The Huffington Post has two clips from former executive producer and head writer of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” Ben Karlin’s appearance on “Inside Joke with Carl Arnheiter” that are more then worth watching.
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As previously mentioned here, a while ago Rolling Stone Keith Richards claimed he snorted the ashes of his father with cocaine. Shortly after that story started getting some attention Richards retracted the statement, saying it was ridiculous. Now Mr. Richards has again clarified his comments: He did snort his dad (in ash form) just without any cocaine included:
But now the 63-year-old rocker has admitted he did inhale his father Bert’s remains – just not with class-A narcotics.
Because that, of course, would have been disrespectful.
“The cocaine bit was rubbish,” says “Keef”, who is penning his autobiography.
“I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I’d opened his box up and said, ‘Jesus, I’ve got to do something with dad, y’know, plant the oak tree.’
“I pulled the lid off and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I’m going, ‘I can’t use the brush and dustpan for this’. So you just gotta like, put it together.
“What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of… y’know, he went down a treat.”
Well that explains everything now doesn’t it?
The Spice Girls are getting back together and have been ordered not to get pregnant. Sounds about right. (via HuffPost)
Yes, this makes perfect sense to me:
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsequently rejected, building the so-called “Gay Bomb.”
Rejected? Heavens why? Sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea to me. Please, tell me more:
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.”
The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.
“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviewing the documents.
$7.5 million sounds about right. I imagine a gay bomb would be rather expensive but thats the kind of thing you don’t want to do on the cheap, right? I tried to think of ways to work Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in here but for the life of me I can’t figure out how. Ah well.
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Mike Tyson wants to try something new _ acting in Bollywood movies. Tyson said the energy on the sets of a music video he recently shot for a new comedy got him thinking about trying to do more Bollywood work, The Times of India reported Monday.
The former heavyweight boxing champion said in an interview that Firoz Nadiadwala, producer of “Fool n Final,” had approached him with a script.
“Firoz has discussed a movie with me,” the newspaper quoted Tyson as saying.
“We seriously intend to work toward it,” he said, without disclosing any details.
Tyson, 40, danced to Bollywood music at a two-day shoot in Las Vegas last month for a music video to promote “Fool n Final,” about a diamond heist.
“The atmosphere was very congenial, happy and energetic,” the newspaper quoted Tyson as saying.
Tyson plays himself in the music video, set for release later this month.
He said Nadiadwala explained the concept of the music video to him earlier this year.
“I was, anyway, in that phase when I didn’t mind trying out something different,” he said. “The script seemed very interesting, with lots of excitement thrown in.”
Tyson said there are similarities between acting and boxing.
“In both the fields, in order to survive and triumph, you need focus and to be highly disciplined and determined,” he said.
A judge in Phoenix gave Tyson permission to travel to Las Vegas to shoot the music video. Tyson is facing charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs for an arrest in Scottsdale last year.
Tyson had been expected to travel to India this summer to film the dance sequence, but the scene was shot in Las Vegas due to security reasons, director Ahmed Khan has said.
Keith Richards, sir, its time to reexamine your life I think:
Rolling Stones wildman Keith Richards claims he snorted his own father's ashes during a drugs binge.
Richards made the extraordinary admission in an interview with NME magazine.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," he said.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s***.
"It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002 aged 84.
Words fail me. I mean seriously. Keith Richards is a walking talking anti-drug ad.
I shan't go into extensive detail on my feelings about Senator John McCain (though if you must know, wanted him to be President in '00, wanted him to be VP in '04, became disgusted with him in late '04, currently regard the man as a pathetic example of what some men will do to become President) and obviously I have no desire for him to become President in '08. Having said that, he's just done a pretty cool/smart thing on his website.
If you've been awake the last week and/or are even marginally a sports fan then you must surelly be aware that we are right at the start of March Madness (the NCAA Basketball tourney for your novices {hi mom!}). Essentially everyone in America is filling out at least one bracket and entering office pools or what have you (I happen to be in five different ones but that's just me).
Senator McCain, in a very crafty move, has setup his own tournament pool on his website, tapping in to the high excitement/participation that is going on right now. Its an impressively cool/smart idea, one I wish one of the candidates from my side of the aisle had come up with first. Senator McCain, at the very least, is going to build up his email list (you've got to give up some info to register) and he's going to get some positive media attention because of the innovativeness of the whole thing (positive outside of people pulling quotes that make him seem like a hypocrite)
Now I myself won't be signing up for the Senator's pool as I have no desire to receive contribution solicitations, though I will admit I am some what curious to see what his bracket looked like. So if anyone wants to sacrifice their email address to get a copy of his bracket, feel free and then send me the results. Either way I'm sure it'll turn up some where.