All I want for Christmas... -- All courtesy of IWantMedia's daily e-mail today:
- Playboy.com: An iBod for You!
Playboy is offering digital downloads of its models to be viewed on Apple's new iPod Photo handheld viewer. The downloads, called "iBods," will be a regular for iPod Photo owners. - Clear Channel Stations Cause Stir With Breast Christmas Ever
Women's organizations are filing FCC complaints over a contest on four Clear Channel radio stations that awards breast enlargement surgery. WFLZ in Tampa claims it received 91,000 entries. - Sirius to Launch Video Service in 2006
Sirius plans to sell a video service that could be installed in the backseat of cars. Two or three channels will offer children's programs. Sirius satellite radio is to be Howard Stern's new home.
They're simply not seizing opportunity here. Come on... install a Sirius-enabled iBod in the backseat of my car so Mason and Sam can vote on which of the 91,000 entrants for the Breast Christmas Ever should win? Better yet, have Howard Stern interview the winner. Now that's entertainment!
And we in the media wonder why we rank below personal injury lawyers on the totem pole.... (1.5.2005)
New rules on visa application photos nothing to smile about -- Comes courtesy of Al's Morning Meeting. When we try to help the kids smile for a photograph, or just generally are trying to cheer them up, we say very seriously, "Don't smile! Don't laugh!" After a couple of recitations, it usually works. But now the State Department isn't kidding. And that's the funniest thing of all. (12.3.2004)
BoSox trophy at top of guest lists -- I'm as nuts about the World Series trophy as anyone in Red Sox nation, but this strikes me as more than a little disconcerting. Wouldn't you rather toss back a drink or two with Johnny Damon or Kevin Millar, instead of an inanimate object? (11.29.2004)
BostonHerald.com - Business: Celts aim to make games fan-tastic -- Is nothing sacred? (4.19.2004)
No Mo? Vaughn doubtful for rest of career -- Let me preface this by saying I like Mo. I wish he never left the Sox. However, his current situation epitomizes the strange state of sports society. How would you like to be paid $15 million regardless of whether you worked or not? Even better, next year, if Mo's body remains status quo (likely) he'll get an additional $2 million when the Mets buy out the option year of his contract. Good golly, $17 million for no work? What a country. Need more proof that guaranteed contracts are the opposite of reality? Two words: Chris Mills. A throw-in piece of the Antoine Walker trade, he's reportedly making $6.6 million and won't play a game this year. (1.8.2004)
The kids love Christina -- Role model? Ugh. (12.29.2003)
Fur flies over flier: PETA targets 'Nutcracker' kids -- Hey, PETA, leave our kids alone. (12.17.2003)
ESPN.com - NFL - Stop wine-ing! NFL says no-no to Vermeil's gift -- Guess I better stop filling the candy bowl for my employees, given that such "bonuses" are not part of their contract.... (11.26.2003)
Parent killer Menendez marries in Calif. prison -- Love is apparently thicker than cell blocks. I somehow missed the news that the younger brother, Eric, had married in 1997. Guess they're determined to live happily ever after behind bars. (11.21.2003)
Subway musicians unplugged -- Who knew that subway musicians were organized?! Shows what I know living in the hinterlands.
Here's the gist of what's happening:
MBTA officials have deemed nonacoustic music a hazard in T stations. Beginning Dec. 1, they are banning electric keyboards and guitars, microphones, and amplifiers, saying they drown out important messages on the public address system. Saxophones, trumpets, and horns of any kind also will be forbidden.
Thank goodness accordions are still OK. Aren't you glad your tax dollars and commuter nickels went into crafting that ordinance? I imagine miming will be next on the chopping block.... (11.17.2003)
'Taking Two' Talk Of Town -- Oh, not, not the dreaded PERMANENT RECORD!!! (11.3.2003)
No cure for songs stuck in your head -- University of Cincinnati marketing professor James Kellaris calls them earworms. I call it musical terrorism.
There may be a connection between earworms and a person's level of neurosis.
The fact that we now have "earworm" in our lexicon might be related to the neurosis of the researcher, too. (10.20.2003)
Jimi Hendrix doll coming soon (10.19.2003)
And please, no hair pulling -- The NFL has ruled that tackling anyone by the hair -- i.e. dreadlocks sticking out from Ricky Williams' helmet -- is legal. (10.18.2003)
Baywatch babe Pam Anderson joins fast-food chicken "cruelty" crusade
This from the woman who was married to Tommy Lee and engaged to Kid Rock.... (10.17.2003)
Joan Rivers to fill in for Limbaugh on WPRO (10.16.2003)
