SILLY GOOSE

There has been a stomach virus at Indian Wells. From fans and the players to the ball boys, people have been ill.

Nole Cakes tweets:

Ppl say that Apple users have less risk of getting viruses. Well, Maros and me decided to use Iphones as our first line defense against this stomach virus that's been going around in IW (although im a bb user) ;-)

What a sense of humor, Nole Cakes!!!

We think the lad really likes playing at Indian Wells because every year at this tourney he is so jovial and sprite. Always in a playful mood.

It must be like a playcation for him. Do a little work at "the office." Otherwise, enjoy the downtime with the beautiful Southern California sunshine and weather.

Nole Cakes, a suggestion?

Why don't you consider living here part-time?? It is beautiful like this year-round!!

We'll be the FIRST to welcome you to the gayborhood. We can be gaybors. You are more than welcome to borrow a cup of sugar any time!!

ABEL BODIED

MODEL MEAT/MEET: ABEL ALBONETTI

OFF

THE

CHAIN!!!!!

More mouthwatering images of Abel via blackafricanmen

SAY WHAT?

LOVE IT!!!

LOVE HIM!!!

SO FUCKING TRUE!!!!

Whether it's [retched cunt #1] or [slimy asswipe cunt #2] or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. Being a fucking idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you're rewarded significantly. --Jon Hamm

APPLE-Y EVER AFTER

From the company's Facebook page, Ben & Jerry support the marriage equality movement in the UK with their flavor Apple-y Ever After:



Ben & Jerry’s say ‘I do’ to same sex marriage in the UK

As the government debates whether to legalise same sex marriage, we’ve partnered with gay rights organisation, Stonewall, to raise awareness about the importance of marriage equality by renaming our Apple Pie flavour,
Apple-y Ever After!

You can help support this campaign by “marrying” someone of the same sex here, where you and your “loved one” will have the chance of scooping a tub of your favourite flavour. (Because everyone is equal and deserves to live
Apple-y Ever After!)


Social justice is at the core of our values and this is why we’re taking a stand to campaign for marriage equality in the UK. Show your support and help convince members of parliament that it’s time to say ‘I do’!

Since our humble beginning 34 years ago, Ben & Jerry’s has been an advocate for equal rights regardless of sexual orientation. (That’s why our legendary flavour Chubby Hubby was renamed ‘Hubby Hubby’ to celebrate gay marriage legalisation in our home state of Vermont, in the US!)

BEN THERE, NOW I'M OVER HERE

The hot lads attaching themselves to pilots is just a'snowballin'.

NOW, Ben Rappaport is inked for an ABC comedy pilot.

Awesometown, ABC.

We'll let Nikki Finke's Deadline explain it, they do it the best!!

...[A] hilarious peek behind the curtain of modern twentysomething relationships. It centers on Dusty (Rappaport), a twentysomething guy who had been with the same woman, now his wife, since 8th grade. After he catches her cheating, he gets a divorce and, still a total mess in the aftermath, moves into an apartment shared by his co-worker Andrew (Nick Kocher) and roommate Oliver (James Earl III)

BTW: The last we read, Rappaport's Outsourced is on haitus. It does plan to resume on NBC sometime this spring.

L.A. KING

WOWZA!!

The Los Angeles Times gave a glowing write-up on Nole Cakes. The lad is kind of on the radar of Sports coverage since he is playing at Indian Wells this week.

As we recall, this paper has never sniffed in his direction before. In the past, the paper barely gave him one or two lines when he WON -- oh let's see--- 3 Australian Opens, a Wimbledon and an US Open.

My, how being #1 finally makes people/a city/a news department take notice.

Three or four years ago, the men's game was clearly the property of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. They were the royalty. Federer had served his time on the throne majestically, and the younger Nadal, all power and spunk and sex appeal and charm, was tugging on the royal robe.

The ascension seemed scripted, established, kind of like with English kings. The Johns and the Henrys were established. But along came a lionhearted player from Serbia, with a personality as compelling as his predecessors' and a name beginning with two consonants. He was supposed to wait his turn, to understand and appreciate his four years as No. 3 and not rush things.

Then came 2011 and the stunning emergence of Djokovic, quickly labeled by previous disbelievers as Novak No Joke

Djokovic's playing style combines speed, quickness and power. He is tennis' Muhammad Ali — he floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee and wins with a swagger.

THIS WEEK

In 1983, Billie Jean was number 1 in the US:




Total Eclipse of the Heart was number 1 in the UK this week:

We played the HELL out of this song!! Our cassette tape was spent on our Sony Walkman!!!! Worn out and stretched from rewinding so many times replaying this hit!!

The Walkman via our foam headphones would whisper: Child, AGAIN?!! Really???

For 1980, March 15:

In US, Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen

In UK, Together We Are Beautiful by Fern Kinney

For 1981, March 14:

In US, 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton

In UK, Jealous Guy by Roxy Music

For 1982, March 13:

In US, Centerfold by J. Geils Band

In UK, The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tight Fit

POOR PATTY

Patty Cakes tweeted:

BEDLAM BED REST:

Poor Patty Cakes was involved in a skiing accident during a playcation in Sun Valley, Idaho.

These Shriver bois love to play hard and get injured harder!!

The lad endured bruising and some scrapes that required stitches. Thankfully, nothing super serious!

His brother Chris suffered a serious accident last year while surfing. Chris was detained in ICU for several days.

Patty Cakes' pops, Arnold, broke his leg in Sun Valley in 2006.

Did they inherit that Kennedy curse on the men??

We recommend bed rest young man. And-- plenty of caution on anything you decide to do next!!!

Can we bring you some soup or fluff your pillow? OOooops, our hand slipped. My what a big "bump" you have!

[cbs8]

RAISE ASSWARENESS

Trevor Donovan shows some ass for a testicular cancer campaign, Everyman Cancer Campaign.

Shouldn't it be a frontal shot since testes are in front?? Just sayin'.

Click here to view some prime Hollywood nubile piece of ass.

SHOW US

Hubba. Hubba.

Mmmmmm mmmmmph. This here is a fine-ass manz.

Grant Show has signed on the dotted line to star in a pilot for the alphabet network.

Devious Maids, ABC. Adopted from a Hispanic format.

The plot centers around four maids with ambition and dreams. But, they must punch their time card and labor for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.

Show will portray Spence Davis, a successful daytime star married to a self-entitled, self-centered snatchress (which describes every cunt in LA, ha!)!

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2 CAKES AND A DELICIANO

NICE TO CLEAT YOU:

This is what we like about this new generation of tennis lads, they are so well-rounded.

They aren't so consumed with tennis 24/7 where a workout cannot come from another element.

The lads love a pick-up game of soccer at Indian Wells.

And, Deliciano is adjusting his goody box!! Can we help??

Nole Cakes, Rafa Cakes and Deliciano

Thanks to our friends at TennisToday for the photo heads-up!!

ZANY FOR ZENO

PILOT HIGHLIGHT:

Handsome hottie Nick Zano has inked a comedy pilot for the alphabet network.

Prairie Dogs, ABC.

...[The series] centers on Neil (Kal Penn), an uncool cubicle worker aka “prairie dog” at one of the coolest companies in the world who becomes the victim of identity theft. When he discovers the thief (Zano) has created a much more fulfilling life with his identity than he ever has, he engages the charismatic conman to help him change his life.

PINKBERRY

NEW, NOW, NEXT:

Remember those Izod/Lacoste polo dresses from the Eighties??

Welcome to the 2012 version a la Marc Jacobs style.

Ha!

MAD ABOUT HUGHES

I'm mad about you

You're mad about me, babe

Lost in your eyes

Mad about love

You and I

Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge

Grab a hankie because if this doesn't make you blubber we don't know what will.

Chris and Sean have posted 29 images of their engagement photos.

Seeing this couple so happy is inspiring to us all to find our ONE (one, sluts, not the ONE for tonight) true love!!

PROGRESSIVE PURCHASES PROGRESSIVE PAPER

Hot and handsome Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook-- you know, the GAY one that the mainstream media and movie studios ignore-- has bought a huge stake in The New Republic and has made himself Editor-In-Chief.

WORK!!

SNAP!!

In his first dictu, Hughes pens:

To the Readers of The New Republic:

Nearly 100 years ago, the founding editors of The New Republic wrote these words to introduce their inaugural issue:

The New Republic is frankly an experiment. It is an attempt to find national audience for a journal of interpretation and opinion. Many people believe that such a journal is out of place in America; that if a periodical is to be popular, it must first of all be entertaining, or that if it is to be serious, it must be detached and select.
Yet when the plan of The New Republic was being discussed it received spontaneous welcome from people in all parts of the country. They differed in theories and programmes; but they agreed that if The New Republic could bring sufficient enlightenment to the problems of the nation and sufficient sympathy to its complexities, it would service all those who feel the challenge of our time.
A century later, people are once again skeptical that quality journalism can flourish. Technology’s disruption of traditional forms of media has led many to believe that independent, thoughtful media institutions are on the decline and that there are not enough readers to support serious reporting and analysis.

But in 1914 the founders of The New Republic chose to strike out and pursue their vision in spite of the prevailing opinions of their time. They saw a need for a magazine of informed opinion and insightful, thorough reporting.

I share their vision. It seems that today too many media institutions chase superficial metrics of online virality at the expense of investing in rigorous reporting and analysis of the most important stories of our time. When few people are investing in media institutions with such bold aims as “enlightenment to the problems of the nation,” I believe we must.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators. The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. But as we’ve seen with the rise of tablets and mobile reading devices, it is an ever-shifting landscape—one that I believe now offers opportunities to reinvigorate the forms of journalism that examine the challenges of our time in all their complexity. Although the method of delivery of important ideas has undergone drastic change over the past 15 years, the hunger for them has not dissipated.

In the next era of The New Republic, we will aggressively adapt to the newest information technologies without sacrificing our commitment to serious journalism. We will look to tell the most important stories in politics and the arts and provide the type of rigorous analysis that The New Republic has been known for. We will ask pressing questions of our leaders, share groundbreaking new ideas, and shed new light on the state of politics and culture.

The New Republic has been and will remain a journal of progressive values, but it will above all aim to appeal to independent thinkers on the left and the right who search for fresh ideas and a deeper understanding of the challenges our world faces.

As the founding editors reminded their readers in 1914, the success of this endeavor ultimately depends on the public support of readers in search of “sound and disinterested thinking.” As long as there are readers who continue to crave that kind of journalism, we will aspire to serve them.

Chris Hughes

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic

Laurence Grafstein had this to say about Chris Hughes coming on board:

We are delighted to welcome Chris Hughes to the top of The New Republic masthead. As we approach the centennial year of this remarkable institution, we believe that he will bring extraordinary talent and commitment to the ideas and causes we value. He not only has a track record of success but also possesses a keen appreciation of our calling. With Chris’s leadership TNR will pursue its longstanding, ongoing mission of helping to define liberalism while contributing to the American project. You will all enjoy getting to know him and you will learn, as we have, that he is a special individual.

Now, about a subscription......

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Most of the cast of Downton Abbey have inked their contracts. Some actors have secured their spot FOR the fifth season!!

Can we get a definite confirmation on Rob James-Collier (Thomas)????

All actors are contracted through the third season. It is the fourth and fifth that are up in the air.

The hold outs: Dan Stevens (Matthew), Siobhan Finneran (O’Brien) and Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil).

FAB MEN

THE SEXTIES:

“When billionaires fight, it takes a lot longer to settle.....So we had some very wealthy people determining how long we would be off the air.” --Jon Hamm explains to David Letterman about the series 17+month hiatus.

WORK!!!!!!

SNAP!!

SMELL SO FINE, ADAM LEVINE

Can you smell it??

Take a good, hard randy whiff.

That is 222, a new fragrance Adam will launch in May of 2013.

Levine teams up with ID Perfumes. Price points range from $35-$65 and will be available at major department stores.

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