good morning everybody! oh i can't bear today being monday - i had so much fun all weekend long playing grand theft auto 4 (hence the lack of weekend posts) it's an amazing game - i completed a bunch of 'missions' (equaling about 12% of the game) and i'm already looking forward to next weekend for more game time (during the week there's just not enough time - boo hoo!) right now i've got five copies of the brand new portishead album - their third studio release - simply titled third to toss ...

C.S.I. star Gary Dourdan is claiming the drugs weren't his. Mmm hmmm. Dourdan was pinched in Palm Springs last Monday with a virtual pharmacy in his car. If your pharmacy was really shady and sold ecstasy, heroin and cocaine. Dourdan sent an e-mail to Access Hollywood host Shaun Robinson in which he said that he had pulled over by the side of the road to sleep because he was drunk. And he was carrying someone else's luggage, which contained drugs. Is he moonlighting for Continental? I'm glad pulling over did prevent a DUI," he wrote. "I recommend not ...

From this...to this. Gary Dourdan (filmography), star of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, was found by Palm Springs police sleeping in a car parked on the wrong side of Sunny Dunes near Gene Autry Trail (i.e., close to Lowe's) at 5:20 AM on Monday. Actually, the linked Desert Sun article says it was on Sunday morning, but every other news source on Earth says it was Monday morning, so we can be pretty sure it was Monday, and I hereby announce yet another charitable fund for the benefit of the Desert Sun. This ...

An inflatable pig "the size of a school bus" escaped its tether at the Coachella music festival. The owners are offering a reward of $10,000 plus 4 Coachella tickets for it. My fellow hikers know that the Mecca Hills are a magnet for escaped balloons, and it's not far from the concert site to the Mecca Hills, so I expect there's a fair chance that we'll be dragging that thing out of a canyon some time in the next couple of years. ...