Sure, Rachael Ray may have dressed for a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial in a scarf Arafat-esque enough to piss off Michelle Malkin and her fried-pastry fascists…
Dunkin’ Donuts was accused of promoting terrorism, thanks to the wardrobe choices of Rachael Ray, its celebrity spokesman, during an online advertisement. According to the bloggers, she had decided to embrace [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Rachael Ray terrorizes with more than just a scarf!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Losanjealous.com, Other Stuff, Performers, Politics, Satan's Favorite Bands, Shows, Television on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Slick Rick pardoned eleven years after the fact
Posted in Celebrities, Hip Hop, Performers, Politics on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Governor Paterson of New York announced May 23rd that Slick Rick is pardoned for shooting his cousin and another dude in 1990. He already served five years, and has been out of jail since 1997, but I guess better late than never:
“Mr. Walters has fully served the sentence imposed upon him for his convictions, had [...]
Ron Paul meets the Sex Pistols
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Pitchfork Media, Politics, Punk, Satan's Favorite Bands, Television on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Okay, this isn’t exactly new, but I just saw the post on Pitchfork Media where the Sex Pistols played the Jay Leno show in October 2007 to promote “Anarchy in the UK” appearing on Guitar Hero III. It’s not really a good performance, but I do like that Ron Paul was the guest, and a [...]
No on Prop 98!
Posted in Los Angeles, Politics on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t forget to vote June 3rd. In L.A., where everyone’s willing to bulldoze their houses and buildings to make yuppie kennels (AKA “lofts”), rent control is the only power that tenants have to keep from being evicted and sustain their quality of living from one year to the next.
Anita Bryant is a little sex kitten!
Posted in Albums, Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Performers, Personal Shit, Politics, Religion on May 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was thrift store shopping in Joshua Tree, and ran into this album cover. Ooh, sweet Jesus…
She’s got a face and a form that makes me want to shake the paint off her walls! I know that she was a bigot in the seventies and eighties who fought against the rights of gay Americans, but [...]
gay marriage in California – the fight’s not over
Posted in Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Politics on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On May 15th, the California Supreme Court overturned Proposition 22, the recently passed bill that declared, “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid.” The majority of justices said in no uncertain terms that anything less than full marriage rights, including civil unions, was an unconstitutional slight against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered [...]
Bush gets creepy crawled
Posted in Books, Celebrities, Politics on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a fan of Vincent Bugliosi’s book Helter Skelter, in which he chronicles his prosecution of Charles Manson for the Tate/LaBianca murders in the early seventies. Though historical perspective and local L.A. hearsay tend to show how much Bugliosi and the police misunderstood about the case (MDA deal, anyone?), his account is still the Bible [...]
Brian Wilson is back at Capitol Records! Now there’s hope for Smile!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Performers, Songwriters, The Beach Boys on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ryan at losanjealous.com reports that Brian Wilson is putting out a studio release at Capitol Records on Sept 2 (and will be following up with some shows at the Hollywood Bowl).
This news is getting me all hot and bothered, not necessarily because Brian is being active again, but because I’m such a huge fan of [...]
Voxhaul Broadcast knows no humility/grammar.
Posted in Bands, Comedy, Losanjealous.com, Performers, Shows on May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Our one-time correspondent, Dan, has published his first review at losanjealous.com. It’s from a show at the Echoplex on Saturday night.
He talks a bunch about Earlimart, and one of their opening bands, Siggy. But when he refused to review a band called Voxhaul Broadcast, because he couldn’t remember any of their songs (they were all [...]
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Posted in Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Movies, Musicals, Performers, Politics, Songwriters, The Velvet Underground on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cabaret is one of the best musicals ever made–and that’s saying a lot, even coming from me. The Seventies were notoriously tough on old Hollywood methods of movie-making (as Paint Your Wagon can attest), and unsentimental realism became the hallmark of the day. So, how to make realism out of a genre that specifically calls for [...]
