Roger Partied On Strike Night
December 22, 2005
Source: Page Six

WHILE countless ordinary New Yorkers were trudging home from work in the bitter cold Tuesday night due to the transit strike, Transport Workers Union boss Roger Toussaint and his chaos-causing labor cronies were living the high life at an upscale uptown eatery.

Toussaint and his comrades were in a jubilant mood at chichi Harlem Grill, an elegant supper club on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard with gleaming candelabras, antique mirrors and live jazz.

A spywitness tells PAGE SIX’s Fernando Gil: “[Toussaint and his party] were there for at least 2 1/2 hours. People kept coming and going all night, but there must have been at least six people at their table at all times.

“They were drinking, eating and joking,” the witness relates. “At one point, the owner or manager of the restaurant came over to make sure they’d been taken care of. I heard a man in their group say, ‘Do you think they’re all going to stay home tomorrow?’…and people at the table laughed.”

Our source reports that Toussaint, dressed smartly in a suit, chowed down on clay pot snapper. Others at his table devoured grilled salmon, rib-eye steaks and glasses of chardonnay. In an apparent sign of solidarity with the working man, they left a $30 tip on the surprisingly modest $152 check.

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We should all be so lucky. From Yahoo! News

Pipe Problem Tied to Naked Man in Basement
Thu Dec 15, 6:03 PM ET

SPOKANE, Wash. - A plumbing problem at a Spokane home turned out to be a naked man. Police say a woman who thought she was having a problem with water pipes beneath the floor called the Water Department. Employees found the basement barricaded, and when they determined there was someone behind the door, they called police.

Police broke through the door, found the naked man and took him into custody. They searched the basement but found no clothing for the man. They also found that a pipe had been broken and repaired.
The 36-year-old was booked into jail for investigation of burglary.

Maer Roshan photo by wireimage.com.

From New York Post: Page Six

Radar Targets Hit On Backers
December 16, 2005

DID Radar magazine’s financial backers Mort Zuckerman and Jeffrey Epstein pull the plug on the scrappy mag because of pressure from their ultra-wealthy friends? Media insiders claim the glossy was canned after Radar ignored repeated warnings not to write about their patrons’ powerful pals.
Over the last year, our sources claim, both Zuckerman and Epstein were besieged by calls from power players distressed over Radar’s snarky coverage of them, including Hollywood’s Mike Ovitz, American Media honcho David Pecker and secretive supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle. All three personally lobbied Zuckerman and Epstein to quash salacious stories, insiders claim.
One media source tells us: “Ron Burkle’s lawyer, Marty Singer, threatened to sue them. And Burkle, who is a major investor in Barnes & Noble, had one of the biggest magazine distributors in the country call to tell them it wouldn’t be in their best interest to write about Burkle after they reported a story about him hosting Michael Jackson at his house. Bill Clinton [a friend of Burkle and also Epstein] also called [Epstein] and demanded they not write about him and Jackson. They still did.” Singer confirmed the legal threats against Radar to PAGE SIX and suggested there may be more litigation in the works.
One Radar staffer offered an outrageous conspiracy scenario: “The theory going around is that the Scientologists put the fear of Xenu [an evil space alien in the Scientology creed] into [Zuckerman and Epstein]. Scientologists have been digging into Epstein’s and Zuckerman’s private lives, and have thick files on both of them. Who knows what’s in them?” Earlier this year, Radar published a scathing cover story about Tom Cruise and Scientology. A rep for the Church of Scientology dismissed the account as “a complete fabrication.”
One power player who was left off the hook by Radar’s shutdown was ICM boss Jeff Berg, who, insiders say, began calling [Zuckerman] after hearing he’d been pegged as the “most ineffective agent in Hollywood” in an upcoming cover story. The story was slated for the upcoming issue, which has been nixed.
A rep for Pecker tells us: “[Radar editor] Maer Roshan’s a very talented guy and we wish him luck, but [Pecker] never made any calls about Radar.” Ovitz’s reps called the allegations “preposterous.” Berg denies calling Zuckerman. Reps for Epstein, Zuckerman, Clinton and Burkle didn’t return calls.

Read Gay City News’ 2003 interview with Maer Roshan. Read more »

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Old prostitutes find work in rural Australia

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Prostitutes as old as 70 continue to work in rural Australia, pushed out of the cities due to strong competition from younger and more attractive sex workers, the author of a study said on Tuesday.

Brothels are legal across most of Australia, but states have strict laws against soliciting and running brothels in residential areas, and near churches or schools.

The research, by John Scott of the University of New England, examined prostitution in rural areas of New South Wales state. He found the sex industry has flourished in rural towns, with many prostitutes making regular visits.

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Korean toy manufacturer Kojun has created a series of limited edition dolls baring the likenesses of Brad Pitt and David Beckham just in time for the holidays. What sexually ambiguous tyke wouldn’t want to wake up to Brad or David ( or both for the more adventurous ) come Christmas morning. The days of having to settle for that working-class, military thug G.I. Joe are long gone.

Click on the thumbnails to view the full-sized images.

No, it’s not a digitally rendered effects shot from some lame, big-budget, Tom Cruise blockbuster…this is the real deal. Say what you will, but there’s nothing like autumn in New York. Sure beats hanging out at the Thousand Oaks Mall.

Photo: Pete Mowry / Hillsdale Daily News / AP

Does this mean Jessica Alba will get a street named after her?

Reported in People.com

High School Teen Elected Mayor in Michigan

American politics can still favor the underdog, as resoundingly proved by Hillsdale, Mich., high-school senior Michael Sessions. The 18-year-old, after having lost last year’s race to be elected to his school council, won another post this week: that of mayor of his hometown (population: 8,026, according to 2004 figures). Unofficial results show that Sessions got 732 votes, compared with 668 for Mayor Doug Ingles, 51. Once his victory is certified, he’ll be sworn in during a ceremony set for Nov. 21.

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Reported in New York Post Online Edition: Page Six
Monday, October 3 2005 –

PARENTS-to-be Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams have bought a new brownstone in Boerum Hill. The couple, who are expecting a baby girl any day, had been renting an apartment in nearby Carroll Gardens for the past few months. The spacious new Brooklyn digs reportedly cost the “Dawson’s Creek” star and her Aussie hunk a healthy $2 million. The two met and conceived their child on the set of Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain,” in which Ledger plays a gay cowboy who has an affair with Jake Gyllenhaal.

No, it’s not a post about a Gwyneth Paltrow sex tape, I’ll spare you that much. Seeing as how she’s not doing much these days, Miss Paltrow went on Oprah to show soccer moms across the nation that she can cook. Her recipe is hardly new though: one of my favorite Japanese restaurants Edo Sushi on 17th off Union Square, makes an excellent Chilean sea bass with miso paste which has long been a favorite of mine. Paltrow’s version substitutes flounder which sounds interesting non the less. Here’s the recipe, from Oprah’s site to god’s ears:

Source: Oprah

Flounder with Miso Sauce
Created by Gwyneth Paltrow

From the show “New Mom Gwyneth’s First Interview & Jude Law”

fish and salad The talented Ms. Paltrow is not only a mom and award-winning actress, she’s also a cook who loves to use organic ingredients. She likes to serve this fish with organic brown rice and a side of greens with shredded carrots and ginger. For salad dressing, she likes to use a combination of organic sesame oil and organic rice wine vinegar. Most of the more unusual ingredients (like miso and mirin sauce) can be found at gourmet supermarkets or health-food stores.

INGREDIENTS

1 thick piece of white fish, like flounder
1 cup mellow white miso paste
3/4 cup of mirin sauce

Whisk the miso paste and mirin sauce together. Place the fish in an oven-safe pan. Coat the top side of the fish with the miso/mirin mixture. Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees, until the sauce is slightly caramelized. Serve with rice and fresh salad.

I had the pleasure of meeting David Hampton in 1991 through Chris Jones ( brother of Grace Jones ), who was a regular at my Monday night soir?¬¨¬©e Sugar Babies. This was fitting since Sugar Babies, in it’s early incarnation, was a melting pot of celebrities, models, and journalists mixed in with downtown club kids, social misfits and the proverbial average Joe on-looker. David was not introduced to me as David Poitier however ( his facade at this point was very well over ), instead he was introduced as David Hampton; the man who’s life story had been made into the play “Six Degrees Of Separation”. It wasn’t hard to see where the upper crust of New York society could be fooled into believing he was anything but what he pretended to be, he was well versed, polite and very charming. Unfortunately David Hampton passed away on July 18th, 2003, of complications due to AIDS, but his incredible life lives on in the people he touched, both bad and good, and in the stage and film versions of his life “Six Degrees of Seperation”

Below is a more in depth article on David’s life, which I found on the net at this link. The original author’s name and the source of the article was not provided.

Update: November 14th, 2006 - Unfortuantely that link is now dead and the story has since been taken down, a prime example of why my site exists. The following is the story as it was published. Read more »

1. Delivery guys with no change.

2. Paris Hilton claiming her upcoming movie roles are a stretch and the opposite of her. Yeah, playing a sorority chick in one movie and a bimbo in a horror flick are a real stretch.

3. Fear Factor and it’s host Joe Rogan. It’s no wonder this crap is still on the air, considering the networks seem to take Monday nights off.

4. The phrase “bling-bling”. It’s annoying enough when hip-hop artists use it, but it’s annoying as hell when it spews out of the mouth of some waspy white woman. Ooooh yeah, you’re really down wit’ it — or something to that ebonic effect.

5. Entertainment news programs that insist on doing features on the lavish life-styles of undeserving celebrities, over and over again. If I can’t have it, why would I care?

From CNN.com:

CNN.com - Sheboygan SpongeBob swiped - Nov 25, 2004

Sheboygan SpongeBob swiped

Thursday, November 25, 2004 Posted: 1:18 PM EST (1818 GMT)

(AP) — It’s a regular SpongeBob crime wave.

First some oversized figures of SpongeBob Squarepants were swiped from Burger Kings in Michigan, Minnesota and Utah.

Now police in Wisconsin are on the lookout for spongenappers who clipped a six-foot Squarepants that was promoting the SpongeBob movie opening.

No ransom note was left in Sheboygan — although in Minnesota, the list of demands includes ten Crabby Patties for SpongeBob’s return.

After some shrewd negotiations between police and a lawyer, a SpongeBob from Bad Axe, Michigan, has been returned home, slightly the worse for wear.

No laughing matter for Crime Stoppers in Sheboygan, though, who say informants on the whereabouts of the Wisconsin blow-up could earn a thousand dollar reward.

Then USA Today reports this:

USATODAY.com - SpongeBob kidnappers seek ransom for doll

SpongeBob kidnappers seek ransom for doll

Have you seen this sponge? Police are looking for a blow-up figure of SpongeBob SquarePants swiped from a Minnesota Burger King. They’ve found a ransom note which starts off: “We have SpongeBob.” It then demands, “Give us ten Crabby Patties, fries and milkshakes.”

Have you seen me? Kin to this Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade SpongeBob SquarePants are missing across the nation.

Timothy A. Clary, AFP

The ransom note is signed by SpongeBob’s nemesis, Plankton. A postscript reads: “Patrick is next,” referring to the Bermuda shorts-wearing starfish that serves as SpongeBob’s sidekick.

At a southeastern Utah Burger King, vandals made off with a 10-foot-tall SpongeBob balloon.

Employees are handing out “Missing” fliers with a full description of the popular cartoon figure ‚Äö?Ѭ¢??‚Äö?Ñ?? featured in a new movie.

My 2 Cents: Uhmmmm…what the hell is going on here?