So you know Muhammad Ali is the latest celebrity casualty of 2016.

Which means, among other things, that he and Howard Cosell are together again.


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I don’t care about the Superbowl - so much so that I don’t really know who actually played in it (I’m assuming it’s the Cowboys and the Broncos - they’re in it pretty much every year, right?). But I do find it hilarious that (1) Coldplay was the halftime headliner and (2) they got upstaged by Beyonce.

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Rowdy Roddy Piper is gone.

Which may not mean much to non-wrestling fans, except the ones who liked They Live.


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They say celebrity deaths happen in threes. In the last 24 hours we lost Sir Christopher Lee, Ornette Coleman and Dusty Rhodes.

It doesn't get much more diverse than that.

I confess I don’t have much to say about Coleman, if only because I wasn’t really aware he was still alive. I have two of his landmark albums from 1959 (The Shape Of Jazz To Come ( Read more... )

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And it’s another perfect chart-topper from Banäna Deäthmüffins.

People ask us where we get song ideas from. The answer is: all sorts of places.

In this case, we got them from a throw pillow with a bunch of cute cartoon animals playing soccer. Literally. And verbatim.

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As some of you may know, the 2014 FIFA World Cup is coming up.

Here in Hong Kong, local broadcasting powerhouse TVB won the broadcast rights to the World Cup, and has spent the last year promoting it. Last month, TVB released their official theme song for the World Cup, sung by pretty much every major star on its roster.

It’s pretty awful.

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I am playing golf with Dita Von Teese.

Dita is of course decked out in classy white lingerie - lace robe, bustier, panties, garters, stockings, stilettos, etc. It’s something to do with a charity event, so there is an audience watching. I am also the MC for it.

We are playing on a course that’s like a real golf course but with mini-golf hazards ( Read more... )

There has been talk about Russia’s “Don’t Say Gay” law being applied to athletes competing in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which is pretty straightforward - sport a rainbow/AIDS pin, go to jail.

Gay rights advocates are, of course, angry about this. But they’re also angry at the IOC for not being as angry about it as they are.

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