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Billy Mays Dead

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World famous Billy Mays - Mr. As Seen on TV - has DIED. The entertainment industry has suffered enough.  No more please.

According to the news, his wife found him unresponsive this morning.  He was 50 years old.

Apparently he had just been on a flight that had blown out a front tire and hit HARD during landing.  As a result he was hit in the head.  His quote to a local TV station was “All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head.”

Could his sudden death have been a result of a head injury?

OMG - so sad.  Enough already.

Prayers to his family.  He was a favorite of mine for sure. I always bought what he was selling.

Billy Mays was just on Conan the other night and clarified, the Shamwow is NOT Zorbeez.  For the record Billy Mays was not the spokesperson for Shamwow.  He was the Zorbeez man (the real towel absorbent cloth).

Billy was the infomercial king and the face of many products.  OxiClean is probably the most famous, then there are the Tool Band-It, Quick Chop, Simoniz Fix It, Mighty Putty and many more.

I will leave you with this:

Hollywood Deaths Come in Three

Farrah Fawcett died after a long and hard battle with cancer.  Seeing her images on the news over the passed week as the young and beautiful Farrah is a big reminder that death will come for you, no matter who you are.

Hearing the story of Ryan O’Neil and their 20 year love affair is very heart warming.  They were never married, but he wanted to marry her before she died.  Looks like he will never get the chance.

Now the news is saying that Michael Jackson has been rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest.  This is kind of eerie especially since Hollywood deaths travel in 3s.  Is the grim reaper chasing Michael Jackson?  Will it be Walter Cronkite? Who will be the third celeb to enter the pearly gates?

RIP Ed Mc McMahon - RIP Farrah Fawcett - and RIP ??

Not to forget the recent death of David Carradine, but that was around 6/4, so may be too long ago.

Ed McMahon Dead at 86

Ed McMahon Dies at 86

Ed McMahon died what seemed to be a peaceful death in his sleep last night at the UCLA Medical Center with his wife by his side.  Mr. McMahon is most well known for being Johnny Carson’s right hand man and faithful side kick of 30 years on The Tonight Show.  Growing up in the Carson era, I spent many late nights up watching Ed start the show with his coined “Heeeeeeere’s Johnny!”

Apparently Ed McMahon had been suffering from pneumonia and had been battling bone cancer, although his cause of death has not been determined.

Late night in the 60s and 70s was an awesome time to be a TV host.  You got to smoke and drink on the air.  They always looked like they were having a blast. I can also remember watching Ed McMahon on Star Search, Bewitched and seeing him on all those Million Dollar Sweepstakes commercials.  He was the million dollar face.  Funny that he actually started his career as a bingo caller.  He did have a great voice and his smile will be missed in Hollywood.

RIP Mr. McMahon and say hi to Johnny for us.

Obama’s Fly Swatting Skills Pisses Off PETA

President Obama recently showed us his Mr.  Miyagi skills during an interview with CNBC.  While answering a question a pesky fly was buzzing around and the President patiently waited for the fly to land, then WHACK. “Got the sucker.”

So apparently PETA is upset because there was no compassion shown for this innocent fly.  They are sending him a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher so he can catch the fly, then release it outside.

Excuse me while I go kill a fly.  PETA give me a break.  If this isn’t the biggest waist of time I don’t know what is.  What a joke.

I hope President Obama uses his same fly swatting tactics with Osama. WHACK…Got the sucker!

Zicam FDA Warning

Stop using Zicam .  FDA warning is now saying it can cause permanent loss of smell or taste. Products include… Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel –Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs –Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs, Kids Size

It has been talked about on the web for over a year already that people are experiencing a loss of taste or smell after using Zicam.  In one case the person had extreme burning in their nasal passage, to the point where they could barely touch their face.

I have used this product and I did not have this experience.  The product actually worked great as far as preventing a cold and in another case reducing cold symptoms.  I am bummed I can’t use it anymore, but thankful that I or no one in my family had this horrible side effect.

As of right now there is no information on the Zicam webiste about a recall, but the FDA warning is enough for me. I’m pulling it out of the medicine drawer now.

Laker Championship and L.A. Riots

Congrats to the Lakers for winning another NBA Championship.  While the series was a bit uneventfull it is still very cool that they won and are world champs.

I was driving home from Vegas and listening to the game on ESPN radio and while I was so proud of L.A., I was also so dissapointed to hear that people were rioting in the streets by Staples Center. Growing up in L.A. and living through the 91 riots makes me very sensitive to the topic of damaging the city and demolishing city or personal property.

I pray that nobody was or gets injured and that local residents can just get a grip and celebrate safely.

The Laker parade is Wednesday at 11am and will start at Staples Center and go down Figueroa Street ending at the L.A. Colluseum.

Chastity Bono Announces Sex Change

Chastity Bono (image credit www.glbtsummit.com)

Chastity Bono has announced that she will be having a sex change to become a man. Apparently she began the process almost a year ago and is proud of her his decision.  Chastity has been openly gay for about 20 years.  I haven’t heard about her at all recently other than she was on a reality show (Celebrity Fit Club 3) a while back. (Chastity, if you want to get slim, try the It Works Body Wraps I was talking about, screw the reality shows. )

I hope she has her family’s support and hopefully the media will be kind to him.  People can be so cruel.

In case you have never heard of Chastity she is the daughter of Cher and the late Sonny Bono.  If you were alive in the 70s it’s likely you watched her as a cute little girl on her parents’ TV show.  Chastity has grown up in the public eye, but at 40 decided it was time.  Funny how that happens at 40. It’s kind of like a time bomb goes off in your head and says,” Screw everyone else. I’m gonna do what I want.”

Chastity is very active with GLAAD, she is a trained actor, and an accomplished writer.  Now it’s time for her to focus on her him.

David Letterman Screws Up

Sarah Palin attended the Yankee game with her 14 year old daughter and Letterman thought it was worthy of a joke.  Only problem was the joke talked about her 14 year old daughter having sex with Alex Rodriguez.  Damn. Is nothing sacred? Seriously, poor judgment and is somebody going to get fired over this over at Letterman? Is an apology enough?

Magic Mountain $10 Tickets

Get a general admission ticket to Six Flags for $10 thru 6/30/2009. Here’s the link.

John and Kate Plus 8

I have seen only one episode of this show and thought it was INSANE.  From the first impression I got of Kate, she bossed her husband around as if he were one of the kids.  Maybe the show was edited to make her come across like a control freak. IDK.  I never watched it again.

Now every time I turn around someone is talking about it. He cheated or was photographed with another woman? I don’t know all the details, but apparently they had the highest viewership in the show’s history as a result, so now I suppose they will have to decide if they want to continue to capitalize financially on this unfortunate situation.  Will staying married get them more ratings or divorcing? Is there something in the contract that dictates what will happen if they divorce? Who gets the show? Will it be John Minus Kate Plus 8? If it were me and my husband cheated, I would gladly turn over custody of all 8 kids to him and his new thing. Let them do all the hard work and let me be the one to show up on weekends and take them to the movies and Disneyland.  Why should he get to go off and start a new life and leave Kate with 8 kids alone. Seriously.

Just my opinion of course. Luckily I have never had to deal with that.