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Eric Scheske

Rotten Low-Class Tenants

I've been so busy, I missed this gem on Monday: > Claiming that his $70,000-a-month tenant Prince undertook an extremely tacky makeover of his Los Angeles mansion, an NBA star recently sued the mercurial singer over the purple-hued alterations. In a January complaint, Carlos

The Liturgist

Interesting post at Mere Comments [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2006/03/jesus_the_litur.html]: > Jesus was a liturgist, declares Discalced Carmelite Father JesÃºs Castellano, professor at the Teresianum Faculty of Rome and consultor in several Vatican congregations, speaking to Zenit in an interview titled A Healthy Crisis

They're Crushing My Beds

> A hotel in Germany has started charging its guests by the pound for an overnight stay, according to a Local 6 News report. > The hotel owner in the town of Norden, Juergen Heckrodt, said he was continually getting overweight guests, so he decided to make them step on

Historical Miniature

Like it or not, Playboy is part of our culture. If you want to read about its Playmates, go here [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/060320crbo_books]. It's a review/essay of The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds. Yes, the piece is risque (though no

Tolkien and Toronto

The New York Times reports this morning [http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/travel/22letter.html] that Toronto is tying its star to Tolkien and the new Lord of the Rings musical: > Next to the show's producers and the shorter-than-average actors hoping to find

More Vinci

The Christian Science Monitor has run an extended piece about Christians' efforts to derail The Da Vinci Code. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0322/p13s01-lire.html] It's mostly a re-hash of stuff I've already mentioned on this site. The best part is this

Electric Kool-Aid

The sixties have always fascinated me, and not just in a nauseous way. I've read Gitlin and Horowitz's histories, I've read plenty of Kerouac and an assortment of others. But I've never read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [http://www.cjr.

PSA

I've been called to Lansing, where the Wi-Fi connections run $10.00 per half hour. I'm going to try to catch a free radio wave, but if I can't, there won't be much more blogging today.

12 and Hot?

Only in a world tainted with NAMBAism would this type of thing be considered newsworthy: > Natalie Portman is horrified she was considered a sex symbol aged just 12. > The stunning actress shot to fame playing a young, Lolita-esque orphan who befriends a hardened assassin in 'Leon&

Stabbing Scientologist

Interesting, though I'm sure the Hubbardites would either call it a fluke or point to similarities with the Exorcism of Emilie Rose: > On March 13, 2003, Jeremy Perkins, a 28 year old untreated schizophrenic, stabbed his mother Elli 77 times. She bled to death on her bedroom