Celebrities

So… Rob Zombie. He’s… kinda… messed up, huh? Here’s an insight into his psyche, courtesy of Clarkey Cat: it seems Mr. Zombie (there’s a dude who needs an honorary Ph.D., eh? Dr. Zombie? C’mon…) has an intense dislike for clowns, brought on by evil clown #1, Ronald. Just think what the clown prince of fries has done to people who didn’t get an outlet like music and movies… (Or not – there’s an elegant rebuttal in the user comments on the linked page)

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Egad, I’m linking to Dr. Phil! I know less about Dr. Phil than I do about Rick Santorum, so bear with me here… AngelA was telling me about some daytime show she sat through with her mom, and Dave Noisy sent in the link: it was something about pushy parents and attempts at child prodigies, and one of the three children featured was being raised vegan. I don’t have a direct source for this, but apparently Dr. Phil said the following about the diet: “I have nutritionists that I work with and they said that this is probably one of the best fed kids in the country. Eating the vegetables and the fruits and all of these things.” Apologies if I’ve been taking the “this famous person said or did something nice” route lately, but if I stuck to things I actually spent a lot of time thinking about lately, there’d be nothing but posts about which Transformers would probably be vegan if they ate something other than Energon cubes. That’s just how my brain works sometimes. That Dr. Phil guy probably has some ideas about that.

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Trivia for a rainy day: queervegan notes that Hitler’s wife wore fur. Oh, and that whole “Hitler was a vegetarian” nonsense recently warranted a correction in the New York Times.

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It’s celebrity logic time! Today’s episode comes courtesy of queervegan, who reports that Jennifer Lopez recently defended the use of fur in her fashion line. Apparently, it’s OK with J.Lo because she doesn’t know how fur is produced. Ayup. While on an Australian radio show, she was challenged on the matter, and responded with “If someone would like to educate me and bring something to light that I don’t know, that’d be great.” In what’s got to be the coolest radio moment ever, the show’s DJ replied, ““Would you like to be educated right now?” and then brought her up to speed. Lopez didn’t have much to say about the matter after that. I have never wanted a torrent of a radio show this badly.

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My fears about the upcoming Canadian seal hunt have been lessened somewhat, now that I know that MacGyver is on the case. With a bit of twine, a plastic fork, and his trusty Swiss Army knife, he’ll have the problem solved in no time. Or not, if you’re more of a Stargate SG-1 fan. Anyway, Richard Dean Anderson is the latest celebrity to speak out against the hunt, and what’s more, he’s on the board of directors for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, founded by Paul Watson. Sealers really don’t like Paul. Assuming the Swiss Army Knife doesn’t, er, cut it, y’all are invited to help out on the 15th. (Thanks, Dave Noisy!)

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Triddle sends word that the VH1 television channel was “inundated” with complaints from irate viewers of “The Surreal Life” after they aired footage of rapper Flavor Flav hitting a dog. Apparently this was a hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper in response to the puppy peeing on the floor, and I didn’t see it, but it was enough to have his housemates “reel in horror” and an animal rights group is vowing that they’ll have charges laid. As I’ve never trained a dog, I had to do a bit of research for this, and I was ecstatic to note that every web site I went to that mentioned rolled up newspapers said either a) don’t ever do this, and/or b) if your dog pees on the floor, you should roll up a newspaper, look at the mess, and beat yourself over the head while saying “I forgot to watch my dog! I forgot to watch my dog!” The newpaper school of discipline is definitely an archaic relic of years gone by… Kind of like Flavor Flav, huh?

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Dave Noisy sent in a link that’s all about Oedipus, The Movie, which normally wouldn’t be a good fit for a VP story, except this one was shot with vegetables for actors. The movie’s in the festival circuit and isn’t available online, but the film’s productions notes are pretty cool. What’s more, while I doubt this was an objective of the filmmakers, the movie was shot digitally, reducing the gelatin involvement!

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Slightly dated news for y’all, stolen directly from Meat Facts: remember that Harold and Kumar movie? You know, the one that I know nothing about because I am pop culturally ignorant? It’s got a lot to do with some burger chain called White Castle, which I know about because of the Beastie Boys, from which you might infer that I do have some pop culture knowledge, but the album in question is older than those newfangled “CD” disks the kids might still use. Anyway, if we’re going to use the Meat Facts link, we might as well quote the exact same blurb: “Kal Penn on eating White Castle burgers: I’m a Vegetarian. Unfortunately White Castle doesn’t make veggie burgers