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Porn Legend Ron Jeremy is in Critical Condition at Cedars-Sinai
TMZ reports that porn legend Ron Jeremy drove himself to the hospital yesterday after suffering severe chest pains, whereupon doctors discovered an aneurysm near his heart. The pop culture icon is in...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Weighs in on Girls
Laker great and sometimes columnist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hadn’t written a piece for Huffington Post in over three years. After blogging fairly regularly during the 2008 election, Kareem sat 2012 out....
View ArticleNBCLA Lands the Early Front-Runner for Car Chase of the Year Video
Plenty of stupid car chases find a way to infiltrate our local TV news, but none quite like this. NBC informs us the suspect above was wanted by police on suspicion of “drunk driving.” Are you sure...
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San Diego Journo Brews ‘Unemployed Reporter Porter’
Gotta hand it to San Diego-based freelancer Jon Campbell. Plenty of journos turn to the bottle when they get laid off. Yours truly among them. Instead of going the typical crybaby Bukowski wanna-be...
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Newspaper Delivery Women Shot During Manhunt for Killer Cop
Terrible news out of Torrance today as two women were shot by LAPD this morning as they were delivering newspapers.* From the LA Times: The women, shot in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue, were taken...
View ArticleDan Rather: ‘Unfortunately, the Goat Remained a Goat’
Dan Rather was on Reddit earlier today doing an Ask Me Anything session and had a rather charming video response to the question of the “craziest thing someone has ever told him.” We won’t spoil it...
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Rogue LAPD Cop Christopher Dorner Sent Package to Anderson Cooper
Rogue LAPD cop Christopher Dorner, who is currently wanted for the murder of no less than three people in Southern California, certainly had plenty of thoughts about various pop culture and media...
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Will Ferrell Crashes Lakers Game As An Usher Named ‘Ted Vagina’
When it comes to public hijinks, Will Ferrell is second to none… Well, second to Bill Murray actually. Still, pretty damn funny. Ferrell was at last night’s Lakers game against the Suns dressed as an...
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San Diego City Government Gives Departing CityBeat Journo Dave Maass His Own...
Don’t see much of this in the alt-weekly world. This past Wednesday, the San Diego city council officially named February 13th “Dave Maass Day,” in honor of the departing San Diego CityBeat journo, who...
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Hugh Hefner Remembers Fellow Man of Leisure Jerry Buss
Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner was on ESPN 710 this morning with Max and Marcellus to give his remembrance of Lakers owner and fellow man of leisure Jerry Buss. Asked if Buss was a playboy, Hef replied...
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KCRW Brings Back ‘Metropolis’ With Jason Bentley
KCRW is bringing back its late-night dance music show “Metropolis” with its original host Jason Bentley, reports West Coast Sound. The show ran from 1992 to 2008 before Bentley replaced Nic Harcourt as...
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Oscar Night Social Media: George Takei Wins Tweet O’ the Evening
Oh my! George Takei clearly wins Twitter for the night. There will no doubt be 8,000 “Draft George Takei” Facebook pages by this time tomorrow. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs...
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The Onion Apologizes for Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet
As predicted by yours truly last night, The Onion’s tweet about Quvenzhané Wallis still has the Internet in full wrath mode. Not only was the offending tweet removed, this morning Onion CEO Steve...
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John Cusack Talks Freedom of the Press, Hunter S. Thompson on Reddit
Actor John Cusack has teamed up with Pentagon Paper whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, writers Glenn Greenwald and Xeni Jardin, documentarian Laura Poitras and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder...
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Perez Hilton Is a Dad
Who would have expected this a few years ago, when he was posting crotch shots of a then-teenage Miley Cyrus‘ on his site? Perez Hilton is a daddy. Writes Hilton on his site: I am ready to announce...
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Yahoo News Lands Rob Walker
Yahoo News just landed a pretty big name for its tech coverage. Longtime New York Times Magazine contributor and editor Rob Walker will be joining the site as its newest tech columnist. Walker wrote...
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Jon Stewart to Go on Hollywood Hiatus
Don’t expect The Daily Show to keep you occupied this summer on those hot, concrete-baking nights. Deadline reports that Jon Stewart is taking a 12-week hiatus from the show to make his Hollywood...
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KPFK Has Scabies
Yikes. LA Observed got a hold of an internal KPFK memo from general manager Bernard Duncan, alerting staff that one of their own had contracted bitey, bitey mites. It begins: We have been informed that...
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James O’Keefe Agrees to Pay $100,000 to Victim of ACORN Sting
It was the sting that made him a household name, but James O’Keefe is paying for it now. Wonkette reports that the Breitbart protege just agreed to pay $100,000 to former California ACORN employee Juan...
View ArticleNewspaper Delivery Drivers Shot by LAPD Won’t Get New Truck
The LAPD PR-nightmare continues unabated. After mistakenly shooting more than 100 holes through the truck of Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, (who also took two bullets to the...
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