Posts Tagged ‘Celebrities’
Remember When KISS Came to Our High School
We're coming to your town we'll help you party down! Wrong band, but life actually imitated art in 1975 when KISS went to the town of Cadillac, Michigan to play Homecoming. Its one of those bizarre feel good stories with grease paint and rock and roll. The high school football team got on a win streak by playing KISS in the locker room. So the [...]
Kim Kardashian Wants to Go Fast, NASCAR Fast
Well America, NASCAR just got a touch of class. OK, I can't write that with a straight face. I'll just cut to chase, Kim Kardashian has just unveiled her new car... her NASCAR car. I guess that was on the list of how to be a celebrity: (1) Have a somewhat famous last name- her late father was a lawyer on the O.J. Simpson defense team (2) [...]
Bully Rapper Axed By Her Majesty’s Government
I don't know any of the people involved, but this did make me laugh since the whole thing takes place at the intersection of celebrity, irony, and vanity. Apparently Dappy, star of the UK hip hop band N-Dubz has incredibly thin skin. BBC Radio 1 listener Chloe Moody texted The Chris Moyles Show while the band N-Dubz was being interviewed, [...]
Marilyn Monroe Smokes Pot and Lohan’s Secret Beau
The problem with being a dead celebrity is that people will talk about you when you're gone. And you can't come back and defend yourself from the vultures. Being a celebrity anything, anyone, or anyplace you came in contact with for more than half a second is instantly "interesting". Take attention starved stage mom, Dina Lohan's claim that [...]
How to Bury a Millionaire, Widow Auctions Tomb Above Marilyn Monroe
If you have a thing for Marilyn Monroe and you just can't let go, then you need to meet Elsie Poncher. Poncher is offering a golden ticket to an afterlife with Marilyn Monroe... on eBay. She is selling her late husband's burial spot at Westwood Village Memorial Park, which sits directly above film legend Marilyn Monroe so that she can pay [...]
Wax Nostalgic For Christmas
The world famous house of wax, Madame Tussaud's has an odd way of getting into the Christmas spirit. Four years ago the London location treated us to a pop culture Nativity scene with David Beckham and wife Victoria in the lead roles, as Joseph and Mary. In the background U.K. comedian Graham Norton and Samuel L. Jackson play a shepherds. [...]
