Polar Bear Day!

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are found in the arctic (polar) regions of the northern hemisphere, including the United States (Alaska), Canada, Russia, Norway, and Greenland -- today there are seven polar bear populations in these regions. Although the polar bear population had been declining for many years due to over hunting, during the past quarter century the "polar bear nations" have aggressively enacted legislation to ensure its survival. The efforts seem to be working -- although there are only 20,000 to 40,000 polar bears living in the wild, their population remains relatively stable.

I suggest that, in the coming years, on this day, all Canadians (especially those residing in the two territories as well as those in the northern-most regions of Québec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) ADOPT A POLAR BEAR!
Since the poor Ursus Maritimus is seeing his natural habitat dwindle to nothingness as the wretched global warming curse is affecting it particularly, he needs a new spot to... lay around and do nothing! What better than Canadian wastelands, eh? It's not like Canadians will EVER make anything of those cold spots either! So, surely Saskatchewans (is that what they're called?) can live with having polar bears as their neighbors - they have the Sasquatch as their provincial hero for crying out loud! A little tussle (say, Sasquatch versus 20 polar bears! I want the bears to have fun mugging and mauling!) could make for suitable local entertainment - rife with Canadian content... on a regular basis too!
The polar bears might even like it in the Maritimes too (being ursus maritimus types and all...) but summers might be tough on them there...
Stick to Hudson Bay and James Bay, Bad Boys of the Arctic, I say!
Take it all over - since Canadians aren't doing much with it anyway!

Hoodie Hoo Day!

Will BOO do? Or "doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo"?
What's a Hoodie Hoo? Another silly way to say 'Hello'! The term comes from a Xhosa (South African language) tongue-twister. Rumor has it that on February 20th, in parts of the United States, at high noon people go outdoors and yell "Hoodie-Hoo!" to chase winter away. It's time to make ready for spring, which is only a month away. Have Fun! (Don't overdo it though - you might scare the living daylights out of the groundhog and we'll be stuck with 5 more weeks of winter!!!)
Someone else I think I heard go "hoodie-hoo", was the would-be agent of one Ludacris, violent rap artist... just before Ludacris beat the tar out of him, singing "there's another one! there's another one!"
But that is another story... (and the video is found on a playlist of mine too, somewhere else here, on the now vast network of blogs headlined by TLB PRIME! Have fun trying to find out where it is!)

A&E Monday Nitro...?

The old Monday Night Wars had WCW VS WWF (no - not the Panda's Wildlife Fund)
The new Monday Night Wars will have...
A&E VS WWE?!?

This time out, the competition for the Vince McMahon circus is an actual "sport" - that can be both as colorful and as violent as wrestling is - just not as outrageous (though it seems to be trying to be, real hard...)
Rollerblade has always been at the very least a "contender" for this sort of thing - it retains an aura of legitimacy, through its being a team sport, that "sports entertainment" has not and never will have, since it is more theatrics with singular athleticism thrown in just for good measure...
There is "characterization" here too, for sure... Teams go by concepts - there are the Holy Rollers for instance; Catholic schoolgirls who do not turn the other cheek though! There are the Rhinestone Cowgirls too (Dolly Parton groupies I surmise...)
And then there are... Las Putas! 'Nuff said.
A swift deevolving process right there...
It is... well, odd really, to see two rollergirls bond in-between games (or bouts... or... let's just call them "events" I guess) and come to the conclusion that, since they both have had no luck with men, maybe they should marry each other. Never mind the fact that they are on opposing teams either... *Ahem*

What is REALLY perplexing in all this though?
The fact that A&E is showing it in the first place!
With DOG, BOUNTY HUNTER (who, ironically, looks like the clone of a famed wrestler too - DDP himself, Diamond Dallas Page!) plus that companion series shot in the same vein (whatsitcalled again - not THE KING OF QUEENS, that's a bad sitcom on another network! Although, knowing A&E's recycling habits, they might recuperate that type of programming too, one day SOON... Anyway, it's a would-be KING of SOMETHING... an umpteenth reality show! Where are the "Arts" and where's the "Entertainment - with a capital E" in all that, I ask you? But that's another story I suppose!) and now with Rollergirls, A&E is really letting itself go here...!
Banacek must be rolling in his grave...

slagging and slamming are not cool

It cannot be stressed often enough it seems: hold your tongue, folks! Especially when you are daring to lambaste celebrities... doubly so if you are a fellow celebrity... and that goes a hundred-fold if thy target is deceased and nearly deified by the masses that revere the latter's memory!
Karl Lagerfeld sounds off on Lady Di 07/02/2006 12:00:00 AM
NEW YORK (KP International) Noted fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's looselips may land him in hot water after recently slagging off the late Princess Diana.

In a New York magazine, the 67-year-old said of Diana, "She was pretty and she was sweet, but she was stupid.

The eccentric fashionista seems to prefer Prince Charles' current squeeze, Camilla Parker Bowles. "She is the life of the party! She's sparkling, she's witty. She's ready for everything..." Lagerfeld blurted.

What else is Lagerfeld whining about these days? People touching him: "In the whole world, there is nowhere I can go. In Japan, they touch me. I have Japanese women pinch my ass, so now I must say, 'You can have the photo, but please don't touch me.
Tommy Lee slags Kid Rock... then gets beat up
10/02/2006 12:00:00 AM
DETROIT (KP International) The word on the street is that rocker Tommy Lee got roughed up last Saturday night (February 4) while in Detroit, for dissing hometown hero Kid Rock.

While attending Eminem's Shady Records party that night, the 43-year-old Motley Crue drummer was reportedly "talking trash all day about Kid," said a source.
Em's entourage seemed to have had enough of the trash talk and apparently threw a few jabs at Lee.

The tattooed rocker's failure to show up at Eminem's penthouse, where he was apparently scheduled to DJ that night, has since fuelled the rumours.
A Sex Pistol slams Green Day 10/02/2006 12:00:00 AM
(KP International) - John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), frontman of the influential '70s British punk band the Sex Pistols, has sneered at the idea of Green Day being called punk.

"Don't try and tell me Green Day are punk," said Rotten recently. "They're not; they're plonk and they're bandwagoning on something they didnt come up with themselves. I think they are phony.

The punk legend, whose brazen band's defiance of censorship and authority defined a generation, seems to think that Green Day, who just won a Grammy for Record of the Year for their hit "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "didn't earn their wings... and if they were true punk they wouldn't look anything like they do.
No, it cannot be stressed enough that when you have nothing nice to say - don't say anything! Unless, of course, the people you are diminishing really had it coming...! ;)

mad-onna's angular look worries some...

Is Madonna 'Too Thin'? 24/01/2006 8:06:34 PM

Has Madonna gone from being able to bench press Nicole Richie to emulating her? The New York Daily News says the purple-sporting pop icon's inner circle is fretting over how frail her famously powerful frame has become.

"She looks way too thin," a mole tells the paper. "It's scary. Everyone around her is buzzing that she's working herself right into exhaustion."
Madonna's angular look was on display during a recent night out at Nobu in London, with the Daily Mail reporting she seemed "pale and almost gaunt."

"She looked almost like she was sucking her cheeks in," a spywitness tells the paper. "She definitely did not look as healthy as she normally does."

The ultra-disciplined Big M, 47, has apparently been working extra hard lately to whip herself into tip-top shape to shoot the video for "Sorry," the latest single off her best-selling "Confessions of a Dance Floor."

A typical day of toning for Madonna is said to include three hours a day (a day!) of Ashtanga yoga and Pilates, followed by swimming, weight training or cycling.

Geez, we're tuckered out just typing that.

But don't send off that care package of Ho-Hos and Twinkies just yet. The erstwhile Esther's rep, who is with her in London for the video shoot, denies she's joined the emaciated lollipop brigade, telling the Daily News, "I'm about 40 feet away from her and she looks pretty hot to me."

And what of those paparazzi photos highlighting her hollowed-out cheekbones?
"How would you look with 10-hour dance rehearsals?" pooh-poohs the flack. "Maybe she's working harder than usual, but that's what you have to do before a video."

Or perhaps she's just making sure she maintains the type of hard-bodied look preferred by hubby Guy Ritchie.
"I wish I were comfortable enough to look zaftig," Madonna recently revealed to Elle. "But I choose men who like carved-out women, the can-you-run-for-the-bus kind of guy."
As funny as that cartoon is, the tentatus should not be juxtaposed with "madonna"... Maybe Esther (after all, as the article points out, she is the "erstwhile esther"...) maybe also with her real name, Ciccone (is it?!?)
Or, if all else fails, with her one-time chosen monicker of "veronica electronica"... Hmm... veronica electronica tentatus... "v.e.t."
Hmm... maybe not... that would incense PETA, IFAW and the one true WWF too! *LOL* But I digress...

Recently, at the European Music Awards gala held at Lisbon (Lisboa really), Mad Veronica Electronica Onna here was the opening act of the soirée, with her mega-hit "Hung Up". One has to admit she is astonishing - she hasn't missed a beat. She dances, sings (although a tad out of breath there) and performs like none other can. She remains the best and is a stunning woman too.
If only she was a little more virtuous... Her standing by her man (demanding man too, by the looks of it) is a step in the right direction... although her real husband would be... Sean Penn still?
That is... in the spiritual sense, of course. The divorce was finalized a long time ago... but the erstwhile Esther here is so spiritual herself (she is the erstwhile material girl too you know), she would be the first one to admit that earthly documents matter not and the bonds of a sacred union are forever in the astral realm... well, I think she would anyway!
I have no idea what her lumping up of various philosophies and doctrines (kabbalah, ashtanga yoga (achtung? ack-thong?!?) and whatever else she has dabbled into) have morphed into inside of her pretty, even if sucked-in a bit, little head...