] Authorities arrested American rapper DMX on Saturday for
] using profanity during a concert the night before on the
] Caribbean island of St. Kitts and Nevis, police said.
]
] DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was released on
] bail of $376 until Monday, when he is due in Basseterre
] Magistrate's Court.

*gasp* Oh FUCK! I hope they fucking let him off easy for this shit.

DMX arrested for using profanity during St. Kitts concert

]You can even become a minister online!

Thanks!

Laughing Boy
Minister of Divine Fermentation

Beer Church Ordination

] A report from the front lines of the real culture wars

] Learn how corporations use 'statutory damages' as a
] secret weapon to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars
] from people who are 'guilty until proven innocent'. YOU
] COULD BE NEXT!

] WILLFUL INFRINGEMENT was produced on digital video, is 58
] minutes long, in color and stereo. It is available only
] on DVD and comes with over 45 minutes of bonus material
] including an interactive discussion guide for educators
] and exclusive 'Mickey & Me' sidebar video.

No need to pay $50 (though they do ask for a donation) - I wrote the president of the production company and asked them to stream it. To my surprise, they wrote me back to say they did it!

http://willfulinfringement.com/WillfulinfringementFLM.asp

Laughing Boy

Willful Infringement

] A blur of platted hair, arms and legs dives into the pile
] of dirt and rocks, searching for hidden treasures.
]
] It takes only seconds before the first high-pitched voice
] screams, "I found one!"
]
] "Hey, here's another one," cries out a young girl. "I'm
] finding lots of them."
]
] Within minutes, plastic freezer bags are stuffed with
] chunks of gray rock containing trilobites, brachiopods
] and horn corals -- Devonian-era fossils from creatures
] that inhabited the Earth 350 million years ago.
]
] Fossil Park, which has been built in an abandoned 5-acre
] (2-hectare) quarry about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from
] downtown Toledo, is open for its second full season this
] summer.
]
] And visitors can keep what they find.

Cool!

Finding trilobites by the bucket, for free

] LONDON (AP) -- Eminem stunned tens of thousands of people
] attending a concert in England by giving a necklace
] estimated at $450,000 to one of his fans.

HELL YEA! 'cuz donating half a million dollars to charity where it might do some real good isn't "cool". Gotta make a publicity stunt out of it and give a necklace to a random fan - who will likely end up hawking it anyways and pocketing the cash (wouldn't you?).

Whats next? Confetti cannons filled with $10's and $20's at his concerts??

Laughing Boy

Eminem Gives Fan $450K Gift

] Beer Church
]
] The Largest Unorganized Religion in the World!
]
] Making the world a better place, one beer at a time.
]
] For each and every one of you, your own appreciation of
] beer is something deeply personal. The appreciation of
] Beer is also something that is universal. Beer Church is
] about the relationship of the two; your personal
] affection for beer, and humanity's overwhelming love of
] Beer. Beer Church is a celebration of Beer (with a
] capital "B"). Beer Church represents the "something
] larger than yourself" to which you belong by virtue of
] your very personal love for beer. Beer Church is about
] the one thing that we all have in common, regardless of
] all of our other differences. Something we all believe
] in. Beer.
]
] Any gender, any sexual preference, any nationality, any
] shoe size or hair style; beer drinkers of the world are
] all part of something much larger than themselves. They
] are part of a loosely connected, diverse social group of
] countless individuals all around the world, with at least
] one thing in common. Beer. And sure, someone might be
] able to say the same thing about cheese, or coffee, or
] many other things, but we didn't. We said it about beer.
] And because you know the difference, you are one of us.
] You are Beer Church.
]
] At last count, Beer Church has over 40,000 registered
] members from 26 different countries around the world.

Beer Church

] Iraq's ex-information minister appears on Arab TV
]
] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) %u2014 The former Iraqi
] information minister, who gained notoriety during the war
] for wildly implausible claims of victory, showed up on
] Arab television Thursday %u2014 his first appearance
] since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.
]
]
] al-Sahhaf gained notoriety during the war for denying
] that U.S. troops were in Baghdad.
]
] AP
]
]
] In an interview with Al-Arabiya satellite network,
] Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf claimed he had surrendered to
] American forces, was questioned and let go.
]
] "Through some friends, I went to the Americans," he said.
] "I was interrogated about a number of subjects related to
] my job. After that, I was released."
]
] The network aired only a few remarks from the 30-minute
] interview it said it conducted with al-Sahhaf on Thursday
] in a Baghdad suburb. The full interview was to air on
] Friday.

Make this guy White House Press Secretary - he lies much better than Ari Fleischer did.

Iraq's ex-information minister appears on Arab TV

] The music industry disclosed aggressive plans Wednesday
] for an unprecedented escalation in its fight against
] Internet piracy, threatening to sue hundreds of
] individual computer users who illegally share music files
] online.
]
] The Recording Industry Association of America, citing
] substantial sales declines, said it will begin Thursday
] to search Internet file-sharing networks to identify
] users who offer "substantial" collections of MP3-format
] music files for downloading. It expects to file at least
] several hundred lawsuits seeking financial damages within
] eight to 10 weeks.
]
] Executives for the RIAA, the Washington-based lobbying
] group that represents major labels, would not say how
] many songs on a user's computer will qualify for a
] lawsuit. The new campaign comes just weeks after U.S.
] appeals court rulings requiring Internet providers to
] identify subscribers suspected of illegally sharing music
] and movie files.
]
] The RIAA's president, Carey Sherman, said tens of
] millions of Internet users of popular file-sharing
] software after Thursday will expose themselves to "the
] real risk of having to face the music."
]
] "It's stealing. It's both wrong and illegal," Sherman
] said. Alluding to the court decisions, Sherman said
] Internet users who believe they can hide behind an alias
] online were mistaken. "You are not anonymous," Sherman
] said. "We're going to begin taking names."

SING
Send in the goons...
/SING

Music labels to sue hundreds of music sharers

Dementia wrote:
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] ] You can check out my stats on my Asian Avenue Site. I am
] ] searching for a girlfriend. The picture on the left is
] ] me. Aren't I very sexy? I am a singer and I've sold many
] ] records. If you're looking for someone who has a stable
] ] life, I'm the one you're looking for!
] ]
] ]
] ] Feel free to browse my site. You will find me
] ] irresistible.
]
]
] This has got to be a joke.

Its the love child of Price and Michael Jackson, thats what it is.

Laughing boy

RE: Hello Ladies...

] One of four college students who were accused of trading
] songs online and settled lawsuits in early May with the
] music industry has managed to collect his entire $12,000
] fine on the Internet.
]
] Jesse Jordan, 19, a sophomore this fall at Rensselaer
] Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., saw his cause picked
] up by the popular Web site Slashdot.org (motto: "News for
] Nerds. Stuff that matters"). Money began pouring in,
] "anywhere from 10 cents to $500. I never expected to
] raise the whole thing. People are very generous," says
] Jordan.
]
] "Where the money comes from doesn't matter," says Matt
] Oppenheim of the Recording Industry Association of
] America. "Have we deterred these people and others from
] engaging in this kind of behavior? Clearly we have."

Clearly Matt Oppenheim smokes crack.

Laughing Boy

Fined student gets donations to tune of $12K