Bornfamous

Pimp My Snack. No, really.

Hey, there’s finally something to read on the About page: 88 Things About Me — but there’s only 38 things right now, until I can think of 50 more. Go read it–you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never want to come back!

Did a plane really crash into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001? Maybe not. Here’s an interesting video that suggests something else.

Play the National Budget Simulation Game!
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the 2006 fiscal deficit is projected to be $296 billion. This does not include the costs of the Iraq War, so in the simulation the deficit has been increased by $105 billion, the costs of the supplemental appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan operation for [...]

Haunting photo essay by Paul Fusco of the continuing devastation from Chernobyl

Oh no, it’s TV Turnoff Week, and it’s already half over. Can’t they schedule it for the week after American Idol ends?

April 24: Actress Shirley MacLaine is 72. Actress-singer-director Barbra Streisand is 64. Country singer Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge Boys is 63. Drummer Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 61. Actor Eric Bogosian is 53. Actor Michael O’Keefe (”Roseanne“) is 51. Bassist David J (Love and Rockets, Bauhaus) is 49. Bassist Billy Gould (Faith [...]

April 23: Actress Janet Blair is 85. Actor David Birney is 67. Actor Lee Majors (”Six Million Dollar Man“) is 67. Actress Blair Brown is 58. Actress Joyce DeWitt (”

TV producer Aaron Spelling is 83. Actress Charlotte Rae (”The Facts of Life“) is 80. Actress Estelle Harris (”Seinfeld“) is 74. Singer Glen Campbell is 70. Actor Jack Nicholson is 69. Singer Mel Carter is 63. Country singer Cleve Francis is 61. Director John Waters is 60. Singer Peter Frampton is 56. Singer Paul Carrack [...]

While my high school classmates were busy screaming over the Beatles [a musical taste I acquired a couple of years later], I was listening to the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrid Gilberto.
Bossa nova! [video after the jump:]

The singer is Elis Regina. So cool…
[Thanks, patatomic!]

Actor Charles Grodin is 71. Singer Iggy Pop is 59. Singer Paul Davis is 58. Actress Patti LuPone is 57. Actor Tony Danza is 55. Actress Andie MacDowell is 48. Singer Robert Smith of The Cure is 47. Guitarist Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies is 47. Actor-director John Cameron Mitchell (”Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) [...]

Another blogger steps into the abyss.

Actor George Takei (”Star Trek“) is 69. Singer Johnny Tillotson is 67. Actor Ryan O’Neal is 65. Keyboardist Craig Frost of Grand Funk Railroad is 58. Actress Jessica Lange is 57. Actor Clint Howard is 47. Actor Crispin Glover is 42. Country singer Wade Hayes is 37. Actress Carmen Electra is 34. Actor Joey Lawrence [...]

Actor Hugh O’Brian is 81. Actress Elinor Donahue (”Father Knows Best”) is 69. Actor Tim Curry is 60. Singer Mark “Flo” Volman of The Turtles is 59. Hip-hop mogul Suge Knight is 41. Country singer Bekka Bramlett of Bekka and Billy is 38. Actress Ashley Judd is 38. Actor James Franco (”Spider-Man” films, “Freaks and [...]

Actress Barbara Hale (”Perry Mason“) is 85. Actor Robert Hooks is 69. Actress Hayley Mills is 60. Actor James Woods is 59. Country keyboardist Walt Richmond of The Tractors is 59. Country bassist Jim Scholten of Sawyer Brown is 54. Actor Rick Moranis is 53. Actor Eric Roberts is 50. Actress Melody Thomas Scott (”Young [...]