The Iraqi journalist who was jailed after nearly pegging President George W. Bush with his shoes in December will be freed next month. The three-month early release of international hero Muntader al-Zaidi is “a victory for the free and honorable Iraqi media,” according to the shoe throwing journalist’s lawyer. |NYP|
Ignoring requests to stop terrifying the masses, the World Health Organization reports that one third of Earth’s denizens will eventually catch swine flu. But don’t worry too much: a tenth of New Yorkers already caught the H1N1 virus and mostly didn’t die. |NYP|
DJ AM Found Dead, Paparazzi Gather To Mourn
Celebrity DJ and apparent crackhead, Adam Goldstein aka DJ AM, was found dead in his luxury Soho apartment on Friday night. Police discovered the 36-year-old partymaker along with a glass pipe, a half empty bag of crack, and a whole bunch of prescription pill bottles reports the Daily News. His last communique via Twitter was on August 25th, quoting Hip Hop legend Grandmaster Flash, “New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems.” |GlobalGrind|
Parting Shot: Yelp!
Animal enthusiasts welcomed Michael Vick to Philadelphia last night in their own special way.
Photo by Paul Gentile
Artist Flags Ted Kennedy
(l: portrait, r: detail)
Athens-based, “visual designer” and presidential mosaic artist, Charis Tsevis, created this striking portrait of the late Ted Kennedy made entirely from Massachusetts and American flags. Must be viewed really big to do it justice.
Nowadays, print media is purposeful for everything but reading or selling ads. Take this “Laptop Case for Macbook Pro Against Crime.” It uses newspapers as a clever disguise to guard against would be thieves. You can buy one for $85 or go the more frugal DIY route: hit a newsstand, save $84. |DVICE|
New York City rats aren’t riddled with disease as badly as some places. The Department of Health offers this bit of consolation, saying local rodents don’t offer humans as much in the way of “viruses, bacteria and other dangerous organisms.” |Brooklyn Eagle|
A legal graffiti experiment went horribly wrong in Calgary. Planned to last three months, a sanctioned spray-painting area on a local park building barely survived the weekend. “Mayhem ensued” as aspiring aerosol artists got to work outside the “legal painting zone,” covering the entire building inside and out with “tags, profanity and homophobic and anti-police statements.” Cleaning up the “barrage of visual diarrhea” will apparently cost thousands, making it unlikely Calgary’s pilot program will be extended as planned. |CBC|
An enterprising medical weed dispensary opened up shop in an abandoned Kentucky Fried Chicken in Los Angeles. Utilizing the existing, highly recognizable look of the riot-inducing fast food chain, the new owners now do business as K.F.C. or “Kind For Cures,” reports LA Weekly. So far, Colonel Sanders’ lawyers haven’t pounced on herbalists—no need to piss off your demographic. |LAWeekly|
An internal investigation of the boy caught and photographed in a subway operator’s cab has concluded that the child never had control. Although the boy’s presence violated MTA policy, officials say he was simply being babysat by a familial conductor and didn’t take the helm. |NYT|
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