how that means he wanted the shelving to represent the flower. Shy little paint chipper, Alex, perhaps still reeling from Courtland's semi-gloss barbs, announces it was Michael who wanted the bookshelves. Courtland stammers, Wow! I hear the roar of the bus engine.

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Dan talks endlessly about daffodil clusters, and clusters of daffodils in the fields of Arkansas. But when the judges say they don't see his design aesthetic--I always wanted to say aesthetic--he tries to defend his construction projects, pointing out that the swing Nina commanded him to build is really a swing.

Vern stomps his little feet--well, to be fair, he doesn't actually stomp them since, from a sitting position they don't reach the floor--and shouts, You're not a contractor, Dan! Dan winces. The writing seems to be on the wall, and it says, Bye-bye.

Then, in pure Nina style, she claims she is all over that room, from the bold paint choices to the couch--that she personally selected--to the fabrics. I think she even put in the windows, hung the balcony, and wired it for WiFi. She does not, however, mutter much about the mural, which is good because I think Candice would have Joan Crawford'ed--I know....not a word--her.

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Alex, poor muttering, mono-syllabic Alex, says his Snapdragon is simple, like asparagus. Candice falls off her chair, and points out that nothing about the Snapdragon is simple; only Alex seems simple.

But then it happens. Alex, perhaps recalling his show opening declaration of stepping up his game, announces that what the Snapdragon really represents is not fluffy or frilly or flowery, but strength and determination. Shocked at the nerve of him to speak out in their presence, the Three Queens do, however, give him credit for speaking from the heart.

THE HOST CHALLENGE
Dan is friendly, and cheerful, like a daffodil, but he stammers and warbles,and doesn't so much as talk of his flower design--in fact he never utters the word daffodil--as much as he talks about his construction business and points at stuff. In the end, he sits on the bed, in defeat.

Alex, on the other hand, seems self-assured, and talks of the strength of the flower, and how he brought that into the room. He is stepping it up, and the judges see that.

We hear them muttering about changing their minds, and announce that Contractor Dan will take his tools and leave.

Some where in the distant I hear a bus horn followed by a manly scream.

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It Passes In The Blink Of An Eye


It seems like it was only yesterday that I boarded a plane in Reno, Nevada, and flew across the country to meet a man I'd only spoken to online, or the phone, and seen in only a handful of photos or email attachments.
It seemed, to a lot of people, crazy.
It seemed, to me, the right thing to do.
And so I did....fly across the country from Reno to Ft. Lauderdale.
And when I stepped off the plain, there was the most adorable man, wearing a bow-tie and the cutest smile, holding a bunch of roses, for me.
This morning that same adorable man, without the bow-tie, but still wearing the cutest smile, sat across the table from me for breakfast.
Ten years ago....yesterday....I met Carlos face-to-face.
Some said it was crazy.
I said it was crazy perfect.
And it still is......

A Patriot Where Most Of Us Might Least Expect It

How many times do you see a homeless person and think the worst? Some drug addict or drunk asleep in a doorway? Some lazy dirty person who won't find work but has the nerve to ask you for change? A crazy old lady who is warned to stay away from you? Well, one of those homeless people, a man living on the streets of El Paso, Texas, is garnering praise this week after rescuing Old Glory. Gustus Bozarth was trying to stay dry during a rain storm this past week, but then something caught his eye and made him leave the so-called "comfort" of his homemade shelter, and his two cats, to head into the storm.
He saw an American flag that had been knocked over by the storm and, after carefully folding it military style, he tucked it under the windshield wiper of a nearby vehicle and then moved the flagpole to the front of the building.
The next morning, employees at Management & Engineering Technologies International [METI]were mystified to find the neatly folded flag on one of their trucks; they suspected vandalism, but a stretch of surveillance tape revealed Bozarth and his act of patriotic chivalry.
"When we saw that it was a good Samaritan, we were shocked--and even more shocked to see that it was a homeless man who had been around the area for quite a while," Rebecca Orozco, METI spokeswoman told local media. And, recognizing Bozarth as the homeless man, whose shelter is in the back of warehouse not far from METI, she add, "So, we were able to locate him and thank him for the good deed that he did and for helping our flag to be saved."
How many of us, with jobs and homes, would go out in a rainstorm to rescue an American flag, fold it properly, and place in somewhere safe?
After so many of us have turned our backs on him, or looked the other way, thought him to be crazy, lazy or drunk, this man didn't turn his back on the country, and the flag that represents it.
How many of us would do the same?

Saturday, July 10, 2010

I Ain't One To Gossip, But.....

Seriously. He doesn't die easy.
And now Bruce Willis has entered the cologne contest--unbeknownst to him ALLEGEDLY--and created his own, er, scent, which I think would smell a little like a bar mat after an especially raucous Friday night.
But LR Health & Beauty Systems, a German beauty company, thinks men want to smell like Willis, and has released a collection of colognes in honor of the actor.
“I personally feel that the new Bruce Willis fragrance is the manliest scent in the world,” Tilo Plöger, COO of the company, said of the product, which contains hints of grapefruit, pepper, and vetiver.
Grapefruit? Pepper? And WTF is vetiver?

And why would anyone think I'd wanna smell like that?
The "Willis Collection" includes hair and body wash; deodorant; aftershave balm; and eau de parfum. And the product's tagline?
Smart Guys Live Forever.
This is the same actor whose most recent films were Surrogates and Cop Out, so it's unclear if the motto is referring to Willis himself.
I tend to think not.

It worked for Paris Hilton, and, well, if you're Lindsay Lohan, who else but Paris would you look to for life advice?
It seems that Lindsanity is already looking toward the future; you know, those days after her stint in jail, and her stint in rehab....AGAIN! She is ALLEGEDLY shopping, er, whoring herself out, for a post-prison interview, and she'll sell her sad story of being abused by the legal system, and that she doesn't do drugs, and that she works with children, to the highest bidder.
I have already offers $1.23 for the interview. Fingers crossed, I'm still waiting to hear.
The bad news, for me anyway, is that Lindsay will ALLEGEDLY accept not one penny less than a million bucks in cash.
Or crack.
Or booze.
But, working against Lindsay, like the fact that she's a serial drug abuser, alcoholic, and pathological liar, is that most reputable news sources, and I'm not talkin' 'bout you FOX, won't pay for interviews, so Lindsay might just shop her story overseas.
But, and this is where it gets wacky, er, wackier, is that Lindsay might offer up some of her prison poetry, and some home movies, that the networks would have to pay licensing fees to use, and then Lindsay would get her money.
Or crack.
Or booze.

Ah, remember when Mel Gibson was every girl's, and every gay boy's dreamboat?
Now, he's just a douchebag.
Having vociferously, and vehemently denied for over a week that he never punched girlfriend and baby mama, Oksana Grigorieva, in the face, new evidence has been uncovered that he may well have done just that.
A new audio recording--seriously Mel, you need to stop talking--has surfaced in which Mel admits to smacking Oksana, and he even says she "deserved" it.
On the recording, Oksana is heard asking Mel, “What kind of a man is that who would hit a woman when she is holding a child in her hands, hitting her twice in the face? What kind of a man is that?”
To which Mel, ever the righteous religious father of eight--seven with a wife, and one with a mistress--says: “You know what — you fucking deserved it.”
Now comes word that Mel Gibson is being investigated for domestic abuse.

Maybe he and Lindsay can have adjoining cells.

Has-been TV "actor", Jaleel White, who played somebody called Urkel on a show I'd never heard of, Family Matters, is under investigation for allegedly hitting his baby mama.
The mama in question, Briget Hardy, claims that while they were driving on Pacific Coast Highway two weeks ago, White punched her in one of her breast implants, and that when they got home he slapped her and pushed her into a toilet so hard that the tank broke.
Hardy filed a report with the LAPD, but says she suffered no injuries, except for the damaged loo.

A rep for White--and am I the only one who finds it odd that out-of-work actors have "reps"--said: "There was absolutely no battery … no abuse … and the incident never happened. This is just a ploy in an ongoing custody battle over their young daughter to tarnish his name."
Lovely parents indeed.

Him, if he hit her.
And her, if she's lying just to get custody.
And folks, we all know that kids are better off with straight parents only.

Meanwhile, back at Lindsanity:
You all saw the picture--and it could have been photo-shopped, although Lindsay is just that emotionally stumped top pull such a trick--where she had painted the words fuck u on her fingernail before her probation hearing.
Well some say she might just pay for it.
NYC Public Defender Stacy Schneider--out for her own fifteen minutes of fame--says that if Lohan's message was aimed at the court, "it would be a separate charge for contempt...[and]...she could have an entire extra sentence heaped on top of her current one. If the judge were angry enough, it could run even consecutively.
LA Public Defender Greg Apt--not wanting to be left out of the spotlight either--adds: "The judge could hold her in direct contempt, which could be between three to five days in jail for vulgarity."
It makes one wonder about the professionalism of Lohan's team of lawyers, and how they could possibly have missed Lindsay latest bout of infantile behavior.

No wonder her attorney, who uttered the immortal line that Lindsay was treated unfairly by the courts, has resigned as her attorney.

Filed under: Comes as No Surprise:
The American Idol Tour sucks. Big time.
After a year of record low--for them--ratings, and the news of Simon Cowell jumping ship for his own talent show, comes news that the American idol Tour is cancelling shows left and right because no one wants to see them.
Organizers behind the Idol Live! tour are wrapping up the show sooner than expected, and have cancelled eight concerts. Rather than end their tour on September 16th in Portland, Maine, as planned, the tour will now take a two-week break, and then have the final show in Indianapolis.
i blame Lee DeWyze.
And Lindsay Lohan....just because.