tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135892842024-03-20T18:24:22.524-07:00Jessica Cutler Playboy PhotosTim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-31607055557258773852011-03-19T08:36:00.000-07:002011-03-19T08:42:22.031-07:00Golfing in the AlgarveThe Algarve is one of the great golfing destinations in Europe. It's actually one of the few parts of Europe where you can play the game year round.<br /><br />To aid in this we've started up <a href="http://algarvegolfllp.com/">Algarve Golf</a>. It's a membership club that aids you in getting discounts on green fees around the Algarve.<br /><br />We've got about half of the courses signed up already and we've not even launched yet!<br /><br />Membership of <a href="http://algarvegolfllp.com/">Algarve Golf</a> will also get you money off various bars and restaurants around the place, scuba diving, parachuting, possibly even, if we can swing it, swimming with the dolphins.<br /><br />Yes, there are other golf associations down here but we're the only one that can save you money off the golf course as well as on it.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-6076167429513763602009-11-24T06:34:00.001-08:002009-11-30T11:18:11.311-08:00Taking advantage of the climate<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhihITvEDvKm5zikxlsbvFI9JGklG2xRc4k8vDQyzDTVbc17BkGyL3uGCBKyYYtihD2FKpy1vaipEzVOfBTQQ-0bjDPYCntquFcYSRh1Ecc9bLhXJmMfiZO1MEmBK-7qO2QVj/s1600/vikinggrill2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhihITvEDvKm5zikxlsbvFI9JGklG2xRc4k8vDQyzDTVbc17BkGyL3uGCBKyYYtihD2FKpy1vaipEzVOfBTQQ-0bjDPYCntquFcYSRh1Ecc9bLhXJmMfiZO1MEmBK-7qO2QVj/s320/vikinggrill2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407678711230384946" border="0" /></a><br />It's one of the fairly obvious things you should do, wherever it is that you live: take advantage of the climate. After all, you can't actually do much about it, so why not organise life to make the most of it? Thus my thoughts about getting one of these <a href="http://www.outdora.com/patio---pool-barbecues---grills-search-by-manufacturer-viking.html">Viking grills</a> to make the most of the climate where we are. For, yes, you've guessed it, we're in a nice warm climate where cooking outside is a near (even if not entirely) year round thing.<br /><br />The point to a <a href="http://www.outdora.com/patio---pool-barbecues---grills-search-by-manufacturer-viking.html">Viking gas grill</a> is that it's made to the top commercial standards. This means huge 29,000 BTU burners, everything made of stainless steel so that there are never problems with rust or leaving it outside. So you can in fact equip the kitchen garden (umm, that's the kitchen in the garden, not the garden used to grow things for the kitchen) in the happy knowledge that you're not going to uncover everything in the spring and find you need to buy it all again.<br /><br />But as I say, down here we don't really have to worry about that at all. And the other nice thing about the <a href="http://www.outdora.com/patio---pool-barbecues---grills-search-by-manufacturer-viking.html">Viking grill</a> is that it is indeed gas: I much prefer cooking on gas to electrcity or even charcoal. It's so much easier to control, less messy and, well, just in general it's better. But there is still one question remaining: which of the range should I get? The heart is of course that gas grill pictured: but the range goes all the way up to a 53 inch monster grill with side burners, oven, storage drawers and.....well, it's not so much how much do I want to spend, rather, how often am I going to be cooking for an army?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-70959213370193336442009-11-24T06:29:00.000-08:002009-11-24T06:34:01.016-08:00The Philippines massacreOh good grief, this is just horrible, a massive massacre in the Philippines. Initial reports seem to be that it's an attempt to disrupt the coming elections: either to frighten off voters or perhaps to try and get the whole exercise halted <a href="http://www.euronews.net/2009/11/24/at-least-46-dead-in-pre-poll-philippines-massacre/">or delayed</a>.<br /><br /><p></p><blockquote><p>Police in the Philippines have found more bodies at a shallow grave in the south of the country, bringing the total number of victims kidnapped yesterday to a least 46. </p> <p> They were ambushed by gunmen as they travelled to register nominations for next May’s election and were reportedly hacked to death or shot a point blank range. </p> <p> The President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared a state of emergency. </p> <p> ‘‘No effort will be spared to bring justice to the victims and hold the perpetrators accountable to the full limit of the law. The chief of staff has ordered the establishment of check and choke points,’‘ she said. </p> <p> The Island of Mindanao is notorious for violence between rival clans but even this pre-poll attack has shocked ordinary Filipinos. </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>One of the people I was at school with is standing in those elections: fortunately, on a different island where matters are not so violent.<br /></p>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-3354882290439442632009-11-15T09:29:00.000-08:002009-11-15T09:40:09.945-08:00What a great invention!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pq5HnN9rzdgEf_tpjjxwsDcfCjjOTKm6AwWb9TDzbszFKi-SM5RmSwBITGtk5urKwf6VRInQvBvo-6DFgQGcBPKbPWrVDXchknQGVSPovK_nhc2RO-DKkINdVidspIyonKFr/s1600-h/chiminea.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pq5HnN9rzdgEf_tpjjxwsDcfCjjOTKm6AwWb9TDzbszFKi-SM5RmSwBITGtk5urKwf6VRInQvBvo-6DFgQGcBPKbPWrVDXchknQGVSPovK_nhc2RO-DKkINdVidspIyonKFr/s320/chiminea.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404384381574545234" border="0" /></a><br />That, to the right there, is a <a href="http://www.outdora.com/patio---pool-fire-pits-chimineas.html">chiminea</a> and I think it's one of the great inventions. Sadly, I've only just become aware of it, I didn't know they existed until five minutes ago. They've also been around for a long time, centuries at least, so it's me not being very swift on the uptake rather than anything else going on here. What rather surprises me is that I've spent a lot of time in Iberian influenced countries and so I should have seen them and understood them but haven't: let's say I'm obviously very slow on the uptake then.<br /><br />But what's the point about <a href="http://www.outdora.com/patio---pool-fire-pits-chimineas.html">chimineas</a> then? Well, in one sense they're just a variation on a fireplace. Or a cast iron stove: you can indeed cook in them, there's a grill that goes inside them. But they're really much more than that for they solve a quite specific problem. The problem with a basic fire, whether a campfire or a fireplace, is that most of the heat simply goes straight up into the sky. But these are made of cast iron: and so most of the heat, when first lit, is used to heat up that cast iron: it then gets radiated outwards, not upwards. This means that for any given amount of wood that you're going to burn you're going to get more useful heat and less simply lost to the atmosphere. Which is good of course.<br /><br />In our case a <a href="http://www.outdora.com/patio---pool-fire-pits-chimineas.html">chiminea</a> would solve a specific problem. We do like to be outside of an evening, taking that sundowner and looking out over the hills. But it can get cold. OK, so, we might think of purchasing a patio heater. But around here gas (propane that is) to fire one up is expensive and yet wood is cheap ($100 a tonne sort of level). But open fires don't really produce all that much heat: so here's the solution. Instead of heating the air above the garden we'd be heating us in the garden: which is really rather the point of the exercise.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-51305934970519922132009-11-04T09:38:00.000-08:002009-11-04T09:42:41.871-08:00Sarah De HerdtThis seems like an interesting little thing, this kerfluffle over <a href="http://mobblognetwrok.blogspot.com/2009/11/sarah-de-herdt-pictures.html">Sarah De Herdt</a>.<br /><br />Sarah is a Belgian (and may be on the way to becoming one of those few famous Belgians, along with Jonny Halliday) sprinter and bodybuilder who likes to have pictures taken slightly <span style="font-style: italic;">deshabille</span> as they say in that country.<br /><br />Nothing actually naughty, just wearing rather fewer clothes than one might think proper in a cold climate. Odd really, to think that some men might get a charge out of seeing a woman in a bikini lifting weights: or that a woman would get a charge from posing for them.<br /><br />Still, takes all sorts, eh?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-32754816463478314812009-11-04T09:02:00.000-08:002009-11-11T10:14:12.193-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXtBgpT03ICqbNJb_Oyi4G7-GwLkUQKxGEPvMsPq-oHtlqCDxjbScEJNYal3irqjYNPOOrTvDffCj-wulAC38Jico8Mo26gAikXtD-Z6oCs0LG0H8b9mIKWu9pb2Ns3138YUk/s1600-h/plaque.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXtBgpT03ICqbNJb_Oyi4G7-GwLkUQKxGEPvMsPq-oHtlqCDxjbScEJNYal3irqjYNPOOrTvDffCj-wulAC38Jico8Mo26gAikXtD-Z6oCs0LG0H8b9mIKWu9pb2Ns3138YUk/s320/plaque.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400295754179958738" border="0" /></a><br />As you all know, dear readers you, we're getting this pair of houses together down here and we're finding that we're nearly there. It's just the finishing touches to go really and we're done and can start to actually live in them rather than continually wondering what we're supposed to be doing to them.<br /><br />One of the little parts of getting these things finally finished is of course making sure that we've got an address plaque up outside the house so that people know where they are. Well, of course, they'll know they're here, but that's not all that useful now is it? They'll also know that we're here which is very useful indeed for some people: like the mailman or perhaps the Fed Ex guy who always seems to ask me to come down to the depot as he cannot find us or our place. So, having decided that an address plaque there must be, which of the different possibilities of <a href="http://www.outdora.com/lawn---garden-address-plaques.html">address plaques</a> should it be? You can click through the links to see the sort of selection we can choose from.<br /><br />Me, myself, I rather like the look of that brass one. I can just see myself rather smugly polishing it as I contemplate the houses that we've built here: I can also rather less happily see myself chasing the children down the street after they've left sticky fingerprints on my newly polished <a href="http://www.outdora.com/lawn---garden-address-plaques.html">address plaques</a> but then we all need to get our exercise somehow, don't we?<br /><br />Hmm, maybe a rethink called for here: excuse me while I go back to trolling through the catalogue for exactly the right <a href="http://www.outdora.com/lawn---garden-address-plaques.html">address plaque</a>.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-611749640517396262009-09-02T04:15:00.000-07:002009-09-02T04:18:36.904-07:00The songs of High School MusicalHalf the world (the half that is underage at least) seems to have gone crazy for High School Musical.<br /><br />But it cannot be the plots (largely lifted from Shakespeare) or the acting (no great shakes) which have made it so popular. The clue of course is in the "musical" part. It's the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-14795-Page-One-Examiner%7Ey2009m9d1-High-School-Musical-and-the-songs">High School Musical songs</a> which have everyone following it.<br /><br />These are what Disney are good at of course and the songs are indeed good enough that many of them have gone on to climb the Billbaord charts, as have the sound tracks.<br /><br />If youre interested, click through that link to see a full listing of all of the songs plus who sang them and why.<br /><br />For it is indeed the songs and the music that make High School Musical so popular.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-1988066666386422712007-06-25T08:30:00.000-07:002007-06-25T08:33:07.282-07:00New Katie Site?If you're trying to keep up with your favourite celebrity, <a href="http://freekatie.blogspot.com/">Katie Holmes</a>, then there's a new resource on the internet for you.<br /><br />Set up especially to bring you news stories, phtos and even video feeds about <a href="http://freekatie.blogspot.com/">Katie Holmes</a>, if you're interested in celebrity gossip andinformation then this is the site for you.<br /><br />There's even a section on <a href="http://freekatie.blogspot.com/2007/06/katie-holmes-and-tom-cruise-wedding.html">Katie Holmes</a>' marriage to Tom Cruise!<br /><br />Well, why are you waiting, go check it out!Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-43973721048567354572007-06-17T07:17:00.000-07:002007-06-17T07:20:23.661-07:00Roundheads andCavaliers, as we used to call it. Or, <a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2007/06/circumcision_le.html">circumcision</a> or not as others might refer to it.<br /><br />Is it a good idea to make sure that all male babies get the chop?<br /><br />On the plus side is a reduced incidence of STDs and of certain cancers.<br /><br />On the debit side it's often said that <a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2007/06/circumcision_le.html">circumcision</a> leads to lower sensitivity in the male.<br /><br />However, is that really something on the debit side? Perhaps that's actually a positive as well?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-36249976557824465052007-06-01T08:21:00.000-07:002007-06-01T08:26:02.696-07:00Cynthia Rodriguez She Ain'tSo now that more information is coming out we know that the mystery blonde excorting Alex Rodriguez to a strip club was not his wife. No, in fact, she's <a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2007/06/joslyn_noel_mor.html">Joslyn Noel Morse</a>.<br /><br />A stripper (lap dancer more politely) since she left high school she is said to aspire to being a Playboy Bunny.<br /><br />Isn't that a grand ambition for a woman of 30? Playmate, perhaps, but Bunny?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-76941270029391248772007-05-16T11:05:00.000-07:002007-05-16T11:07:43.761-07:00The Smashing Pumpkins are BackI do always wonder though with these <a href="http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/05/smashing_pumpkins_announce_8_sf_shows_.html">comebacks</a>:<br /><div class="entrytext"> <p style="font-style: italic;">The Smashing Pumpkins, one of the biggest rock groups of the 1990s, will perform an eight-show residency at the Fillmore, July 22-Aug. 1. Tickets for $25 go on sale (online only) Sunday, May 20, at 10 a.m. at <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/">www.ticketmaster.com</a> and <a href="http://www.livenation.com/">www.livenation.com</a>. (Limit two per person.) The band promises to play old favorites; songs from the upcoming “Zeitgeist” album, slated for release on July 10; and even “tunes written the day of the show,” with the set list varying from night to night.</p> <p style="font-style: italic;">The shows will take place July 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30 and 31 and Aug. 1. The Fillmore shows will follow a nine-show stand at the Orange Peel in Asheville, N.C., June 23-July 5.</p> <p><span style="font-style: italic;">This will be the band’s first appearance at the Fillmore since April 1994, when it was invited to perform at the reopening of the historic venue. The band split in 2000. The new lineup will feature front man Billy Corgan, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and two people you’ve never heard of. </span><br /></p><p>My query is always, who is running out of money?<br /></p> </div>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-82541868370384331692007-04-17T10:29:00.000-07:002007-04-17T10:32:36.180-07:00Why Get a Mosquito Ringtone?A lot of people may laugh at the thought of mosquito <a href="http://www.goldringtone.com/">ringtones</a> for your cellphone. There are a lot of <a href="http://www.goldringtone.com/">free ringtones</a> and <a href="http://www.goldringtone.com/">free MP3 ringtones</a><a> on the Internet, so why get a queer ringtone the sound of a buzzing mosquito in your phone?<br /><br />There is actually a reason for this. Studies show that the human ears would lose their ability to recognize high frequency sounds as it ages. As one gets older, the inner ear and the eardrum are becoming less active and flexible. If this happens it can no longer recognize high frequency vibration sound. So if you were a teenager living with an adult or your grandparents, they probably won’t be disturbed with the high-pitched sounds of your mosquito ringtones.<br /><br />So get the best usual </a><a href="http://www.goldringtone.com/">free Cingular Ringtones</a> or <a href="http://www.goldringtone.com/">free Sprint Ringtones</a> now and leave these buzzing sounds.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-45402839797400886862007-03-18T10:54:00.001-07:002007-03-18T10:54:19.314-07:00Little House on the Prairie<p>Melissa Gilbert will be starring in a stage show version of Little House on <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/stageNews/idUSN1627258120070316">the Prairie</a>:</p> <p><em>Patrick Swayze and Melissa Gilbert will star as Pa and Ma in an April workshop presentation of "Prairie," a musical version of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie."</em></p> <p><em>Gilbert played middle daughter Laura Ingalls in the long-running NBC television series from 1974-83. She was recently president of the Screen Actors Guild.</em> <p><em>Beth Henley, who won a Pulitzer for "Crimes of the Heart," wrote the book, Donna DiNovelli wrote the lyrics and Oscar winner Rachel Portman ("Emma") composed the music. Francesca Zambello will direct.</em> <p>Imagine, being so associated with a part that you end up playing your own fictional mother!</p>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-31162913503807062992007-02-27T09:07:00.001-08:002007-02-27T09:07:59.823-08:00California Driver Education<p>Certainly things have changed since I was there: <a href="http://www.drivereducationonline.us/california-driver-education.html">driver education in California</a> now requires that you take a state approved test before you can get your learner's permit. I am glad that wasn't in place when I took my California driver's test: I would never have managed to do what I did, arrive in the country and rent a condo, buy a car, get a licence, get the house furnished and everything insured in just 8 days.</p> <p>However, don't despair, there are simple ways to deal with the problem. One option is to get this program dealing with <a href="http://www.drivereducationonline.us/california-driver-education.html">driver education in California</a>. It's a state approved course, so it meets the rules, but the difference is that you can do most of the work at home. Once you've studied this, you can get your learner's permit. Now what is the value of being able to do this at home? Well, you can do it in your own time, at your own speed. There's no need for parents to ferry you off to classes at a particular time and that all just makes life so much easier.</p> <p>The second option for <a href="http://www.californiadrivereducation.us/">California driver education</a> is to look at that program, the virtual one. This is computer based and allows you to learn safe and effective driving techniques from your own room! You can simply log on when you want to and take parts of the course. Again, the value is that you can do this when you have time to, not working to the rigid timetable of organised classes. It's also true that we all learn more when we are the only student, not being distracted by those around us.</p> <p>Either or both programs will teach you in the way the law insists you must be, so that you can complete your <a href="http://www.californiadrivereducation.us/">California driver education</a> and get your learner's permit.</p> <p>After that, it's driving on the real roads to gain experience, and no one has quite worked out yet a simpler way to do that.</p>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-78925165774356327642007-02-13T10:48:00.001-08:002007-02-12T08:12:20.919-08:00Blog Reactions to Anna Nicole Smith's Death<p>There's some sick puppies out there you know, as shown by hte reactions to Anna Nicole Smith's <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0822418820070209">death</a>:</p> <p><em>Minutes after word of the death of stripper-turned-celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, the blogosphere began the autopsy of a life lived in the headlines, and the verdict wasn't at all pretty.</em></p> <p><em>From different corners of the Internet, commentators who once considered Smith worthy only of off-color jokes purported to seek out the deeper cultural meanings of her death. Most came up brutally short.</em> <p><em>Instead many observers reveled in jokes about the size of the former Playboy model's breasts or the extent of her drug problems -- topics thought to be fair game in the world of celebrity gossip.</em> <p><em>Blog search site Technorati.com showed mentions of Anna Nicole Smith spiked fivefold on Thursday. Still, at little over 44,000 mentions, Smith measures only one-tenth the blog star power of pop music sensation Britney Spears.</em> <p><em>The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the Web.</em> <p><em>Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.</em> <p><em>"Anna Nicole Smith's condition downgraded to dead," one writer on news commentary site Fark.com coldly noted. Thousands of visitors had posted remarks within hours of her death. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2596842 Fark commentator "LikelyCulprit" posted a photo of a beached whale entitled "preliminary autopsy photo."</em> <p>That's not even all that funny despite being in truly bad taste. <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8af91871-359c-43f7-b99a-1242ab0499b0" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/anna%20nicole%20smith" rel="tag">anna nicole smith</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/fark" rel="tag">fark</a></div>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-54994307639417402392007-02-02T10:23:00.001-08:002007-02-02T10:23:20.048-08:00Harry Potter Book<p>To absolutely no one at all's surprise, the final Harry Potter book is getting record orders at <a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2007-02-02T135910Z_01_WEN3468_RTRUKOC_0_US-AMAZON-HARRYPOTTER.xml&WTmodLoc=EntNewsHome_C2_entertainmentNews-2">Amazon</a>:</p> <p><em>Amazon.com Inc. said on Friday first-day advance orders for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and last installment of J.K. Rowling's successful book series, were 547 percent higher than for its predecessor.</em></p> <p><em>Thursday's pre-orders for "Deathly Hallows" exceeded the first two weeks of pre-orders for its predecessor, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," Seattle-based Amazon said. "Half-Blood Prince," released in July 2005, generated more than 1.5 million pre-orders on Amazon, the online retailer said.</em> <p>It really is not wonder that JK Rowling is well on the way to become the first person to make a $ billion from writing. Thank the Lord that it all ends this summer, eh? <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a1853c6f-1e5f-4b4b-ac26-de1c1e82f5ec" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/harry%20potter" rel="tag">harry potter</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/jk%20rowling" rel="tag">jk rowling</a></div>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-21729203859963249612007-01-31T09:39:00.001-08:002007-01-31T09:39:46.889-08:00New Eagles Album<p>Looks like there is a new Eagles album in the works, their first in nearly 30 years. All original material, <a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2007-01-31T005516Z_01_N30333024_RTRUKOC_0_US-EAGLES-ALBUM.xml&WTmodLoc=EntNewsHome_C2_entertainmentNews-2">too</a>:</p> <p><em>Fans of Southern California's classic rock group the Eagles may soon be getting that peaceful, easy feeling all over again.</em></p> <p><em>Don Henley, one of the group's founding members, said during a private weekend concert appearance he and his old bandmates were nearing completion of their first album of all-new music in nearly 30 years, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Tuesday.</em> <p><em>"It's coming out in 60 to 90 days, if we don't kill each other first," Henley was quoted as telling his audience on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.</em> <p><em>Neither Henley's publicist nor his manager had any immediate comment on the report.</em> <p>Not sure I can actually cope with this really. No doubt they'll try to add something relevant, like a rap or a jungle beat: yetch. Can't they simply live off the money they've got already?</p> <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4973ed95-9a94-4576-9604-cc26dd2cd874" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Eagles" rel="tag">Eagles</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Don%20Henley" rel="tag">Don Henley</a></div>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-47862804088831372192006-12-11T03:47:00.001-08:002006-12-11T03:47:54.787-08:00Very Amusing<p>Over at the Celebblog there's a very amusing story about <a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/celebblog/2006/12/kendra_jade_pic.html">Kendra Jade</a>.</p> <p>Apparently she's in a committed relationship but this doesn't stop her from leaping into bed with Kevin Federline. <a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/celebblog/2006/12/kendra_jade_pic.html">Kendra Jade</a> and the K-Ferret an described as simply being friends who have sex a lot.</p> <p>She has been, apparently, starring with Kevin Federline in rehearsals for the Britney Spears Sex Video.</p> <p>I guess the thing is that if you work in that end of the film industry the definition of 'committed relationship' is rather different from the more usual one used out here in the real world.</p> <p>You know, if your living is made by appearing in sex videos then perhaps you have a different definition of sexual continence than other people?</p> <p>Hmm, perhaps sexual continence isn't the right phrase there. Doesn't include sex in the meaning of committed perhaps?</p>Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-74623152504630233372006-12-10T10:15:00.001-08:002006-12-10T10:15:22.903-08:00DarnCold fingers, time for a hot shower, pubs are open....why am I still blogging?Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-1118496391025559462005-06-11T06:23:00.000-07:002005-06-11T06:26:31.026-07:00Internet Entrepreneur.This internetweb thingie really does throw up some opportunities does it not? Try reading this biography of an <a href="http://www.done.com/aboutus.html">internet entrepreneur</a>. Stirring stuff and probably a huge amount of money made veryquickly.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589284.post-1118495612267313192005-06-11T06:07:00.000-07:002005-06-11T06:13:32.270-07:00Jessica Cutler Playboy Photos.Jessica Cutler, who you may remember as Washingtonienne, was an intern on Capital Hill who started up a blog detailing her experiences. These seemed to include having sex for money with a number of people who worked on the Hill.<br /><br />This, not unnaturally, got her a lot of attention after her blog was featured by <a href="http://www.wonkette.com/">Wonkette</a>. A few days later she was unmasked, fired, and that was, we thought, the last we would hear of the matter. However, fame in America doesn’t seem to work that way. First she got a book deal (with a rumoured $350,000 advance) and then she was asked to pose for photos for Playboy.<br /><br />If you want to see what she looks like, are interested in what politicians will pay money to have sex with, why not take a look at the photos from Playboy? They’re <a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/2004/08/14/more-on-jessica-cutler/">here</a>, no subscription or registration necessary.Tim Worstallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161727860817121071noreply@blogger.com