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Russell Brand is hosting the VMAs. (0) 7/25/08

ABC's British import "Life On Mars" will star Harvey Keitel (!), Michael Imperioli, and the ruggedly handsome Jason O'Mara. Modern day cop suddenly finds himself in the 70's. David Kelley wrote the pilot, but isn't involved anymore. (0) 7/25/08

At last, Dustin "Screech" Diamond is writing a memoir: Behind the Bell. Will include "sexual escapades among cast members, drug use, and hardcore partying" that formed the basis of all 80's teen sitcoms. (0) 7/25/08

Some good stuff in Wired's How-To issue. How to win at Rock Paper Scissors, look good on TV, and win at the carnival (don't play ring toss). (0) 7/24/08

New evidence that eating soy lowers sperm counts. Damn, maybe my dad's joke about soy milk making men grow breasts wasn't totally off the mark. (0) 7/24/08

Nas represented at yesterday's protest at Fox News. Protesting "baby mama", "terrorist fist jab", other racist remarks about Obama campaign that we're going to be hearing a LOT more of. (0) 7/24/08

Gillian Anderson claims that Fox wanted to cast Pamela Anderson as Scully, and Chris Carter had to fight for her to get it. She's kidding, right? (0) 7/24/08

The Onion: How Come Nobody Celebrates My Alcoholism Like John Cheever's? "I keep drinking and drinking and I'm no closer to being heralded as the greatest voice of my generation." (0) 7/23/08

Amtrak ridership is actually going up. Biggest gain is the Boston to Portland Downeaster line, up 33% last year! Maybe one day we'll actually have a high-speed rail system. (0) 7/23/08

Google Maps now has a walking directions option, not just driving. Who cares about one-way streets when you're on foot? Also includes pedestrian pathways. (0) 7/23/08

New At the Movies hosts: Ben Lyons, E! host and son of Jeffrey, and Ben Mankiewicz, grandson of Herman, who wrote Citizen Kane. Neither of these new guys are really writers, so I doubt this is a return to the good old Siskel and Ebert days. (0) 7/23/08

Nice: new Gossip Girl promos feature negative quotes from Parents Television Council and other anti-smut groups. "Mind-blowingly inappropriate." Ha! (0) 7/23/08

Bad Love: Long Island math teacher is a regular Mary Kay Letourneau. Pleaded guilty for having sex with 16 year-old boy last month. Since then she's had sex with him 5 more times. Just got arrested again. (0) 7/23/08

Guy has been stalking Lorne Michaels, trying to talk to him about the thoughts and conversations that Michaels is stealing for SNL. Dude, could you try having some funnier thoughts for NBC to steal? (0) 7/23/08

Radovan Karadzic was hiding out by working in Belgrade in an alternative health clinic (0) 7/22/08

Times obituary of "absurdist furrier" Jacques Kaplan is so wacky it sounds like a joke. He made a coat out of cats, raincoats out of mink, and pronounced his name "Kap-LAHN". He also created fun fur. (0) 7/22/08

Con Ed gives out dry ice to customers whose power goes out for 48 hours or more. So they can resume their Dokken-Megadeth-Pantera Monsters of Rock concerts as soon as the lights come back on, I guess. (0) 7/22/08

Good Wired interview with Simon Pegg about Spaced release in the US. Thinks it should carry over to US audiences-- geek slackers are the same the world over. (0) 7/22/08

Capt. Lou Albano's birthday party turns into Wrestlemania smackdown, with bloody wrestlers, cops, and a SWAT team. A "bottle-hurling, glass-smashing melee" with The Sandman, The Zombie, and Pitbull. [map] (0) 7/22/08

The day you've been waiting for: 'Spaced' (from the brilliant Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright) is out on US DVD today! Also, everyone involved in the original is horrified that Fox is trying to do an American version (0) 7/22/08

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