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Diddy Really Does Want You to Get Home Safe on New Year’s Eve
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That awkwardly funny Ciroc vodka PSA where Diddy puts two drunk babes who’ve been partying at his place all night in his chauffeured limo instead of letting them drive? It’s kind of true: New Year’s Eve in Chelsea and Times Square, Ciroc street teams are going to give drunk people $15 debit cards good for one cab ride. (But, uh, most of those drunkies are from Long Island and New Jersey, which is more than a $15 cab ride!) In other news, Mia Farrow’s daughter, Lark Previn, the first of many kids Mia adopted, has died at 35 after an undisclosed decade-long illness. Her Clinton Hill neighbors didn’t even know she had a famous mom. Matt and Kevin Dillon have never missed a Christmas home with their parents. What good boys!
Cindy Adams runs psychics’ predictions for 2009, including Raul Castro’s visit to the White House, Hillary brokering talks between India and Pakistan, Andrew Cuomo getting Hillary’s Senate seat, Jennifer and Angelina doing a movie together, and Madonna and A-Rod getting married. (That last one Cin rolls her eyes at, then says bye, kids, I’m going to New Hampshire for New Year’s. Cin in New Hampshire? Can’t see that.) Bill and Hillary went to the Philippe de Montebello exhibit at the Met. Ludacris did a good deed and footed the benefit bill for a NYC kids’ charity that had been burgled. Sean Avery and fellow Ranger Brendan Shanahan drank (and maybe talked about fashion?) all night at Rose Bar. Frederick Fekkai was seen leaving a dentist’s office on Christmas Day, which is wrong and weird.
Jay-Z and Damon Dash’s breakup of their Roc-A-Fella records will be chronicled in a documentary by former Roc employee Choke No Joke. Donald Trump is angry and sad that CNBC’s Rebecca Jarvis doesn’t include in her bio that she was an Apprentice contestant, and wrote her to tell her so. David Letterman went grocery shopping in St. Barts, where apparently the high life goes on despite the recession. Tracey Ross, of SATC-with-melanin-and-laugh-track Girlfriends fame, has closed her Hollywood boutique because of the recession.
Heather Mills, the Paul McCartney ex whose last publicist called her a “calculating, pathological liar,” has (sort of) new publicists, Joe Dolce and Davidson Goldin, who hopefully will say nice things about her. But Mills’s former nanny is suing her, saying she had to spray-tan Mills’s naked body and come to work at 7:30 a.m. to blow-dry Mills’s hair. Maybe she had to clean out Mills’s toenails, too, but had too much dignity to put that in the lawsuit. Jackson Browne’s son Ethan remembers kissing Angelina Jolie’s “succulent” lips in the 1995 movie Hackers. Well, Ethan, speaking of body parts, we don’t know what you look like, unfortunately, but we can only hope your hair is as fetchingly straight and glossy as your father’s used to be. Or maybe it still is. Cameron Diaz wants to stop shopping and smoking and start wearing a bra as her New Year’s resolutions. Same here, Cam.
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十二月 30th, 2008
Key Matchups: CJ Bacher / Eric Peterman vs. Missouri Secondary
onward we go with our third and irreversible installment of key matchups for the benefit of tonight’s game:key matchup #3:cj bacher and eric peterman vs. mizzou secondaryalright, we’ve focused so go places on the cats’ defensive know-how and goals in their efforts to slow maclin, coffman and daniel, in no particular order, this evening. all well and well-behaved, and i think we’ve got the goods to dent the mizzou offensive armor, if not totally beat it it off the tracks (sure, mixed metaphors, but you’re with me on this). but, and this is a rather supersized modifier, it thinks fitting be for naught if we can’t attribute enough points on the council. what quantifies as adequate? uh (stalling), er (more stalling), well (venturing guesstimate), i’d influence 30-something as a conservative offering. remember, the tigers scored at least 31 points in 11 of 13 games, including 2 of their 4 losses.so that takes us to cj and the offensive play-calling which has been a mixture of adequate, workmanlike and safe on good days or maddening and needlessly conservative on the not-so-good saturdays this year. here’s the thing: mizzou ranks 117th in slipping away defense (remember, there are 119 division 1-a teams). assume from that again if you’d like. even if you through the oklahoma game minus of the equation, mizzou didn’t relax down kansas’ predilection attack (good benefit of 375 yards and a liability liabilities to the jayhawks), baylor (337 yards, close win), or common opponent illinois (451 yards, win). but, you noise abroad to yourself, we’re not exactly an offense built on 40 yard completions and airing it minus. true. this is where cj has to be the smart, safe cj that we’ve seen and rooted for who picks his spots, takes the compressed screens or 6 yard plays to peterman or lane, and throws the balls into the alamo basin stands when it’s not there. or, better yet, find your favorite target (read: peterman, eric) on an 8-yard crossing route and forgive peterman and his blocking corps turn that 8-yard pass into a 28-yard scamper through an open alley and down the mtier. that’s where our affection attack is at its upper crust. peterman averaged 12.6 yards/reception this season not because he ran a 12-yard route, turned around, and went down. no, he did it because he did what he’s done as our top receiver in this offense — build on those all-important yac stats: yards after the catch. and behind peterman is eric lane, who in reality had more receptions this year (55 vs. peterman’s 52), and provides a nice 1-2 privilege for bacher. rasheed repel, jeremy ebert, sidney stewart, and andrew brewer all can contribute, and the more guys we can run on 6-8 yard routes, the better chance we’ll beget.as for cj, my biggest nit with his decision-making and quality all year has been the too oft telegraphed, look-one-place-and-nowhere-else course he’s taken in the pocket. missouri may be raking the bottom of the statistical barrel in their pass defense, but that’ll rally mightily if cj locks in on peterman and the guy in the alamodome rafters knows where he’s going before the ball leaves his hands. cj’s been best this year when he’s been patient, and patience will be a gargantuan key tonight if we’re going to put up points, even adequacy points, to win. song more note on bacher’s role tonight: tyrell sutton is a fine, fine opportunity for a toss out
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十二月 30th, 2008
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十二月 30th, 2008
Local stores enjoy ?healthy’ holiday shopping season
This year’s holiday shopping season was supposed to be a rough one for retailers, as the struggling national economy and the high unemployment rate is taking their toll on personal spending. And for many stores across the country, the projections of decreased sales proved accurate, according to several national reports. But locally, many store managers said sales did not take a significant hit, but rather were as strong, if not stronger, than previous years. Christopher Patrick, general manager at The Buckle inside Meadowbrook Mall, said his store experienced a strong holiday shopping season. “I think we had the same amount of traffic as usual,” he said, “and I think people are actually investing a little bit more than normal.” Patrick said if the economic woes did change buying habits this year, it changed them for the better locally, as many consumers did most of their shopping in Pittsburg, rather than traveling to other cities. “People right now are spending more money with the companies that they trust,” he said. “If they’re out in a rush to buy something, they’re going to go with those people who they trust and normally do business with. I think this year more than ever, they’ve invested in the people and the businesses that have helped them in the past.” Patrick O’Bryan, Pittsburg city commissioner and owner of Little’s Inc., said he also witnessed an increase in local shopping, both in his store and throughout the city. “I noticed a number of people who said they were doing all of their shopping in Pittsburg,” he said. “They were shopping at home as opposed to going to the cities or to Joplin to spend their money. And in the course of that, they were discovering things about their own retail environment that they were not aware of before. “Like in my store, for example, there were a lot of people who said, ‘I’ve never been in here before. I didn’t realize you had these kind of things,’” he said. “And I haven’t crunched the numbers yet, but from what I’ve been able to tell, we had a very healthy holiday sales experience this year.” Chris Etheridge, store manager at Hastings, said the high demand for electronics and video game systems led many local customers into the store. He said Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS were among top sellers this year. He said the store did not offer any post-Christmas sales, but that did not hinder store traffic. “We actually were pretty busy all this week,” he said. “We didn’t see much of a drop off at all this year.” Chad Comeau, owner of Comeau Jewelry, said sales in his Pittsburg location were down a bit from last year, but increased sales in the Joplin, Mo., store made up the difference. “Fortunately, what I was off here in town I made up for across the state line,” he said. For the first time in years, sales of luxury items, including jewelry, plummeted this year. According to MasterCard Inc.’s SpendingPulse unit, sales of luxury goods, including jewelry, fell by nearly 35 percent. Excluding jewelry, sales plunged by 21 percent. Comeau said while his stores didn’t suffer significantly due to the economic turmoil, he did notice his customers were being a bit more conservative with their dollars this year. “As a whole, people were looking for lower priced items this year,” he said. “It’s hard to say if that’s because of the economy, but I would assume so.” In an attempt to increase sales at the beginning of the new year, Comeau said he will offer sale prices next month. “We did not run any kind of sale last year, but we are going to run a sale in mid-January,” he said. “We’ll hopefully spur some things in the month of January, when things tend to drop off a little bit.” Managers at some of the city’s larger stores, including Wal-Mart, The Home Depot and Big Lots, declined to comment for this story. Steve Scott, store manager at JC Penney, also did not comment other than to say that the store was “very busy.” Mastercard’s SpendingPulse reported a decline in holiday sales of 5.5 percent in November and 8 percent in December through Christmas Eve. However, excluding gasoline sales, retail totals dropped by 2.5 percent in November and 4 percent in December. Gasoline sales plunged by 40 percent from the year before, according to the study.
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十二月 29th, 2008
MTV Launching Eight New Reality TV Series
reality tv magazine recently updated fans on the bevy of Aristotelianism entelechy tv shows announced by the chief networks for 2009. in any way, it isn’t just the major networks that have filled their schedules with reality tv programming. mtv has eight reborn reality tv series in the works for 2009. mtv has announced rob dydrek’s fantasy factory, … related posts:
Watchmen–will Warners be able to settle with Fox in time for a Mar. release?
a judge has decided that fox owns the rights to alan moore’s acclaimed graphic novel watchmen, which came as statement to warner bros., which has a highly-anticipated all-star film of the dark, cynical superheroes done break down tale from director zack…
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十二月 29th, 2008
Counter Punch: Immediate UFC 92 Thoughts
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-First off, awesome night of fights. All three main events delivered in their own dramatic ways. Hats off to the UFC for delivering at the end of the year.
-I’m not sure where to start, but let’s go from the top. We have a new Light Heavyweight Champ by the name of Rashad Evans. I had no clue how to score round 1 (probably 10-10) and I gave Forrest round 2. But Rashad came out and delivered in the third stanza. This kid has looked better and better each time out. I think a run-in with Quinton Jackson is next in line.
-Frank Mir caught everyone with their pants down. Mir looked absolutely fantastic in this fight. You could say that Nogueira looked out-of-shape (and coming into the fight at 246 would confirm that), but Frank absolutely dominated this fight bell-to-bell. Brock Lesnar looked absolutely estatic at the finish.
-With that said…Nogueira/Couture, please. It makes sense. Deliver, Dana, deliver.
-I hope Quinton Jackson helps soften how people look at the intangibles in fight sport (or any sport for that matter). Is Quinton totally together mentally? Who knows. But it didn’t matter at all tonight. Reminiscint of his second fight with Chuck Liddell, Jackson used a perfectly placed hook to down an opponent throwing a wild strike. Jackson’s put down two of the game’s legends with each of his hands.
-Big ups on the new UFC ring girl Logan Stanton (I believe I got the name right). I’m not a fan of the plastic look of Edith, and Logan’s more natural look is a pleasant change.
-Judging by the Sherdog play-by-play, it’s understandable, but I’m still a sad puppy that I didn’t get to see Yushin Okami tonight.
-Bloodbath in the gambling world. Sorry guys.
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十二月 28th, 2008
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Sundance Movie Trailer: Taking Chance
As January nears, we begin to focus on the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. A new trailer has hit the web for Ross Katz’s Taking Chance. Katz, who started in Hollywood as a grip on Reservoir Dogs, served as producer on films like In The Bedroom and Lost in Translation, both of which earned him Academy Award nominations. Chance is his directorial debut.
The film is based on true events. Actually, its based on an actual letter written by a volunteer military escort officer (which you can read online here). The film recounts the story of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, a marine who volunteers to escort the remains of a 19-year-old killed in Iraq, back to his family in a small Wyoming town.
In the last couple years, Sundance has been overrun with films which focus on or use the Iraq war as a backdrop. But Taking Chance is one
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十二月 26th, 2008
President commutes sentence of ex-addict
president george w. bush on tuesday commuted the sprightliness prison sentence of a des moines fellow who was arrested on federal drug charges in 1995.
Higher Wages or Bubblenomics: What’s it gonna be? By Mike Whitney
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十二月 25th, 2008
Shaun Ellis + snowball = awesome!
Shaun Ellis is going to catch some heat for finding that big ol’ boulder of snow and launching into the Qwest Field stands after the Jets lost to the Seahawks. That’s the way the NFL is these days.
Surely, with all the people allowed to spew sports talk into the ethos and those damn bloggers — 
— someone will say this is the latest example of sports gone awry. Or how athletes are spoiled rich brats getting paid to play a kid’s game. Or how this is an affront to fans everywhere. Someone trying to make a name for themselves might even pull out a Ron Artest. Please turn off your televisions, radios and Internet connections when you see/hear/read that.
Ellis will likely have to pay a fine, and well, frankly, we can’t really argue against that.
But what he did was just plain awesome. He and his Jets teammates werepelted with snowballs by people in the crowd — after that loss, you have to wonder how many of them were Jets viagra kaufen fan — en route to the locker room. Ellis instigated nothing. He just returned fire.
Basic rule of snowball fights: when someone throws download horror movies a snowball at you, you find some snow, form as spherical a shape as possible and you launch it at the person who started it.
Just ask Elementary school friend Alina. She started a snowball fight with me on Facebook a few weeks ago and the e-snow has been firing back and forth ever since.
That’s all Ellis did. He threw snow at people throwing snow at him. Ellis was covered from an elevated position, but he still fought back, just like the Navy Seals in “The Rock.” (Let’s just hope for the Jets’ defense that this season doesn’t end like that scene did.)
What did you want Ellis to do, whip out a cell phone and text the Seahawks about unruly fans? He’d probably get fined for that, too!
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十二月 23rd, 2008
Cho Seung Hui E-mails Released
From TheTrenchcoat Chronicles section of CrimeNe.ws.
va. tech campus paper posts e-mails to and about gunman online:
The Virginia Tech student newspaper, The Collegiate Times,has made public e-mails concerning Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui. The e-mails were originally released only to the families of the victims and Collegiate Times editor-in-chief David Grant won’t say how the paper came to be in possession of them. Some are criticizing the Times for making these public stating it’s disrespectful to the families but the Times has not made any family information publicly available.
The e-mails between Cho and Virginia Tech faculty can be seen here. E-mails between faculty members about Cho can be read here.
In my opinion there really isn’t anything new in these e-mails that we didn’t already know. They further show just how selfish Cho was and how he blamed his failures and shortcomings on others.
He had trouble speaking in public yet he chose to become an English major. He was failing some of his courses but he blamed that on the professors. The professors offered him every opportunity to help him bring his grades up but he kept wanting to do things his way. They offered him advice on how to get over his problems with public speaking. They were legitimately concerned about his mental health. No one can say that Cho was a victim.
He lived his life the same way he took so many others. An egotistical and selfish punk who thought it was all about him with no regard for anyone else but himself.
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十二月 23rd, 2008
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