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11 August
Monday

While You Were Cheering On The U.S. National Bulimic Swim Team

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  • The Beijing Opening Ceremonies drew a 21.5 rating on U.S. television, the highest ever for a non-U.S. opening ceremony and nearly equal to Raymond in its heyday.
  • The U.S. men’s 4 x 100 freestyle swim team came from behind to beat France by eight hundredths of a second, keeping Michael Phelps’ hope for eight gold medals alive. I guess we don’t have to start spitefully calling swimming pools “Freedom Pools” now.
  • The Dark Knight edged Pineapple Express to retain the top spot at the box office for the fourth straight weekend. It’s basically turning into the Dark Side of the Moon of movies, only I’m not quoting it as often in my freshman year AIM profile.
  • Angelina Jolie has not decided on a presidential candidate yet. Right now it’s between Obama or “Adopting another African child” am I right people??? She does that a lot.
  • Soul legend and South Park star Isaac Hayes passed away this weekend at the age of 65 just one day after comedian Bernie Mac died from complications related to pneumonia at the age of 50. It’s not shaping up to be a particularly funny week.
8 August
Friday

While You Were Feeling A Little Afraid Of All Those 8′s

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  • British supermodel Agyness Deyn and Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. are reportedly engaged and planning to have the hippest babies the world has ever known.
  • Paris Hilton says she’s created a superhero based on herself with the help of comic book legend Stan Lee. What do you think her character’s name should be? I’m gonna go with Claptrap.
  • Kanye West laid the ice cold smack down on homophobes during his recent gig at Madison Square Garden.
  • Katy Perry’s hit “I Kissed A Girl” has tied the record for longest-running #1 single with The Beatles classic “I Wanna Kiss A Man”.
  • Ryan Seacrest has been named ‘permanent host’ of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, which has been re-named Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Even With Ryan Seacrest For Sad People With No Plans.
7 August
Thursday

While You Were Looking For Some Pineapple Express

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  • Lindsay Lohan, never one to miss an opportunity to be totally cliche about her same-sex experimentation, has gotten a matching “little heart” tattoo with girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
  • Some people are speculating that Paris Hilton read from a teleprompter in her response video to John McCain – funny, because I was convinced she was riffing on her views about US energy policy off the top of her head.
  • Shia LaBeouf’s rep has assured us that doctors aren’t going to be amputating any of his fingers, as was previously reported. You want a Beef thumb? I can get you a Beef thumb.
  • Perez says he worked to attain to his svelte new physique so someone would want to have sex with him. I don’t really have the heart to tell the poor guy that it probably wasn’t the weight so much as the fact that he’s a pink sparkly celebrechaun whose primary skill-set is drawing poorly realized penises on people’s faces in MS Paint.
  • Yesterday was greatest director in the world M. Night Shyalaman’s birthday, so don’t forget to sign his card.
6 August
Wednesday

While You Were Wishing That Startards Didn’t Play ANY Part In The American Political Process

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  • In an attempt to put those gay rumors to bed once and for all, Chace Crawford says that the the whole time he was filming his sex scene with smoking hot Blake Lively, he was thinking about his old school teachers and grandparents.
  • Behold, the latest unfortunate victim of Kathie Lee Gifford’s sugary-sweet all-smiles passive-aggressive tongue-lashing of death.
  • Lisa Marie Presley is reportedly expecting twins, which is apparently why she’s been downing fried peanut butter & banana sandwiches by the dozen.
  • Dina Lohan was none too pleased by Anderson Cooper’s assertion that her 14 year-old daughter Ali actually looks like a withered old stripper. Mostly she’s just pissed that he wasn’t talking about her.
  • Paris Hilton joined together with the Funny Or Die team to film an uncharacteristically funny response to the “wrinkly old white-haired guy” who used her in his political ad.
5 August
Tuesday

While You Were Having Your Cakefarts And Hopefully Not Eating It Too

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  • Tyra Banks has inexplicably cast herself next to Barack Obama as America’s next First Lady in a bizarre new photo shoot for Bazaar. While she may never see the inside of the Oval Office in reality, Tyra will always be America’s First Crazy Lady.
  • Kathy Hilton has called John McCain’s campaign ad featuring her daughter “Frivolous, A Waste Of Money, A Waste Of Time”, all topics about which her family knows a great deal.
  • Charlie Sheen reportedly makes $800,000 per episode of Two and a Half Men. For those keeping score at home, that’s one-hundred thousand dollars for each time he mumbles something vaguely scumbaggy to annoy that dude who played Duckie.
  • Bob Saget got all Danny Tanner at his own roast the other night when he felt that his foul-mouthed comic pals went too far with their lewd insults about the Olsen Twins. Seriously guys, pedophilia is only funny when it’s in Saget’s Aristocrats joke.
  • This may be the definitive photograph of the Gossip Girl cast. It’s like someone captured their soul.
4 August
Monday

While You Were Being The Internet Without Me

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  • Another day, another Miley Cyrus PG-13 leaked cell phone photo pseudo-scandal. Really, again? Girl’s Sidekick must look like a Victoria’s Secret catalog.
  • The world exclusive first photos of Brangelina’s Magical Miracle Twins have finally found their way to the cover of People Magazine, whose rumored 15 million dollar bid for the photos will be donated to charity. At those prices, if the couple quit acting and started cranking out babies full-time, they could save the whole planet just by doing it.
  • And what would earth-shattering world exclusive celebaby photos be without a lazily-applied tabloid nickname for one of the kids?
  • According to new reports about Shia LaBeouf’s recent DUI rollover accident, The Beef’s hand was actually “crushed”, as was my own heart.
  • For the third straight week, The Dark Knight (which I finally saw and thought was amazing) came in at #1 in the box office, even managing to beat out The Mummy 4 Bajillion: Curse of the Wildly Improbable Plotline.
1 August
Friday

While You Were Being Deeply Affected By The Obama = Britney Attack Ad

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31 July
Thursday

While You Were Buying That Manny Ramirez Sox Jersey On Ultra-Clearance

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  • Britney Spears says she wants no more contact from Sam Lufti, and that’s important.
  • Sony is moving forward with the Spider-Man spinoff Venom; no word on whether Halle Berry will play Venom or if the movie will be complete garbage.
  • Major League Baseball’s trade deadline is today, and Ken Griffey Jr. is on the verge of being traded to the White Sox, which should make them a hell of a lot better in World Series Baseball ’94. They’re also reportedly trying to deal for Cecil Fielder, Jose Rijo, and Dante Bichette.
  • J.K. Rowling is writing and illustrating a book of fairy tales in the hopes of raising around $8 million for charity. Is she aware of who she is? Does she mean $8 million in the first five seconds?
  • Guy Ritchie believes that sugar is unhealthy and dangerous, and this is the slowest day for pop culture news I have ever f*cking seen.
30 July
Wednesday

While You Were Staying The Hell On The East Coast

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  • Cheech and Chong will reunite for their first comedy tour in over a quarter century. Only now instead of weed they’ve moved on to heroin, and their show is a lot more nihilistic.
  • Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong have broken up. Let’s spin the Wheel of Actresses Who Are Always Dating Really Publicly to see who Lance will end up with next — looks like it’ll be… Drew Barrymore!
  • Keira Knightley has refused to have her publicity stills for The Duchess altered to give her more cleavage. I might not see that movie now.
  • Jack White and Alicia Keys have recorded the theme for the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. In a related story, the Grammys will not occur this year, and 220 award statues will be given to this song.
  • And finally, Ron Wood has broken Keith Richards’ longtime reign as the Most Undead Rolling Stone.
29 July
Tuesday

While You Were Gearing Up For Another Season Of Avoiding Having Mad Men Spoiled For You

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  • Miley Cyrus announced that the upcoming third season of Hannah Montana may be the last. I just hope we find out what the smoke monster is first. Or at least see it naked.
  • Amy Winehouse and Kelsey Grammer were both hospitalized yesterday. Does this mean they were smoking crack together and f*cking? Yes it does. Please tell the rest of the internet.
  • Hulk Hogan called his ex-wife “the most formidable opponent I’ve ever run into.” He added, “Although, that divorce settlement with Ted DiBiase was pretty brutal too.”
  • The Mad Men premiere on AMC earned 2 million viewers last night, more than double the show’s average during its first season. That number jumps to a surprising 5 million if you count viewers in the “alright, alright, I’ll watch it as soon as I finish The Wire, Jesus…” category.
  • In a new low (or high?) for TMZ’s “how famous do they need to be for us to mention them” quota, the guy who played Eddie Sakamura in Rising Sun pled guilty to a misdemeanor harrassment charge yesterday. If I were the cops, I’d be sure to re-watch that tape to make sure it was him and not actually a senator.