The rip heard around the world internet.



Somehow, I always miss these live 'celebrity scandals'. I was half-watching the Superbowl tonight, and even the halftime show, but I turned away at preciesly the wrong moment. Luckily I had part-time news producer/full-time pervert, Hasser on IM while I was working. "Dude, did you see Janet Jackson's breast?!" he wrote, and then I rushed to get our stations air-check. It took me about 30 seconds to load the video from our server, and by then it was all over the internet. And, we're talking minutes here. This is just like that Britney/Madonna kiss too. I totally missed it because I got up, or turned away, but - thanks to my tv news job - I have to get to watch & edit it over and over again (zoomed in and in slow motion).

"You get the batteries. I'll fill the tub with ice!"
Congratualtions, Dinah! That was my favorite caption from this weeks little contest. There were a bunch of funny entries on the board (and some sent, strangely via email), but I had to pick just one. And, I picked the one that resonated the most with me, since it was an allusion to my favorite urban legend: "The Stolen Kidneys." For those of you not familiar with the 'hoax': There was a chain email going around the internet a few years ago about a college student who had too much to drink in New Orleans, went to a hotel with a mysterious vixen, and woke up in an ice-filled bathtub, missing a kidney.

I love that story, but the New Orleans tourism bureau sure didn't. Soon after, the rumors were dubunked and labeled an 'internet hoax'. I think if the chain email said "Tijuana" instead of New Orleans, then no one would've debunked it so fast. And, while people say it isn't true - similar incidents do actually occur. So there. And it makes for a good movie premise, as seen in the 1993 thriller, "The Harvest" starring Miguel Ferrer (and a pre-ER George Clooney in a cameo as a transvestite dancer).