50 SEXIEST BLONDES - Nuts Magazine

ADRIANA LIMA - Flaunts Her BioFit Bra !

View the Niles Lesh - ADRIANA LIMA Photo Collection !



See ET's video of ADRIANA LIMA flying in the V1 JETS SEAPLANE

PRINCESS CHUNK - Takes a Bite of the Big Apple

The New York Post used Princess Chunk on its front page yesterday listed as Pussy Galore! Now that is brilliant !

Is the Big Apple Big Enough for Princess Chunk?

2008_07_fatcats2.jpgToday will be quite the media tour for newly-minted celebrity Princess Chunk. So what if she's a 44-pound cat, found wandering in Voorhees, NJ without a collar? The cat will be on The Today Show and visit Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, so be ready for some crazy daytime antics (will Ann Curry try to walk Princess Chunk? will Regis ask the full-figured feline to be his co-host when Kelly's on vacation?). And on Friday, Princess Chunk will be on Good Morning, America--plus let Sam Champion do the segment!

What's good is that it will draw attention to the Camden County Animal Shelter, which says, "Princess Chunk as well as over 300 dogs and cats in our care need your support. Please consider donating to help offset the costs of her veterinary care and bloodwork." Donations will also go to other special needs animals, like the Princess. The Courier-Post reports the shelter believes Princess Chunk is healthy, but the cat will have bloodwork done on Monday; a vet says Princess Chunk "may suffer from a genetic predisposition to obesity, a poor diet or other underlying medical factors." The average cat is closer to 10-12 pounds (different breeds' weights vary, though).

If no one steps forward as her owners, Princess Chunk will be up for adoption on Saturday. And, for some animal advocacy closer to home, check out the efforts of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Shigeo Tokuda - Japan's 73 year old Porn Star !

Hell yea!


Shigeo Tokuda looks like your average retiree, wearing a classy gray suit and distinguished glasses. But there is nothing average about this 73-year-old when he steps in front of the camera. Shigeo Tokuda is a porn star.

"My friends think I'm lucky because I have a job where I am valued" - Shigeo ToKunda

If MIENFOKS ever had a mascot it would be this guy !

John Phillip Law (1937-2008)

John Phillip Law - star of Barbarella (1968), Danger: Diabolik (1968) and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! (1966) - passed away this year after battling cancer. Despite appearing in Hollywood films like United Artist's The Russian Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! and Columbia Picture's The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), Law was always primarily a cult actor, with many of his films still not available on video or DVD (for example, it's doubtful anyone has ever seen his role as Stash, the doe-eyed hippie idealist in Otto Preminger's 1968 oddity Skidoo, which is a shame). Fortunately, my fave cinema blog Cinebeats has an excellent tribute to the tall, impossibly good-looking cult icon. That's where I saw this cool video tribute to the man that looks to be a trailer for something called "The Swinging Lust World of John Phillip Law":

JOHN PHILLIP LAW VIDEO MONTAGE


Related Links:
John Phillip Law 1937-2008 (Cinebeats)

Lottery Winner's New "Girlfriend" Busted !

If you recently visited Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club in midtown Manhattan, it probably wasn’t for the lap dances.

We know this because 23 year-old Swedish model Sabina Mari Johansson, who you may have seen on the “Tyra Banks” show (hopefully not), was busted on Thursday for promoting prostitution amongst the clubs 120 dancers.

Her boyfriend, 44 year-old Richie Randazzo, a Park Avenue doorman, won $5 million on May 2nd in the New York State “Set for Life” scratch-off game and plans to help cover her legal expenses saying, “We’ve known each other all of 10 days. She’s the best thing that’s happened to me since the lottery.” - good timing!

Finally - The Marvin the Martian Movie !

Marvin the Martian

Warner Bros. is launching development of a "Marvin the Martian" feature at Alcon Entertainment, with principals Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove producing along with Steve Crystal.

Project will blend live action and CGI.

Marvin was created by Chuck Jones and made his first appearance in a Looney Tunes cartoon in 1948. The character was often intent on blowing up the Earth, only to be foiled by Bugs Bunny.

Crystal, a former Warner exec with a first-look deal at Alcon through his Charlie Co. banner, developed the pitch as a Christmas story, with Marvin coming to Earth to destroy Christmas but being prevented from doing so when he’s trapped in a gift box. Alcon’s out to writers and directors.

Johnson and Kosove told Daily Variety that "Marvin" will be aimed at the family demo along the same lines as Alcon’s "Racing Stripes" and "My Dog Skip."

I am So a Ninja !

GONZO - The Life & Work of Hunter S Thompson

"In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the Hells Angels after riding with California's motor-psycho Mongol hordes in the mid-1960s, a feat of embedded journalism that left him mauled, marked, and famous. But the sentence's true subject—as with so much of what Thompson wrote in the years after his nervy, electric Angels book—is its author.

Read the full review in THE VILLAGE VOICE

beautiful Irina Sheik in Paris Capitale..

Fantastic if small set for the beautiful Irina Sheik, posing in bikini for Paris Captiale magazine.

busty Michelle Marsh nude in Loaded..

found these HQ scans for Michelle Marsh, from the September 2008 issue of Loaded magazine. Normally I don't like magazine scans, but since it's Marsh, and it's pretty early I thought I'd post them. Careful, she's nude, so NSFW.

Rosaria Cannavo nude calendar..

So I went out for a bit, back on the job again. So let's start off with Italian hottie Rosaria Cannavo, posing for her 2008 Matrix magazine nude calendar. Check out this great set for her too btw.

Young and Done?

All Bling, No Zing

For some reason (numbing inertia?), I sat through two sets of dull tennis last night, watching the Tennis Channel's Cincinatti Open first round match between Frenchman Gaels Monfils and USA hopeful Donald Young (picture at left). I had heard a lot about the "promise" of Young (especially from fan John McEnroe), a 19-year-old African-American prospect who, like the Williams sisters, is coached by his dad. He was an unseeded wildcard in this tournament, but as a Yank playing in Cincy, he would have the crowd behind him and hometown advantage had he shown anything. But after watching him lose 6-1, 6-1 to a listless, obviously ailing Monfils, I've concluded that other than being a lefty, there's not much to Young. He just doesn't have any obvious weapons other than his natural athleticism. He lacks a big serve and isn't patient when serving. His forehand has lots of topspin, but no pace and he can't hit it for winners. His backhand is two-handed and strictly defensive. And he's a baseliner who can't hit hard or deep with the big boys and isn't comfortable coming into the net.

Worse, he's chosen to crack the ATP instead of refining his Not Ready For Prime Time act on the Futures or Challenger Circuits (I would question his decision-making as much as I would Michelle Wie, who has floundered playing against men when she probably could have competed well against her female peers). He has a lifetime 8-26 record in the ATP, where - amazingly - he took a set off Novak Djokivic at the 2006 U.S. Open. Even more unbelievable to me is the fact that Young was briefly ranked the #1 junior player in the world in 2005, when he was the youngest male to win a Grand Slam Event, winning the 2005 Australian Open Junior Championships.

But at 19 it's time to get your act together. Michael Chang won the French Open at 17. Pete Sampras won the U.S. Open at 19. But Young is no prodigy in their class. Watching him, I found myself turned off by his immaturity and court attitude. Like a young Agassi, he has the surface bling - both ears studded with earrings, the rope-a-dope necklace, his hat painstakingly angled askew in the current hip-hop fashion - but at least Agassi had game. No one hit groundtstrokes like Andre, even at that age.

My advice to Young: don't dress the part, be the part. Put the bling and accessories away until you've earned the right to be confident and flashy (try winning something!). If ever a match was gift-wrapped for you, it was against Monfils, a clearly superior player but one who looked like he was suffering from a 24-hour bug or food poisoning.(Why is it the fittest-looking players seem to be the ones most plagued with injuries? Monfils has a long list of ailments.) On this night, Monfils was gasping for breath and sweating like he was in a hot yoga class from the first game on. I think the only reason he didn't retire early was because he knew all he had to do was stand on the other side of the net and let Young self-destruct with his poor serving and unforced errors. Not a lot of intense volleying going on, in other words.

Young looks to have a long ways to go before he gets to Monfils level. The only thing the two have is common is the fact that both are former top junors. The 35th-ranked 22-year-old Monfils was world No. 1 junior in 2004 when he won three of the four junior Grand Slam events (Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon) and this year made it to the semifinals at the French Open before losing in four sets to eventual runner-up Roger Federer, 2-6,7-5,3-6,5-7.

Kraut Funk

Raw Funk (2000)
"Various Artists"
Hotpie & Candy Records

I got this 10-track compilation CD out of the library recently and I've been listening to it while commuting to work ever since. It's easily the blackest, baddest, funkiest, sweetest soul music I've ever heard. But here's a poke at me, I'm a total dummy: it's by the whitest of whitebreads - Germans!

Hotpie & Candy was a small German label (a subsidiary of Soulciety Records) that released a series of singles between 1992-1995. All of these releases were by a band from Munich called The Poets Of Rhythm whose members included the very un-soulful-sounding Teutons Jan Whitefield, Max Whitefield, Boris Geiger, Till Sahm, Malte Müller-Egloff, Wolfgang Schlick, and Michael Voss. This German funk band (consider that oxymoronic term: German Funk!) recorded under various pseudonyms (Bo Baral's Excursionists, Bus People Express, Karl Hector & The Funk-Pilots, Mercy Sluts, The, Mighty Continentals, The, Neo-Hip-Hot-Kiddies Community, New Process, The, Organized Raw Funk, Pan-Atlantics, The, Polyversal Souls, The, Soul Sliders, Soul-Saints Orchestra, Soul-Saints, The, Syrup, Whitefield Brothers, The Woo Woo's), releasing albums in the guise of "compilations" by "Various Artists" between 1992 and 2002. Ha! Don't be fooled like I was. Despite their tighter-than-James-Brown sound, the Poets remained relative unknowns outside of Deutschland until they were discovered by DJ Shadow in 2001; Shadow helped bring them to the attention of London's Ninja Tune records, where their Define Discern release reached a broader Western audience.


Poets of Rhythm

The minute the first track played I realized I owned this CD (and probably still do, though I've since lost it in the pop cultural dumping ground that is my domicile). In fact I used at least two of the tracks, by the Whitefield Bros and The Woo-Hoos, on the first season of Atomic TV. The Whitefield's funk groove provided excellent accompaniment to a classroom scare film about fire safety while The Woo-Hoos riff was used to illustrate the monthly cycle on the Atomic TV menstruation episode, "It's Wonderful Being A Girl!"

This stuff lives more than lives up to its "raw funk" name and passes the colorblind test. Never in a million years would you suspect that rigid Krauts - from the land of clockwork-precision and Kraftwerky robotic rhythms - were kicking out the smooth grooves. After all, Germans aren't exactly known for having natural rhythm, in fact they're more renowned for possessing a Negative Funk Factor - more likely to be found goose-stepping than getting down on the good foot. There go all my musical preconceptions!

Essential in any music library.

Related Links:
http://poets.solesides.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thepoetsofrhythm
http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/artist.php?id=40
Live in Limerick, Ireland (YouTube)

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The Beer Guzzling Tree Shrew ?

In the rain forest of Malaysia, scientists have found a small mammal, closely related to primates, whose major source of food is a type of beer.

It's believed to be the only animal other than humans that chronically consumes alcohol. But this animal never appears drunk, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This little critter, the pentail tree shrew, is about 4 inches long; it weighs just a few ounces.

"It looks like a mix between a squirrel and a mouse," says Frank Weins, a biologist from Bayreuth University in Germany, who lived in western Malaysia studying these tiny mammals.

"They have this very strange naked tail. The tip looks like a bird feather."

With big eyes that face forward, and tiny grasping fingers and toes, the tree shrew is an evolutionary cousin of primates. They're nocturnal and spend most nights out in the jungle drinking nectar.

"They walk up and down the cluster of flowers and lick off nectar from the different flower buds," Weins says.

But they have one favorite food source: the bertam palm, whose flowers have a very strong and distinctive smell. "They smell like a brewery," Weins says.

In fact, the flower buds function as brewing chambers — they have been invaded by previously unknown species of yeast, which ferment the nectar into frothy alcohol.

"The maximum alcohol concentration that we recorded was 3.8 percent," Weins says. "That's in the range of a beer."

And the tree shrews spend several hours each night drinking this palm beer. Weins calculates that the tree shrew is imbibing what would be the human equivalent of nine glasses of wine an evening. However, the pentail tree shrew shows no signs of being drunk.

"They move normally on the palms when they go for the nectar," Weins says. "There's no sign of motor incoordination or other odd behaviors. They just move as efficiently as they would on any other tree."

Weins says there are no pentail tree shrews in captivity, so it hasn't been possible to do lab tests to detect intoxication.

But with jungle predators always lurking, Weins says, it would be very risky for a little mammal in the wild to be tipsy or drunk.

And that leads Weins to believe that the tree shrew probably has a specially evolved metabolism that detoxifies the alcohol quickly, keeping the alcohol concentration in the brain very low.

As a result, the tree shrew is able to detoxify alcohol more efficiently than its primate cousins: humans.