Kathryn McCaughey on NOBRO’s full-length debut, taxes and snake blood.
The Jersey Shore, Kim Kardashian, My Monkey Baby – what are your choices for the worst of the decade?
‘Admittedly, children are often annoying, but that is what a Valium and Champagne cocktail is for…’
‘The Lollapaloozas, Birkenstocks-as-regular-footwear (you know who you are), mushrooms and ska bands, Mr. Lifto, Paralyzers, the flowery sundresses with cowboy boots and sexy/messy flannel shirts. Sigh…’
‘Jessica Alba didn’t earn the endearment “MiserAlba” for nothing. She looks borderline homicidal at the best of times…’
‘The harlot of the moment, Rachel Uchitel, is scoring the kind of money-can’t-buy-it publicity that will certainly propel her straight to reality TV stardom, along with Ashley Dupre (Elliott Spitzer’s hooker friend), those obnoxious White House Party Crashers, and Balloon Boy’s Family…’
This week in Scurrilous Ephemera: Brad and Angelina, Spencer Pratt… and ABBA.
‘Monkeys are bad, they are not nice pets, they are most definitely not babies and they want to kill you…’
Also – Robert Pattinson’s boy-crush on Zac Efron, and Ashlee Simpson contributes her fashion sense to a waiting world.
‘Miss Prejean is repellent for a number of reasons, not the least being that she had rational individuals compelled to come down on the same side of a dispute as Perez Hilton and the Miss California USA company (owned by Donald Trump)…’
‘Lindsay Lohan is back to wrapping her leggings around those in possession of a Y chromosome again these days… And she went about as far into that territory as she could; the starlet was caught smooching the studly/oaf-ish Gerard Butler…’
‘The rational response to all this information, of course, is: “No Way! Playgirl still exists?”‘
Our Scurrilous Ephemera columnist shares some of her costume ideas.
Meanwhile, there’s a new soundtrack to a new Twilight movie out. Stephanie MacDonald reports.
‘… you enjoy snoozing without waking up constantly to the realization that there is a huge, very evil demon shadow hovering over you.’ Scurrilous Ephemera by Stephanie MacDonald.
‘Heidi Montag-Pratt, who can’t dance, can’t act, can’t not act, can’t sing, can’t look normal and can’t successfully pose for Playboy… can’t even be a dysfunctional family member…’
Plus: Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi in another edition of Scurrilous Ephemera by Stephanie MacDonald.
‘[David Icke] is the fellow who makes millions of dollars writing books for insane people about how the powerful elite citizens of the world are actually lizards from space, but we can’t tell because they’re disguised as humans…’
George Takei on The Newlywed Game. Plus: Joe Jackson (head of the Jackson clan); and stilettos. By Stephanie MacDonald.
