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• What's all the hub-bub?

  Published: July 3, 2007, 7:08 pm

  Tags: Condi, Scooter Libby, Uncle Dick, Club Sanwich

  Sorry folks, it has been a bit of time since I had the time to post here. You good people know how it is, presidentin' is almost like a full time job. What with my daily run, a bike ride, some nap time, and Condi naggin' me, it is a wonder that ... Read and post comments Send to a friend

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• Gawker Book Club: "Global Capitalism Has, At Present, No Better Ambassador Than David Beckham"

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Becks, Books, Gawker Book Club, Ghetto Chavulous, Global Capitalism, Posh, Victoria Beckham

  How very, very wrong we were to dismiss insanely prolific celebrity biographer Andrew Morton's "Posh and Becks" out of hand! It turns out that the book contains a trenchant critique, not only of the...

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• C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Buffalo Tom

  Published: July 27, 2007, 11:04 pm

  Tags: Clln Music Club

  Buffalo Tom’s new album, Three Easy Pieces just came out a couple weeks ago and the band is on Letterman tonight. Let’s hope they play “Pendleton.” I first became aware of them because the leader of a band I was working with, J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., helped produce their first couple of albums and played guitar on one.

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• C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Elmore James

  Published: July 28, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Clln Music Club

  (Guest Blogged by Howie Klein) Let’s see… what musicians weren’t influenced by Elmore James? Hmmm… Paris Hilton, Rihanna, Nickelback, Mandy Moore… Oh, and Robert Johnson. Johnson was Elmore’s inspiration– and friend and he taught him a great deal, including his signature song, “Dust My

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• C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Building a Better Spaceship

  Published: July 29, 2007, 11:06 pm

  Tags: Clln Music Club

  (Guest Blogged by Howie Klein) Ever been out to Simi Valley? Until yesterday I never had. All I knew about it was that members of the LAPD like raising their families out there, Ronald Reagan’s library is there, Charles Manson’s Spahn ranch is out there, and the Rodney King “trial” took place there. But Adam, the drummer in

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• C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Bauhaus

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:04 pm

  Tags: Clln Music Club

  (guest blogged by Howie Klein) Today Edd “Kookie” Byrnes turned 74 and Buddy Guy turned 71. Do you feel dated? Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Anka and Kate Bush aslo celebrated their birthdays today. Tomorrow, though, is a birthday we want to commemorate at the LNMC. Not that we want to snub J.K. Rowling or Fatboy Slim or R.E.M.’s

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• Britney Spears Strips Down to her Lingerie (What’s New?)

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:58 am

  Tags: Celebrities, Britney Spears, Booty, Britney Spears, Butt, Club, Crotch, Gay, Lingerie, Music, Naked, Nude, Panties, Sex, Sexy

  Britney Spears took it off backstage at a club, in January, a day before her incredulous meltdown when she shaved her head and entered rehab 3x in the same week. The current word-on-the-street is that Spears is close to another psychotic break down. My question for the posted photo is: ‘Who in the picture has slept with [...]

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• C&L's Late Nite Music Clube with Timbaland

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:02 pm

  Tags: Clln Music Club

  (Guest blogged by Howie Klein) My old friend Danny is in L.A. for the summer and I went to visit him a couple days ago. He manages bands and he was brimming over with enthusiasm for one of his clients, Sweden’s hottest young band, The Hives. They’re mixing their new album now– due out in October– and I was fascinated by all

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• C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Timbaland

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:02 pm

  Tags: Clln Music Club

  (Guest blogged by Howie Klein) My old friend Danny is in L.A. for the summer and I went to visit him a couple days ago. He manages bands and he was brimming over with enthusiasm for one of his clients, Sweden’s hottest young band, The Hives. They’re mixing their new album now– due out in October– and I was fascinated by all

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• EXCLUSIVE: First Poster for 'The Jane Austen Book Club'

  Published: August 1, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Emily Blunt, Emilyblunt, Hugh Dancy, Hughdancy, Karen Jay Fowler, Karenjayfowler, Maria Bello, Mariabello, Sony Pictures Classics, Sonypicturesclassics, The Jane Austen Book Club, Thejaneaustenbookclub

  for The Jane Austen Book Club, a romantic dramedy hitting theaters on September 21. Based on the popular 2005 novel by Karen Joy Fowler, which the Washington Post described as something more than just "elegant chick-lit," the film revolves around a group of Californians who start what the title suggests -- a Jane Austen book club -- and then

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• Gawker Book Club: 'Jealous Husband Returns In The Form Of A Parrot' By Robert Olen Butler

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Gawker Book Club, Peanut, Robert Olen Butler, Ted Turner, They Just Hand Out Those Pulitzers Like Halloween Candy, We Keep Our Sexual Parts Hidden We Parrots

  Sure, we all know that Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer-winning author whose author wife, Elizabeth Dewberry, just left him to become one of media mogul Ted Turner's girlfriends, prompting him to...

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• Extremely Happy Feet: Disney Acquires Club Penguin For Up To $700 million

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Club Penguin

  Club Penguin, a social network/virtual world that has been on the market for some time, was acquired by The Walt Disney Company and announced today. An earlier deal with Sony fell apart over valuation and Club Penguin’s policy of donating a substantial portion of profits to charity. The company, which launched in October 2005, has 700,000

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• C&L's Late Nite Music Club with REM

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Clln Music Club

  (guest blogged by Howie Klein) R.E.M. just got back to the U.S. after recording in Dublin. They also did some live shows there. Here’s a song they dedicated to Aung San Su Kyi of Myanmar from one of their gigs. My pals Roland and Irwing and I are getting ready to go visit Aung San Su Kyi in Yangon. R.E.M. put together an Ireland blog to

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• Disney Buys Club Penguin

  Published: August 2, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Computer, Games, Game Companies, Club Penguin, Disney, Kids

  and desire to help us bring Club Penguin to more children throughout the world. We've found that partner in Disney, said Lane Merrifield, one of Club Penguin's three founders. Despite the $700 million purchase, Disney says that Club Penguin will retain its original URL. The company's three founders, Lane Merrifield, Dave Krysko and Lance

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• Disney Buys $700M Worth Of Penguins

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: News, Club Penguin, Disney, Online Games, Rich Media, Social Networking, Web Sites

  networking portal favorite, Club Penguin for $350 million. The company has created an incentive of $350 million in addition to the initial buy through 2009 depending on the growth of Club Penguin's revenue. The club will be renamed Disney's Club Penguin, but keep the same URL name and expand internationally. The game is predominantly targeted

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