News flash, kids: Paris Hilton is a space cadet. The real kind. That goes into space. When the first ragingly commercial shuttle craft, the Virgin (HA!) Enterprise, takes off next year, our very own Witless Wonder will be on it. True, she may be $200,000 US poorer for the experience. And true, she may have […]
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Britney one more time
Can we give credit where credit is, if not due, then at least feasible? Britney Spears’ recent single, “Womanizer,” has jumped from #96 to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Given that a few months ago we might have given her back-pats just for putting on pants, and since no other song has ever made […]
O.J.’s final eff up
O.J. Simpson is guilty again!! Or for the first time, depending on which way your 1994 vote swung. After successfully evading all kinds of prison for the alleged murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, O.J. is now headed to the slammer for reclaiming some of his old football junk from […]
Little Ms. Cobain celebrates a birthday
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of the late Kurt Cobain, recently decided to throw herself a “Suicidal Sixteen” birthday party. Now look, I’m all for themed parties, and if any other teenage girl planned this macabre festivus, I suppose we’d just shake our heads and mutter something about kids today before returning to our “Murder She […]
Britney isn’t news
Leave Britney Alone! I think Chris Crocker, in his infamous You Tube video defending Britney Spears, was onto something. (I’m not going to post it. If you haven’t seen it yet, I suggest you sell the rock you’re living under. But here’s the Trance remix:) Spears’ three-hour stand off with police, prompted by her refusal […]
The Amazing Five Minute News Cycle
by guest blogger Zeff Davies You’ve heard of the 24-hour news cycle created by the incessant need of cable TV news for new sensations? Well, always glad to advance the state of art, we here at backofthebook.ca now present The Amazing Five Minute News Cycle: 5:35 p.m. I, Zeff Davies, would like to announce that […]
