Daily Archives: August 25, 2011

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Project Runway Season 9, Episode; Another Team Challenge?

Yes my friends, you read that correctly.  Yet another team challenge for our alleged designers, which means more yelling, bitching, and tears.  Then we’ll get past the commercial for Lifetime’s next Very Important Movie of the week, and get to the show.

Speaking of the show, who have we got left?  Well, it is the… fifth episode now?  Sigh.  Yes, the fifth episode, and I already forget everything about the previous four except there was something about stilts, and theoretically/potentially being able to see Nina Garcia’s nether regions.  Now forget all that, and let’s discuss the sewtestants we still have hanging around, shall we? Continue reading →

The Hollywood Caller: Jim Carrey Would Like to Date You…or Wear Your Skin. Both, Maybe?

Jim Carrey scares us with his honesty; What’s interesting about the 1890’s? We have no idea. Well, obviously they should have made a game out of Sorry; Remember Heathers? Well that guy will be on TV again, yay? Timothy Olyphant likes to wear jeans and we like it so much we could watch more; The Game of Thrones keeps getting awesomer!

Today’s Hollywood Dish needs a restraining order. Continue reading →

Dead Man Arrested after 32 Years Running from the Law

Arthur Gerald JonesArthur Gerald Jones was a Chicago commodities broker living in the tony northern suburb of Highland Park. He had a 17-year marriage, three children, and he held a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade. On May 11, 1979, he was reported missing from his home.

According to an affidavit filed in Nevada, Jones’ wife told investigators that about six months before he disappeared, he lost his job at the board of trade as a commodities trader and had to sell off his seat to pay off thousands of dollars in gambling debts. She said he also forged her name on a second mortgage application as he tried to get more cash to pay off his debts, according to the affidavit.

Jones’ wife last saw him on May 11, 1979. She told a Tribune reporter in 1979 that her husband “was not himself” in the months before he disappeared and particularly “jittery” after the murder of his friend and fellow trader Carl Gaimari. Continue reading →

The Death of Common Sense Can’t Come Soon Enough

How many times have you heard politicians and pundits calling for “common-sense reforms?” How many times have you heard friends decrying the “loss of common sense,” or expressing a feeling that “no one in Washington has any common sense?”

Philip K. Howard wrote a book a while back called The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. It’s a catchy title, intuitively accurate, and good enough to land Howard an interview on “The Daily Show.” At first blush, yeah…no, hell yeah! I mean, lawyers suck, amirite? Whaddya call 1,000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start, ho ho ho! Hey, let’s tell more jokes like that down at T.G.I. Fridays, the first round of Sesame Jack (TM) Chicken Strips is on me! Continue reading →