Attention: Radiohead Music Video Contest

Radiohead and Aniboom are holding a music video contest. Entrants must choose, and can only use, a song from the band's latest album "In Rainbows" as the backdrop for their video.

"The uploaded original storyboard can range from basic sketches to storyboard in video format or a fully developed animated video clip." The deadline for entry is April 27.

"Ten semifinalists selected by Aniboom, TBD Records and Adult Swim will receive $1,000 each to produce one-minute videos. Anyone will be able to vote on Aniboom and MySpace, but Radiohead band members will ultimately choose the winner, who will receive $10,000 for the creation of a full-length music video."

Here's where you need to go for more details and submission info. Get crackin'.

This contest is clearly for people less lazy than me.

Portions of the blog entry courtesy of the Wired:Listening Post.

Bear Stearns is Having a Worse Day Than You

Bear Stearns--the fifth largest Investment bank in the U.S.-- is in the process of selling out to JPMorgan Chase for $236 million--a mere fraction of its market value.

Bear Stearns' alternative: the dire task of declaring bankruptcy.

Yeah, there really is no upside.

To give you a better/tangible idea of how hard things suck for the investment bank, Bear Stearns' market value was determined to be $4 billion on Friday. And just a year ago it was valued at a staggering $19 billion... and then some.

Its shares were priced and set to be sold to JPMorgan Chase for a measly $2 on Sunday; a pittance compared to its record share price of more than $172 last year.

According to Reuters, the deal size is less than the value of Bear Stearns' midtown Manhattan headquarters, which is estimated to be worth $1 billion!

To say that Bearn Stearns is having a sequence of beyond shitty days is an understatement.

The moribund firm is barley clinging to life!

The Wall Street Journal is saying that the collapse of the bank has "shaken American capitalism."

Shawn Tulley, Forbes editor-at-large, is saying that the Bear Stearns meltdown has triggered the "End of Wall Street as we know it."

And economist Paul Krugman, who,thankfully, isn't comparing the current situation to the Great Depression, does say "if the recession started in January 2008, then that would mean July 2010 is the first month we have anything that feels like a recovery." He adds, "but I wouldn't be surprised if it goes longer than that - maybe into 2011" i.e. our economy is taking a circuitous turn for the worse.

Mission accomplished! I'm officially afraid.

I know this is a vague posting, but this is a confusing matter that I don't entirely understand.

That being said, I couldn't find anyone having a worse day than Bear Stearns...not even you.

For more insight into what ultimately toppled Bear Stears, read this CNNMoney article "How subprime killed Bear Stearns." It's the easiest to understand.

This BusinessWeek article is also digestible.

This Wall Street Journal article is wordy and confusing, but it does offer a comprehensive timeline of Bear Stearns' downfall. You won't die if you don't read it.

Image courtesy of REUTERS/Kristina Cooke.

Note. A foreboding look into the future: Lehman Brothers might be having a worse tomorrow than you.

Ashley Alexandra Dupré Photo Gallery

Since Gawker fell down on keeping a "definitive photo gallery" of Ashley "Kristen" Alexandra Rae Maika DiPietro Youmans Dupré--the hooker involved in the Spitzer scandal-- I thought I'd pick up where it left off.

The pictures below are from Dupré's Myspace profile.

Ashley's Myspace caption: "me passed out...I do that often. 2007"
My interpretation: Ashley is pretending to be asleep for flattering photo-op.
Ashley's Myspace caption: "Little Brazil..represent that."
My lack of interpretation: Wait, you're representing what?

Ashley's Myspace caption: "Vegas 2006."

Ashley's Myspace caption: "Who me? No, not me. January 2008"
My interpretation: Boredom inspired pic. Semi-successful attempt at being cute.Ashley's Myspace caption: "St. Tropez 2007."
My interpretation: Man, the owner of that boat is dropping a phat wad--pun intended-- to have her accompany him on his vacay.No Caption.
My interpretation: Another--man-hands accentuating-- boredom inspired pic.
No caption
My interpretation: Uh-oh, she's bored and high...again.
No caption
My interpreation: Wow! People really do put their best--unrecognizable--pics on Myspace.

The picture below was taken from the Emperor's Club Web site before it was shut down. I'm not sure how this picture was determined to be of Dupré since her face is obscured, but I'm posting it anyway.

The pic below is from a Myspace google cache dated March 6. Sorry the photo isn't bigger.
The picture below is from Dupré's Amie Street music profile.
The pictures are from Dupré's high school yearbooks. I swiped them from The Smoking Gun.

The pictures below are from Hotties in the News, which has the most comprehensive Dupré gallery.
The Pictures below are also from Hotties in the News, but they were taken from The New York Post photo exclusive. For some reason the photos are no longer on The NYP Web site.

The pictures below are from her brother Kyle Youmans's Myspace page.


The picture below is a good indication that Dupré is not as hot as she'd like us to think.The Pictures below are from The New York Post.I recognize this is a stupid posting, but I'm obsessed with this shiz.

"Pop Fiction" Fizzles, Backfires

I guess the premise for Pop Fiction-- the new E! reality series where celebrities punk the media by purposely planting fake news-- is a funny idea in theory.

The problem is that-- with the exception of Paris Hilton hanging with a spiritual guru-- I never hear or read about the faux stories before I see them on the show...and I comb celebrity Web sites looking for funny tidbits to post on my blog.

Avril Lavingne pretended to pregnant, and went shopping for baby clothes on Robertson? Who knew?!

Mario Lopez gave Eva Longoria a necklace as a congratulatory token for her restaurant opening, so people speculated that they were dating on the sly?! That's news to me.

David Spade went home with a fake bride after she celebrated her bachelorette party at a popular L.A. night club. Really?!?!

If this show has taught me anything, it's that most of what we read about celebrities, in the tabloids or on semi-legitimate blogs, is probably true!

Mission not accomplished Pop Culture; so not worth being possibly sued.

Now if the whole Spitzer-prostitute-thing was fake, we'd all be crying "punk'd."

"NYT" Did Something Kind of Skeazy

The New York Times has kind of a paltry/tawdry/downright skeazy vibe going on; and by that I mean it tracked down the prostitute from that whole Spitzer scandal.

Anyway, see for yourself.

It's pathetic that The New York Times!, The New York Times!!!, is using someone's Myspace page as one of its sources. That is all.

Update: Wow! The first time I checked that chick's Myspace page it had 660,307 profile views. When I checked back about 20 minutes later it was up to 1,113,600. Craziness. Each time I refresh the page she gets another couple thousand hits.

Her hourly rate just went up. Better yet, she should totally write a book about what it's like to be an upscale prostitute living in Manhattan. Seriously.

It's Wednesday at 8:53 p.m. and her profile views are now up to 2,254,798. She's not shuttin' it down; clearly liking the attention.

Stray Cats Are Having a Worse Day Than You

Apparently there's an abundance of stray cats in the city of Randolph, Iowa.

The solution: entice its residents with a five dollar bounty for each feral kitty they capture.

According to FOX News, "under the new policy," which went into effect March 1, "stray cats without collars will be taken to a veterinarian in the nearby town of Sidney — Randolph has no vet clinic — where they'll be kept 'for a time for people to claim them.'

"If not, they'll be euthanized and buried."

I guess it's better than the alternative.

"One guy threatened to shoot all of them. I told him he couldn't do that in town," Randolph Mayor Vance Trively said of the homeless felines. "Other people talk about poisoning them, but you can't do that in town."

I think that old Mayor Trively is giving the implicit go-ahead to murder the pesky critters outside city limits. He's that fed up with those damn cats! But that's just my take on the situation :).

This video will you give you a better sense of what's going on.

The stray cats in Randolph, Iowa are definitely having a worse day than you!

Portions of this blog entry courtesy of FOX News.

[The above photo is not of the cats in Randolph. It's a random pic I copied from Google images; just in case the snow didn't give it away.]

And not for the squeamish, check out this video of Dawn Tiatia . She definitely had a worse weekend than you. She was scalped while riding a go-cart. Beware the clip is depressing.

Ali Lohan Ain't Lookin' Too Good

Okay this is the last anything of Ali Lohan I'll post...I think.

But holy schnikey! Could In Touch Weekly have found a worse picture of her?! Jezebel included the photo as part of their Midweek Madness. Good find!
Wow! I thought the shot of Lohan I posted last week was bad. That fake tanner will get cha'.