Ronald Wallace from Coventry, RI has the world's heaviest pumpkin. Wallace's pumpkin top the scales at 2,009 pounds in September at the Topsfield, Massachusetts Fair. He won $5,000 for placing first and another $10,000 for breaking the one ton mark. He tried to out do himself with another pumpkin in a festival in Warren, Rhode Island but fell short when his pumpkin weighed in at only 1,872 pounds he did however beat out the second place winner by over 100 pounds.
Nothing says respectable more than an old Econoline van painted pink! Can they clean? $99 is that cheap? Is the price per cleaning or per hour? Okay it says topless but it doesn't say women, it could be men! It boggles the mind! Somehow appealing and yet repulsive at the same time.
It was on this date 55 years ago that the real space race began, Sputnik 1 went into orbit. The Russian's beat the Americans into space with their 183 pound sphere. Sputnik means travelling companion in Russian and in 1957 it was the first man made object to make it into space. Oddly the Russians are still in space and the American's are now just hitchhikers!
LAPD were sent out in full force to an address in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday 10/03 after a caller to 911 claimed there was a hostage situation. The address was the home of a Christopher Ashton Kutcher and when the police arrived they found that it was a prank phone call. This is something new and is called "Swatting" an emerging crime. "Swatting" gets its name from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) and it is when a full contingent of police go to what is believed to be a hostage situation. This is not the first time that LAPD has been swatted. They were recently sent out to the home of Miley Cyrus and it to was a hoax.
Kutcher was not at home and was in fact on the set of "Two and a Half Men".
The nudists of San Francisco are in a battle against a city supervisor named Wiener who is spearheading the ban on public nudity. The mainly male and frankly unattractive nudists of San Francisco don't want to have to cover up and Mr Wiener is saying they should. Public nudity is legal in San Francisco and is a tradition in events such as The Bay to Breakers race and The Folsom Street Fair but have the nudists gone too far? There is a lovely little plaza in the Castro that has recently become inundated with nude men flaunting their goods especially at mid-day when locals enjoy lunching in the sun. This has upset many of the residents of the neighborhood as well as business owners and they have enlisted Supervisor Wiener in their cause. There has been a new and vulgarly named "Skid mark" law where nudists must sit on something whilst engaging in their hobby. Fair enough! Who really wants to sit on a seat just vacated by a naked man? The fight is beginning a debate about nudity and freedom of expression in San Francisco. If a law is passed it will be known aptly as "The Wiener Law" prohibiting nudity in most public places. The law as it stands now bans nudity in parks, schools and federal land within the city would encompass much more of the city but it would still allow for the dropping of trou at certain events. The question that begs to be asked is: would this be happening if very attractive people were the nudists? Perhaps just on ban on the ugly is more apropos.
Patti Smith, the grandmother of punk is back on the road and she is making some money too! Tickets to her shows in Los Angeles and San Diego start at $59. That is for the back of the house she is playing in. This is not punk rock this is big business! Punk rock is a bar or a club not a huge theater with corporate rock prices. Punk rock is DIY. Patti Smith is punk rock no more. So sad to see one of the pioneers selling out like this. Sure artists deserve to be paid for their work but being paid and being PAID are two different things. The "Rock and Roll Nigger" is now a big business.
"I loved you on The Partridge Family" That's all you have to say apparently to get close enough to Danny Bonaduce to bite him. Poor Danny was bitten by a crazed fan at a casino in Washington State. "Crazed Bonaduce Fan" now that's a redundancy if there ever was one! The "Duce" described his fanatical fan as having little bitty "chucky" teeth. She apparently saw him in the casino went up to him and bit him on the left check and then started sucking. Not unlike Danny's career. She drew blood and was pulled off of him and hauled away. Danny has decided not to press charges. He thinks it is all to blame on bath salts.
