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Drew Brees and The New Orleans Saints are down right, rat-freaking annoying. They have exhibited the habit of playing in big games on Sunday and Monday Night this season, blowing out their opponents, then sucking like raw eggs the next Sunday. So, with that, look for the New Orleans Saints that totally destroyed the New … Read more
Barney Frank, the famed Massachusetts Congressman who this blogger thought was older than Congress itself, suddenly announced his retirement on Cyber Monday (Man, everything happened on Cyber Monday!) Frank has served the 4th Congressional District since 1981, and has grown to become called by some the smartest person in Congress. Regardless of how you feel … Read more
Is Miley Cyrus a Stoner? That’s the question on the lips of fans and haters of the pop-culture icon on the same Cyber Monday that saw legions of Miley lovers take to the Internet in search of deals. Finished buying whatever they bought, many clicked over to find out what was up with their favorite … Read more
As of this writing, Cyber Monday, which is the first Monday after Black Friday and focuses on promoting online retail, is almost over. According to Shop.org, online sales were projected to be 15 percent over that for 2010; some other sources said it would be as great as 30 percent over last year, when sales … Read more
There are four girls left in the running to become America’s Next Top Model: All Star. The four girls are Lisa ( the crazy one ), Allison (the one with the eyes), Laura (The southern belle) and Angelea (The “ghetto” one). America’s Next Top Model All Stars has been pretty interesting to say the least … Read more
I just recently started liking Nicki Minaj – it took a while. I didn’t really like her music, but now I can’t get Super Bass out of my head. Looks like someone else is also taking a liking to Nicki Minaj; the queen herself. Madonna is reportedly going to be collaborating with Nicki Minaj according … Read more
Today is a historic one in Egypt, as the nation holds its first elections in its history. According to Aljazeera, “large numbers” of voters turned out to participate in what is the first day of “a three-stage” election process. Egyptian voters are electing a new lower house of parliament today, and are choosing 168 of … Read more
Watch live streaming video from owslosangeles at livestream.com The video above shows, as of this writing, a kind of press conference featuring Occupy LA participants. The expected eviction action didn’t exactly happen last night, because as of this writing, much of the encampment is still there. This video below shows the ‘Occupy LA Eviction Party’ … Read more
UPDATE: LINDSEY VONN’S EX THOMAS VONN TURNS JERK WITH BAD TWEET AIMED AT TIGER WOODS. Video UPDATE: Lindsey Vonn Dating Tiger Woods, Uses Airplane: UPDATE: Lindsey Vonn on David Letterman and TMZ.com UPDATE: Lindsey Vonn Dating Tim Tebow’s Brother? What about John Elway? UPDATE: Vonn wins World Cup! UPDATE: Vonn talks about the divorce – … Read more
Will Occupy LA be evicted after 12 midnight PDT? As this is written, a set of USTREAM Live video feeds have been installed at Zennie62.com to present the Occupy LA eviction. After 56 days, or almost two months, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa figured the political winds were in his favor and elected to give … Read more
Gary Speed? Suicide? This is very sad news to say the least. The famed manager of the Wales National Soccer team, Gary Speed apparently took his own life. According to The Telegraph UK, Speed was found hanging by police, who reported that they they found him dead after what was described as “an incident at … Read more
The NBA has been in a lock out for quite some time, but there have been rumors going around that the NBA season will resume. This is being confirmed legitimately through Reuters, who are reporting that the NBA has announced a tentative deal to start its season on Christmas; wouldn’t that be quite a gift … Read more
Melissa Kellerman is a name brand-new to pop culture, but it looks like The Dallas Cowboys aren’t happy about it. Whatever the Cawboys’ thinking is, if it could be called that, it’s resulted in the robbing of a lot of potential cash from the pocket of their Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. UPDATE: Twitter Took Down Kellerman’s … Read more
Even after Dancing With The Stars Season 13’s end, it’s still topping the pop culture news search results. Today it’s J.R. Martinez and last night it was Hope Solo. J.R. Martinez, the winner of Dancing With The Stars Season 13, was invited to visit Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who was impressed with the new star’s … Read more
Finally we have some good NBA News: the 2011-2012 NBA Season officially starts December 25th, Christmas Day, with a tripple-header: the Boston Celtics v. The New York Knicks, The Miami Heat v. The Dallas Mavericks, and The Chicago Bulls visiting The LA Lakers. An exciting set of matchups to kick-off what will be a shortened, … Read more
Google recently announced that in a matter of few weeks it will retire its Google Buzz service because it didn’t live up to the company’s standards and expectations. This means that Google Buzz users can no longer create new posts on the service but its users can still access their personal files. Existing user created … Read more
About three weeks ago November 7th 2011, and on the same Monday that, as it turned out, was the beginning of the 18-city coordinated effort to evict Occupy Movement encampments all over the United States, Jason Overman, representative to Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, shared via email to this blogger a video of his boss’ speech … Read more
Concerned that fans and patrons think Andronico’s is totally out of business with the close of its Telegraph Avenue store in Berkeley, the food retailer’s went on a big push to let you know they’re still going strong, and their facilities on Shattuck Avenue, and on Solono Avenue, both in Berkeley, are still going concerns … Read more
After watching a Cal Stanford Big Game that Cal should have won, but lost 31-28, the California Golden Bears came into the Land of the Tourist – aka Tempe, Arizona – for its final game of the 2011 NCAA Season against Arizona State. After leading by as much as 10 points, Cal fooled around and … Read more
That Ndamukong Suh managed to take the NFL by storm comes as no surprise to anyone who’s seen him play while he was a student at Nebraska. And to be frank, Ndamukong Suh is one of a new breed of black NFL players – a new generation that defies age-old stereotypes by speaking great English … Read more
Congratulations to the Stanford Cardinal Women’s Soccer Team, which beat the Oklahoma State Women’s Soccer Team (called the Cowgirls) 2-1 in Elite Eight play at Stanford’s Cagan Stadium Friday night. Show’s you what happens when players have to skip the traditional home-cooked Thanksgiving meal and stick around for a big game. They take all that … Read more
What do Ndamukong Suh, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Melissa Kellerman, and Arlene Mossa Corona, the Bikink Dog Girl, all have in common? All were top news stories on Thanksgiving Day. So this blogger figured out a way to combine them in one blog post. The result was the assertion that Ndamukong Suh, the star Defensive Tackle … Read more
Tout.com is a platform best described as a cross between Twitter and YouTube, where you can make 15 second videos and then upload them to three places: your Tout page, Twitter stream, and Facebook page. This blogger has been Touting for about a year and a half, and also reviewing and “liking” the Touts of … Read more
Forever 21, a fashion online and offline retailer established in Los Angeles in 1984, and that focuses on the young female adult demographic, is as of this writing benefiting from becoming a Twitter Trend on Black Friday. ‘Forever 21’ is ranked ninth, but it was as high as number three just an hour ago. The … Read more
In a blog post broke exclusively at Zennie62.com, the entire website of the Occupy Oakland movement was down, and for reasons not known to this blogger. Several online tests confirmed the status of the OO website at the time, with all pages appearing as white speace, and the Occupy Oakland movement had not taken note … Read more
For some reason, the website at the URL http://www.occupyoakland.org – the online home of the Occupy Oakland movement – is down. To be more specific, this blogger discovered that not just the home page of the website, but a number of pages revealed after a site search using site:www.occupyoakland.org were showing up as blank white … Read more
Who can blame American Idol winner Scotty McCreery for being excited to be singing in his first Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade? Maybe he was a little too excited, because someone forgot to tell the country crooner to make it look like he’s not lip-syncing his songs. While everyone who’s watched the parade into adulthood knows that … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving! First Lady Michelle Obama is asking us to help her and President Obama thank our heroes. Here’s her message: Good morning, Every Thanksgiving, Barack sits down to call some of our troops and thank them for their service. When he tells me about these conversations, it always reminds me of how blessed we … Read more
Ok, this is 2011 in the 21st Century, right? In America. Where we have an African American President in Barack Obama. Right? Ok, so with all of that, why is it that half of Mississippi Republicans polled want Interracial Marriage banned? Yes you read that correctly. Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian should avoid that state … Read more
Fox News Megyn Kelly has come under heavy fire from blogs like this one… … after she appeared on Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News to say that the pepper spray used by UC Police Officer John Pike wasn’t all that bad, and said it was “a food additive.” Megyn made it sound like … Read more
UPDATE: Kelly explains pepper spray comments. Just about over a day after the November 18th UC Davis Police action against UC Davis students in non-violent protest, where UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike grabbed a bottle of pepper spray and started covering kneeling students with it, Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly made a silly statement. … Read more
The Baltimore Ravens have an interesting week. Sunday they had a home win against the Bengals and on Thanksgiving Day, they have another home game against the Niners. It is the first Thanksgiving Day game in the history of the team and will once again feature the Ravens in the national spotlight. At 7-3, the … Read more
The City’s residents and businesses reached a major milestone Tuesday, in their efforts to help protect the environment – one million tons of food scraps and plants collected for composting in San Francisco. Environmentalists, city officials, and representatives of Recology, San Francisco’s recycling company gathered at 10:30 a.m. at Scoma’s Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf to … Read more
For some reason Mashable, the blog about social networking and digital trends, fired it’s Editor-At-Large Ben Parr. So ends a rather long run for a young man who’s star was rising in the tech news community, and who worked hard in his assent from reporter – he was at the YouTube Partner Meetup in 2009 … Read more
So, amid all of the arguments over the Dancing With The Stars cast, and all of the bad treatment and hard feelings about how Hope Solo was treated, Iraq War Veteran JR Martinez took home the Mirror Ball Trophy. Congratulations to Jose Rene “JR” Martinez and his dancing partner the lovely Karina Smirnoff. It was … Read more
