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BIG-DADDY...THE FOLLOW-UP
I gave you a slight tease to this the other day. Here's the full run-down.
It is ON between BILLY RAY CYRUS and the show that made him a household name again. In an interview with "GQ" magazine, Billy Ray comes down HARD on "Hannah Montana".

He says, "I'll tell you right now...the damn show destroyed my family."

WOW!
With his marriage in the crapper and MILEY going off the rails, Billy Ray has nothing but regret about doing the show.

He says, "I hate to say it, but yes...I'd take it back in a second. For my family to be here and just be everybody OK, safe and sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic.

"Heck, yeah. I'd erase it all in a second if I could."

Because he chose to do the show with Miley in order to stay close to her, Billy Ray says he was unfairly blamed for every scandal she got involved in...from her too-sexy "Vanity Fair" photo shoot to her pole-dancing escapades.

He even claims Miley's handlers set him up to take the fall...quote, "All those people around, they used me every time. It became so obvious that, man, no matter what happens, they're going to put you up there and let you take the bullet."

But he let it happen because, quote, "That's what daddies do...Okay, nail me to the cross. I'll take it."

But last year, Billy Ray had enough of being Miley's garbage boy. Her 18th birthday party was being held in a 21-and-over club...and her people wanted Billy Ray there so that if any bad press came out of it, they could say he endorsed it.

As you recall, some bad press DID come of it, if you recall the pic of Miley and some guy all over eachother pressed against the bar.
Billy Ray refused to show up. He says, "I started realizing I'm being used. If I would have went out there I would have been right in the middle of all this stuff that's going on right now with the bong.

''They'd be hanging my ass. I had the common sense...I said, 'This whole thing's falling apart up there and they just want to blame all this stuff on you again.' I'm staying out of it."

GO BIG-DADDY!!
As For That Bong Scandal..

One thing Miley's people told Billy Ray to stay out of was the bong scandal. He says, "I didn't know what the footage was. They told me, it was none of my business.

"I'm dealing with somebody that had only known my daughter for possibly four years, and I'm her daddy. I was pretty damn insulted. And I took that as the ultimate alarm.

"'It's none of your business'! None of my business that you're out running around L.A. trying to buy kids' computers and phones because there's something about my daughter?"

Obviously, Billy Ray isn't really worried about himself. He's worried about Miley. He says, quote, "I'm scared for her. She's got a lot of people around her that's putting her in a great deal of danger.

"I know she's 18, but I still feel like as her daddy I'd like to try to help. Take care of her just a little bit, to at least get her out of danger."

He adds, "I want to get her sheltered from the storm. Stop the insanity just for a minute. When you go through what she's been through, it takes a beating on you. And there comes a point where you just got to step back."

Billy Ray even draws parallels between Miley and certain celebrities who died too soon.

He says, "I'm concerned about Miley. I think that [KURT COBAIN'S] world was just spinning so fast and he had so many people around him that didn't help him.

"Like ANNA NICOLE SMITH...you could see that train wreck coming...MICHAEL JACKSON...I was trying to reach out to Michael Jackson."

OK, REEEEEEALLY?! I mean, I don't know if I buy THAT, but whatever. Moving on...

One of the reasons things have gotten to where they are is because Billy Ray tried to be more of a FRIEND to Miley than a PARENT.

He says, "I should have been a better parent. I should have said, 'Enough is enough...it's getting dangerous and somebody's going to get hurt.'

"I should have, but I didn't...Honestly, I didn't know the ball was out of bounds until it was way up in the stands somewhere."





THE WACKIEST-NAMED RAPPER GOT IN A SHOOT-OUT...
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME (he has that new song 'No Hands') was questioned after a SHOOTOUT in Charlotte, North Carolina, yesterday.

Here's what we know:
Waka was at a place called the Car Stereo Warehouse getting the sound system in his tour bus pimped out.

The local authorities told the "Charlotte Observer" that two vehicles rolled up to the parking lot at around 4:00 P.M....and at least one of them opened fire on the tour bus. Waka's entourage retaliated by returning fire.

One person was shot in the shoulder, and was taken to the hospital with "non-life-threatening injuries." That person's identity was not released, but it wasn't Waka.

Waka's publicist told RadarOnline, "[His] bus was shot four times, [and] security followed appropriate protocol and returned fire. Random cars apparently pulled up and began shooting, so I am told. Waka is fine and so is his team."

No charges have been filed yet, and police aren't sure WHY all this went down.







GONE...
At least at MY family gatherings, perhaps at yours as well, there seems to always be some mention of 'piling the family into the station wagon'...
It looks like the station wagon is about to disappear.

Volvo was the last company carrying the torch for the station wagon. Sure, other manufacturers might throw one token one out there, but Volvo has been leading the station wagon movement for at least 20 or 30 years.

And now they're done. And the entire station wagon genre looks like it'll be done with them.

Volvo has announced that they are going to stop selling station wagons in the U.S. because there's no market for them anymore. Last year, they only sold 480 V50 station wagons. Total. In the entire country.

The website Edmunds.com still lists 31 station wagons, but the classification they use is pretty fuzzy...very few of the wagons on their list remotely resemble the classic station wagon from "National Lampoon's Vacation". The Family Truckster!

Most of them are more like minivans that are sort of shaped like the older wagons, or family vehicles like the Dodge Caliber that are in between a car and a van.

Volvo says that between minivans, crossovers, and SUVs, families just aren't interested in the more old-fashioned station wagons anymore.