ANOTHER PROM
If you're TAYLOR SWIFT, you wouldn't ever be worried about the fact that you didn't make it to your prom. Because she keeps getting invited to them!
Taylor got invited to another high school prom...but this might be one she'll actually attend. A boy named Devon Whitney made a YouTube video asking Taylor to his senior prom in Aurora, Colorado.
Devon has an extremely rare disease called Oto-Palatal-Digital Syndrome, or OPD. He's had over two-dozen surgeries since he was born. The syndrome also makes Devon look a little different.
He told Denver's KUSA-TV, "People stare at me because of the way I look. They laugh at me and talk behind my back. And sometimes I can hear them. You want to say something, but you can't. And it hurts."
Devon says he's too shy to ask anyone in school to the prom...so he decided to shoot for the moon and see if Taylor would go.
His YouTube video has gotten thousands of views...and I'm guessing word has probably gotten back to Taylor by now.
Here's the KUSA news report about Devon. Take a look and I guarantee you'll be pulling for him. And here's Devon's YouTube video.
MORE MOM STUFFEarlier this week, a survey found that men spend at least 62% more on Mother's Day gifts than women. So you COULD argue that your son loves you more than your daughter. Well...another survey's not so sure.
In a survey by the website RetailMeNot, men were two-and-a-half times more likely to have FORGOTTEN to wish their moms a happy Mother's Day than women.
Overall, 14% of people say they've forgotten at some point. But the breakdown is 20% of men and only 8% of women.
The survey also found that 73% of mothers say they really do want a gift for Mother's Day...with gift cards as the top choice, and flowers as the number two choice.
Also, 38% most want a fancy dinner, 32% would like to go to brunch...and only 7% want breakfast in bed.
Fortunately, your mom is old enough NOT to be part of this survey. So you can assume that when she and your dad GET-IT-ON...she's not playing "Words With Friends" mid-coitus. But other moms are.
In a new survey of mothers ages 18 to 35, 12% admit they check their phones during sex. (how can sex be THAT boring for someone that they need to check their phone? I'm amazed)
21% use their phones in the bathroom.
81% are on Facebook...but 53% say Facebook is a waste of their time.
And 67% say at least half of the apps on their phone are for their kids.
WHERE DO YOU SLEEP?According to a new survey, 67% of Americans admit they fall asleep somewhere other than their bed at least once every few weeks. 10% say it happens daily. So where are we randomly passing out? Check it out...
12% have fallen asleep at work.
10% have fallen asleep at school or in class.
7% have fallen asleep at church.
5% have fallen asleep in a car . . . and 2% have fallen asleep WHILE DRIVING.
4% have fallen asleep ON THE TOILET.
3% have fallen asleep in meetings.
And 1% have fallen asleep either at a bar...a party...the doctor's office...STANDING UP...during a conversation...AT A CONCERT (Jason Mraz, I'm sure)...in a court room...in the bathtub or shower...or DURING SEX.
CONAN DOES LETTERMANCONAN O'BRIEN will be a guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" next Thursday. It'll be his first time on the show in 13 YEARS.
Obviously, we can expect some jabs at JAY LENO...since both Conan and Letterman have lost gigs on "The Tonight Show" to Leno.
20 years ago, Leno was brought in to replace JOHNNY CARSON when Letterman was expected to get the job...and in 2010, NBC basically pushed Conan out after seven months when Jay decided he didn't want to retire.
Letterman openly sided with Conan when that madness was happening.
Letterman left NBC after he was screwed out of the "Tonight Show" job in 1992. Just as Conan did when he went to TBS after being ousted.
Eh, that's enough. Go enjoy your weekend!
Friday, May 11, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
OPRAH'S IN TROUBLE
"BusinessWeek" magazine reports that OPRAH'S OWN network has already lost $330 MILLION...and won't be able to survive another year unless it makes a dramatic turnaround. The network launched just 16 months ago.
Oprah can't be happy. If she WANTED to blow hundreds of millions of dollars on a FAILURE she could've stayed in Chicago and bought the Cubs. .....ha!
BUT Oprah doesn't have much of her own money invested in the network, but obviously her BRAND will take a big hit if OWN goes belly-up.
B.o.B. DOES THE MOON...??
Is this the beginning of THE GREAT HIP-HOP SPACE RACE?
B.O.B claims that HE will be the first rapper to perform...ON THE MOON.
In a new video, he says, "Before the end of this lifetime, I will perform on the moon. You heard it [here] first. I will perform on the moon.
"And when I'm on the moon, I'm going to take this footage, and I'm going to play it on a screen before the show starts."
B.o.B is 23 years old. So if he's serious...and let's pretend that he is...there's some time for him to find a way to make this happen.
Perhaps he can perform at the ribbon cutting ceremony for President Newt Gingrich's moon base?
LOVELY LADY LUMPSThere's a new book out called "Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History". And even with THAT title, we know you're STILL not going to actually sit down and read it. So here are six interesting facts about breasts from the book. You're welcome.
#1.) Women's breasts are BIGGER THAN EVER.
#2.) The average-sized breast in the U.S. is at least a C-cup, although some studies have found it's more likely a D-cup.
#3.) The average U.S. breast weighs just over one pound...and can double during pregnancy.
#4.) The largest enhanced breast in the world is 21 POUNDS. It's a size 38-triple-K...and contains the equivalent of 2.6 gallons of liquid.
#5.) Before there were silicone breast implants in the mid-1900s, women tried making their breasts larger by surgically stuffing them with glass balls, ivory, wood chips, peanut oil, ox cartilage, and candle wax. That all sounds safe.
#6.) More than 5 million American women have implants.
SPEAKING OF...
RadarOnline put together a top 10 of the biggest and best REAL boobs in Hollywood. Gotta love that! Here it is
http://www.radaronline.com/photos/image/175195/2012/05/10-best-big-real-boobs-hollywood
MAKE-UP SEX IS BADMake-up sex is a proud, long-standing tradition for couples all over the world. You get in a fight, argue a little bit, hopefully reach some kind of resolution, then have angry sex...and the world is good again.
But Dr. Seth Meyers is a clinical psychologist at "Psychology Today", and HE says make-up sex is actually a BAD THING. Because it's just like a crackhead smoking crack.
Meyers says make-up sex isn't the way a couple ACTUALLY shows each other intimacy or affection after getting in a fight. It's just a way of switching gears from negative feelings to the positive experience of sex.
So you're just trying to jump immediately from feeling really low to feeling really high...which is like a fiending crack addict smoking crack.
And if you weren't happy with how the fight turned out, once the make-up sex is over and you come back down, you'll feel even worse.
JUST EAT HER COOKING NEXT TIME...Last month, 69-year-old Yuri Ticuic from the Siberia region of Russia got into a fight with his wife over her LOUSY COOKING. He was so mad that her soup was always cold, that he stormed out of the house.
And then he got lost in a frozen Siberian forest. Where he wasn't found for THIRTY DAYS.
Yuri survived by scavenging for berries, EATING HAY, and DRINKING SNOW. I think this goes without saying...but at that point, he probably missed his wife's cold soup A LOT.
After a month, some farmers finally found him. He was too weak to walk and severely frostbitten. Doctors may end up having to amputate both of his legs.
Yuri told reporters he'll never criticize his wife's cooking again. LOL
HEY MOM: THE SON LOVES YOU MORE
You obviously love one of your kids more than the other. It's okay. You don't have to say which one. But we can tell you which one of THEM loves YOU more...at least if you believe money is love. Which we do.
According to separate surveys on Mother's Day spending in the U.S. and Canada, your son loves you more than your daughter.
In the U.S., the average man will spend $189.74 on Mother's Day. That's almost 62% more than the average woman, who will spend $117.42.
In Canada, the average man will spend $105.02 on Mother's Day. That's 69% more than the average woman, who will spend $61.99.
(If you want, we could just say AMERICA loves their moms more than the silly Canadians!)
According to one retail analyst, men usually spend more on gifts for big holidays than women. "Men tend to have their wallets out less often. But when they do, it's for big purchases. So there's a different expectation about what to spend."
ADDICTED TO...ALL THE THINGS YOU DO......on your FACEBOOK page!
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have developed a way to tell whether you're becoming addicted to Facebook. Check it out...
Women, introverts, and people who are disorganized are more likely to develop a problem. The researchers also came up with six questions that will help determine whether you're addicted.
Using a scale of one to five, rate how closely each question relates to you. If you give yourself a four or a five on at least four of the questions, you might be an addict.
#1.) Do you spend a lot of time thinking about Facebook, or planning HOW you'll use it?
#2.) Do you feel an urge to use Facebook more and more?
#3.) Do you use Facebook to forget about personal problems?
#4.) Have you tried unsuccessfully to quit or cut down?
#5.) Do you become restless or troubled if you're prohibited from using Facebook?
#6.) Has using Facebook had a negative impact on your job or studies?
EMINEM WANTS THE FOIL
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/eminem_asks_hotel_staff_can_tinfoil_XbWpIgkIXbYRjzFeznxs0I
RIHANNA DOES PLAYBOY?If you haven't seen enough of RIHANNA naked yet, here's something to potentially look forward to:
The not-always-reliable British tabloids say she's in talks to pose nude for "Playboy". And the deal would be worth well over a million bucks.
A source says, "[This] appeals to Rihanna’s creative side. Her main concern is that she doesn’t alienate her army of young fans who could think this is a little too risqué."
Really? We're supposed to believe that Rihanna is suddenly worried about her young fans? This is a chick who would show up at the White House in a thong and a see-through tube top.)
I want to believe that Rihanna IS going to pose nude for "Playboy". But when the "anonymous source" says she's worried about being too risqué for the children, the needle on my B.S. METER crashes through the red.
Meanwhile...Britain's "Sun" tabloid says that Rihanna sent ADELE a cake shaped like a PAIR OF BOOBS for her birthday.
EVER WONDER WHY ITS CALLED 'WILD ONES'?
FLO RIDA's next album is called "Wild Ones"...and it's dropping on July 3rd. He says, "With this album, there's gonna be a lot of Number Ones, so that's why I came up with the title 'Wild Ones'.
He adds, "I [was] inspired by just traveling around the world, and just coming up with some music that the world can enjoy...to take this from local to national to international."
TAYLOR HAS NO CONFIDENCETAYLOR SWIFT has sold over 20 million albums, which is enough for her to be confident about her abilities as an artist, right? Well, yes...and no.
She tells "American Songwriter", "I think I'm confident about every aspect of my career, sometimes. But I'm never always confident. I'm never always confident about my songwriting.
"I'm never 100 percent confident about anything that I do.
"And I think that keeps you growing. And I think that keeps you motivated. I never want to get complacent and I never want to be 100 percent confident about any skill that I have. It's just not the way I think and not the way that you grow."
FEARSWe've heard of NOMOPHOBIA before...that's the feeling of anxiety you get when you're away from your cell phone. But we didn't realize it had reached THIS point.
According to a new study by a company called SecurEnvoy, losing your cell phone is now the most common fear IN THE WORLD. About 66% of people worldwide have some feeling of anxiousness when they're away from their phone.
That's up from 53% four years ago. They didn't say what the second-most common fear is...but whether it's spiders, heights, snakes, being buried alive, whatever, it's not as common as nomophobia.
"BusinessWeek" magazine reports that OPRAH'S OWN network has already lost $330 MILLION...and won't be able to survive another year unless it makes a dramatic turnaround. The network launched just 16 months ago.
Oprah can't be happy. If she WANTED to blow hundreds of millions of dollars on a FAILURE she could've stayed in Chicago and bought the Cubs. .....ha!
BUT Oprah doesn't have much of her own money invested in the network, but obviously her BRAND will take a big hit if OWN goes belly-up.
B.o.B. DOES THE MOON...??
Is this the beginning of THE GREAT HIP-HOP SPACE RACE?
B.O.B claims that HE will be the first rapper to perform...ON THE MOON.
In a new video, he says, "Before the end of this lifetime, I will perform on the moon. You heard it [here] first. I will perform on the moon.
"And when I'm on the moon, I'm going to take this footage, and I'm going to play it on a screen before the show starts."
B.o.B is 23 years old. So if he's serious...and let's pretend that he is...there's some time for him to find a way to make this happen.
Perhaps he can perform at the ribbon cutting ceremony for President Newt Gingrich's moon base?
LOVELY LADY LUMPSThere's a new book out called "Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History". And even with THAT title, we know you're STILL not going to actually sit down and read it. So here are six interesting facts about breasts from the book. You're welcome.
#1.) Women's breasts are BIGGER THAN EVER.
#2.) The average-sized breast in the U.S. is at least a C-cup, although some studies have found it's more likely a D-cup.
#3.) The average U.S. breast weighs just over one pound...and can double during pregnancy.
#4.) The largest enhanced breast in the world is 21 POUNDS. It's a size 38-triple-K...and contains the equivalent of 2.6 gallons of liquid.
#5.) Before there were silicone breast implants in the mid-1900s, women tried making their breasts larger by surgically stuffing them with glass balls, ivory, wood chips, peanut oil, ox cartilage, and candle wax. That all sounds safe.
#6.) More than 5 million American women have implants.
SPEAKING OF...
RadarOnline put together a top 10 of the biggest and best REAL boobs in Hollywood. Gotta love that! Here it is
http://www.radaronline.com/photos/image/175195/2012/05/10-best-big-real-boobs-hollywood
MAKE-UP SEX IS BADMake-up sex is a proud, long-standing tradition for couples all over the world. You get in a fight, argue a little bit, hopefully reach some kind of resolution, then have angry sex...and the world is good again.
But Dr. Seth Meyers is a clinical psychologist at "Psychology Today", and HE says make-up sex is actually a BAD THING. Because it's just like a crackhead smoking crack.
Meyers says make-up sex isn't the way a couple ACTUALLY shows each other intimacy or affection after getting in a fight. It's just a way of switching gears from negative feelings to the positive experience of sex.
So you're just trying to jump immediately from feeling really low to feeling really high...which is like a fiending crack addict smoking crack.
And if you weren't happy with how the fight turned out, once the make-up sex is over and you come back down, you'll feel even worse.
JUST EAT HER COOKING NEXT TIME...Last month, 69-year-old Yuri Ticuic from the Siberia region of Russia got into a fight with his wife over her LOUSY COOKING. He was so mad that her soup was always cold, that he stormed out of the house.
And then he got lost in a frozen Siberian forest. Where he wasn't found for THIRTY DAYS.
Yuri survived by scavenging for berries, EATING HAY, and DRINKING SNOW. I think this goes without saying...but at that point, he probably missed his wife's cold soup A LOT.
After a month, some farmers finally found him. He was too weak to walk and severely frostbitten. Doctors may end up having to amputate both of his legs.
Yuri told reporters he'll never criticize his wife's cooking again. LOL
HEY MOM: THE SON LOVES YOU MORE
You obviously love one of your kids more than the other. It's okay. You don't have to say which one. But we can tell you which one of THEM loves YOU more...at least if you believe money is love. Which we do.
According to separate surveys on Mother's Day spending in the U.S. and Canada, your son loves you more than your daughter.
In the U.S., the average man will spend $189.74 on Mother's Day. That's almost 62% more than the average woman, who will spend $117.42.
In Canada, the average man will spend $105.02 on Mother's Day. That's 69% more than the average woman, who will spend $61.99.
(If you want, we could just say AMERICA loves their moms more than the silly Canadians!)
According to one retail analyst, men usually spend more on gifts for big holidays than women. "Men tend to have their wallets out less often. But when they do, it's for big purchases. So there's a different expectation about what to spend."
ADDICTED TO...ALL THE THINGS YOU DO......on your FACEBOOK page!
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have developed a way to tell whether you're becoming addicted to Facebook. Check it out...
Women, introverts, and people who are disorganized are more likely to develop a problem. The researchers also came up with six questions that will help determine whether you're addicted.
Using a scale of one to five, rate how closely each question relates to you. If you give yourself a four or a five on at least four of the questions, you might be an addict.
#1.) Do you spend a lot of time thinking about Facebook, or planning HOW you'll use it?
#2.) Do you feel an urge to use Facebook more and more?
#3.) Do you use Facebook to forget about personal problems?
#4.) Have you tried unsuccessfully to quit or cut down?
#5.) Do you become restless or troubled if you're prohibited from using Facebook?
#6.) Has using Facebook had a negative impact on your job or studies?
EMINEM WANTS THE FOIL
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/eminem_asks_hotel_staff_can_tinfoil_XbWpIgkIXbYRjzFeznxs0I
RIHANNA DOES PLAYBOY?If you haven't seen enough of RIHANNA naked yet, here's something to potentially look forward to:
The not-always-reliable British tabloids say she's in talks to pose nude for "Playboy". And the deal would be worth well over a million bucks.
A source says, "[This] appeals to Rihanna’s creative side. Her main concern is that she doesn’t alienate her army of young fans who could think this is a little too risqué."
Really? We're supposed to believe that Rihanna is suddenly worried about her young fans? This is a chick who would show up at the White House in a thong and a see-through tube top.)
I want to believe that Rihanna IS going to pose nude for "Playboy". But when the "anonymous source" says she's worried about being too risqué for the children, the needle on my B.S. METER crashes through the red.
Meanwhile...Britain's "Sun" tabloid says that Rihanna sent ADELE a cake shaped like a PAIR OF BOOBS for her birthday.
EVER WONDER WHY ITS CALLED 'WILD ONES'?
FLO RIDA's next album is called "Wild Ones"...and it's dropping on July 3rd. He says, "With this album, there's gonna be a lot of Number Ones, so that's why I came up with the title 'Wild Ones'.
He adds, "I [was] inspired by just traveling around the world, and just coming up with some music that the world can enjoy...to take this from local to national to international."
TAYLOR HAS NO CONFIDENCETAYLOR SWIFT has sold over 20 million albums, which is enough for her to be confident about her abilities as an artist, right? Well, yes...and no.
She tells "American Songwriter", "I think I'm confident about every aspect of my career, sometimes. But I'm never always confident. I'm never always confident about my songwriting.
"I'm never 100 percent confident about anything that I do.
"And I think that keeps you growing. And I think that keeps you motivated. I never want to get complacent and I never want to be 100 percent confident about any skill that I have. It's just not the way I think and not the way that you grow."
FEARSWe've heard of NOMOPHOBIA before...that's the feeling of anxiety you get when you're away from your cell phone. But we didn't realize it had reached THIS point.
According to a new study by a company called SecurEnvoy, losing your cell phone is now the most common fear IN THE WORLD. About 66% of people worldwide have some feeling of anxiousness when they're away from their phone.
That's up from 53% four years ago. They didn't say what the second-most common fear is...but whether it's spiders, heights, snakes, being buried alive, whatever, it's not as common as nomophobia.
Monday, May 7, 2012
RANDOM FACTSAccording to AshleyMadison.com...which is the world's biggest site for cheating on your spouse...men and women have very different triggers that make them likely to cheat.
They've found that women are most likely to cheat the more successful they are at work. Men are most likely to cheat once they have CHILDREN, because, sadly, that makes their marriage satisfaction drop.
In a new survey by Yahoo, 25% of women say they'd be happy to give up sex for a YEAR to keep their iPad. 13% of men would be willing to make the same deal. Also, 15% of both genders would rather have a tablet than a car. (what?)
MOOCHESA job placement company called the Adecco Group released a survey on recent college graduates, and found that more than half still depend on their parents to help pay living expenses...
32% rely on their parents to pay their cell phone bill.
21% have their parents pay for their food.
20% depend on their parents for Internet access.
And 20% are still on their parents' health insurance.
One in three also say their parents are involved in their job search, by providing business contacts, helping with their resume, or searching job postings.
CHEAPSKATE
So you're cheap. It's okay. I've got a list today of the top 10 big cities for people who are CHEAP. It's based on everything from low cost of living to free entertainment options to libraries to Dollar General stores. Here ya go...
#1.) St. Louis, Missouri
#2.) El Paso, Texas
#3.) Springfield, Illinois
#4.) Kalamazoo, Michigan
#5.) Spokane, Washington
#6.) San Antonio, Texas
#7.) Eau Claire, Wisconsin
#8.) South Bend, Indiana
#9.) Jonesboro, Arkansas
#10.) Wichita, Kansas
NEW NO DOUBTNO DOUBT made a one-minute video to say their next album is coming out on September 25th. It's their first since "Rock Steady", which came out in 2001.
There's no word on a title yet. You can find the video on YouTube.
FASHION SENSE WITH KANYE WEST
KANYE WEST thinks he's an influential figure in the world of fashion, and over the weekend, he went on Twitter to reveal his stance on important fashion issues...such as: Can you wear a hoodie over a button-up shirt?
Well, Kanye says DON'T DO IT. He hates that.
"Just driving through the city and I see a few [things] I hate: I hate button-up shirts with hoodies. I hate hoodies with sport coats. I hate sport coats with button-up shirts, jeans and dress shoes.
"I hate khaki trench coats with jeans and off-brand work out sneakers. I hate khaki cargo shorts. I hate big-a** striped scarves. I hate long-a** sideburns with the line up RnB beard...all this in 5 blocks. Detest. I'm on my snob."
For more potential fashion NO-NOs, follow Kanye at @KanyeWest.
RIHANNAFirst, she wished CHRIS BREEZY a Happy Birthday on Twitter. Read that here:
http://www.eonline.com/news/from_rihanna_happy_23rd_birthday_chris/314090
She was also set to perform on SNL, which she DID...but she called in sick for the dress rehersal which left producers pretty peeved.
NO SLEEPIN...
We've seen these kinds of surveys before, but a new survey by a British bed store called Dreams found that Friday is the night when people get the most sleep.
The average person gets nine hours of sleep on Friday night...and they only take nine minutes to get to sleep.
Obviously, that's because most people don't have to WORK on Saturday, so they can sleep in...but they also aren't staying up worrying about work.
And that's pretty much the same reason that the worst night for sleep...is Sunday. (Enjoy your Monday!)
FACEBOOK LIAR LIARSA survey by "Consumer Reports" found that one in four people LIE on their Facebook profile.
That's more than twice as many as the last time the survey was done, two years ago. One in 10 people said they lied on Facebook back then.
Most people say they aren't lying to make themselves sound better...they do it to protect their identity.
Some people use fake or incomplete names so their boss doesn't know what they're up to. Other people change their birthday so identity thieves can't get a hold of the information.
They've found that women are most likely to cheat the more successful they are at work. Men are most likely to cheat once they have CHILDREN, because, sadly, that makes their marriage satisfaction drop.
In a new survey by Yahoo, 25% of women say they'd be happy to give up sex for a YEAR to keep their iPad. 13% of men would be willing to make the same deal. Also, 15% of both genders would rather have a tablet than a car. (what?)
MOOCHESA job placement company called the Adecco Group released a survey on recent college graduates, and found that more than half still depend on their parents to help pay living expenses...
32% rely on their parents to pay their cell phone bill.
21% have their parents pay for their food.
20% depend on their parents for Internet access.
And 20% are still on their parents' health insurance.
One in three also say their parents are involved in their job search, by providing business contacts, helping with their resume, or searching job postings.
CHEAPSKATE
So you're cheap. It's okay. I've got a list today of the top 10 big cities for people who are CHEAP. It's based on everything from low cost of living to free entertainment options to libraries to Dollar General stores. Here ya go...
#1.) St. Louis, Missouri
#2.) El Paso, Texas
#3.) Springfield, Illinois
#4.) Kalamazoo, Michigan
#5.) Spokane, Washington
#6.) San Antonio, Texas
#7.) Eau Claire, Wisconsin
#8.) South Bend, Indiana
#9.) Jonesboro, Arkansas
#10.) Wichita, Kansas
NEW NO DOUBTNO DOUBT made a one-minute video to say their next album is coming out on September 25th. It's their first since "Rock Steady", which came out in 2001.
There's no word on a title yet. You can find the video on YouTube.
FASHION SENSE WITH KANYE WEST
KANYE WEST thinks he's an influential figure in the world of fashion, and over the weekend, he went on Twitter to reveal his stance on important fashion issues...such as: Can you wear a hoodie over a button-up shirt?
Well, Kanye says DON'T DO IT. He hates that.
"Just driving through the city and I see a few [things] I hate: I hate button-up shirts with hoodies. I hate hoodies with sport coats. I hate sport coats with button-up shirts, jeans and dress shoes.
"I hate khaki trench coats with jeans and off-brand work out sneakers. I hate khaki cargo shorts. I hate big-a** striped scarves. I hate long-a** sideburns with the line up RnB beard...all this in 5 blocks. Detest. I'm on my snob."
For more potential fashion NO-NOs, follow Kanye at @KanyeWest.
RIHANNAFirst, she wished CHRIS BREEZY a Happy Birthday on Twitter. Read that here:
http://www.eonline.com/news/from_rihanna_happy_23rd_birthday_chris/314090
She was also set to perform on SNL, which she DID...but she called in sick for the dress rehersal which left producers pretty peeved.
NO SLEEPIN...
We've seen these kinds of surveys before, but a new survey by a British bed store called Dreams found that Friday is the night when people get the most sleep.
The average person gets nine hours of sleep on Friday night...and they only take nine minutes to get to sleep.
Obviously, that's because most people don't have to WORK on Saturday, so they can sleep in...but they also aren't staying up worrying about work.
And that's pretty much the same reason that the worst night for sleep...is Sunday. (Enjoy your Monday!)
FACEBOOK LIAR LIARSA survey by "Consumer Reports" found that one in four people LIE on their Facebook profile.
That's more than twice as many as the last time the survey was done, two years ago. One in 10 people said they lied on Facebook back then.
Most people say they aren't lying to make themselves sound better...they do it to protect their identity.
Some people use fake or incomplete names so their boss doesn't know what they're up to. Other people change their birthday so identity thieves can't get a hold of the information.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
If SIMON COWELL fired "X Factor" judges PAULA ABDUL and NICOLE SCHERZINGER to bring more credibility to the show...it'd be a surprise if he's interested in hiring 19-year-old DEMI LOVATO.
But that's exactly what we're hearing.
The "Hollywood Reporter" says Demi is, "closing a deal to join BRITNEY SPEARS" on "X Factor" next season.
There's still no official word on Britney...but the whole Internet is under the assumption that she's a sure thing. Supposedly, she's getting $15 million for one season.
"Sources" say Simon is interested in Demi because she "will bring a younger audience to the show."
But Demi isn't the only rumored judge.
Celebuzz.com claims MILEY CYRUS is in the running...but "sources close to Miley" tell E! Online that she doesn't have an offer yet. There's also talk that Simon is considering AVRIL LAVIGNE.
ONE DIRECTION DOES TWITTER
The guys in ONE DIRECTION are active on Twitter...and the stuff they Tweet is occasionally somewhat amusing. Here are their individual handles:
Liam Payne: @Real_Liam_Payne, Harry Styles: @Harry_Styles, Louis Tomlinson: @Louis_Tomlinson, Niall Horan: @NiallOfficial and Zayn Malik: @zaynmalik.
Here are some recent "highlights":
"I just got caked in the face...and a cake made of ice cream is harder than regular cake. Hard cake in the face." (Harry)
"Liam has just said the word 'lingerie' for the first time...he said LINGER-EE." (Harry)
"Zayn just violated my flannel." (Harry)
"Zap I could get a New York hot dog right now. #Zap." (Louis)
"Little unknown fact: I'm 1/16 Belgian." (Louis)
"Not to alarm anyone, but I genuinely think I have left my toothbrush in the last place we were." (Liam)
"Poooop is all I have to sayy." (Liam)
THE WANTED HATE BRITNEY SPEARS NOWThe British boy band THE WANTED recently called CHRISTINA AGUILERA a "total bitch, and now they're criticizing BRITNEY SPEARS' handlers for not letting them LOOK at Britney when they opened for her.
SIVA KANESWARAN says, "I was in the hallway with my tour manager. Basically we were looking with a laptop, trying to get Wi-Fi...facing the middle of the hallway. [Britney's] bouncers came down with her and told us to face the wall.
"We turned around. And I faced a wall for about 10 seconds until she got really far away. It was serious." (This doesn't make much sense. Maybe the bodyguard thought he was filming Britney with his laptop?)
Britney's camp DENIES this. Her rep says, "What's even more interesting than the false allegations they made is the fact that they have claimed to be picked on by two female pop stars in just a few days.
"Look out Lady Gaga...there are still three days left this week."
Regardless, The Wanted doesn't have anything against Britney personally. JAY MCGUINESS says, "When we actually met her person to person, she was so down to Earth. You can tell she's a total southern girl."
That's probably mutual. In November, Britney posed for a picture with The Wanted...and Tweeted it out to her followers with the caption: "We hung out backstage! Love them!" Here's the link
DUMPING FRIENDSJust so you know, if you plan on DUMPING someone anytime soon, it's going to cost you some friends. And not just Facebook friends. Actual friends.
According to a new poll by a website called HealBee.com, the average man or woman loses EIGHT friends in a break-up.
And that's not even counting the person you break-up with...because, I assume, you agree to "stay friends" even though that's clearly a lie, and falls apart within a month.
The average person loses three of their ex's friends, three mutual friends, and two friends they knew before the relationship.
And the people behind the poll say the results were consistent across gender, age, and geography
TALKIN' TRIBEWell actually just talkin' baseball...Will you have to crack into your 401(k) to afford a game this summer? The good news is, probably not. The bad news is...even though it's not THAT expensive, it's not exactly cheap.
The annual "Fan Cost Index" just came out, which breaks down the prices at all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums. Here's what it found...
Tickets. The average ticket to a baseball game costs $27, and the average GOOD seat costs $88. Those numbers haven't changed from last season.
Hot dogs. The average hot dog price is $4.13. The Cincinnati Reds are the cheapest...their new "dollar menu" offers $1 hot dogs. Hey!! I like it!
The Miami Marlins and New York Mets are tied for most expensive...their cheapest hot dog is $6.
Beer. The average price for a small beer is $6.10. The average size of the smallest beer is 15 ounces, or three ounces more than a standard can.
The Arizona Diamondbacks have the best small beer value, at $4 for a 14-ounce beer. They actually charge that same price for a 14-ounce SODA as well. The Boston Red Sox have the worst deal on beer BY FAR, at $7.25 for a 12-ounce.
ALMOST VACATION SEASON...TripAdvisor just released their annual list of the top places to visit on the planet, and apparently people have gotten less adventurous in the past year.
Last year's number one was Cape Town, South Africa. Number two was Sydney, Australia, and number three was Machu Picchu in Peru. This year none of those three made the list. This year's choices are MUCH less exciting.
#1.) London, England
#2.) New York City
#3.) Rome, Italy
#4.) Paris, France
#5.) San Francisco, California
#6.) Marrakech, Morocco
#7.) Istanbul, Turkey
#8.) Barcelona, Spain
#9.) Siem Reap, Cambodia
#10.) Berlin, Germany
The list is based on an analysis of hundreds of thousands of TripAdvisor's reviews over the past year...so the places with the highest overall ratings made the list.
NEW MUSIC FROM ALANISALANIS MORISSETTE has a new album coming out on August 29th. It's called "Havoc and Bright Lights", and the first single, "Guardian", will be out May 15th.
Alanis...being Alanis...had this to say about the new album: "This record, as always, is a snapshot of what I currently obsess about, care about, and what strikes me at 4:00 in the morning in my most introspective moments.
"It is my emotional, psychological, social and philosophical commentary through song."
That sure sounds BRILLIANT...but we all know Alanis is at her BEST when she's FUSSING about something with angry, angsty sarcasm. Or at least, I think so. I haven't really paid attention to Alanis since the '90s.
Specifically, I'm talking about relationships. If you didn't know, "Full House" stud DAVE COULIER claims the song "You Oughta Know" was addressed to HIM. He dated Alanis in the early '90s. Alanis has never confirmed that.)
Also, she's said that her last album, "Flavors of Entanglement", was inspired by her split from RYAN REYNOLDS in 2007.
But now she's married to rapper MARIO TREADWAY, a.k.a. MC SOULEYE. Their relationship seems fine, and they have a kid together. So now that Alanis is so domestic, what will she be whining about this time?
Maybe things like: The A-hole that cut off her mini-van in her cul-de-sac...the organic market was out of fresh eggplant, and she was planning to make ratatouille for dinner...
Or that the new iron that she ordered from Amazon.com was damaged during shipment, and her laundry is piling up.
GAGA IS SINGLE...IF YOU CARE
LADY GAGA and her boyfriend TAYLOR KINNEY have split up. Well, according to a source, they're, "on a break."
The source says, "Gaga will be touring nonstop until next year and has found she can't have a relationship at the same time. There's just no room for anything else. Her work is all-consuming."
FOX IS PISSEDFox has announced a new dating competition show, which totally rips off "The Voice"...right down to the blind auditions and spinning chairs.
Here's how it'll work: Eligible bachelors and bachelorettes will "audition" for four single celebrities, who will be seated in the chairs. Like "The Voice", the stars will be faced away from the contestants at the beginning.
The contestants will talk about themselves, and if a celebrity likes what they hear, they pull their "love handle," and their chair spins around. If two stars are interested, the contestant gets to choose one of them.
Each celebrity will choose three potential matches...and then there are two additional rounds, where the celebrities whittle it down to the one they want to go on a date with. There's no word on what kind of "celebrities" are doing this.
If it didn't go without saying, Fox notes that all the contestants will be, "physically attractive."
By the way, Fox doesn't seem to GIVE A RAT'S ASS that this totally rips off NBC's "The Voice". The show is even called "The Choice"...and a promo brags: "Four celebrities. Blind auditions. Spinning chairs. But it's not what you think."
Hmm. It sure sounds like SOMEONE'S still a little sore about "The Voice" coming in and taking a bite out of "American Idol". I have to admit, this is so brazen it's kind of amusing.
"The Choice" premieres June 7th. The host will be CAT DEELEY, who also hosts Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance".
Wait a minute. "The Voice" is hosted by CARSON DALY. Could they have found a host with a more similar name than Cat Deeley? This is all REALLY odd.
Despite all the obvious similarities, Fox suit Mike Darnell was coy about them stealing anything. When asked about using the spinning chairs, he said, "I had three choices. Choice one: Do a wall like they used to do on 'Dating Game'.
"Choice two: Blindfold them, which would look ridiculous. Or choice three: Go modern and do a chair that turns."
And when asked about the show's TITLE, he added, "'The Choice' seems like an obvious title because you have to make a choice. I'm just now realizing it rhymes!"
MEN AND WOMEN CAN'T BE FRIENDS: STUDYResearchers at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire ran a study on more than 400 adults ages 18 to 52, and their friendships with members of the opposite sex.
And they found that pretty much across the board, opposite-sex friendships just made people MISERABLE.
There was almost always SOME degree of sexual tension...and the more attracted someone was to their friend, the less satisfied they were in their current romantic relationship.
And usually, the GUY in the friendship is the one causing the problems. The researchers say that's just basic evolution...men aren't wired to be friends with women, they're wired to try to have sex with as many of them as possible.
"Attraction in friendship is happening, and it's persistent. Based on all our data, in the majority of friendships there's at least a low level of attraction."
MOVIESAccording to a survey in Canada by a theater chain called Cineplex Entertainment, the average person goes to their first movie in a theater when they're nine years old.
60% of people say that they've been to a movie on a first date, and 35% of people say it's the most common place to take a first date, ahead of dinner and going to a party.
Here are our biggest pet peeves about going to the movies:
#1.) When other people won't SHUT UP: 33% said that people talking was the worst.
#2.) When the person behind you KICKS your SEAT: 18% of people think that's the worst.
#3.) When someone sits RIGHT in front of you, even though there are plenty of other seats: 14% of people mentioned that.
TEBOW DITCHES PROM
18-year-old Rachel Bird of Kingsley, Iowa is a blonde high school cheerleader at Kingsley-Pierson High School.
Her senior prom was last weekend, and she wanted her date to be...TIM TEBOW. So a few weeks back, she tweeted to him, his agent, and the New York Jets asking him to go to the prom. She never got a response.
So rather than go to prom with an actual guy, she decided she was STILL going to go with Tebow. A LIFE-SIZE CARDBOARD CUTOUT of Tebow, that she made at Staples.
Rachel says she didn't get a real date because, "A lot of my friends are guys and they were involved [already] with girls. I didn't want to go with just anybody just to have a date."
She also says she's not bitter at Tebow for never responding. Quote, "He must get 100 requests a minute."
But that's exactly what we're hearing.
The "Hollywood Reporter" says Demi is, "closing a deal to join BRITNEY SPEARS" on "X Factor" next season.
There's still no official word on Britney...but the whole Internet is under the assumption that she's a sure thing. Supposedly, she's getting $15 million for one season.
"Sources" say Simon is interested in Demi because she "will bring a younger audience to the show."
But Demi isn't the only rumored judge.
Celebuzz.com claims MILEY CYRUS is in the running...but "sources close to Miley" tell E! Online that she doesn't have an offer yet. There's also talk that Simon is considering AVRIL LAVIGNE.
ONE DIRECTION DOES TWITTER
The guys in ONE DIRECTION are active on Twitter...and the stuff they Tweet is occasionally somewhat amusing. Here are their individual handles:
Liam Payne: @Real_Liam_Payne, Harry Styles: @Harry_Styles, Louis Tomlinson: @Louis_Tomlinson, Niall Horan: @NiallOfficial and Zayn Malik: @zaynmalik.
Here are some recent "highlights":
"I just got caked in the face...and a cake made of ice cream is harder than regular cake. Hard cake in the face." (Harry)
"Liam has just said the word 'lingerie' for the first time...he said LINGER-EE." (Harry)
"Zayn just violated my flannel." (Harry)
"Zap I could get a New York hot dog right now. #Zap." (Louis)
"Little unknown fact: I'm 1/16 Belgian." (Louis)
"Not to alarm anyone, but I genuinely think I have left my toothbrush in the last place we were." (Liam)
"Poooop is all I have to sayy." (Liam)
THE WANTED HATE BRITNEY SPEARS NOWThe British boy band THE WANTED recently called CHRISTINA AGUILERA a "total bitch, and now they're criticizing BRITNEY SPEARS' handlers for not letting them LOOK at Britney when they opened for her.
SIVA KANESWARAN says, "I was in the hallway with my tour manager. Basically we were looking with a laptop, trying to get Wi-Fi...facing the middle of the hallway. [Britney's] bouncers came down with her and told us to face the wall.
"We turned around. And I faced a wall for about 10 seconds until she got really far away. It was serious." (This doesn't make much sense. Maybe the bodyguard thought he was filming Britney with his laptop?)
Britney's camp DENIES this. Her rep says, "What's even more interesting than the false allegations they made is the fact that they have claimed to be picked on by two female pop stars in just a few days.
"Look out Lady Gaga...there are still three days left this week."
Regardless, The Wanted doesn't have anything against Britney personally. JAY MCGUINESS says, "When we actually met her person to person, she was so down to Earth. You can tell she's a total southern girl."
That's probably mutual. In November, Britney posed for a picture with The Wanted...and Tweeted it out to her followers with the caption: "We hung out backstage! Love them!" Here's the link
DUMPING FRIENDSJust so you know, if you plan on DUMPING someone anytime soon, it's going to cost you some friends. And not just Facebook friends. Actual friends.
According to a new poll by a website called HealBee.com, the average man or woman loses EIGHT friends in a break-up.
And that's not even counting the person you break-up with...because, I assume, you agree to "stay friends" even though that's clearly a lie, and falls apart within a month.
The average person loses three of their ex's friends, three mutual friends, and two friends they knew before the relationship.
And the people behind the poll say the results were consistent across gender, age, and geography
TALKIN' TRIBEWell actually just talkin' baseball...Will you have to crack into your 401(k) to afford a game this summer? The good news is, probably not. The bad news is...even though it's not THAT expensive, it's not exactly cheap.
The annual "Fan Cost Index" just came out, which breaks down the prices at all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums. Here's what it found...
Tickets. The average ticket to a baseball game costs $27, and the average GOOD seat costs $88. Those numbers haven't changed from last season.
Hot dogs. The average hot dog price is $4.13. The Cincinnati Reds are the cheapest...their new "dollar menu" offers $1 hot dogs. Hey!! I like it!
The Miami Marlins and New York Mets are tied for most expensive...their cheapest hot dog is $6.
Beer. The average price for a small beer is $6.10. The average size of the smallest beer is 15 ounces, or three ounces more than a standard can.
The Arizona Diamondbacks have the best small beer value, at $4 for a 14-ounce beer. They actually charge that same price for a 14-ounce SODA as well. The Boston Red Sox have the worst deal on beer BY FAR, at $7.25 for a 12-ounce.
ALMOST VACATION SEASON...TripAdvisor just released their annual list of the top places to visit on the planet, and apparently people have gotten less adventurous in the past year.
Last year's number one was Cape Town, South Africa. Number two was Sydney, Australia, and number three was Machu Picchu in Peru. This year none of those three made the list. This year's choices are MUCH less exciting.
#1.) London, England
#2.) New York City
#3.) Rome, Italy
#4.) Paris, France
#5.) San Francisco, California
#6.) Marrakech, Morocco
#7.) Istanbul, Turkey
#8.) Barcelona, Spain
#9.) Siem Reap, Cambodia
#10.) Berlin, Germany
The list is based on an analysis of hundreds of thousands of TripAdvisor's reviews over the past year...so the places with the highest overall ratings made the list.
NEW MUSIC FROM ALANISALANIS MORISSETTE has a new album coming out on August 29th. It's called "Havoc and Bright Lights", and the first single, "Guardian", will be out May 15th.
Alanis...being Alanis...had this to say about the new album: "This record, as always, is a snapshot of what I currently obsess about, care about, and what strikes me at 4:00 in the morning in my most introspective moments.
"It is my emotional, psychological, social and philosophical commentary through song."
That sure sounds BRILLIANT...but we all know Alanis is at her BEST when she's FUSSING about something with angry, angsty sarcasm. Or at least, I think so. I haven't really paid attention to Alanis since the '90s.
Specifically, I'm talking about relationships. If you didn't know, "Full House" stud DAVE COULIER claims the song "You Oughta Know" was addressed to HIM. He dated Alanis in the early '90s. Alanis has never confirmed that.)
Also, she's said that her last album, "Flavors of Entanglement", was inspired by her split from RYAN REYNOLDS in 2007.
But now she's married to rapper MARIO TREADWAY, a.k.a. MC SOULEYE. Their relationship seems fine, and they have a kid together. So now that Alanis is so domestic, what will she be whining about this time?
Maybe things like: The A-hole that cut off her mini-van in her cul-de-sac...the organic market was out of fresh eggplant, and she was planning to make ratatouille for dinner...
Or that the new iron that she ordered from Amazon.com was damaged during shipment, and her laundry is piling up.
GAGA IS SINGLE...IF YOU CARE
LADY GAGA and her boyfriend TAYLOR KINNEY have split up. Well, according to a source, they're, "on a break."
The source says, "Gaga will be touring nonstop until next year and has found she can't have a relationship at the same time. There's just no room for anything else. Her work is all-consuming."
FOX IS PISSEDFox has announced a new dating competition show, which totally rips off "The Voice"...right down to the blind auditions and spinning chairs.
Here's how it'll work: Eligible bachelors and bachelorettes will "audition" for four single celebrities, who will be seated in the chairs. Like "The Voice", the stars will be faced away from the contestants at the beginning.
The contestants will talk about themselves, and if a celebrity likes what they hear, they pull their "love handle," and their chair spins around. If two stars are interested, the contestant gets to choose one of them.
Each celebrity will choose three potential matches...and then there are two additional rounds, where the celebrities whittle it down to the one they want to go on a date with. There's no word on what kind of "celebrities" are doing this.
If it didn't go without saying, Fox notes that all the contestants will be, "physically attractive."
By the way, Fox doesn't seem to GIVE A RAT'S ASS that this totally rips off NBC's "The Voice". The show is even called "The Choice"...and a promo brags: "Four celebrities. Blind auditions. Spinning chairs. But it's not what you think."
Hmm. It sure sounds like SOMEONE'S still a little sore about "The Voice" coming in and taking a bite out of "American Idol". I have to admit, this is so brazen it's kind of amusing.
"The Choice" premieres June 7th. The host will be CAT DEELEY, who also hosts Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance".
Wait a minute. "The Voice" is hosted by CARSON DALY. Could they have found a host with a more similar name than Cat Deeley? This is all REALLY odd.
Despite all the obvious similarities, Fox suit Mike Darnell was coy about them stealing anything. When asked about using the spinning chairs, he said, "I had three choices. Choice one: Do a wall like they used to do on 'Dating Game'.
"Choice two: Blindfold them, which would look ridiculous. Or choice three: Go modern and do a chair that turns."
And when asked about the show's TITLE, he added, "'The Choice' seems like an obvious title because you have to make a choice. I'm just now realizing it rhymes!"
MEN AND WOMEN CAN'T BE FRIENDS: STUDYResearchers at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire ran a study on more than 400 adults ages 18 to 52, and their friendships with members of the opposite sex.
And they found that pretty much across the board, opposite-sex friendships just made people MISERABLE.
There was almost always SOME degree of sexual tension...and the more attracted someone was to their friend, the less satisfied they were in their current romantic relationship.
And usually, the GUY in the friendship is the one causing the problems. The researchers say that's just basic evolution...men aren't wired to be friends with women, they're wired to try to have sex with as many of them as possible.
"Attraction in friendship is happening, and it's persistent. Based on all our data, in the majority of friendships there's at least a low level of attraction."
MOVIESAccording to a survey in Canada by a theater chain called Cineplex Entertainment, the average person goes to their first movie in a theater when they're nine years old.
60% of people say that they've been to a movie on a first date, and 35% of people say it's the most common place to take a first date, ahead of dinner and going to a party.
Here are our biggest pet peeves about going to the movies:
#1.) When other people won't SHUT UP: 33% said that people talking was the worst.
#2.) When the person behind you KICKS your SEAT: 18% of people think that's the worst.
#3.) When someone sits RIGHT in front of you, even though there are plenty of other seats: 14% of people mentioned that.
TEBOW DITCHES PROM
18-year-old Rachel Bird of Kingsley, Iowa is a blonde high school cheerleader at Kingsley-Pierson High School.
Her senior prom was last weekend, and she wanted her date to be...TIM TEBOW. So a few weeks back, she tweeted to him, his agent, and the New York Jets asking him to go to the prom. She never got a response.
So rather than go to prom with an actual guy, she decided she was STILL going to go with Tebow. A LIFE-SIZE CARDBOARD CUTOUT of Tebow, that she made at Staples.
Rachel says she didn't get a real date because, "A lot of my friends are guys and they were involved [already] with girls. I didn't want to go with just anybody just to have a date."
She also says she's not bitter at Tebow for never responding. Quote, "He must get 100 requests a minute."
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
TERRIBLE TUES-DAY
BACKSTREET'S (ALL) BACK, ALRIGHT!When you're 40 years old, and in the midst of a mid-life crisis...sometimes you stop thinking clearly, and do things you normally wouldn't do. And SHOULDN'T do.
That must be what's happening to KEVIN RICHARDSON...because he's officially re-joining the BACKSTREET BOYS. (This isn't a huge surprise. Back in October, he said he'd "love to perform with them again on a more regular basis.")
The group made the announcement at a concert in London on Sunday night. They also announced that they're recording a new album this summer. (There's video of the announcement on BackstreetBoys.com.)
Yesterday, Kevin Tweeted, "Hello beau-ti-ful people. Yes, the cat is OFFICIALLY out of the bag. It's on and cracking!"
Kevin left the group in 2006 to "pursue other interests." That wasn't a bad idea. He was 34 at the time...the oldest guy in the group...and at that point it's strange to still be in a boy band.
Now, Kevin is 40...and WAY too old to be doing the boy band thing. But Backstreet has been doing stuff with NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK, and most of them are in their early 40s, so maybe Kevin feels more comfortable with that.
Or, he could use a little extra cash, who knows.
NEW MUSIC...
THE OFFSPRING have put out a new single called "Days Go By". It's the title track off their new album, which comes out June 26th. (The song is on their VEVO channel.)
J.LO/ENRIQUE CONCERT DATESIf you're a SUPER FAN of JENNIFER LOPEZ and/or ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, well you'll want to know about the tour the two will be embarking on this summer. Dates were announced yesterday, with more to be added later. Chicago is the closest they get to us, so far.
http://jenniferlopez.com/blog/post/official-announcement-of-tour-dates
THE TV NETWORK WHO FORCED US TO SEE EVEN MORE RYAN SEAMONKEY...
...is now bringing us MORE award-winning television. The E! network just announced a rundown of some new shows they have in the pipeline, and believe it or not, a KEVIN JONAS reality show is the best thing they could come up with.
Because the rest of their programming sounds TERRIBLE. (At least for now. There's no casting information yet...so there's a chance some of this stuff could get more interesting. A slim chance.)
There's a talk show hosted by comedienne WHITNEY CUMMINGS...and a reality competition that will "comb the Internet to find the web's most talented amateurs."
There's also a ton of hilariously bad-sounding scripted shows:
A crime drama about a "late 20-something, culturally-obsessed detective"...a drama about Henry the Eighth "reset in present-day Hollywood"...a show about a band who's trying to solve the disappearance of their lead singer...
A "Wizard of Oz"-inspired show about "a girl from Kansas City who falls for a man and moves with him to the Emerald City to work at his Emerald Hotel"...a, quote, "fast-paced drama set in New York society of the 1890s"...
A story about a "good man" who "accidentally kills a woman who has been blackmailing him," and then frames another man...and a drama about a "billionaire with a penchant for hooking up with lobbyists" in Washington D.C.
CLIMAX OR BIGFOOT
Wait, what? In a survey by Durex condoms, 46% of people say they're more likely to SEE BIGFOOT than to "finish" at the same time as their partner during sex. That means about HALF of us think climaxing in unison is MORE elusive than Bigfoot?
It's sad to see how few people have faith in their sexual chemistry. Either that...or a LOT of people believe in mythical creatures roaming around the Pacific Northwest.
Here are a few other findings from the survey...although, unfortunately, none of them bring up the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, or the Chupacabra.
More than half of Americans are unhappy with how long sex lasts...37% say it ends too quickly, 14% say it lasts too long.
53% of people use lube in bed, and 39% use toys.
33% of women say they fantasize about meeting for sex in the Eiffel Tower...31% of men think about doing it in the White House.
THE LAZY STUDY!!!!!I know what you're thinking...I was FAR too excited about laziness just there. According to a new poll by Weight Watchers, here's how lazy we are...
The average person does nothing but SIT four nights a week.
The average driver gets in their car to go someplace within walking distance an average of 3.7 times per week.
28% of people say they're so lazy they ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs.
12% of people clean their room by shoving things under their bed.
17% regularly choose sleep over sex.
And 20% say they never do ANY exercise, ever.
CLEVELAND SPORTS WILL MAKE YOU BEAT ANIMALS?Someone brought this to my attention...and you wanna laugh, but it's honestly troubling. In Sunday's newspaper and "Dear Abby" column, a dad wrote in to tell Abby he and his eight-year-old son love watching sports together. But they're from Cleveland...home of almost all the most heartbreaking sports losses in the past 30 years.
And after the BROWNS, TRIBE or CAVS lose, his son has trouble reacting to the loss and, quote, "he'll take out his disappointment by beating the dog." So he asked Abby what to do.
Her response is, "Stop trying so hard to be your son's sports buddy and try harder to be a parent...do not wait another day to get him the counseling he needs. Children who hurt animals often go on to hurt other children."
TRANSLATED: relocate to Pittsburgh.
THE FB GUIDE FOR THE NEW PARENTPosting Facebook updates about tiny, insignificant things is annoying. But parents...especially NEW parents...can be the MOST annoying, because they constantly post insignificant updates about their KIDS.
If you're a mom or a dad...or you're about to be one...here are six more things you shouldn't be doing on Facebook.
#1.) Announcing You're Pregnant as Soon as You Find Out. First of all, you should tell your parents and close friends first...either in person or on the phone. It's just rude to tell them AFTER you tell your 500 random Facebook friends.
And even if you're not waiting the traditional three months before you tell people, you should at least wait until you're SURE you're pregnant. You don't want to tell everyone you know, then find out the pregnancy test was wrong.
#2.) Making Your Profile Picture a Photo of Just Your Baby. If you want to show off your kid, that's fine. But at least make it a photo of the TWO of you.
Also, stop posting NAKED pictures of your kids. It's a lot different than keeping them in a photo album where only YOU can access them.
#3.) Letting People Know the Laundry Is Done. This isn't just for parents, it applies to everyone: Unless you accidentally turned all your clothes pink, nobody cares about how much laundry you did.
#4.) Discussing Dirty Diapers. If you're a new parent, one or two dirty diaper stories are acceptable. But any more than that and you'll just start grossing people out. Especially if you go into detail and talk about things like color and consistency.
#5.) Giving Play-by-Play Potty Training Updates. The same rule applies: The first time they use the bathroom, feel free to post something about it if you want to. But stop there.
And don't specify whether it was a "number one" or a "number two." Your friends realize it was one or the other, and they don't really care which one it was.
#6.) Making Every Single Status Update About Your Kids. Obviously they're the most important part of your life, so it's easy to do.
But if you NEVER talk about anything else, eventually your friends will ONLY think of you as a parent.
TEXT SPAMSpam text messages in the US soared 45% to 4.5 billion last year, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
"I don't even get that much junk mail in my Gmail account," says a journalist in Washington, DC. "This is my phone. It seems more personal." But her effort to seek revenge on one spammer—by calling him back 20 times—was more personally satisfying than effective, because the texts are still flooding her phone.
The ire of wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint has prompted some action, because angry calls to customer-service lines cost between $5 and $50 per spam complaint, according to one expert.
The Federal Trade Commission reacted by filing suits against major spammers and settling one last year.
But consider the temptation for spammers, who can find our phone numbers online or generate them randomly, and send out dozens of texts per minute, all day long—without having to worry about all-too-common email spam filters.
That must be what's happening to KEVIN RICHARDSON...because he's officially re-joining the BACKSTREET BOYS. (This isn't a huge surprise. Back in October, he said he'd "love to perform with them again on a more regular basis.")
The group made the announcement at a concert in London on Sunday night. They also announced that they're recording a new album this summer. (There's video of the announcement on BackstreetBoys.com.)
Yesterday, Kevin Tweeted, "Hello beau-ti-ful people. Yes, the cat is OFFICIALLY out of the bag. It's on and cracking!"
Kevin left the group in 2006 to "pursue other interests." That wasn't a bad idea. He was 34 at the time...the oldest guy in the group...and at that point it's strange to still be in a boy band.
Now, Kevin is 40...and WAY too old to be doing the boy band thing. But Backstreet has been doing stuff with NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK, and most of them are in their early 40s, so maybe Kevin feels more comfortable with that.
Or, he could use a little extra cash, who knows.
NEW MUSIC...
THE OFFSPRING have put out a new single called "Days Go By". It's the title track off their new album, which comes out June 26th. (The song is on their VEVO channel.)
J.LO/ENRIQUE CONCERT DATESIf you're a SUPER FAN of JENNIFER LOPEZ and/or ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, well you'll want to know about the tour the two will be embarking on this summer. Dates were announced yesterday, with more to be added later. Chicago is the closest they get to us, so far.
http://jenniferlopez.com/blog/post/official-announcement-of-tour-dates
THE TV NETWORK WHO FORCED US TO SEE EVEN MORE RYAN SEAMONKEY...
...is now bringing us MORE award-winning television. The E! network just announced a rundown of some new shows they have in the pipeline, and believe it or not, a KEVIN JONAS reality show is the best thing they could come up with.
Because the rest of their programming sounds TERRIBLE. (At least for now. There's no casting information yet...so there's a chance some of this stuff could get more interesting. A slim chance.)
There's a talk show hosted by comedienne WHITNEY CUMMINGS...and a reality competition that will "comb the Internet to find the web's most talented amateurs."
There's also a ton of hilariously bad-sounding scripted shows:
A crime drama about a "late 20-something, culturally-obsessed detective"...a drama about Henry the Eighth "reset in present-day Hollywood"...a show about a band who's trying to solve the disappearance of their lead singer...
A "Wizard of Oz"-inspired show about "a girl from Kansas City who falls for a man and moves with him to the Emerald City to work at his Emerald Hotel"...a, quote, "fast-paced drama set in New York society of the 1890s"...
A story about a "good man" who "accidentally kills a woman who has been blackmailing him," and then frames another man...and a drama about a "billionaire with a penchant for hooking up with lobbyists" in Washington D.C.
CLIMAX OR BIGFOOT
Wait, what? In a survey by Durex condoms, 46% of people say they're more likely to SEE BIGFOOT than to "finish" at the same time as their partner during sex. That means about HALF of us think climaxing in unison is MORE elusive than Bigfoot?
It's sad to see how few people have faith in their sexual chemistry. Either that...or a LOT of people believe in mythical creatures roaming around the Pacific Northwest.
Here are a few other findings from the survey...although, unfortunately, none of them bring up the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, or the Chupacabra.
More than half of Americans are unhappy with how long sex lasts...37% say it ends too quickly, 14% say it lasts too long.
53% of people use lube in bed, and 39% use toys.
33% of women say they fantasize about meeting for sex in the Eiffel Tower...31% of men think about doing it in the White House.
THE LAZY STUDY!!!!!I know what you're thinking...I was FAR too excited about laziness just there. According to a new poll by Weight Watchers, here's how lazy we are...
The average person does nothing but SIT four nights a week.
The average driver gets in their car to go someplace within walking distance an average of 3.7 times per week.
28% of people say they're so lazy they ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs.
12% of people clean their room by shoving things under their bed.
17% regularly choose sleep over sex.
And 20% say they never do ANY exercise, ever.
CLEVELAND SPORTS WILL MAKE YOU BEAT ANIMALS?Someone brought this to my attention...and you wanna laugh, but it's honestly troubling. In Sunday's newspaper and "Dear Abby" column, a dad wrote in to tell Abby he and his eight-year-old son love watching sports together. But they're from Cleveland...home of almost all the most heartbreaking sports losses in the past 30 years.
And after the BROWNS, TRIBE or CAVS lose, his son has trouble reacting to the loss and, quote, "he'll take out his disappointment by beating the dog." So he asked Abby what to do.
Her response is, "Stop trying so hard to be your son's sports buddy and try harder to be a parent...do not wait another day to get him the counseling he needs. Children who hurt animals often go on to hurt other children."
TRANSLATED: relocate to Pittsburgh.
THE FB GUIDE FOR THE NEW PARENTPosting Facebook updates about tiny, insignificant things is annoying. But parents...especially NEW parents...can be the MOST annoying, because they constantly post insignificant updates about their KIDS.
If you're a mom or a dad...or you're about to be one...here are six more things you shouldn't be doing on Facebook.
#1.) Announcing You're Pregnant as Soon as You Find Out. First of all, you should tell your parents and close friends first...either in person or on the phone. It's just rude to tell them AFTER you tell your 500 random Facebook friends.
And even if you're not waiting the traditional three months before you tell people, you should at least wait until you're SURE you're pregnant. You don't want to tell everyone you know, then find out the pregnancy test was wrong.
#2.) Making Your Profile Picture a Photo of Just Your Baby. If you want to show off your kid, that's fine. But at least make it a photo of the TWO of you.
Also, stop posting NAKED pictures of your kids. It's a lot different than keeping them in a photo album where only YOU can access them.
#3.) Letting People Know the Laundry Is Done. This isn't just for parents, it applies to everyone: Unless you accidentally turned all your clothes pink, nobody cares about how much laundry you did.
#4.) Discussing Dirty Diapers. If you're a new parent, one or two dirty diaper stories are acceptable. But any more than that and you'll just start grossing people out. Especially if you go into detail and talk about things like color and consistency.
#5.) Giving Play-by-Play Potty Training Updates. The same rule applies: The first time they use the bathroom, feel free to post something about it if you want to. But stop there.
And don't specify whether it was a "number one" or a "number two." Your friends realize it was one or the other, and they don't really care which one it was.
#6.) Making Every Single Status Update About Your Kids. Obviously they're the most important part of your life, so it's easy to do.
But if you NEVER talk about anything else, eventually your friends will ONLY think of you as a parent.
TEXT SPAMSpam text messages in the US soared 45% to 4.5 billion last year, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
"I don't even get that much junk mail in my Gmail account," says a journalist in Washington, DC. "This is my phone. It seems more personal." But her effort to seek revenge on one spammer—by calling him back 20 times—was more personally satisfying than effective, because the texts are still flooding her phone.
The ire of wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint has prompted some action, because angry calls to customer-service lines cost between $5 and $50 per spam complaint, according to one expert.
The Federal Trade Commission reacted by filing suits against major spammers and settling one last year.
But consider the temptation for spammers, who can find our phone numbers online or generate them randomly, and send out dozens of texts per minute, all day long—without having to worry about all-too-common email spam filters.
Monday, April 30, 2012
ASHTON KUTCHER WAS MILA'S FIRST KISS...
For some reason that 3OH!3 and KE$HA song comes to mind..."my first kiss went a little like this...and twist"
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20590644,00.html
ADAM LEVINE...JENNIFER LOVE HEWITTEarlier this month, JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT appeared on "Ellen"...and gushed over a newly-single ADAM LEVINE.
Well, Adam showed up on "Ellen" Thursday. So how does he feel about all that attention? He joked, "That was aggressive."
Then he added, "It was really sweet and flattering. Beautiful life, you know, beautiful woman says nice things about you."
But when Ellen suggested that she could help make it happen, Adam seemed to back off. He said, "I'm cool."
Whaaaa......hey, Jenny Love...call me, Rob...call your boy. Let's make it happen.
NO MORE FOOTBALL?The lamest football game of the year doesn't occur in Division 69 college ball...or even in the Arena Football League. It's an NFL game. We call it the Pro Bowl. But it might just be a thing of the past.
Chris Mortensen of ESPN says the League is seriously considering getting rid of the game. They're so serious about it that there might not even be one next year.
He says, "As one person told me last night, it is DOA, Dead on Arrival.
"At the same time, the league, I believe, will instruct teams to continue to put Pro Bowl incentives in contracts; if players have Pro Bowl incentives, to go ahead and pay them so they don't have a problem with the union."
Mortensen added that Commissioner ROGER GOODELL himself has declared the game, "on life support."
PARTY ROCK MOVIE?The official video for LMFAO'S "Party Rock Anthem" has been viewed over 425 MILLION TIMES...and this has the group thinking about releasing a full-on MOVIE.
They're still just kicking around the idea, so there aren't any real details yet, but if they do it...you can expect it to be CRAZY.
REDFOO says, "It might be too much for the world. You might have to do some sit-ups and stuff [because] you might be laughing...you might have to stretch your stomach muscles."
They say their goal would be to, "change movies," but they didn't really elaborate on that...other than to suggest that it could be interactive.
Redfoo says, "The etiquette in movie theaters [is] 'Be quiet!' We might say, 'Everybody, right now tweet something!'...or, 'Take a picture of what's on the screen right now and tweet it out!' What if we did that in the movie?"
"IN THE CAR...I JUST CAN'T WAIT...TO PICK YOU UP FOR OUR VERY FIRST DATE"Thanks to the guys of BLINK-182.
Match.com just did a survey to figure out the rules of first dates. Here's what they found...
Kissing Is Okay: 85% of people said a peck on the cheek is an appropriate way to end a first date. But some ARE open to going further...with the right person.
40% would make out on a first date. Only 1.4% of women will sleep with someone on the first date, and only 12% would do it within three dates.
Don't Wait To Call: 31% of guys will call the day after the date, while only 25% wait the standard two or three days. 47% of women will wait for the guy to call after the date.
Facebook Is More of a Commitment Than Calling: 20% of men and 16% of women wait two or three dates before sending a friend request.
16% of women wait until the relationship is exclusive before friending, but 10% of men send a request BEFORE the first date.
SHOCKER: WE'RE OBSESSED WITH FACEBOOKI've got the results of a new survey about Facebook that found we're obsessed with it, we do embarrassing things on it...and yet we think most of what it offers is useless and we wouldn't pay for it.
#1.) 44% of people check Facebook before they even brush their teeth in the morning.
GUILTY.
#2.) 79% say they can't go more than 24 hours without checking Facebook...and almost half are scared by how dependent they are on it.
GUILTY but I wouldn't say it scares me.
#3.) BUT...70% would stop using Facebook if it became a paid service.
I'd go Tweet sh*t.
#4.) And only 8% of people think most Facebook status updates provide helpful or useful information.
MINE ALWAYS DO!!!!
#5.) 46% are tagged in photos where they're clearly intoxicated.
NOT A CHANCE
#6.) 65% say they'd be embarrassed if people could see which friends they look at most frequently.
NAH.
MOM'S DAY SHTUFF
But she SAID she loved it.
She didn't.
According to a new survey by Harris Interactive, 31% of mothers say they USUALLY have to PRETEND to like the Mother's Day gifts they get from their family. That's one-third of moms faking it.
Translation: Call your siblings, pool your money, and spring for an iPad, a spa treatment, or a tropical vacation.
STUPID MOM'S DAY GIFT IDEA
And if you'd like to ensure that YOUR mother is one of the 31%...well, here ya go.
A company in Wisconsin just rolled out frying pans in the shape of the 48 states in the continental U.S. (It's really hard to shape Hawaii)
So you could buy Rhode Island and make silver dollar pancakes, Colorado to make square eggs, California to make huge omelets, Florida to make things in the shape of male genitalia...the possibilities are really endless.
There are only two little catches. One, they're charging A LOT for these frying pans. The prices vary based on the size and complexity of the state...Rhode Island is $150, Texas is $2,500 (!!!), and that doesn't include shipping.
And two, they're backordered, and the company that makes them is predicting a six-week delivery time. So on Mother's Day itself, you'd just have to give your mom a photo of the gift.
You can check out the pans at FelionStudios.com
THIEVES...According to a study of almost 5,000 people, almost one-third admit they've stolen something at a grocery store self-checkout.
The most common technique is picking a cheaper fruit or vegetable when they're weighing their produce. Other people pick "small" when they're asked to enter a size...and some just put stuff in their bags without paying for it.
MORE ON JENNY LOVE/ADAM LEVINEEarlier this month, JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT was on the "Ellen" show and said she had a crush on ADAM LEVINE.
Then, last week, Adam told ELLEN DEGENERES that when he heard about Jennifer's comments, he thought, "That was aggressive...it was really sweet and flattering."
So Jennifer headed to Twitter to talk about how it felt to get SHOT DOWN like that.
She wrote, quote, "The moment when you make a comment about something or someone and the world makes you feel like a total fool. #KeepCrushesQuiet."
"Thank you to Adam Levine for being so gracious on 'Ellen' about my crush heard 'round the world. I've learned a lesson. #Sssh."
COMING OFF......our Back In The Day weekend, this is a cool look at some couples you PROBABLY forgot about...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/forgotten-couples-of-the-90s
THE WANTED SAY X-TINA...
The British boy band THE WANTED, with their smash "Glad You Came", recently performed on "The Voice"...and apparently CHRISTINA AGUILERA gave them the cold shoulder, because the group slammed her in a radio interview.
MAX GEORGE said, "She was a bit scary to be honest." And SIVA KANESWARAN added, "She was quite rude."
TOM PARKER went a little further. He said, "She was a total bitch! She might not be a bitch in real life, but to us she was a bitch to us. She just sat there and didn't speak to us. Wouldn't even look at us."
The Wanted also recently appeared on "American Idol"...and they loved JENNIFER LOPEZ. In fact, Max gave her a kiss. When asked about it, he said, "Yeah, well J-Lo's hot, Christina's nothing special."
Yesterday, Tom apologized...but he still thinks Christina was rude to them.
He told the paparazzi, "We shouldn't have said it, to be honest with you. We just think manners cost nothing, you know what I mean?"
SOME BIG NAMES FOR "SNL"WILL FERRELL is coming back to host "Saturday Night Live" on May 12th. The musical guest is USHER. This will be the third time Will has hosted "SNL" since leaving in 2002. He also hosted in 2005 and 2009.
New York Giants quarterback ELI MANNING is hosting this Saturday. RIHANNA is the musical guest.
WHY WERE YOU SPEEDING?
This clearly WON'T get you out of a speeding ticket. But as far as excuses go...at least this guy was honest.
21-year-old Zachary Ramirez got stopped by police in suburban Chicago on Saturday night.
He was clocked going 104 miles-per-hour in a 45 zone, then sped up to 111 miles an hour. He also ran a stop sign. But he had a good reason for speeding...
According to the police report, he was, "trying to go have sex with a girl he liked."
Unfortunately for Zachary, the police you-know-what blocked him big time. He got arrested on five charges, including marijuana possession when an officer found a fraction of a gram in the car.
For some reason that 3OH!3 and KE$HA song comes to mind..."my first kiss went a little like this...and twist"
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20590644,00.html
ADAM LEVINE...JENNIFER LOVE HEWITTEarlier this month, JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT appeared on "Ellen"...and gushed over a newly-single ADAM LEVINE.
Well, Adam showed up on "Ellen" Thursday. So how does he feel about all that attention? He joked, "That was aggressive."
Then he added, "It was really sweet and flattering. Beautiful life, you know, beautiful woman says nice things about you."
But when Ellen suggested that she could help make it happen, Adam seemed to back off. He said, "I'm cool."
Whaaaa......hey, Jenny Love...call me, Rob...call your boy. Let's make it happen.
NO MORE FOOTBALL?The lamest football game of the year doesn't occur in Division 69 college ball...or even in the Arena Football League. It's an NFL game. We call it the Pro Bowl. But it might just be a thing of the past.
Chris Mortensen of ESPN says the League is seriously considering getting rid of the game. They're so serious about it that there might not even be one next year.
He says, "As one person told me last night, it is DOA, Dead on Arrival.
"At the same time, the league, I believe, will instruct teams to continue to put Pro Bowl incentives in contracts; if players have Pro Bowl incentives, to go ahead and pay them so they don't have a problem with the union."
Mortensen added that Commissioner ROGER GOODELL himself has declared the game, "on life support."
PARTY ROCK MOVIE?The official video for LMFAO'S "Party Rock Anthem" has been viewed over 425 MILLION TIMES...and this has the group thinking about releasing a full-on MOVIE.
They're still just kicking around the idea, so there aren't any real details yet, but if they do it...you can expect it to be CRAZY.
REDFOO says, "It might be too much for the world. You might have to do some sit-ups and stuff [because] you might be laughing...you might have to stretch your stomach muscles."
They say their goal would be to, "change movies," but they didn't really elaborate on that...other than to suggest that it could be interactive.
Redfoo says, "The etiquette in movie theaters [is] 'Be quiet!' We might say, 'Everybody, right now tweet something!'...or, 'Take a picture of what's on the screen right now and tweet it out!' What if we did that in the movie?"
"IN THE CAR...I JUST CAN'T WAIT...TO PICK YOU UP FOR OUR VERY FIRST DATE"Thanks to the guys of BLINK-182.
Match.com just did a survey to figure out the rules of first dates. Here's what they found...
Kissing Is Okay: 85% of people said a peck on the cheek is an appropriate way to end a first date. But some ARE open to going further...with the right person.
40% would make out on a first date. Only 1.4% of women will sleep with someone on the first date, and only 12% would do it within three dates.
Don't Wait To Call: 31% of guys will call the day after the date, while only 25% wait the standard two or three days. 47% of women will wait for the guy to call after the date.
Facebook Is More of a Commitment Than Calling: 20% of men and 16% of women wait two or three dates before sending a friend request.
16% of women wait until the relationship is exclusive before friending, but 10% of men send a request BEFORE the first date.
SHOCKER: WE'RE OBSESSED WITH FACEBOOKI've got the results of a new survey about Facebook that found we're obsessed with it, we do embarrassing things on it...and yet we think most of what it offers is useless and we wouldn't pay for it.
#1.) 44% of people check Facebook before they even brush their teeth in the morning.
GUILTY.
#2.) 79% say they can't go more than 24 hours without checking Facebook...and almost half are scared by how dependent they are on it.
GUILTY but I wouldn't say it scares me.
#3.) BUT...70% would stop using Facebook if it became a paid service.
I'd go Tweet sh*t.
#4.) And only 8% of people think most Facebook status updates provide helpful or useful information.
MINE ALWAYS DO!!!!
#5.) 46% are tagged in photos where they're clearly intoxicated.
NOT A CHANCE
#6.) 65% say they'd be embarrassed if people could see which friends they look at most frequently.
NAH.
MOM'S DAY SHTUFF
But she SAID she loved it.
She didn't.
According to a new survey by Harris Interactive, 31% of mothers say they USUALLY have to PRETEND to like the Mother's Day gifts they get from their family. That's one-third of moms faking it.
Translation: Call your siblings, pool your money, and spring for an iPad, a spa treatment, or a tropical vacation.
STUPID MOM'S DAY GIFT IDEA
And if you'd like to ensure that YOUR mother is one of the 31%...well, here ya go.
A company in Wisconsin just rolled out frying pans in the shape of the 48 states in the continental U.S. (It's really hard to shape Hawaii)
So you could buy Rhode Island and make silver dollar pancakes, Colorado to make square eggs, California to make huge omelets, Florida to make things in the shape of male genitalia...the possibilities are really endless.
There are only two little catches. One, they're charging A LOT for these frying pans. The prices vary based on the size and complexity of the state...Rhode Island is $150, Texas is $2,500 (!!!), and that doesn't include shipping.
And two, they're backordered, and the company that makes them is predicting a six-week delivery time. So on Mother's Day itself, you'd just have to give your mom a photo of the gift.
You can check out the pans at FelionStudios.com
THIEVES...According to a study of almost 5,000 people, almost one-third admit they've stolen something at a grocery store self-checkout.
The most common technique is picking a cheaper fruit or vegetable when they're weighing their produce. Other people pick "small" when they're asked to enter a size...and some just put stuff in their bags without paying for it.
MORE ON JENNY LOVE/ADAM LEVINEEarlier this month, JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT was on the "Ellen" show and said she had a crush on ADAM LEVINE.
Then, last week, Adam told ELLEN DEGENERES that when he heard about Jennifer's comments, he thought, "That was aggressive...it was really sweet and flattering."
So Jennifer headed to Twitter to talk about how it felt to get SHOT DOWN like that.
She wrote, quote, "The moment when you make a comment about something or someone and the world makes you feel like a total fool. #KeepCrushesQuiet."
"Thank you to Adam Levine for being so gracious on 'Ellen' about my crush heard 'round the world. I've learned a lesson. #Sssh."
COMING OFF......our Back In The Day weekend, this is a cool look at some couples you PROBABLY forgot about...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/forgotten-couples-of-the-90s
THE WANTED SAY X-TINA...
The British boy band THE WANTED, with their smash "Glad You Came", recently performed on "The Voice"...and apparently CHRISTINA AGUILERA gave them the cold shoulder, because the group slammed her in a radio interview.
MAX GEORGE said, "She was a bit scary to be honest." And SIVA KANESWARAN added, "She was quite rude."
TOM PARKER went a little further. He said, "She was a total bitch! She might not be a bitch in real life, but to us she was a bitch to us. She just sat there and didn't speak to us. Wouldn't even look at us."
The Wanted also recently appeared on "American Idol"...and they loved JENNIFER LOPEZ. In fact, Max gave her a kiss. When asked about it, he said, "Yeah, well J-Lo's hot, Christina's nothing special."
Yesterday, Tom apologized...but he still thinks Christina was rude to them.
He told the paparazzi, "We shouldn't have said it, to be honest with you. We just think manners cost nothing, you know what I mean?"
SOME BIG NAMES FOR "SNL"WILL FERRELL is coming back to host "Saturday Night Live" on May 12th. The musical guest is USHER. This will be the third time Will has hosted "SNL" since leaving in 2002. He also hosted in 2005 and 2009.
New York Giants quarterback ELI MANNING is hosting this Saturday. RIHANNA is the musical guest.
WHY WERE YOU SPEEDING?
This clearly WON'T get you out of a speeding ticket. But as far as excuses go...at least this guy was honest.
21-year-old Zachary Ramirez got stopped by police in suburban Chicago on Saturday night.
He was clocked going 104 miles-per-hour in a 45 zone, then sped up to 111 miles an hour. He also ran a stop sign. But he had a good reason for speeding...
According to the police report, he was, "trying to go have sex with a girl he liked."
Unfortunately for Zachary, the police you-know-what blocked him big time. He got arrested on five charges, including marijuana possession when an officer found a fraction of a gram in the car.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
SCREAM
NICKI MINAJ REJOINS TWITTERLast week, NICKI MINAJ suddenly quit Twitter, and it wasn't
immediately clear if humanity would continue. It did. And everyone forgot
about Nicki's stupid Twitter account.
Well, guess what: Yesterday, she rejoined Twitter. All her old Tweets are there, except a few missing ones that she sent out right before pulling the plug.
Like this one: "Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good [effing] bye." (Word has it she was upset at a fan site for leaking music, but she hasn't confirmed that.)
She later said, "A voice in my head told me to delete my Twitter and that's what I did. I had 11 million followers and I hope they will wait for me."
And in another interview, she added, quote, "Let's set the record straight: I just needed a moment to myself. Because some page posted things about me? I mean, I've read horrible things about myself. I wouldn't delete my Twitter over that."
Nicki's followers did NOT remain intact. But as of late last night, she was already back up to 1.6 million followers. (Her handle is @NickiMinaj.)
Oh, to live in a world where your biggest problem is people misunderstanding your rationale for quitting Twitter, and rejoining nine days later.
DOLLAR DOLLAR BILL Y'ALL
Let's say your husband or wife went behind your back and racked up $20,000 in credit card debt. Would you be as upset as if they'd had adulterous sex at a cheap motel with one of their coworkers?
Most people say...YES.
According to a new survey, almost two-thirds of people say that honesty about money in a relationship is as important as being faithful.
And that's too bad...because 37% of men and 56% of women admit that, at some point, they haven't told their partner the truth about money.
25% of women and 8% of men have said they bought something on sale when it wasn't. Women are also twice as likely as men to hide receipts or purchases.
OH WHY NOT: DIRTY SPORTS NAMES
A website called Sports Pickle came up with the funniest names in sports history, and it was a tough competition.
Because former pitcher Dick Pole, Olympic volleyball player Yoshie Takeshita (Tock-ay-SHEE-tuh), and swimmer Misty Hyman didn't even make the cut.
Here are the top 10. (Yes, I'm immature)
#1.) Lucious Pusey (LOO shus poo-SAY): He was a linebacker for Eastern Illinois University in 2006 . . . and he changed his name to Lucious Seymour when he turned 18.
#2.) Rusty Kuntz (Coonts): He was an outfielder who won a World Series with the Tigers in 1984.
#3.) Dick Trickle: He's a NASCAR driver . . . and one of his two career wins was the 1998 Dura-Lube 200.
#4.) Ivana Mandic: She played women's basketball for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2002, and went by the nickname Ivi.
#5.) Chubby Cox: He played basketball for Villanova and briefly in the NBA. He's also Kobe Bryant's uncle.
#6.) Johnny Dickshot: He played outfield for the Pirates, Giants and White Sox in the 1930s and 1940s. And his nickname was "Ugly Johnny."
#7.) DeWanna Bonner (BONN-er): She's a WNBA player and won the Sixth Woman of the Year the last three years.
#8.) Jack Glasscock: He was a shortstop in the late 1800s.
#9.) Dick Shiner: He was a quarterback for six NFL teams in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Steelers.
#10.) Dick Paradise: He was a minor league hockey player in the early 1970s.
BUD LIGHT LIME-A-RITAWhen Bud Light Lime came out a few years back, it was a pretty big success. And now, you can spend the summer with its newer, drunker cousin.
Anheuser-Busch just introduced a new product called Lime-A-Rita which is, "the flavor of an authentic margarita with a refreshing splash of Bud Light Lime."
I'm not sure I'VE ever been to a Mexican restaurant, drank a margarita, and thought to myself, "Ya know, this tastes okay but it could sure use some Bud Light poured in"...but I guess someone has.
Even if the flavor sounds kind of strange, here's a plus. It's more alcoholic than regular beer...it's 8% alcohol-by-volume. Regular Bud Light and Bud Light Lime are just 4.2%.
The Lime-a-Rita has been rolling out nationwide this month in both cans and bottles.
PEACEFUL, EASY FEELING
The Institute for Economics and Peace just rolled out their annual list ranking the U.S. states from MOST PEACEFUL to LEAST PEACEFUL. And for the 11th year in a row, they have some serious beef with Louisiana.
Louisiana has been named the least peaceful state every year since 2000. This year, for the first time, Maine was named the most peaceful state.
The rankings are based on five criteria: Homicides per capita, violent crimes, incarceration rate, number of police employees, and availability of small arms. I'm not sure why they penalize states for having more cops, but whatever.
The top 10 most peaceful states in 2011 were: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Utah, North Dakota, Washington, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Iowa.
The 10 least peaceful states were: Louisiana, Tennessee, Nevada, Florida, Arizona, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
Ohio is at #22
The study also ranks cities by their peacefulness. Cambridge, Massachusetts was named the most peaceful city in the U.S....Detroit was the least.
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/uspeaceindex/
BOY BAND NEWS
ONE DIRECTION'S NIALL HORAN..."The Blonde One"...wants to dye his hair black, but SIMON COWELL won't let him.
A source tells Britain's "Sun" tabloid, "Niall was desperate to get rid of his blonde locks and go black just for an experiment, like loads of normal teens."
He sent Simon a text to see if it was OK, and Simon responded, "no way." The "Sun" speculates that Simon shot him down because he, "fears it will lose the group fans."
Would One Direction really hemorrhage teenage fans if Niall dyed his hair? Who knows. But it would mean that we couldn't describe him as 'The Blonde One' anymore.
So I hit up some girly fan pages online, and came up with some possible alternatives. Niall could be: "The Irish One"..."The One Who Has 'Nerves of Steel'"...or "The One Who Would Rather Lick a Fat Man's Armpit Than Drown in a Sea of Mayonnaise"
I can't vouch for any of those facts. You know how Internet research is.
'PEOPLE' MAG NAMES BEYONCE
"People" magazine has crowned BEYONCÉ the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
Last year, they gave it to JENNIFER LOPEZ. And frankly, I'd have given it to her again. Somehow, J-Lo just keeps getting HOTTER as she ages. I don't feel Beyonce is quite deserving of the honor, but what do I know. You all (mostly) agreed with my on my FB fan page yesterday.
Beyoncé says, "I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth."
She adds that since giving birth to her daughter Blue Ivy, "the word love means something completely different now."
Runners up for the honor include Sofia Vergara, Charlize Theron, Michelle Williams, Lily Collins, "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence, Adele, Megan Fox, Kate Middleton, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and two "Mad Men" minxes, Christina Hendricks and Jessica Paré.
ASHTON AND MILA: MAYBE NOTDespite spending all of last weekend with him, MILA KUNIS says she's NOT dating ASHTON KUTCHER. She calls the rumors "absurd" and says, "a friend is a friend."
However...a source (those are my favorite) says they're friends WITH BENEFITS...quote, "There's nothing serious going on...just friends having fun."
That's an interesting idea, since Ashton and Mila starred in competing "friends with benefits" movies last year. Mila's was of course "Friends With Benefits" along with JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE.
Ashton starred with NATALIE PORTMAN in "No Strings Attached".
Meanwhile..."In Touch Weekly" says Ashton has been hooking up a lot since splitting with Demi Moore. No surprise there.
"YER AN ALIEN"One of the fun things about the "Men In Black" movies is seeing which celebrities will be "outed" as aliens. Well, sorry...I'm about to spoil that for you.
Directory BARRY SONNENFELD says that LADY GAGA, JUSTIN BIEBER and TIM BURTON will be aliens in "Men In Black 3".
That doesn't mean they'll make cameos. Their faces will just be shown on the alien surveillance board at Men In Black headquarters.
Sonnenfeld says, "The challenge is you have to get permission from these celebrities...and you don't want to go with people that are either a flash in the pan, or political, or people that then in 10 years no one will know who you're talking about."
"Men In Black 3" hits theaters on May 25th.
YOUNG AND WILD AND FREEEEEEWIZ KHALIFA was busted for pot possession over the weekend.
He was staying at a hotel in Nashville on Saturday night, when some neighbors smelled THE REEF, and called the cops. When they came, they reportedly saw Wiz throw a blunt out the window.
The officers questioned Wiz and his friend, and eventually they admitted to having weed. They were cited for misdemeanor pot possession, and have to show up in court next month.
BACK IN THE DAY MUSIC NEWS: BRANDYThis weekend on Q92, its a BACK IN THE DAY WEEKEND, with 90's and 2000's requests from YOU.
If you didn't catch BRANDY'S VH1 "Behind the Music" special last night, then you missed her talking about that car accident she was in back in 2006, in which a woman was killed.
Brandy was investigated for vehicular manslaughter, but authorities dropped the case due to insufficient evidence. The accident still haunts her, though...especially when people use it against her.
Brandy cried as she said, "Still to this day they know that that's a button. They know that they can call me a murderer or call me someone that killed someone. They know that is a button for me.
"[But] a murderer is someone who premeditates it. I didn't wake up that day to be involved in a fatal car crash. I didn't plan for that. And if I could take it back, I would."
She added, "You don't like me? Fine. But don't use this situation to try to hurt me, because the guilt of being involved is enough. It's something that I'll never truly, truly get over. Ever."
BACK IN THE DAY MUSIC NEWS: MARIAH
The Essential Mariah Carey, out May 8, celebrates the singer’s first decade on Columbia Records, which helped her earn five consecutive number singles, something no other pop artist had done before in the history of the Billboard Hot 100.
From 1990 to 1999, she put out 15 number one singles, 14 of which are featured on this 28-track, 2 CD-collection. But, Carey didn’t want it to be just like her last greatest hits album, which was released in 2001, so she delved into her back catalogue.
“I wanted to create a collection of some of my favorite songs,” Carey said in a statement. “Several of them are very big hits and some are more obscure favorites of mine as well as fan faves.”
Carey even handpicked four of her favorite recordings to include on the disc like “Vanishing,” a song from her first album that marked her debut as a producer. She also picked “Close My Eyes” from 1997′s Butterfly, which was about being a single woman.
Carey divorced her first husband that same year and later made headlines for dating Yankees star Derek Jeter before marrying Nick Cannon in 2008.
For super fans, Carey included two alternate remixes of “Emotions” from back in 1991 and “Anytime You Need a Friend” from her third album, Music Box.
Disc 1
BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS
http://www.toofab.com/2012/04/25/beyonce-knowles-mariah-carey-adam-levine-high-school-yearbook-pictures/
THEN AND NOW
http://www.toofab.com/2012/03/23/willa-ford-i-wanna-be-bad-then-now-photos/
FIGHTING IN BEDAccording to a new poll, the average couple argues in bed 167 times a year...that's almost EVERY OTHER NIGHT. Here are the top 10 things we're arguing about...
#1.) Hogging the covers.
#2.) Snoring.
#3.) Being too hot.
#4.) Not being in the mood for sex.
#5.) Whether to let the kids sleep in the bed. (??)
#6.) Taking up too much of the bed.
#7.) Being too cold.
#8.) The other person's cold feet touching you.
#9.) When to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
#10.) Leaving a light on.
LIGHTS...L-L-I-I-I-I-LIGHTS4%is usually a low number, but here it seems INCREDIBLY HIGH.
According to a new survey by the shopping channel QVC, 4% of people say they sleep with the lights on. I've never met a single adult in my entire life who does that, and they say it's one out of 25. So who knows?
They also asked adults if they bring a teddy bear to bed...and 16% said yes. That's gotta be girls who get bears from their guys, right? Gotta be.
This is actually the third survey I've seen in less than a year to ask adults if they sleep with a teddy bear...the other ones have reported 33% and 10%, so this is somewhere in the middle.)
And finally, one in six adults say they generally go more than a MONTH without washing their sheets...and one in five say they almost never wash them.
IT'S A GOOD STORY...
Watching porno for the plot is like reading "Playboy" for the articles...it's a joke. At least we THOUGHT it was a joke. Maybe not.
According to a survey by the upstanding pornographers at Vivid Entertainment, a solid 14% of men say the most important element for them in a porno is the STORY. That's one out of seven men who prefer their nasty porno sex with a plot.
And 5.4% of the men surveyed say the most important element for them in porno is ACTION. Not sexual action...car chases, fistfights, or explosions. Seriously.
64% of men say SEX is the most important part of porn. And 22% say that a specific porn star is the most important element.
The survey also found that 52% of men say they're aroused watching porno "most of the time"...34% always get aroused...13% get aroused "some of the time"...and 0.4% NEVER get turned on watching porno.
TAXESThink YOURS are bad? This is just OUTRAGEOUS. This year, (GE) General Electric filed a 57,000-PAGE tax return. They e-filed, but if you printed all that, it would be 19 FEET HIGH. And thanks to all the loopholes, they paid ZERO TAX on $14 BILLION in profits.
Well, guess what: Yesterday, she rejoined Twitter. All her old Tweets are there, except a few missing ones that she sent out right before pulling the plug.
Like this one: "Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good [effing] bye." (Word has it she was upset at a fan site for leaking music, but she hasn't confirmed that.)
She later said, "A voice in my head told me to delete my Twitter and that's what I did. I had 11 million followers and I hope they will wait for me."
And in another interview, she added, quote, "Let's set the record straight: I just needed a moment to myself. Because some page posted things about me? I mean, I've read horrible things about myself. I wouldn't delete my Twitter over that."
Nicki's followers did NOT remain intact. But as of late last night, she was already back up to 1.6 million followers. (Her handle is @NickiMinaj.)
Oh, to live in a world where your biggest problem is people misunderstanding your rationale for quitting Twitter, and rejoining nine days later.
DOLLAR DOLLAR BILL Y'ALL
Let's say your husband or wife went behind your back and racked up $20,000 in credit card debt. Would you be as upset as if they'd had adulterous sex at a cheap motel with one of their coworkers?
Most people say...YES.
According to a new survey, almost two-thirds of people say that honesty about money in a relationship is as important as being faithful.
And that's too bad...because 37% of men and 56% of women admit that, at some point, they haven't told their partner the truth about money.
25% of women and 8% of men have said they bought something on sale when it wasn't. Women are also twice as likely as men to hide receipts or purchases.
OH WHY NOT: DIRTY SPORTS NAMES
A website called Sports Pickle came up with the funniest names in sports history, and it was a tough competition.
Because former pitcher Dick Pole, Olympic volleyball player Yoshie Takeshita (Tock-ay-SHEE-tuh), and swimmer Misty Hyman didn't even make the cut.
Here are the top 10. (Yes, I'm immature)
#1.) Lucious Pusey (LOO shus poo-SAY): He was a linebacker for Eastern Illinois University in 2006 . . . and he changed his name to Lucious Seymour when he turned 18.
#2.) Rusty Kuntz (Coonts): He was an outfielder who won a World Series with the Tigers in 1984.
#3.) Dick Trickle: He's a NASCAR driver . . . and one of his two career wins was the 1998 Dura-Lube 200.
#4.) Ivana Mandic: She played women's basketball for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2002, and went by the nickname Ivi.
#5.) Chubby Cox: He played basketball for Villanova and briefly in the NBA. He's also Kobe Bryant's uncle.
#6.) Johnny Dickshot: He played outfield for the Pirates, Giants and White Sox in the 1930s and 1940s. And his nickname was "Ugly Johnny."
#7.) DeWanna Bonner (BONN-er): She's a WNBA player and won the Sixth Woman of the Year the last three years.
#8.) Jack Glasscock: He was a shortstop in the late 1800s.
#9.) Dick Shiner: He was a quarterback for six NFL teams in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Steelers.
#10.) Dick Paradise: He was a minor league hockey player in the early 1970s.
BUD LIGHT LIME-A-RITAWhen Bud Light Lime came out a few years back, it was a pretty big success. And now, you can spend the summer with its newer, drunker cousin.
Anheuser-Busch just introduced a new product called Lime-A-Rita which is, "the flavor of an authentic margarita with a refreshing splash of Bud Light Lime."
I'm not sure I'VE ever been to a Mexican restaurant, drank a margarita, and thought to myself, "Ya know, this tastes okay but it could sure use some Bud Light poured in"...but I guess someone has.
Even if the flavor sounds kind of strange, here's a plus. It's more alcoholic than regular beer...it's 8% alcohol-by-volume. Regular Bud Light and Bud Light Lime are just 4.2%.
The Lime-a-Rita has been rolling out nationwide this month in both cans and bottles.
PEACEFUL, EASY FEELING
The Institute for Economics and Peace just rolled out their annual list ranking the U.S. states from MOST PEACEFUL to LEAST PEACEFUL. And for the 11th year in a row, they have some serious beef with Louisiana.
Louisiana has been named the least peaceful state every year since 2000. This year, for the first time, Maine was named the most peaceful state.
The rankings are based on five criteria: Homicides per capita, violent crimes, incarceration rate, number of police employees, and availability of small arms. I'm not sure why they penalize states for having more cops, but whatever.
The top 10 most peaceful states in 2011 were: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Utah, North Dakota, Washington, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Iowa.
The 10 least peaceful states were: Louisiana, Tennessee, Nevada, Florida, Arizona, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
Ohio is at #22
The study also ranks cities by their peacefulness. Cambridge, Massachusetts was named the most peaceful city in the U.S....Detroit was the least.
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/uspeaceindex/
BOY BAND NEWS
ONE DIRECTION'S NIALL HORAN..."The Blonde One"...wants to dye his hair black, but SIMON COWELL won't let him.
A source tells Britain's "Sun" tabloid, "Niall was desperate to get rid of his blonde locks and go black just for an experiment, like loads of normal teens."
He sent Simon a text to see if it was OK, and Simon responded, "no way." The "Sun" speculates that Simon shot him down because he, "fears it will lose the group fans."
Would One Direction really hemorrhage teenage fans if Niall dyed his hair? Who knows. But it would mean that we couldn't describe him as 'The Blonde One' anymore.
So I hit up some girly fan pages online, and came up with some possible alternatives. Niall could be: "The Irish One"..."The One Who Has 'Nerves of Steel'"...or "The One Who Would Rather Lick a Fat Man's Armpit Than Drown in a Sea of Mayonnaise"
I can't vouch for any of those facts. You know how Internet research is.
'PEOPLE' MAG NAMES BEYONCE
"People" magazine has crowned BEYONCÉ the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
Last year, they gave it to JENNIFER LOPEZ. And frankly, I'd have given it to her again. Somehow, J-Lo just keeps getting HOTTER as she ages. I don't feel Beyonce is quite deserving of the honor, but what do I know. You all (mostly) agreed with my on my FB fan page yesterday.
Beyoncé says, "I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth."
She adds that since giving birth to her daughter Blue Ivy, "the word love means something completely different now."
Runners up for the honor include Sofia Vergara, Charlize Theron, Michelle Williams, Lily Collins, "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence, Adele, Megan Fox, Kate Middleton, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and two "Mad Men" minxes, Christina Hendricks and Jessica Paré.
ASHTON AND MILA: MAYBE NOTDespite spending all of last weekend with him, MILA KUNIS says she's NOT dating ASHTON KUTCHER. She calls the rumors "absurd" and says, "a friend is a friend."
However...a source (those are my favorite) says they're friends WITH BENEFITS...quote, "There's nothing serious going on...just friends having fun."
That's an interesting idea, since Ashton and Mila starred in competing "friends with benefits" movies last year. Mila's was of course "Friends With Benefits" along with JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE.
Ashton starred with NATALIE PORTMAN in "No Strings Attached".
Meanwhile..."In Touch Weekly" says Ashton has been hooking up a lot since splitting with Demi Moore. No surprise there.
"YER AN ALIEN"One of the fun things about the "Men In Black" movies is seeing which celebrities will be "outed" as aliens. Well, sorry...I'm about to spoil that for you.
Directory BARRY SONNENFELD says that LADY GAGA, JUSTIN BIEBER and TIM BURTON will be aliens in "Men In Black 3".
That doesn't mean they'll make cameos. Their faces will just be shown on the alien surveillance board at Men In Black headquarters.
Sonnenfeld says, "The challenge is you have to get permission from these celebrities...and you don't want to go with people that are either a flash in the pan, or political, or people that then in 10 years no one will know who you're talking about."
"Men In Black 3" hits theaters on May 25th.
YOUNG AND WILD AND FREEEEEEWIZ KHALIFA was busted for pot possession over the weekend.
He was staying at a hotel in Nashville on Saturday night, when some neighbors smelled THE REEF, and called the cops. When they came, they reportedly saw Wiz throw a blunt out the window.
The officers questioned Wiz and his friend, and eventually they admitted to having weed. They were cited for misdemeanor pot possession, and have to show up in court next month.
BACK IN THE DAY MUSIC NEWS: BRANDYThis weekend on Q92, its a BACK IN THE DAY WEEKEND, with 90's and 2000's requests from YOU.
If you didn't catch BRANDY'S VH1 "Behind the Music" special last night, then you missed her talking about that car accident she was in back in 2006, in which a woman was killed.
Brandy was investigated for vehicular manslaughter, but authorities dropped the case due to insufficient evidence. The accident still haunts her, though...especially when people use it against her.
Brandy cried as she said, "Still to this day they know that that's a button. They know that they can call me a murderer or call me someone that killed someone. They know that is a button for me.
"[But] a murderer is someone who premeditates it. I didn't wake up that day to be involved in a fatal car crash. I didn't plan for that. And if I could take it back, I would."
She added, "You don't like me? Fine. But don't use this situation to try to hurt me, because the guilt of being involved is enough. It's something that I'll never truly, truly get over. Ever."
BACK IN THE DAY MUSIC NEWS: MARIAH
The Essential Mariah Carey, out May 8, celebrates the singer’s first decade on Columbia Records, which helped her earn five consecutive number singles, something no other pop artist had done before in the history of the Billboard Hot 100.
From 1990 to 1999, she put out 15 number one singles, 14 of which are featured on this 28-track, 2 CD-collection. But, Carey didn’t want it to be just like her last greatest hits album, which was released in 2001, so she delved into her back catalogue.
“I wanted to create a collection of some of my favorite songs,” Carey said in a statement. “Several of them are very big hits and some are more obscure favorites of mine as well as fan faves.”
Carey divorced her first husband that same year and later made headlines for dating Yankees star Derek Jeter before marrying Nick Cannon in 2008.
For super fans, Carey included two alternate remixes of “Emotions” from back in 1991 and “Anytime You Need a Friend” from her third album, Music Box.
Disc 1
- Vision of Love
- Love Takes Time
- Vanishing
- I Don’t Wanna Cry
- Emotions (12-inch Mix)
- Can’t Let Go
- Make It Happen
- I’ll Be There (featuring Trey Lorenz)
- Dreamlover
- Hero
- Without You
- Anytime You Need A Friend (C+C Club Remix)
- Endless Love (Duet With Luther Vandross)
- Fantasy
- One Sweet Day (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men)
- Always Be My Baby
- Underneath the Stars
- Honey
- Butterfly
- My All
- Close My Eyes
- The Roof (Mobb Deep Extended Version)
- When You Believe (From the Prince of Egypt, Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston)
- I Still Believe
- Heartbreaker (featuring Jay-Z)
- Bliss
- Thank God I Found You (featuring Joe & 98 Degrees)
- Can’t Take That Away (Mariah’s Theme)
BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS
http://www.toofab.com/2012/04/25/beyonce-knowles-mariah-carey-adam-levine-high-school-yearbook-pictures/
THEN AND NOW
http://www.toofab.com/2012/03/23/willa-ford-i-wanna-be-bad-then-now-photos/
FIGHTING IN BEDAccording to a new poll, the average couple argues in bed 167 times a year...that's almost EVERY OTHER NIGHT. Here are the top 10 things we're arguing about...
#1.) Hogging the covers.
#2.) Snoring.
#3.) Being too hot.
#4.) Not being in the mood for sex.
#5.) Whether to let the kids sleep in the bed. (??)
#6.) Taking up too much of the bed.
#7.) Being too cold.
#8.) The other person's cold feet touching you.
#9.) When to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
#10.) Leaving a light on.
LIGHTS...L-L-I-I-I-I-LIGHTS4%is usually a low number, but here it seems INCREDIBLY HIGH.
According to a new survey by the shopping channel QVC, 4% of people say they sleep with the lights on. I've never met a single adult in my entire life who does that, and they say it's one out of 25. So who knows?
They also asked adults if they bring a teddy bear to bed...and 16% said yes. That's gotta be girls who get bears from their guys, right? Gotta be.
This is actually the third survey I've seen in less than a year to ask adults if they sleep with a teddy bear...the other ones have reported 33% and 10%, so this is somewhere in the middle.)
And finally, one in six adults say they generally go more than a MONTH without washing their sheets...and one in five say they almost never wash them.
IT'S A GOOD STORY...
Watching porno for the plot is like reading "Playboy" for the articles...it's a joke. At least we THOUGHT it was a joke. Maybe not.
According to a survey by the upstanding pornographers at Vivid Entertainment, a solid 14% of men say the most important element for them in a porno is the STORY. That's one out of seven men who prefer their nasty porno sex with a plot.
And 5.4% of the men surveyed say the most important element for them in porno is ACTION. Not sexual action...car chases, fistfights, or explosions. Seriously.
64% of men say SEX is the most important part of porn. And 22% say that a specific porn star is the most important element.
The survey also found that 52% of men say they're aroused watching porno "most of the time"...34% always get aroused...13% get aroused "some of the time"...and 0.4% NEVER get turned on watching porno.
TAXESThink YOURS are bad? This is just OUTRAGEOUS. This year, (GE) General Electric filed a 57,000-PAGE tax return. They e-filed, but if you printed all that, it would be 19 FEET HIGH. And thanks to all the loopholes, they paid ZERO TAX on $14 BILLION in profits.
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