Friday Jul 30

Brent's Blog 2-26-10

IT'S FRIDAY!! PARTY!!!!

Villain Randy Bailey was sent home on last night's Survivor: Heroes Versus Villains.

  • Russell made a plan to control the baddy camp. He buried the machete. Randy was the first villain to miss the tool after catching a giant clam for dinner. He finally got it open with a rock.
  • The immunity challenge pitted heroes against villains in man-on-man matches to knock the other into a mud pit. James defeated Randy in the final bout and won luxury items, including coffee and rice, for his camp.
  • There was lot of plotting. Boston Rob advised that people should watch where they sleep, reasoning that you won't keep company with someone you plan to vote against. Randy sensed that he was in danger and started an anti-Parvati party.
  • And Randy was in danger. At Tribal Council, he has sent home in a near-unanimous vote-off.

CELEB QUICKIES

  • Seth Green has gotten engaged to his girlfriend, model-actress Clare Grant. Seth, 36, and Clare, 30, play to walk down the aisle in May.

  • Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman followed up her appearance on The View the other day by hitting a couple of New York hotspots. The mother of 14 partied past 2 a-m with a group of pals. But sources say Nadya didn't drink or dance.

  • Playgirl model Levi Johnston has been ordered to pay 18-thousand-500 dollars in back child support for his son (Tripp) with Bristol Palin.

  • Michael Douglas's son Cameron has been denied bail as he awaits sentencing in his drug-dealing case. Cameron pled guilty in January to selling meth and cocaine. He faces a minimum of 10 years behind bars.

  • President Obama honored Clint Eastwood, Rita Moreno, composer John Williams and Bob Dylan, among others, with arts and humanities awards yesterday (Thursday).

WHO SAID IT?

"This morning I watched Remington Steele while eating Sugar Smacks out of a salad bowl. I was naked."

A) Kevin Smith
B) Pierce Brosnan
C) Conan O'Brien (on his Twitter account)

Team U-S-A continues to dominate the overall medal count with 32, but the race for the most golds has turned into a three-way tie between the U-S, Germany and Canada -- all with eight.

  • The U-S took their latest gold -- and silver -- in the Nordic combined as Bill Demong and his teammate Johnny Spillane finished one-two.
  • Canada took their eighth gold -- and most ever for the country in a Winter Olympics -- by beating the U-S women's hockey team two-to-nothing.
  • South Korea's Kim Yu-na took the gold in women's figure skating with a world-record score of 228-point-56, besting the previous high by 18 points. Japan's Mao Asada took the silver while Joannie Rochette, the Canadian who touched our hearts by skating just days after her mother's sudden death, took the bronze.

INTERNET SPOT OF THE DAY

There are many flight-tracker websites online, but FlightAware.com is a useful tool for both passengers and pilots. The site lets you view and track activity for any private or commercial flight in real time.

WORK OF THE WEIRD

Some of the strange jobs up for grabs on CraigsList in this crazy economy...

Hula & Fire Dancers: This "Professional Polynesian Dance Troupe" is looking for hula and fire dancers. They'll even provide full training! Just bring along two photos of yourself and a small bio, including any dance experience you have. This doesn't pay, but hey -- in these tough times, learning how to hula dance with fire could look great on your resume.

Vixens & Bodybuilders: This guy is holding a party in March and needs buff dudes and hot chicks. If you're a buff dude or hot chick, you're guaranteed at least 80 dollars for the gig. You need to send along a head shot and full body picture along with your phone number. The guys, as we said, need to be buff. The girls? Well, the "ladies need to be on the healthier side of life." Interesting way to put it.

Harpist: For 50 bucks an hour, this person needs a professional harpist to play during a cocktail party in June. Our advice would be to play each song extremely slowly, so that you can eke out an eight-hour workday.

Digitize Records: This one is pretty simple -- digitize this dude's record collection. He says he has "about 10 to 30 albums" -- so apparently he's no better at math than at computers. You'll get 20 bucks an hour to dump over these 33 r-p-m records. But you gotta go at it with kid gloves, as they are "rare." Okay, buddy, I know you love that copy of Hall and Oates' "Private Eyes," but that doesn't make it rare.

WEIRD NEWS 

South Bend, Indiana, man was arrested for drunk driving after cops got reports from other drivers who said their vehicles were being struck by the gas pump hose that was dangling from the man's truck.

Police pulled over the 46-year-old man and gave him a field sobriety test, which he subsequently failed.

The man had purchased gas at a Speedway station with a credit card then accidentally drove off with the hose still attached to his truck.The hose was returned to the station.

 Tacoma, Washington, waitress was arrested and charged with indecent exposure after she came to work wearing nothing but thong underwear and X-shaped pasties covering her up top.