Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Hottie Turned Nottie as Former "That 70's Show" Star Arrested

You can’t say it was a slow weekend when it came to Hollywood’s society of train wrecks. Not by a long shot.



This time around former blonde hottie, Lisa Robin Kelly (42) of “That 70’s Show” fame (you remember that sit-com, right? Ashton Kutcher in the pre-Mr. Demi Moore days) was arrested early Saturday on domestic abuse of her live in boyfriend. She claims, however, that it was her that was roughed up and THAT she was the one to call the police. Saying to TMZ that the man she allegedly attacked ran off before the cops arrived and when he later showed up at the LA Sheriff’s station she believes that he scratched himself.

Kelly was released on $50,000 bond and official charges are yet to be filed.

Kelly is best known for her stint on the FOX television show, “That 70’s Show” (1998-2006) portraying promiscuous older sister, Laurie Forman, who liked to turn the screws of discomfort on her younger brother, Eric (Topher Grace). Strangely, Kelly was let go and replaced in the fifth season and since then has really done much in the way of acting.

However, this incident isn’t the first run in with the law. Besides an arrest in 2000, Kelly was charged with DUI in 2010 in North Carolina where she was sentenced to 12 months unsupervised probation and fined.

From the haggard look of her mugshot, I might have to add Kelly to my 2012 DEADPOOL, especially after being burned by the death of Whitney. And I say that even with the Connecticut native saying, “I am clean and sober and I have made a lot of progress.”



Only time will tell.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

It’s getting Crazy up in Crazy Town’s, Shifty's, ICU

Who knew that Shifty Shellshock was a daddy? Not me, but I am sure fans knew.



Turns out the Shifty’s ex, Jasmine Lennard, and mother of his 2 year old son was pretty clueless in the goings on with her ex-man. Finding not from family but friends that he was in an unresponsive coma (rumor mill has it that Shifty may in fact be brain dead), and when Jasmine rushed to the hospital she was apparently grabbed by Shifty’s sister resulting into a full blown argument that had security interjecting.



Seems that Shifty’s family is solely blaming her for his relapse back into drugs that is seemingly the reason for the coma in the first place. TMZ reports that Jasmine left him over the Christmas holiday basically because of his relapse.

Jasmine Lennard shot to fame in 2005 when she was finalist in Rachel Hunter’s British reality show “MAKE ME A SUPER MODEL”. Since then, Lennard, has carved out a career from the appearance and rifts between fellow models becoming a red carpet regular as well as a TV presenter. She also has had a role in 2005 Guy Ritchie film “REVOLVER” starring Jason Statham.

Boba Fett Plays for the New Orleans Saints?



Bounty Hunting. Those two words conjure up images of tough men on a mission the likes of which of Boba Fett and a man who calls himself Dog, but the NFL? Now, unless you have had your head shoved so far up your ass that sound is muffled you have had to hear about the BOUNTY scandal that has plagued football for the last few weeks.



The NFL (National Football League) has actually dealt with this problem pretty swiftly and hasn’t taken a backseat when it has come to handing down fines and suspensions. Hell, they suspended two time Super Bowl winning coach of the New Orleans Saint, Sean Peyton, for all of next season and former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, the alleged apparent mastermind of the program, an indefinite one. And those in charge of the League say that they are not done. If and when they find more players and, or, coaches, they will meet the same fate. Bully for them. It is not very often that you hear about a sports league saying that they don’t care who the person is, what they do, or how popular they are that they are not safe from prosecution. That’s why it boggles my mind that now DA’s (District Attorneys) want to pursue criminal charges against any found to have taken part in the Bounty Program. I mean, really? One, it is going to be hard to prove, unless there is an actual transaction noting that the player in question actually received money for intentionally hurting another. Hell, even with their name is on the check and the check states that’s what it is for I still think they’re going to have a hard time getting thing other than more fines.



Not only that but now it appears that Senator (DEM-Il) Dick Durbin wants to convene a hearing in Congress on the recent National Football League scandal involving bounties for brutal contacts and is arranging a Judiciary Committee to examine whether or not a federal law had been broken in offering bribes and awards to harm players. Durbin declared in a speech from the floor of the Senate, "This disclosure involving the New Orleans Saints goes to an outrageous level that none of us ever anticipated. And I think it's time, whether we're talking about hockey, football, baseball, basketball or any collegiate team contest, that we have clear rules that what happened with the New Orleans saints never, ever happens again.” Durbin, who claims to be a sports fan like many so in Congress, in the past has successfully pressed to keep chewing tobacco out of sight in Major League Baseball.




What the fuck? I think someone should remind good-old-Dick that the NFL is a PRIVATE organization and not a public one. And that maybe he should concern himself more on the welfare of the country and how we are still in a recession that is being hurt daily by high gas prices because he and the other cronies that work in DC have zero ideas when it comes to anything looking like an Energy Bill or have any ideas when it comes to really fixing the Economy and creating REAL jobs.

But never mind that.

No. He has to stick his nose into matters that DO NOT and SHOULD NOT concern the American Government. I know he just loves to get on his soap box and say how these people (sports stars) are ROLE MODELS for the young, but there in lies the problem. Sports Stars should not be elevated to that standard. And maybe good-old-Dick should concern hiself -if he must- in matters where they are not looked upon as role models. I mean, it is JUST A GAME no matter how you put it. And the unfortunate part of the game and the players involved now is that most of the people in it are not there for the love of it. Rather for the large cash rewards that are given to the talented that play them.

So why should we (especially good-old-Dick) be surprised that teams pay players to put an extra hit and hurt on the best player of their opponents? If the nature of the game is winning and being paid large amounts of cash to win then we as an audience shouldn’t be surprised at all. It is now part of the game. Same as steroids are part of the game for Baseball. Another no-brainier when it comes to what happens off screen, off field, and in the locker rooms. If adults want to destroy their bodies with that shit fine. It is their life. But on the other hand don’t come back and blame the game you are part of for making you do anything. You knew the risks when you got into it and no one held you down and forced you to do anything. That is what free will is all about.

And on another note, to say that placing bounty’s on players is new and strictly a Saints problem couldn’t be further from the truth. Truth is that bounties have been around a long time in the NFL. Back in the 1980’s, former Green Bay Safety (1986-90), Tiger Greene, was a rookie for the Atlanta Falcons and the Falcons players had what they referred to as a “RATING SYSTEM” where each player chipped in about $300 before a given game and the pot would be distributed via ratings on the hits they gave out. If someone had to be carted off the field or had been knocked unconscious that player would take the entire pot of cash. And when you are a rookie and not making as much as the others, well, that could be a pretty big extra add on to your paycheck. And in 2007 the Packers we sighted for violations to the bounty rule stating that defensive linemen were getting $500 from teammates for holding running back Adrian Peterson to fewer than 100 yards. When brought to the attention of Mike McCarthy, coach of the Pack, he addressed the situation swiftly and it didn't linger .

And I’m thinking that they aren’t the only ones that had and, or, have programs up and running. Only they just haven’t been caught. It is not unlike the Spying scandal from a few years ago involving the Patriots. As with that problem, the NFL won’t be to tarnished by this and in a few months will quietly disappear as well.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Shify Shellshock (Crazy Town) Takes Another Fall From the Proverbial Wagon of Recovery

Once again we see that one of the alum for “Celebrity Rehab” has not only fallen off the wagon and is now in a coma.

 

Turns out Shifty Shellshock (Seth Brooks Binzer), front man for the band Crazy Town, has been lying in a coma since Thursday, TMZ reports, and is totally unresponsive.



Following his struggle with substance abuse, Shifty was one of nine celebrities featured in the first season “Celebrity Rehab” where he graduated from treatment with the other cast members in the summer of 2007, but subsequently appeared towards the end of the second season apparently suffering from a relapse. Looks like Shifty once again fell on hard times, only this time there was no one there to catch him.


However, I don’t know about you, but if I need rehab Doctor Drew is rapidly becoming the man that I DO NOT WANT TO SEE.



In the last 18 months members of Dr. Drew’s Pasadena Hospital for Recovery has lost some notable clients of the likes of Alice in Chains bassists, Mike Starr, and Jeff Conaway. Not to mention that back in 2008 Drew’s hospital was under by the California Department of Public Health for three other deaths unrelated to the show, one of whom was found dead just hours after checking into the facility.

 

So if you are wondering why “Celebrity Rehab” has been around it might be because they have had a poor track record. However, the show is neither canceled or in production. Supposedly VH1 and Drew have been in talks about a new season but at the moment there are no plans.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

And the Winner is?... NOT ME!



You could sit back, watch, as the lemmings ran to the edge, or how I should really put it: you could sit back, watch, as the hordes of people far and wide lined up to throw down their hard earned (and not so hard earned) cash on the counter, some of which accompanied by strips of paper with their lucky numbers picked, to slid through the machine or they could take the easy, lazy route -why pick numbers when they have a machine to do it for you- and get those quick picks. And I hate to admit but I was one of those people. However, unlike many, I did NOT play more than 5 dollars worth, and did a mixture of my own numbers picked from the dark recesses of my brain and quick picks. I laugh as well as cringe when I see people toss down large sums of money, like gambling addicts at the roulette wheel, thinking that the more money you play the better chance you have to win, even tough they would probably have better odds at said wheel. A decent chunk of the fools addicted to this form of “legal”, “family friendly” gambling probably shouldn’t, but hey why stop them. A portion of this cash we all throw down goes to the schools… lol… right… and if you believe that I have a couple of things to sell ya. One of which is a bridge.



So as well go back to our normal fucked up lives the morning after the largest ever drawing in any Lottery ever, we find that all us except for the three that one are still in the same boat sailing along the same sea of shit. Am I undone, ungrateful, unhinged that I didn’t win? No. How can I be? The odds we’re NEVER in my favor, and the same can be said to all of you as well: how can you be? We all had a better chance at being struck by lighting on a sunny day.



So as you rip up your losing tickets in angry frustration never fear, just around the corner is another drawing. While it won’t be as large at first but who knows. Maybe the numbers will fall in that haphazard way and nobody will win for a number of weeks and the pot will grow and grow and grow, and every week you can hit the place you buy your fix and hope for the best, that, that haphazard way the balls fall will fall in your favor. Just don’t stand outside on cloudy days… lol… you might just instead hit a different kind of lottery.



In case you didn’t see, the winning numbers in Friday night’s (03-30-2012) drawing were 02-04-23-38-46, and the Mega Ball 23.