Michael Jackson will apparently tell his story for $10 million. I’ll tell his story for seven bucks and a bag of pork rinds.

The latest celebrity to have a sex tape surface is rapper/television actor Eve.

The National Enquirer reports that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have gotten married, creating a scary new entity known from this moment forth only as Garnaffleck.

Is it me, or does everyone else think the newly designed Freedom Tower is going to have heroin addicts running like Olympic sprinters?

This morning while reading the latest Esquire, I came across an article covering a certain radio host’s problems with the Federal Communications Commission. In said article, there was mention of several conversations that prompted millions of dollars in fines, including a substantial penalty for a particular act that the magazine suggested readers learn more about on the actual FCC web site.

At first, I thought it impossible to find such language on a government web site. Let alone the web site of an agency intent on eliminating free speech. After searching two to three words that might be considered unsuitable for television or radio, however, I discovered that the FCC has one of the most pornographic and obscene sites on the entire Internet. I know this because I’ve read the entire Internet. Twice. And I, for one, am astounded and embarassed at the audacity it takes to allow this information to be easily accessed by anyone who bothers to search.

Where can I hide?

Evidently, no where.

Where do you go when you need to scream “uncle!”?

I just started my first summer of a 5-year program with the Bread Loaf School of English. My first summer will be spent at Lincoln College at Oxford University in England. Here are a few pics of just a small sampling of the spots I have seen these first few days. More to come.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/foment/sets/513620/

File-sharing services may now be sued (by companies such as Sony, or Disney) even if they have no direct control over the illegal activity so says the Supreme Court.

The question is over intent. Grokster claims the software they made was not intended to encourage copyright infringement. With this ruling, intent becomes a diminishing issue.

If intent is no longer an issue, and you can now sue companies even if they have no direct control over the final use of the product, then Anheuser-Busch becomes liable for every drunk driver.

Sure, they can say Bud Lite is not intended to be consumed by people who drive, and they can say they do not encourage drunk driving, but it doesn’t matter anymore. This new ruling tosses that argument out the window.

I’m going to play Halo 2 so long that I loose my job. Then I’m suing Bungie over the anguish of being unemployed.

Game on.

In a shining example of how disconnected Hollywood, and America in general, is from events occurring around the world, IMDB reported that Lindsay Lohan strolled zombie-like past angry protestors at the opening of the first American De Beers store.

Despite decent news coverage of so-called conflict diamonds and protestors from advocacy group Survival International, which claims De Beers’ mining operations in Botswana have helped evict Gana and Gwi bushmen, celebrities seem clueless of the controversy surrounding their bling.

In fact, when asked by reporters what she thought about the bushmen controversy, Lohan, who at this point has been in the 50th remake of “Freaky Friday” and a Herbie the Lovebug redux, replied, “I don’t get involved in any drama.”

It’s nice to know that genocide, slavery, and booting bushmen from their native lands isn’t drama enough for Lohan. However, when it’s something really serious, she just goes bananas.

In a speech Wednesday night, Karl Rove said, “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”

I’m not going to deconstruct the layers of lies in that statement.

I’ll just point out that Bush (and Rove) saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to attack Iraq.

I have been drooling and dreaming of a nice Mac system for a couple of years now. Because I wanted to torture myself, I thought I would fill up a cart with some great stuff with no regard for money and this is what I came up. Click the pic for a larger view.

I know thought a lot of folks have been talking about customers waiting for the Intel-based Macs to come out before buying one. I could see that being a point. I wonder how the prices for these models will be affected as we move closer to the Mactel release date sometime next year. Maybe then I might actually be able to afford something like this without having to sell a kidney.

For those of you who bought Macs for yourself, how did you justify the increased cost over a PC? Is the operating system that much better? I have a feeling that most people who use Macs are using them at work or for work even if they are at home. I honestly wonder how many people are choosing Macs as their primary home machine and paying for it out of their own pocket.

Today a co-worker was talking about her new kittens when she said, “the litter box stinks to high heaven!”

If something smells, but not real bad, does that mean it smells to low heaven? And what if something smells a bit worse, but not real, real bad; does that make it a middle heaven smell?

And whatever happened to stank? It used to be that when something smelled real bad, you would swap out the “I” for an “A” and said it “stank.”

We need a conversion chart on stank-to-heaven smells. Does something that “stanks” convert to “high heaven”?

My hunch is that “stank” is a more middle-heaven smell, whereas “that shit stank!!” qualifies as a “smells to high heaven!” type of smell.

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