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Alert: @rihanna will be an advisor on #TheVoice this season.

— Vulture (@vulture) August 13, 2015

do you recognize this man

if so, report his whereabouts immediately to starla because he is the suspect caught on surveillance video shooting 3 teenagers and a 12 year old in the legs in williamsburg. starla is our local neighborhood activist stopping news crews and tracking down information. does that look like thomas wilhelm to you? can anyone confirm his activities this weekend??? NEWS STORY

this is what bryan is talking about

diane sawyer drinking wine and popping pills during commercial break

that cat has real star quality

Nicole DiDonato, a field reporter for Grand Rapids FOX affiliate WXMI, was playfully mauled by a stray cat during a live report on the city's new designation as "Beer City USA." The feline first jumped on DiDonato's shoulder during a live tease for the segment, and then returned to finish the job during the on-air report. "Think he drew blood!!" DiDonato exclaimed on Twitter. via

Memphis Presents: FreshCat

"I'm in absolute shock and a lot of horror at the thought something like this might even possibly be real," she said. Fresh Cat claims to offer annual replacements in the color of your choice. "You try to match the decor in your home with a kitten, and then you ship it back like it's a used toy," Amorose said. The website also offers a catalog of items apparently available for purchase, including kitty press on nails and even a kitten size massage table. It also claims to sell handguns and rifles that display the Fresh Cat logo, and fur coats. "It's the classic Memphis story, and it's been told hundreds of times, every time another business opens here because of the late drop off time for FedEx," Fresh Cat president John Behnke said in a press release. "Someone can order a kitten as late as 10:30 p.m., and have it at their front door the next morning."
ctm.

something bad happened in fruitland

something gaycist! in fruitland, tennessee. pull yourslef together gibson county. also, i've seen greater production values during the morning annoucements at white station high school.

LOL.

the shrinking soundbite

the boston globe has an interesting article about the evolution of the political soundbite as a media tool, namely, the continual reduction in its average length.

In the summer of 1992, just as George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot were gearing up for their presidential race, CBS announced a new policy for its nightly news. Starting immediately, the network would not use any sound bite — that is, any footage of a candidate speaking uninterrupted — that lasted less than 30 seconds.

If you’ve watched any political coverage since 1992, you know what happened: CBS’s experiment failed. This week, as Congress’s 112th session begins, the shrinking sound bite stands as a rare enemy of Republicans and Democrats alike. Whether running for president of the United States or for city council, politicians can count on seeing their words broken into ever smaller and more fragmentary bits. You might debate whom to blame — asked about nine-second sound bites, one TV executive replied, “the politicians started it” — but you can’t dispute the trend. In recent presidential elections, the average TV sound bite has dropped to a tick under eight seconds. A shorter, dumber, and shriller political discourse, it seems, has become another hazard of modern life. (via)

in somewhat unrelated news... you know how john boehner cries all the time?

tweet power!

Twitter released a top ten list of the most "powerful" tweets of 2010 (click here). Included are tweets from @BPGlobalPR, @whitehouse, a woman who rescued herself when she tweeted her location when her phone wouldn't work, and various world governments.

But what was the most powerful tweet of 2010? That would be a tweet from @AnnCurry, host of the Today show that was credited with encouraging the US Air Force with clearing airspace so a plane full of doctors without borders could land in Haiti. All hail the great and powerful Ann Curry.

Good morning, good morning everybody, in the news this morning good morning. soup.

memphis in the news.

... and for all the right reasons of course. the urkel initiative.


in other news, my trivia team name on tuesday was "the officer carl winslows"

see jane

In anticipation of the release of the puppy movie Marmaduke, the NY Post interviewed my friend Whitney, a real life great dane owner and New Yorker. I asked her to send me some pics of Jane so you all could meet her. Isn't she pretty?

daily ri ri

rihanna just released the album cover for her next single, rude boy.

she has a hat, some boots, and a piece of paper.

on a top a all that, rihanna news today tells us that she is supporting a drive to help a Nigerian Olympic hopeful find a bone marrow transplant donor.

what a doll.

music news

you know of Montreal have a new album coming out... what you may not have known is who is guesting for a song. SOLANGE!!!! also a girl named janelle monae who i dont know (do you know?) and jon brion is going to fix it all up. sounds good guys.

i love love love solange. her most recent album sol angel and the hadley street dreams is hot2deth. she is such a little r&b indie darling.

soundgarden reunion

woop

funny news.

rachel walks us through a ridiculously complex chart for the plan in afghanistan, created by the joint chiefs of staff. i can't believe this is real. yes i can.

from twitter, tomorrow's news

@newyorkist

spoon

its been a while since i thought about spoon, much less picked out their music to listen to, but they have a new album coming out and im willing to go there. if its not good, then im off spoon.

more in gaga news

watch your back chicken

VICKSBURG, Miss. -- A chicken’s visit to a KFC in Mississippi is gaining a lot of attention.

Guy Bezzeard snapped a picture Monday of the chicken in the drive-through of the KFC on Indiana Avenue, Jackson television station WAPT reported.

The chicken’s visit was not a rare sight. Employees at the restaurant said that the chicken has been trekking up to the KFC nearly every day for the last few years.

On Wednesday, a news photographer saw the chicken walk right up to the drive-through window and start clucking at the employees inside.

Employees said the chicken loves to eat corn and biscuits.

via

we don't watch movies to not tell everyone

When State of Play was in theaters, I never even considered going to go see it. I didn't read a review, and I didn't notice when it showed up on On-Demand. Today I wanted to watch the Watchmen, which is a movie I really enjoyed. Instead, we picked State of Play, and I wasn't disappointed at all. Check out this cast: Russell Crowe (chubby and disheveled), Rachel McAdams (fresh, young, captivating), Ben Affleck (perfect casting for the sleezy politician), Robin Wright Penn (the faithful? wife), Helen Mirren (steely editor with a heart of gold), Jason Bateman (scene stealing in a rare welcome role).

This film plays out like a love song to those newspaperman as detective crime thrillers, and also to the virtue and integrity of print media. Rachel McAdams is the hotshot young blogger that the corporate owners of the newspaper have brought in to help the rag turn a profit. At a point, she even concedes something like, "people need to feel the newsprint on their fingers when they're reading important stories." we get it, journalism is important and the internet is killing newspapers. This movie is what would happen if you took All The President's Men, The Manchurian Candidate, the Chandra Levy murder, the Huffington Post, and put them in a blender. actually add in a big mac because russell crowe looks like he ate a million of them.

the cast is stellar, the story is twisty turny and moves along at a pretty quick pace. Queue it up.... 11 biscuits!!!!