Bizarre

Star turn: Gang wearing 'Boys logo faces fines

"Authorities obtained an injunction last month preventing the city's largest and most violent street gang, the Colonia Chiques, from wearing the team's clothing within a 6.6-square-mile "safety zone" in the heart of Ventura County's largest city.

The dozen gang members who have been served with the court order also are barred from congregating in public and flashing gang signs. Violators can be arrested or face misdemeanor charges.

Since the injunction was granted, the Chiques have laid low and street violence has subsided, said Oxnard Police Chief Art Lopez."

Ricky makes like Bison Dele



MIAMI -- The first sign of a change in Ricky Williams came when he returned from vacation in Australia last winter with a shaved head, the distinctive dreadlocks gone.

Now he's gone, too. Williams has decided to retire at the peak of his career, stunning the Miami Dolphins and leaving an enormous void in their backfield less than a week before the start of training camp.

Curtis Sliwa. Tha Mang.
New York Daily News - Home - He said 'Take this, you son of a b****.' : "Curtis Sliwa remembers it as if it happened yesterday. The bullets were flying at him, and he had to do something or he would die. Sliwa recounted the 1992 assassination attempt yesterday to the Daily News' Adam Nichols:"

Krispy Kreme introduces glazed doughnut frozen beverage - Jul. 21, 2004: "Once the fried dough embodiment of hot and fresh, Krispy Kreme has transformed its original glazed doughnut into a new frozen beverage for summer.

The chain introduced a new line of frozen drinks Wednesday, including frozen original kreme -- a drinkable version of the company's signature doughnut -- raspberry, latte and double chocolate."

Albino Blacksheep - Video / Crispy New Freestyle

Where is Bill Parcells to clarify things?
The New York Times > National > Texas Community in Grip of a Kind of Road Rage: "But the name of the country lane, Jap Road, has long angered many Japanese-Americans. Equally outraged are numerous people who live on Jap Road, which has 100 or so residences; they view criticism of their address as meddling in their affairs.

'I hear 'Jap' cars and 'Jap' bikes all the time,' Buddy Derouen, 69, a retired petrochemical worker who lives on the road, in the community of Fannett, said in a recent letter published in The Beaumont Enterprise. 'Why not Jap Road?'"

"We're not here to bash the Japanese," Wayne Wright, a retired petrochemical worker who is spearheading a movement to preserve the name, said in an interview before the meeting. "How can I be considered a bigot and a racist when I got a Puerto Rican son-in-law?"

"If it's offensive to someone, they should either move or stay away from here," said Mr. Bergeron, 62, leaning on the Harley-Davidson parked in front of his home."

A Thai waiter wears a condom over his head while serving a cocktail as a patron looks on at the Cabbages and Condoms restaurant in Bangkok on July 8, 2004. The restaurant, founded by Mechai Viravaidya, better known as 'Mr Condom', aims to educate the public about safe sex. Bangkok will be the host for the upcoming 15th International AIDS (news - web sites) Conference from July 11-16. REUTERS/Stringer

Britney Ex Tells All

As Britney Spears (news) prepares for her second strut down the aisle, her first (sorta) husband has decided to spill the secrets of her marital misadventures in January.

Britney's wardrobe malfunction.
The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper:"OOPS! Pop babe Britney Spears boobs on stage — just like Janet Jackson did earlier this year.
Britney, 22, spilled out of her costume when a dancer’s arm caught her PVC top."

Paying to Nap in City That Never Sleeps

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York is called the city that never sleeps, but one small company wants that to change.

High above the bustling streets, honking taxicabs and crowded sidewalks, on the 24th floor of the landmark Empire State Building, is MetroNaps, a month-old company offering New York's version of the Spanish siesta: a 20-minute nap.

Stressed-out customers arrive in a quiet, darkened room filled with futuristic chairs, or "napping pods," where they can pay $14 for their snooze.

Shawn, Mark and Pavel. From Mark Cuban's Blog.

Oh dear!



Flexing in Seoul : South Korean bodybuilders show their muscles during a contest at Seoul's Olympic gymnasium. (AFP/Kim Jae-Hwan)

Method Man beats up a writer working on his TV show. He is a Dartmouth '97.
Defamer: Method Man Fights One Of His Writers?: "Method then allegedly either punched the writer or grabbed the writer's head and pushed."

"The writer in question was Phil Lord. He and his partner, Chris Miller, creators of Clone High, resigned after the scrap to develop shows at Fox."


E! Online News - Method Man Raps Fox: "'I'm trying to keep this show ghetto, and there's a way for it to be both ghetto and intelligent. But it's not going that way.'"

""I'm no coon," the Soul Plane star vented. "I'm being criticized by people who have never set foot in the ghetto, who have never put up a brick inside the ghetto. I'm from the ghetto. We can't all be the Cosbys. There needs to be a yin and yang as far as what is shown of black people on television. But I don't want us to be used as a scapegoat for their crusades.""

The New York Times > Week in Review > Teeing Off With the 'Dear Duffer': "North Korea, on the other hand, does not have much of a golf heritage, though it does boast of having possibly the best player in the world. That golfer is none other than Kim Jong Il, North Korea's dictator, who in addition to all his other duties, according to reports in the North Korean news media, plays regularly and routinely scores three or four holes in one a round.

Mr. Kim took up the game in 1994, and on his very first outing at the Pyongyang course he eagled the opening hole, according to the North Korean media. He then proceeded to ace five holes (or 11, according to some reports) on the way to shooting a 34 - or 38 under par. (The lowest recorded score in P.G.A. history is 59, and that has been attained only three times: by Al Geiberger in 1977, Chip Beck in 1991 and David Duval in 1999.)"

The Smoking Gun: Archive: "But one of the seven house members, 20-year-old Jamie Chung, has, so far, appeared to stay above the sleazy fray. Perhaps that's because she entered the house just a few months after pleading guilty last March to drunk driving (and was serving a probationary term and paying off a $1452 court fine while filming the reality program)."

Pova gotta mega-rich fella:"TENNIS ace Maria Sharapova's secret fella is fat, 44, bald ... and loaded."

Oh no. How embarrassing for the Post.
KERRY PICKS GEPHARDT: "John Kerry has chosen Rep. Richard Gephardt, the veteran congressman from Missouri, to be his running mate, The Post has learned."

You could also say city police present problems for city police.
Real World fans present problems for city police: "On May 8, a Philadelphia police officer detailed to The Real World house was assaulted by a group of five men -- including two off-duty police officers -- that allegedly wanted to gain access to a party at the house."

Fugazi breasts for fugazi girl.
Defamer: Lindsay Lohan Officially OK With Tabloids Paying Attention To Her Chest: "'I'm 17!' she moaned. 'I would never get [breast implants]. I just wear fantastic Victoria's Secret bras. It's kind of funny. I guess if [the tabloids] are going to bring attention to me, might as well bring it to my boobs.'"

LINDSAY LOHAN'S BREAST IMPLANTS: "LINDSAY LOHAN'S BREAST IMPLANTS: Lindsay Lohan is 17-years-old and she has breast implants. How do we know? We at LiquidGeneration have a very, keen eye for barely legal chicks with fake hooters. We also have a keen eye for scars, particularly on the breast. "

Yahoo! News - Colin Powell Sings Village People Song
: "U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell donned a hard hat and tucked a hammer in his belt Friday to perform a version of the Village People's hit 'YMCA' at the conclusion of Asia's largest security meeting — which tradition says ends with a night of skit and song."

Bill Cosby is scary...

"Stop beating up your women because you can't find a job."



Bill Cosby (news), with Jesse Jackson, right, head of the Rainbow Push Coalition, blasts critics who complained when he upbraided low income blacks for squandering opportunities afforded them by the civil rights movement, Thursday, July 1, 2004, at the civil rights organization's annual conference in Chicago. Cosby said that the 'dirty laundry' critics don't want aired are the black children without the most basic skills to succeed. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Another one of my ideas .... stolen.
Yahoo! News - Entertainment Photos - AP

US 'deserter' to leave N Korea: "A United States soldier who has spent the last four decades in North Korea could soon be leaving the country.

Charles Robert Jenkins is expected to travel to Indonesia to be reunited with his Japanese wife, possibly this month."

Another crazy pic

Whoa. Wolfgang's and Lugers on the same day!
The New York Times > Dining & Wine > Restaurants: Eat Up, but Don't Tell Your Cardiologist: "In other words, does Wolfgang's manage to hold onto the beefy rapture as it edits out Brooklyn and the Williamsburg Bridge?

An answer to that required a very special journey on a very caloric night, during which a friend and I willingly (and, truth be told, gleefully) sacrificed our cardiovascular futures on the altar of Thorough and Accurate Scientific Research.

At 6:43, we had the Steak for Two at Wolfgang's. At 9:21, we had the Steak for Two at Luger."