Want the ick factor?

Then read the official 55-page transcript of the police interview with Kobe Bryant after he was accused of rape (charges were later dropped).

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0924041kobea1.html

Details of Britney and Kevin's secret "wedding"

I just got my People magazine with all the latest details and photos of Brit and Kev's wedding. There are many fine, fine tidbits about this pairing, including the fact that technically (though not in their hearts!) they are not really, totally, completely married yet because they have not signed the wedding certificate. Details, details. Their LOVE is what matters.

My favorite pictures in the article include the one of all the groomsmen in sweatsuits with the words "Pimp" on the back. Kev's father and step-father had "Pimp Daddy" on the back of theirs. Class! May I point out that Kev's father has a mullet.

Brit has dyed her hair brown. She needed to brush it at the wedding. It looked grungy with too much product. Kev cried his way through the wedding. Probably because he is one lucky son-of-a-bitch.

Here is more from the article:

Britney's Big Day
Happy tears and talk of babies: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline open up about their surprise nuptials

Wednesday Sep 22, 2004 2:00pm EST

Some 40 hours after their top secret Sept. 18 ceremony in Studio City, Calif., newlyweds Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are acting like, well, blissed-out newlyweds: Gazing into each other's eyes. Locking bare toes. Exchanging "Oh babys" and "I love yous." So it's safe to say they're feeling pretty good? "Awesome. Elated," says Spears, lounging with her new husband near the hot tub in the presidential suite of the Hotel Bel-Air. Tying the knot "couldn't have been better," says Federline. Adds Spears: "I'm just kind of happy that we pulled off the whole thing."

More on this story
Are They Legally Wed?

This was not the way it was supposed to happen – as anyone who received one of 100 invitations to the couple's Oct. 16 wedding can vouch. But three weeks ago, amid growing paparazzi attention and mounting stress, Spears, 22, and Federline, 26, scrapped their original plans for a lavish to-do at Santa Barbara's Bacara resort in favor of a ceremony for just 27 friends and relatives – all of whom were kept in the dark until minutes before the ceremony. (Moving up the date prevented the couple from filing their marriage license prior to the wedding.)

"I just thought it would be too much if we had done it when we were supposed to," says Spears. "It became this huge thing and I was like, 'What are we waiting for? We know this is the real thing, why not just do it now?' That's why I wanted to sneak and do it our little way."

ANOTHER hurricane poised to hit Florida

My mom, sister Jenny and her husband Kevin in Orlando are getting MIGHTY SICK of all this. Yet my sister and her husband have an interesting theory. Here it is, from an e-mail from Jenny:

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Hello again from Hurricane Land.

May I say, to start off, it has been a lot of
hurricanes!  Apparently this is historical.  Whoo-hoo.

When Charley came, here was the reaction of the
majority:

"Well, maybe bad.  Probably not.  Lots of hype."

After Charley:  "Oh My God!!!!!!It was horrible!!!!"

Before Frances:  "Oh My God!!!!!! Plywood everything!"

Before Ivan : "HOLY SHIT!  SONOFABITCH!  That thing is
huge!  It will crush us all!!!!!!!!"

During Ivan's return: "It's Back????!!!!???? Oh My
God!!!!  It will kill us all!"

Now, in the hours leading up to Jeanne, this is what
we all sound like:

"Ok, whatever. 'Sigh'.  Let's go bring in the patio
furniture.  Good thing we have got that plywood -
which is staying up - until January."

BUT, the reason for this e-mail is not for me to
grouse.  It is to share Kevin's most excellent theory.

Ok, now we all know there is something suspicious
about Disney.  Yes, it is merry.  But it is also
eerily protected from all storms and storm damage.

I mean, it is a fact.  Sea World and Universal get
regularly whomped.  Not so Disney.

This has led to many theories.  One was that Michael
Eisner had God on his payroll, and God was protecting
the Land of the Supreme Mouse.

But that seemed unlikely.  For, as Bono said it best
"The God I believe in isn't short of cash, Mister!"
Thus, cannot be bought or whored.  Well said, Bono.
Well said indeed.

So, why the otherworldly protection of Disney???

Who else would have that kind of clout?...

Ah-ha!  It would be Satan.  It makes sense.  Michael
Eisner sold his soul to Satan, and then put Satan on
the payroll.  For a nice sum.  Like buying mafia
protection for your store, but on a grander scale.

A tidy arrangement. 

Now people have asked us here, many many times, "WHAT
did you Floridians do to piss off God?  You have had
so many hurricanes!"

Correct.  Now, here is the theory:  God has grown
annoyed with the Evil Reign of theUber-Mouse and His
Dog, Chimpmunk & Duck Minions.  And especially Eisner!

So, God is angry, at Disney & Eisner.  And Satan.

Thus in a sort of archetypal (sp?),, Star-Wars-ish
Good vs Evil battle, God keeps attempting to smite
Disney.  Tossing laser bolts and all, like the "Heat
Miser" character in "The Year Without a Santa Claus".
That is why FL is the lightning capital of the world.

God kept throwin' em and Satan kept blockin' em.

So this year God decided to up the ante.  And to throw
hurricanes.  Figuring one of them will destroy the
Land Of Mouse Uber Alles.

But Satan keeps blocking.  So, God has to use bigger
hurricanes, and even grab ones that were totally of
course inthe ocean and toss them this way.  And keep
sending Ivan back in the hopes of at least washing out
the Eisner & Satan Super Team.

But, no luck yet.  So, on it goes.  Unless they reach
a truce.  Which may happen 'round the holidays, as God
does have to admit that Disney looks pretty with all
those Xmas decorations, and should get a reprieve...

Until next summer.

I think it is a fine theory.  Explains alot, really.

So, I thought I would share it with you all.

Ok, I am now signing off.  I am sure there is still
something lying around here to batten down.

Love,

Jenny

Miranda is a lesbian!

Actually, the actress who played Miranda on "Sex and the City" is having an affair with a woman. As Jerry Seinfeld would say: Not that there is anything wrong with that.....

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/235315p-202043c.html

BY GEORGE RUSH
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Cynthia Nixon Cynthia Nixon is trying a different kind of sex in the city, the Daily News has learned.

For almost 10 months now, the Emmy-winning actress has been dating another woman, sources say.

Back in June of 2003, Nixon split with Danny Mozes, the father of her two children. Last January, according to friends, she began a lesbian relationship.

Right now, Nixon, 38, does not want to be as outspoken as Rosie O'Donnell, the sources say.

But Nixon did not flinch when we asked her yesterday whether she is involved with another woman.

Speaking exclusively with the Daily News, she said, "My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy."

Word is that Nixon's partner is not in show business.

"She's just a private citizen who would like to remain private," says a friend.

Nixon, whose portrayal of marriage-wary lawyer Miranda on the HBO hit "Sex and the City" earned her her first Emmy last Sunday, began a 15-year relationship with photographer Mozes in high school.

Nixon told one interviewer she and Mozes never wed because "marriage isn't something that appeals to me. Danny was fine with it, so it wasn't an issue."

Nixon and Mozes, who share custody of their children, are said to have remained friendly.

One pal says that, although she's committed to her new lover, "She doesn't live with her."

Nixon has managed to keep the new romance under wraps by going alone, or with her mother, to media-magnet events.

Besides her role as an education-reform activist (she sends her children to New York public schools), Nixon has been busy shooting "Tanner on Tanner," a new Sundance Channel series directed by Robert Altman.

Also, she just signed on to play Eleanor Roosevelt - rumored to have had a lesbian relationship with reporter Lorena Hickok - in the HBO movie "Warm Springs," in which Kenneth Branagh plays FDR.

Nixon's real-life romantic switcheroo runs counter to her "Sex and the City" character, Miranda Hobbes, who had a baby, married her bartender boyfriend and settled down in a Brooklyn fixer-upper.

While she had her share of flings in the series, Miranda kept things mostly heterosexual, except for one episode. In the first season, her boss mistook her for a lesbian and set her up with a woman. But after one kiss, Miranda realized she was strictly an opposite-sex type of girl.

Miranda, a serious law-firm partner, generally was the voice of reason on the show, leaving the lesbian love roles and uninhibited sexcapades to pal Samantha Jones.

In the series, it was Jones, played by Kim Cattrall, who briefly carried on a love affair with a female artist.

Naked yoga is okay in San Francisco

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/22/nude.yoga.reut/

Naked yoga OK in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Nudists, grab your yoga mats and head for San Francisco.

City prosecutors Wednesday said it was not illegal to perform naked yoga in the city -- even at the crowded tourist destination of Fisherman's Wharf.

Prosecutors dropped charges against a limber nudist, known locally as the "Naked Yoga Guy," who made a habit of striking yoga poses in the buff in order to promote a book and his lifestyle.

The Naked Yoga Guy, whose name is George Monty Davis, had stripped to stretch nearby Fisherman's Wharf, prompting a public complaint.

But prosecutors decided they had a weak public nuisance case against him because local laws do not bar public nudity.

"Simply being naked on the street is not a crime in San Francisco," said Debbie Mesloh, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office."To bring a case, a person would have to exhibit lewd behavior, block traffic or impede pedestrians on a sidewalk, something along those lines."

In another case involving a Los Angeles teenager who dropped his pants to expose his bottom, or "moon," passing motorists from a nearby sidewalk, a California appellate court ruled nudity itself is not a crime, Mesloh said.

Davis could not immediately be reached for comment.

My evening with Michael Moore (and 6,000 other people)

I went to see Michael Moore last night at the Tweeter Center in Camden. It was GREAT! My friend Mary Kate came with me and before she left the house, her boyfriend asked: "What is he going to do? Sing and dance?" No, he just talked. And that was more than enough. He was great. Here is the link to the article in today's Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/9718421.htm

And here is more from me: Moore began the evening by reading from "My Pet Goat." The whole thing! That is a very weird book. It involves a carjacking! Very odd. I could see how it riveted Bush's attention while the U.S. was being attacked by terrorists.

Moore spoke about how Democrats are a bunch of whiny babies lately and all we do is moan about how Kerry is trailing in the polls and what-if, what-if, what-if Bush wins. Moore's advice? Quit whining and spend our energy on defeating Bush. So true. He talked about how Republicans don't spend their time whining. They are up at 5 a.m. each morning, "wondering who they can oppress today." In other words, we need to shut up, keep the faith and make sure everyone who can actually VOTES.

Moore is not a big Kerry fan. In fact, he supported Nader in 2000 (I still haven't forgiven him for that). His whole mantra was: Bush and Kerry. They both suck. But Kerry sucks less. Amen.

At the end of the evening, Moore played a video of John Ashcroft singing all the verses of that Eagle song. And Moore had the lyrics onscreen - with a bouncing ball - so we could all sing along. Such fun

The Emmys

I only watched part of The Emmys, because "The Wire" was on and I was on the phone as well. Here are some quick observations: Meryl Streeep's necklace was awful. Just awful. I am annoyed that Sarah Jessica Parker won again. ENough already. Did you notice how Kim Cattrall sat across the aisle from the other three women from "Sex and the City?" What was UP with Chris Noth proposing to SJP? She looked quite floored. Was that supposed to be funny?

Since I didn't do a log, please read this one from Joal Ryan at E!Online. It rocks.

http://www.eonline.com/Features/Awards/Emmys2004/Backstage/index.html