When Found Music opened on Wilshire in LA – “in the heart of the Miracle Mile” – they were brash, optimistic and funky but chic. Check out the opening message on the site: Buy some stuff from our store. If you don’t buy anything we’ll just go out of business …
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Special thanks to crack Cleveland.com blogger and Plain Dealer tech reporter Chris Seper for his concern and attention regarding the financial situation at tbomedia.co.uk. We have been pushed by our steady growth in readers, writers, and archive of stories to a much more expensive site hosting plan – victims of …
Read More »I can’t remember the last time I paid $25M to shut someone up for something I didn’t do
Can you? But Michael Jackson did, according to this report from Court TV: Michael Jackson paid out approximately $25 million to settle a civil suit by a boy who accused him of molesting him in 1993, according to the confidential agreement which was exclusively obtained by Court TV’s Diane Dimond. …
Read More »Clinton On Canvas, Film, In Print, and Making the Rounds
One of the odd but endearing things about American politics are those tableaus where the combatants periodically step out of the ring and acknowldge that it’s at least partially a big, fat show. Can you picture Hamid Karzai unveiling a portrait of Mullah Omar? Bush and Clinton get all squishy: …
Read More »Ryan Seacrest Is a …. (Metrosexual) Shhh
Ryan Seacrest did an interview with the Straits Times (funny name, ha) of Singapore in conjunction with a Sinaporean version of Idol: Now that American Idol is over, how are you feeling? (Audible sigh of relief) Well, I’m getting a little more sleep, you know. It’s balancing two TV shows …
Read More »Reunited Duranies Finish New Album
Though it is the music that will be the final arbiter, this has all the earmarks of a happy ending: Founding lineup’s first new studio album in 19 years due out in October 2004 on Epic Records. Band works with hit making R&B and alternative rock producers New York, NY– …
Read More »Britney Knee Busted
THIS JUST IN!! Moments after this pic was snapped, Britney’s breasts went all Janet, escaped their leatherette captors and wreaked havoc like free radicals, taking out her left knee and necessitating the cancellation of her summer tour. Spears had arthroscopic surgery, will be wearing a hard brace for six weeks …
Read More »Dotsie, Bikes, Anorexia and Mojo
About ten years ago, purely by chance, I went out a couple of times with a former Miss Ohio, who flinched oddly when I said something about “being pretty skinny most of my life.” I thought it was an innocuous, offhand sort of thing, just meaning I had always wished …
Read More »Um, I Wasn’t Kidding – We Need Your Help
Two weeks ago we moved to a new hosting company for a variety of reasons, most important of which is that our growth required a move to a dedicated server of our own, which greatly increased this monthly expense. We really, no kidding, need your help in paying for this. …
Read More »More Buckeye Terror
When I think back to 9/11/01, my most vivid memory is of a palpable fear that the nation felt but left largely unspoken, that we were unspeakably vulnerable, that things were out of control, that events were spiralling, that anything could happen anywhere and that literally the fabric of the …
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