Bristol-based grafitti artist and general crap-disturber Banksy has repackaged and remixed Paris Hilton’s album, then stuck his new version back on the shelves. He’s well worth a look for some of his hilarious graphic work, but this is the kind of thing that gets him major attention:
Banksy has replaced Hilton’s CD with his own [...]

A while back, I noted that bow-tied irritant Tucker Carlson’s latest hard-hitting journalism assignment was on the prominent ABC newsmagazine known as Dancing with the Stars. Somehow, that post got lost when I reinstalled WordPress. If you really want your Tucker fix, though, the NY Times ran a piece this weekend. And unlike my meagre [...]

I posted yesterday about a great archive of old ads called adclassix.
Today, I stumbled on a similar — and similarly amusing — repository: Modern Mechanix.
Pretty well-written, and tons of fun to trawl through, though, assuming you like that sort of thing.
But really, what’s not to like about this?

Where was that free book when I needed [...]

Through the whole Mel Gibson ordeal, something’s been gnawing at me. Well, something beyond the drunk driving, the anti-Semitic raving, the feeble attempts to deny any personal responsibility (”the booze did it”), the alchemical attempts to put a positive P.R. spin on the whole affair by claiming to want to apologize to Jews, and finally, [...]

Advertising Age reports that Annheuser-Busch is launching its own in-house film and TV production company. The new division will likely focus on web-bound short films and sitcoms. Down the road, feature films could be in the works as well. The initiative will either be a huge success or a huge bomb, I’m sure. There will [...]

Haley Joel Osment, in a sincere attempt to fulfil his obligations as a child star, has been arrested for drunk driving and possession of marijuana.
I’m going to ask the same question I asked about Mel Gibson, because it applies here as well: if you’re a millionaire, why the hell can’t you take a cab? [...]

As the major labels and studios are learning, you can adapt, or you can become road chowder. Toronto-based Lion’s Gate film is positioning itself squarely in the former category — potentially as the first major production company to offer its feature film offerings online through iTunes.
The question, really, is what’s the downside? Why has it [...]

The venerable Cracked Magazine has put together a list of the Top 5 Most Obviously Drug-Fueled Celebrity Appearances on TV, including a YouTube clip of each. I had the pleasure of catching one of them live — Crispin Glover’s kung fu meltdown on Letterman.
I would have thought Anna Nicole Smith would have made the list, [...]

From NYU Journalism School’s Pressthink site comes a very interesting story from Jay Rosen. A non-partisan coalition of reporters is coming together to collectively investigate Congressional earmarks.
It’s a brilliant idea, because it’s what the web does well. Here’s the opening salvo:
Today marks a key moment in the evolution of the Web as a reporting [...]

For all those folks who think that user-generated content is somehow the future of broadcasting, let me suggest that this video represents a rather chilling vision of things to come.
Just watch