Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years and eternal hellfire.  Adios mofo!  I know that this Bernie devil doll will not do much to restore wealth to his victims, but it sure is fun to smack around.

I know I talked a lot of smack about Jacko over the years, but I am sad that he died so young.  TMZ is the first to report that MJ died today after suffering cardiac arrest and being rushed to the UCLA Medical Center.  He is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

Wow, I stepped away from the blogosphere for the week and I return today to see the aftermath of a war.  Peter Getty, who is famous for you know, being a Getty and little else, has a new job writing a blog for SFGate with Billy Getty.  The first blog post was an entry titled “What the Butler Didn’t See,” which includes wonderful vomit-inducing prose like this:

“By the way: there are slews of people richer than we are, just in this neighborhood. We’re more famous for being rich than we really are rich. But we have enough to belong to the leisure class, meaning we get to spend very little of our time doing anything we don’t feel like, and we have means to sample, if not to gorge on, pleasures that most people, sad to say, won’t likely ever share in — things like yacht trips and safaris, ludicrously expensive wine, and private jet travel. You can be richer than we are, but you can’t live a whole lot better without mere ostentation.”

SFist wrote about Peter’s post and now Peter is upset that his reflections of self aren’t more well received by the commenters on the site.  He is so upset that he responded to the SFist post and has been trolling the comments section of SFist posting defensive missives about anyone that dares criticize his views on being rich.

I am sure all of the members of high society remember fondly those days when publishing required a lot of paper, ink, and expensive printing presses that the poors could not afford.  Ah, those were the days when only the opinions of the rich really mattered.  I don’t know the Gettys and don’t know what could have inspired Peter (and Billy) to want to open themselves to criticism in this way.  But it sure is fun to watch.  I wonder how long Pedro’s blog campaign will continue.

Joel McHale from The Soup is really funny, but it looks like this show has great writing and an amazing ensemble cast that includes, wait for it, wait for it, Chevy Chase. It looks freakin’ hilarious. Can’t wait to check it out this Fall.

Kobe and Fisher After Finals Win

The Lakers won their 15th NBA Chmpionship and Phil Jackson won his 10th as a coach.   The Lakers now trail the Boston Celtics by only two, and it looks like this young Lakers team may be the team to catch up to the Celtics’ record of 17 NBA Championships.

A friend of mine told me about this bird that is attacking passers-by on Front Street, between Sacramento and California Streets.  This CNN video shows people getting jacked by the bird as they walk on the sidewalk last week.  Someone told me the bird is still terrorizing people.  Beware humans.

A huge underground explosion in the Tenderloin today knocked out power for 3,500 people.  As of this writing the power is still out.  I wondered what the hell was going on when I saw two helicopters hovering over what I thought was the Civic Center earlier today.  This must have been it.

Our mayor’s hair has a Twitter account, and a charming personality.  Comedy.

Remember the steel and glass house that served as Ferris Bueller’s friend Cameron’s house in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? You know, the house where the glass garage had the parked Ferrari (see the Ferrari scenes)?  It is called the Ben Rose Home, located in Highland Park, Illinois, and is now for sale for $2.3 million. 

This instructional video from Gillette shows you how to “trim your bush” because you know, they’ll sell a lot more razors if guys all decided to shave their balls.

Today’s supreme court decision had many people, gay and straight alike, up in arms. Many took to the streets, including clergy as pictured in the first photo above.  SFGate has some great images of today’s Prop 8 protest.  Also, SFist has great photos of today’s Prop 8 protest and tonight’s rally.  A similar rally in Hollywood brought out celebrities such as Perez Hilton and Drew Barrymore.

To all of our gay friends: we will hang in there with you and continue to fight.  This is total bullshit!

I just bought a Flip Mino HD digital video camera and I mounted a Sunpak wide angle lens onto it.  The photo above with my house key shows how small the camera is even with the lens attachment.  With the camera and a copy of Adobe Premiere I am ready to make short films of our baby when it arrives next month.  Below is a video shot on a Flip Mino HD with the wide angle conversion by Zack Arias called Edit: Transform.

A New Zealand couple found an extra NZ$10 million (or $6 million U.S. dollars). They had asked the bank to cover an overdraft of about NZ$10,900, but their bank deposited 1,000 times that amount. They couldn’t believe their luck, so they wired the bulk of the money offshore and fled the country. Local reports speculated they may have fled to China or South Korea after transferring as much as NZ$6 million to an offshore account. Now they are on Interpol’s most wanted list. Wow.

In China, a sewer snake came came up from a toilet and bit a man’s penis.  Crazy.

No, I am not referring to the “N Judah” or the BART trains.  A man named Muni Bart Perzov from San Jose is missing.  I thought this was a total joke when I heard about it, but it’s true.  I wonder if his mom actually named him after the trains beneath Market Street.  Here’s hoping they find him.

WHO raises swine flu to pandemic level 11.  Cough, cough!  Ahrm, it is only a matter of time before “El Swine” gets us all.  Cough, cough!

Some lady in Corona (near Riverside) claims that her father was the Zodiac Killer and even took her with him (when she age 7) to commit some of the murders.  The claim sounds extraordinary, but she has eyeglasses that she claims belonged to one of the victims that may have sufficient DNA evidence to prove if she is telling the truth.  You have to admit that at first glance this sounds like a woman in desperate need of some attention.  I mean, her press conference was on the sidewalk in front of the Chronicle Building!  SFPD said “they would look into her claims”but are surely not amused.

Odd Todd has 10 new tips for the unemployed on his site.  He’s doing the tips countdown style, like David Letterman, and started with tip #10 a few weeks ago.  I used to love watching the Odd Todd cartoons during the 2001 dot-com implosion.  It now turns out that what is old is new again.  Check it out.

Seasonal flu, the regular influenza virus, has killed more than 13,000 people since the beginning of the year and swine flu has killed only one.  Although you wouldn’t know it by the mass media hysteria surrounding this flu of swine.  All of the news networks are tracking the “outbreak” by reporting the number of cases as they increase, which by the way, (insert sarcasm here) is REALLY exciting to watch 24 hours a day.  Just yesterday a couple of people were reported to have swine flu in Marin and everyone in San Francisco started to panic as if Godzilla was swimming around The Bay ready to pounce on us Tokyo-style.

Almost immediately after the Marin “outbreak,” The Governator declared a state of emergency in the best press conference ever by saying, “there is no need for alarm.”  Well, isn’t that what “declaring an emergency” is all about!? You are sounding a freakin’ alarm so that people take notice, right!?  Uh, really!?

Let’s keep things in perspective people!

You are no more likely to die from swine flu as you are from regular seasonal flu.  The same rules apply.  People should be a lot more worried about getting the AIDS virus, since that has a much higher mortality rate.  But understandably it is a lot easier to get the swine flu virus than the AIDS virus.  Use the same precautions that you would to avoid getting the flu and you will be fine.  I am not saying we should all go out and start kissing pigs, but there is definitely no need to panic.

Here are some commercials from the 1976 swine flu scare.  It’s all been done. My favorite part, the crass way the narrator says “…but Betty had a heart condition and she died” in the second commercial.