Is anybody really surprised that ACORN is involved in tax evasion and, potentially, child prostitution? Seriously?

The Wall Street Journal covers just how rotten to the core ACORN is.

In other news, you people are interested in the Motorola Cliq, a me-too, been-there-done-that phone from Motorala. Yawn.

In still other news, hot Asian Yale Grade student Annie Le disappeared days before New York wedding. Hmm.

Hopefully, she’ll be found. Maybe she just got cold feet. At this point, that’s the best possible outcome.

Okee-dokee. More laterz, my peoplez.

Seriously. If you haven’t taken a look at Athra, the online graphic novel by Nathaniel Sullivan, do yourself a favor and tage a gander.

One of the Many Hot Chicks That Plague Athra, Our Hero.

It’s seriously groovy. Do you doubt it? It’s certainly better than any of the crap you Internetz is searching for right now.

Athra, Who Bears a Suspicious Resemblance to a Young Nathanlie Sullivan (Just a Coincidence, I'm Sure) Talking to Another Hot Chick.

It’s mega groovy. Have you gone to Athra.net yet? Well, go, go! What are you waiting for?

A whole big groovy page. One of my favorite pieces of panel art . . . so far . . . in the ultra-awesome Athra graphic novel. Which is ultra-awesome.

The hot chicks won't leave Athra alone. Why? Because he's totally bad-ass. Don't believe me? Read it for yourself then, suckah!

That’s it for today. More later. Just go read it. Buy a copy. Support the arts. Then, when it’s out, go see the movie. Apparently a law has been passed that every graphic novel must be turned into a movie, so it’s gonna happen to Athra. No doubt.

I’m not saying it. Per se. But talent bookers, who help keep d-list celebrities employed and making money, are. Check out E! Online’s profanely named Answer Bitch on Jon’s booking problems.

Which is all too bad. Jon was actually kind of sympathetic when his uber-beeyotch of a wife was needlessly and constantly biting and sniping and trying to crush his soul in service of her high-and-might queendom.

Now, he’s utterly unsympathetic. He’s responded to a nasty insult by getting in his car and running over the insulter’s cat. Then setting their house on fire.

He’s gone from being a kind of nice, if spineless, guy to a ballsy, but still often passive-agressive, creep.

Like when he had some skank he had shagged a few times come watch the kids while he was filming his segment on Jon & Kate. And Kate wanted to come check on the kids, and he wouldn’t let her in, and she called the police–uber-beeyotch at work, yes, but still–and then the police told her she had to go away.

That whole “sharing the house with your former spouse that you went through an ugly divorce with for the sake of a reality television show” is a bad idea, BTW.

This weekend, he got a gig hanging around at the MGM Grand Hotel or something in vegas, and, according to People:

During the two hours he was present, Gosselin, sporting shorts and a collared shirt, was spotted collecting a few phone numbers and mixing drinks for scantily dressed women.

Well, at least it doesn’t look like he’s planning on settling down again. Clearly, getting married is not his gig.

Boy, if only I just had one or two TVs. The prices, especially for new sign up, just can’t be beat with DirectTV. There’s a 200+ with HD DVR HD package that’s just $54.99 a month  . . . admittedly only for the first 12 months, but still. For a basic family entertainment package for $29.99, which is apparently the every day low price. Only 45+ channels, not quite as good as cable, but it’s a great price . . . almost nothing available from the cable companies that amounts to $30 bucks a month. Still, there’s no easy, inexpensive way to share that signal among multiple TVs, not to mention no way to make it possible for one person to watch something in the living room while someone else watches something different in the bedroom and somebody else watches something else in the kitchen, which happens a lot in my house.

Then there’s the Internet. I can get DSL, but I end up paying the same amount for Internet access that I do now. Satellite television is a better deal for people who don’t need a lot of TVs going.

All of which isn’t to say it’s not possible to have a house with seven TVs hooked up to your DirectTV. It’s just not cheap, and thus not practical for me. And I believe I have to have one or two extra satellite dishes installed to boot. Sigh.

Shades of Dorothy Stratten. Jasmine Fiore’s husband, Ryan Jenkins, killed her, apparently. Then comitted suicide himself. Apparently.

Rest in Peace, Jasmine Fiore. Murderous husband Ryan Jenkins? Not so much.

Michelle Malkin mentions it. Shows ya how the passing of Les Paul transcends traditional boundaries.

More thorough coverage at the Artsbeat New York Times blog.

Steven Tyler fell off the stage at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The sound system failed during the concert, so Steven Tyler tried to entertain the audience by dancing around, and the 61 year old rocker fell of the stage and got rushed to the hospital, thus ending the show.

Steven Tyler falls of his rocker in South Dakota.

George Sodini Revealed His Evil Plans In His Secret Hidden Blog Source Code.

Of course, you’d have the analyze “the hidden source code” of every blog in the world. See, ABC reports that George Sodini revealed in a “hidden blog post” that he would consider not going on a murderous rampage, if a particular woman he was stalking would be his girlfriend. Sheesh. 48 years old and still willing to sacrifice his goals and dreams just to get with some woman. Not much of a man, Mr. Sodini.

In a written but unpublished post to his blog, the 48-year-old gunman wrote that if a particular woman he admired from afar would be his girlfriend, he would “cancel this plan or put [it] on hold, at least for a while,” ABC News has learned through an analysis of his blog’s hidden source code.

I don’t know. The whole “hidden blog post” thing sounds weird to me. Convenient, for newsmongers. But maybe so.

Ryan O’Neal apparently propositioned his own daughter at Farrah Fawcett’s funeral. Holy-moly.

Wow. On the one hand, that’s really creepy. On the other hand, I’d hit on Tatum O’Neal. She’s cute.

Tatum O'Neal is Awfully Cute, But You Think He'd Recognize His Own Daughter. Even if it had been a while.

“That’s our relationship in a nutshell,” Tatum said. “You make of it what you will . . . It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, abon vivant.”

Well, I suppose that’s a positive attitude to take to your own old, creepy father hitting on you at the funeral of his just deceased significant other. Good for her. She’s probably better balanced than he is.

Huh. www.RateYourDemo.com is now offering musical artists a chance to submit tracks, beats and lyrics for REAL industry professionals to not only review, but possibly obtain song and track placement on future albums as well as potentially landing a record deal. I dunno. Most of my stuff is way too–um, dense, I guess? Fruity, maybe?–to be good backgrounds for rap albums. But, I must admit, I feel a little tempted.

But the graphics look all rough and gritty. And most of my music is not usually all that rough and gritty. Sometimes, but not usually. For example, Libation . . . is that the kind of demo they’re looking for? I doubt it . . . but, you know. I might submit it, anyway, if it doesn’t cost anything.

Libation:

What the heck. Here I go!

… oops. It costs money. Too bad I ain’t got none of that these days! Ah, well. If you’ve got $7.99 you want to spend to have Dr. Dre supposedly listen to and rate your demo, then go for it. Otherwise . . . no dice. Too bad. I will remain, forever, an undiscovered talent.

Tiger Woods recently farted at the Buick Open. And it’s news! Ah, Tiger.

Poor Tiger. He should have used the classic defense: whoever smelt it, is he who dealt it.

Seriously, is someone farting that interesting? I know it’s considered funny, but, seriously, everbody passes gas. Everybody. Usually several times a day. There’s nobody who doesn’t do it. Nobody.

Cut Tiger some slack. Oprah, Obama, Uma Thurman, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, even Scarlett Johansson . . . you know what? They’ve all farted. Many, many times.

Sheesh. You people. It’s like a kindergarten class. Cut it out, cut it out!

The nominal lead character and total badass, Athra.

You must check this out. Athra, a very groovy online graphic novel.

It’s just cool. It’s about Medieval warriors and time-travelling chicks from outerspace. With lots of violence and cursing. Can’t beat it.

Todd Genger solicited underage girl in chatroom who–surprise, surprise–turns out to actually be a middle-aged police investigator.

Good job, Todd. Goldman-Sachs contributed a lot of cash to Obama, and continues to get favorite treatment from the Obama administration. Think Todd was a big Obama supporter? He was obviously full of hope and change.

Madonna is beginning to look a little like a medical anatomical chart.  Take a look at her and those biceps. Sheesh.

Oh, dear. She's ripped, yes, but not in a good way.

A great video documenting the construction of Disneyland has been released. Totally, incredibly awesome.

Some priceless footage, much of it time-lapse, regarding the construction of Disneyland. Wish something like this was out there for the Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Who knows, maybe there is, somewhere.

Now, here’s part two of that footage:

Just watched it all. Amazing to think the castle drawbridge actually goes up and down, but has rarely been raised or lowered. They seem to suggest it was raised and lowered for testing before opening day, and then during a Fantasyland rehabd during the early 80s. Crazy-amazing stuff.

And here’s part three:

Great stuff. Truly amazing. This one shows them building the Peter Pan Captain Hook boat, which was built where the Dumbo ride is now.

Admittedly, it was released about a year ago, but this is the first time I’ve come across it. And, of course, I had to share.

Oh, hang on. There’s a Part 4, 5 and 6, too, apparently. Dang.

Part 5:

And something on the Contemporary Resort Construction at Walt Disney World:

MTV tells us that Marvel is going to launch a 4 issue origin story for Black Widow to tie in with the new Iron Man 2 movie. I might actually buy a comic book for the first time in, like, ten years.

Scarlett Johansson Will Make a Fine Black Widow.

I’m looking much forward to this (Ironman 2) and Tron 2 the very most of anything right now. More stuff on Tron 2 from here. Well, I’m also looking forward to The Hobbit, but nothing on that thus far. Probably will be a lot on it at Comi-Con next year. So, cool.

One more picture of Scarlett as The Black Widow. Yeah, it’s been everywhere, but I’m trying to be inclusive.

I’m stoked. Concept Video from Tron 2 from last years Comi-Con is now available on-line.

Tron Legacy

Sweetness.

Just one day after Jon Gosselin’s 22-year-old girlfriend/giance gushed about her romance with Jon Gosselin, it turns out he might have another girlfriend: Kate Major. Let’s just call her Kate 2.0, like the rest of the gossip press.

From Two-Fisted Tales of True Romance, the lovely Last Tango in the Planetarium.

More later. Ciao!