Todd Harrell, Bassist for 3 Doors Down Arrested

Bassist for 3 Doors Down, Todd Harrell (41), has been arrested and charged with Vehicular Homicide as well as Driving Under the Influence and Bringing a Controlled Substance into Jail that stemmed from an accident that [Todd] Harrell had late friday night.

Harrell was believed to be driving at a high rate of speed along Interstate 40 just outside of Nashville, Tennessee when he clipped a Ford Pick-up Truck. The truck, driven by Paul Howard Shoulders Jr., then lost control, hit a guardrail, then went down an embankment where it overturned. Shoulders, who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt was ejected from the vehicle and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. [Todd] Harrell’s car proceeded down the road and crashed into a retaining wall about a quarter mile from the scene.

At the outset Harrell showed signs of impairment and went under a field sobriety test. During the test Harrell 

admitted to officers that he had been consuming hard cider in addition to Lortab (a prescription pain med) and Xanax. Harrell was then taken to Davidson County Jail where it was discovered by authorities that [Todd] Harrell had another 24 Oxycodone pills, 4 Oxymorphone, and 8 more Xanax pills wrapped up in a plastic baggy in his sock.

Harrell is currently in jail in lieu of a $100,000 dollar bond and has a scheduled court appearance on Thursday.

The band (3 Doors Down) issued a statement saying that they were “deeply sadden by the passing of Paul Howard Shoulders Jr.. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family and friends during this difficult time.”

Harrell is no stranger when it comes to drinking and driving. [Todd] was arrested last year in Mississippi for DUI after he had another crash. In that crash he drove through an intersection which lead to an accident.   

Metro Nashville PD has stated that they have no further information concerning Harrell other than their website info.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Images of Him Hiding

Boston PD has released an aerial infrared photo of  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he was hiding in the back of the boat on Friday.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  was sought by authorites for his connection to the Boston Marathon Bombings. His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed earlier in an exchange of gunfire with police.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was injured in the original shootout and is in critical condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The same hospital that his brother was taken to and died.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Autopsy Photo (Contains Gruesome Images)

Rough, gruesome images have been leaked from the area hospital (the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center )where Tamerlan Tsarnaev (aka Suspect #1 for the Boston Marathon Bombing) was taken after an early morning shootout with authorities.

The photo first appeared on REDDIT and allegedly shows Tsarnaev lying on a gurney with a large open wound on his chest. The Boston area police have confirmed (according to TMZ's site) that this is an actual photo and are at the moment investigating how and where the photo was leaked.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar are suspected to be the Boston Marathon Bombers after photos the two men were released by the FBI showing them leaving black nylon backpacks at the scene of both explosions. Then early this morning the two men robbed a 7/11 killed a MIT Police Officer then lead police on a high speed chase through the Boston suburbs which ended in a shootout with responding officers. During the exchange another officer was critically wounded.

At the moment Boston and the surrounding area are on lockdown as FBI and Police go door to door in search of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who escaped.

Farrah Abraham: The Kim Jung-Un of Reality TV?

When Farrah Abraham, like the retarded North Korean Dictator, Kim Jung-Un, speaks people only half listen. And when she is done they just shake their heads and laugh. (As in the her latest attempt to keep her irrelevant self somehow relevant in the minds of the pop-culture world: Her “so-called” sex tape.) And that is the problem [Farrah] Abraham faces. Something she doesn’t like one bit.

Taking a page from other pop-culture nightmares in the likes of Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton (just to name two) who gained fame and notoriety with their own sex tapes, Farrah [Abraham] looks to want to try one as well. The problem is that, while the others who make tapes of the sexual adventures they partake in, usually make them with the thought of it never seeing the light of day (or so they say), she [Farrah] made hers with the full intention of it being “leaked” to the media. First it was played off that there wasn’t a tape. Hell, even her mom weighing in saying that her daughter wasn’t that type of person. Only to have those words thrown back into her face. Especially when sex tape co-star, Porn Actor James Deen got cornered by TMZ and he pretty much said that it was all a giant production.  

It has been a long and challenging career path Abraham has been on. First she appeared on Mtv’s 16 and Pregnant when she learned that she got knocked up by her, then, boyfriend. And where the other would be parents on that show fought with their baby-daddies, Abraham’s was deceased. Her sob story garnered her to appear on Mtv’s next installment: Teen Mom. Both programs showed the daily hardships of being a parent. And where, like before in 16 and Pregnant, Farrah rose above the idiocy that the other cast brought down about themselves, Abraham was the more responsible one; acting like a real parent. But by this time it seems that Abraham had caught the glitz-bug of the showbiz life. And when the show wrapped last August, it seemed that her career had wrapped as well as she fell to the wayside of things as her co-stars of the show made the rounds of the tabloid mag world with their exploits in inanity. Even though, still playing the good girl card, Abraham not only released a book entitled My Teenage Dream Ended she did what most pop-reality-stars do: put out a music video for a song that she wrote and recorded. When that seemed to be a quick flash in the pan Abraham came out with a pasta sauce. Which then lead to bikini modeling. But like many other wannabes her age, Farrah Abraham’s star just didn’t want to stay lit.

Feeling the sting of irrelevancy at the much benign age of 21, Abraham has now followed suit with her co-stars. First of which: late night lingerie parties at bars, making out with other girls. Then the DUI. All of which had her front page on TMZ. Although she fought that her actions were nothing. The DUI was a mistake the cops made because she was just moving the car from one parking space to another, and the whole party girl atmosphere was being taken completely out of context. Then the rumors of the tape. Of how it wasn’t true. That is until the “great woman, mother and entrepreneur” (Abraham’s quote. Not mine.), who, confesses that she made the tape for pure “personal viewing pleasure when she is older... so that she will have her best years to look back on”, dropped it that she was willing to part with it for a cool 2 million.

Nicole Clark, media activist and director of the documentary Cover Girl Culture stated that society has taught this young woman and many others that “shock and awe” gets attention. [Nicole] Clark goes on to say, “that being a sex object is highly valued by our culture. We reward immature and trashy behavior... glaze over and ignore those who are making a positive difference in our world. It is a sad reflection that many girls have learned from our society, over which Hollywood has a huge influence...”

Clark is right to say it is sad. Especially when there is an entire new generation being raised not only by TV, but by parents that look at these individuals on these programs as something to be admired. When in truth all of them are far from it. But like I have stated before in other posts on this subject, people like Farrah Abraham or that of, say, Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, lend me all the fodder I need for some of my fiction writing (or that of Blogging). Because, in truth, I love to write these types of characters. It is just too much fun.  

The Nicole Clark quote came from Fox News.Com’s “Mtv Star Farrah Abraham’s Porn Video ‘a new low of lows,’ Experts say by: Holly McKay,

Other sources include: TMZ and other Internet pages.

Mtv Needs to Go Back to Videos

As Helen of Troy launched a 1000 ships Mtv can lay claim that they have launched a 1000 careers in their day both deserving and semi deserving. However, of late, the channel whose “M” stood for MUSIC instead of MORON has now deemed themselves worthy to launch careers for people that surely have no need to be famous whatsoever.

Cases in point, we can turn to those lovely people of “16 & Pregnant” and their follow up show “Teen Mom” that were suppose to show how hard it was to be a young parent. Except that they spawned a whole new generation of stupid teenagers that thought this how they can quickly become famous as pop-culture media followed the exploits of these so-called stars as they went out and found idiocy in all forms of having more children with their idiot partner that fathered their first or found more people to father children with, to DUI’s, to these personalities partying it up at some club while telling the media that reports it that they are somehow wrong and that they are good parents.

And in the latest case for bad decisions for Mtv, in their race to fill the void of idiocy from the departing “Jersey Shore” -because somehow we need more Snookies & JWows in our daily life- Mtv skipped past the vetting part of the process for their awesome show “Buckwild” where we get to see moronic hillbillies in action down at the swimin’ hole in the shadow of a nuclear reactor, fighting over who was fucking who, and seeing the outback townies go off to the BIG CITY like they were animals on display at the zoo. First off we had the drug arrest of Salwa Amin for felony drug possession a week after Mtv said that they were going forth with a second season (Salwa ironically is now back in jail for violating the terms of her release). And now just today (April 1st 2013) we are seeing reports of the show’s main star Shain Gandee, hours after he was reported missing, has been found dead. He was last seen heading out of a bar to go off roading with his uncle who has also been identified by authorities deceased along with a third person. Foul play in this case is NOT expected.

The fate of the show is not known at this time nor is what is next for the ex-video now creator of dumb pop-culture channel. But I am sure it will just as populated by stupid people. But, hell, I am ALL for it. It gives me plenty of fodder to write about both in real life & fiction. So, actually, I should be saying thanks.