† jen & gerard - looking hot & happy together in london! hollywood life † it's official: betty white is hosting 'SNL' on may 8! popeater † watch: johnny weir has sex with a foot massager! towleroad † madonna wants to dress you up in her clothes ... oh la la † do you think jessica simpson is fat? yeeeah! † what?! amy winehouse is a fashion designer now?! dlisted † oh my gosh, i love seeing david beckham smile! popsugar † lady gaga's stupid clothes nearly killed her! ...

When asked, the Howard Stern Show regular simply explained that he makes more money doing this. So there you go. Ain't nothing wrong with following the dollar. (Photo by Thairin) ...

Flo, the perky Progressive Insurance spokesperson (who has quickly become this century's Rosie) has been feeling overworked, according to the new ad campaign. So they've launched a national talent search to find someone to appear with her in their next commercial. Hundreds of people gathered today at Hollywood and Highland to audition for the part. If you run down right now, you can still catch her! (Photo by Thairin) ...

America's Next Top Model was off the CW for four months, and all the while New York magazine's culture "Vulture" Jillian Goodman hung out watching RuPaul's Drag Race on Logo and VH1. Now, frankly, she says, "we're not sure which show we like better." So she's done a side-by-side comparison of the shows' differences, from the camp factor to tools of the trade to contestants' backstories to decompressing ("Walk around the house in underwear and a strappy tank" vs "untuck"). Of course, we think RuPaul's Drag Race (Mondays at 9PM) is beyond compare. ...

Because everytime I see Karis this gender bender is fiercer than before. Check Karis out in Cazwell's new music video "Tonight" by Peace Bisquit Records. AND...there is a cameo by Amanda LePore out in front of our ole NYC apartment building. ...

† FROM DJ PAUL V.Last night here in LA, we got treated to a dazzling live performance by London's Little Boots, and we were all ready to dance! Aside from a seriously mind-blowing laser show, Miss Boots gave us everything we adore in cosmic, electro-pop: Gorgeous voice, big beats, bigger melodies, and sing-along choruses. Not to mention an epic, piano/voice version of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill as an encore, that had us mesmerized! Why Little Boots is not up there on the pop charts with tarts like Ke$ha is a crime. ...

The once charmingly Rococo Hollywood fixture Dollhouse Dude has traded in his Bizarro capes and robes and scarves and frills and skirts and masks for a more Minimalist approach to panhandling. His crisp, unadorned, and unembellished new look hints at a stark Jil Sanders-type of aesthetic that feels more befitting to our current less-is-less era. Gone is the nouveau riche McMansion on his head (a nod to the housing market) and in it's place is a simple cup of coffee. Brother, Can You Spare a New House? His ...

Lady GaGa's wasp outfit is paying tribute to the Wasp Synthesiser. The Wasp dates from the last millennium and was one of the early consumer synthesisers. It so happens that my brother Nic is selling his on e-bay. The Wasp will take you back to Depeche Mode, Yaz, John Foxx, Gary Numan, Thomas Dolby, Silicon Teens, OMD and all those little monsters without whom there would be no Lady GaGa. Nic kindly leant me this synth to score the soundtrack to my first ever film, an adaptation of T S Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes". (pretentious, moi?). It got me ...

A British fellow dozed off one recent night while frying up a mess of bacon in a pan. Seriously, how tired must he have been to have fallen asleep while cooking? It was bacon, for Christ's sake! (Literally – read on.) Moron was awakened some time later choking on the smoke filling the room. While at the sink scraping the ruined bacon out of the pan, he saw Christ's face staring up at him from the skillet. "It's some kind of miracle," Toby Elles told the Daily Mail. "If it wasn't for the smoke it could have been a ...

Don’t be tardy for this party! DJ Tracy Young comes clean — mostly — about her rumored lesbian relationship with Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak. Some highlights: The Advocate: Let’s get right to it - are you dating or have you ever dated Kim Zolciak?Tracy Young: Kim and I have a very complicated relationship. I met her in L.A. in December to do the “Tardy for the Party” remix, which has been released on my label, and through that working process we got really close. Advocate: How close is close?TY: I’m not at liberty to say ...

That's the estimated annual consumption of marijuana in the state of California as stated in this analysis [PDF] by the Board of Equalization. Tom Ammiano has proposed another bill to legalize marijuana. It's AB 2254. The analysis estimates that the proposed $50/ounce tax would generate $990 million in revenue for the state, while collection of the sales tax on the same sales would add another $392 million. They also estimate that the retail price of marijuana would drop by 50%, which would lead to a 40% increase in consumption. The $50/ounce tax would reduce consumption ...

The audio recording of this meeting of the Desert Hot Springs Community and Cultural Affairs Commission can be downloaded here. Swearing In The meeting started with the swearing in of commissioners Mary Stephens and Jeanne Jussila as well as alternate commissioner George Fisher. Mary Stephens Jeanne Jussila George Fisher Public Comments Tony Clark gave an update on the Wellness & World Music Festival, October 9 & 10, 2010. It's got a website now at WellnessAndWorldMusicFestival.com. Right now there's just the first page. Kiner Communications and Total Marketing Partners have been hired to work ...

oh happy day! it's almost here ... the music video we've all been patiently waiting for ... lady gaga and beyoncé's super hot collaboration telephone! it is supposed to premiere on E! news later tonight but i'm hoping it will leak before that - so stay tuned! for now enjoy some of the stills below - i'll post the video as soon as it pops up online! popbytes over & out for now ... xoxo ...

• A paparazzo put coins in Renée Zellweger's about-to-expire parking meter outside Starbucks, and she repaid him with a $100 Starbucks gift card. (Peeps) • Heidi Montag has fired her manager, husband Spencer Pratt, and replaced him with psychic Aiden Chase. "Having an intuitive psychic leading my team gives me an edge no one else has," she says. (Movieline) • A Manhattan Apple store employee accused Law & Order starRichard Belzer of grabbing her by the shoulders, shaking and choking her, and shouting, "I need help!" If you've ever been to an Apple store, you understand. When police arrived, ...

There's something a bit off about this kid, Chris Rushton, and yet I can't stop watching his videos. This one combines some really crappy lipsynching, some spazzy dance moves, and probably the BEST SONG EVER WRITTEN, OMG. So I'm happy. Also: Did I mention he's wearing a wife beater? He is.  ...

Those were the words of Monroe Police Officer Thomas Lucasiewicz when he spotted an indoor marijuana growing operation. But I think Police Chief John Kraivec's meaning was more clear when he said ""The house was an electrical nightmare." Police found the grow house when the resident, Thu N. Nguyen, began burning marijuana stalks in his fireplace! Environmentally wise, but legally stupid. Eventually the police turned up five homes growing marijuana. All the residents were of Vietnamese descent and had some connection to Canada. Besides the marijuana cultivation, they were all charged with theft of electricity for bypassing their meters. ...

Tomorrow I get in the car and drive to Texas to visit my mom. I'll be gone for two weeks. Which means more true-life stories about hanging out with The Stroke Lady. I know y'all have missed that shit. ...

One Life to Live has confirmed that they are writing off the Kish romance, blaming the gays for the show's recent slide in the ratings. Now it's true: I have long thought the storyline was silly and dated and written by an old cat lady (I mean: What 30-year-old gay man is THAT angsty about his sexuality in 2010?). And the whole Dorian-gets-gay-married-for-votes bit was insulting and wrong. And don't even get me started on discovering Llanview's only lesbian was actually carrying on a long-term love affair with the hulking town psychic, Madame Delphina. GROSS. Or making the ...

"Bahasa Gay" is a language used among homosexual men in Indonesia. ...

Google has recently introduced Closed Captioning for YouTube videos. I think this is a fantastic idea for the hearing impaired, but it’s got a LONG way to go. I decided to see just how far it has to go by testing out one of the 12 Days of Christmas videos that I put together last year. First I will embed the video so you can refresh your memory, and below it I will include the Closed Caption transcription. You can judge for yourself just how close it got to what I was actually singing. Click here to view the ...