Would you pay $525,000 for this watch?

The RM 027 Tourbillon watch by Richard Mille

Tennis player Rafael Nadal wears $525,000 watch at the French Open

By Chris ChaseIt just got a little more expensive to dress like Rafael Nadal.

Used to be that after making a few stops at various online stores, you could have Rafa's shirt, shoes, shorts, wristbands, bandanna and racket for around $500, a small price to pay to channel the tennis prowess of a six-time Grand Slam champion. Now that Nadal has added a watch to his on-court look, the price went up a little bit. Like $525,000. Read the rest HERE on yahoo.com

RIP Paul Gray, Slipknot bassist found dead in hotel room

Death of Paul Gray, 38, a ‘big blow’ to heavy metal

Luke Meredith

Des Moines, Iowa — The Associated PressPublished on Monday, May. 24, 2010 8:40PM EDTLast updated on Tuesday, May. 25, 2010 7:20AM EDT

Paul Gray, the bassist for Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday in an Iowa hotel room.

A hotel employee found Gray, 38, dead in a room at the Town Plaza Hotel in Urbandale, a suburb of Des Moines, police said in a statement. Foul play isn't suspected, and an autopsy is planned for Tuesday.

A person who answered the phone at the band's record company, Roadrunner Records, wouldn't give his name and declined comment.

Slipknot's self-titled debut in 1999 sold more than a million copies.

Known for its grotesque masks, the band won a Grammy in 2006 for best metal performance for the song Before I Forget. Pollstar, a concert-industry magazine, ranked Slipknot 18th in its Top 20 Concert Tours list in 2009.

Most of the band's members grew up in the Des Moines area.

Andy Hall, music director of Des Moines rock station Lazer 103.3, said he'd known Gray for 10 years. He described him as a talented bass player who was also one of the friendliest, most caring people he knew.

“This is a big blow, not only to the community of Des Moines but fans of metal at large, worldwide,” Hall said. “It's a devastating loss. Paul was a wonderful human being.”

The station was planning to broadcast an hour-long tribute to Gray on Monday night. theglobeandmail.com

Google TV ?

Google is Headed For Your TV

Jared Newman, PC World

May 20, 2010 11:40 am

Google has partnered with Intel and Sony to create Google TV, an ambitious attempt to bake its Android software into TVs, Blu-ray players, and a Google set-top box called Buddy Box. Google TV is clearly a challenge to Apple TV, the Boxee Box, TiVo and to some extent cable itself. The goal is to fuse the Web with televisions in a way that other Internet-connected TVs don't. That is, Google TV is an open platform free of restrictions and powered by hardware that can handle Flash. Read the rest HERE

Jesse James busted for cheating with tattoo model Michelle "Bombshell" McGee

Pictures of Michelle "Bombshell" McGee from limelife.com

Sandra Bullock left the Southern California house she shares withJesse James just days before a report of infidelity by her husband surfaced, People reports.

The Oscar winner left on Monday, a source told the magazine. On Wednesday, In Touch printed a cover story featuring an interview with tattoo model Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, who claims to have had an 11-month long affair with James while Bullock was filmingThe Blind Side in Atlanta last year. Read the rest HERE from yahoo.com

R.I.P Captain Phil Harris of the TV show Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel dead at the age of 53

Associated Press Wed Feb 10, 9:24 AM PST
Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show "Deadliest Catch", has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.
Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.
The reality show, which has filmed five seasons, has been one of the Discovery Channel's most popular and depicts the crab fishing industry in the dangerous waters off Alaska.
"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad - Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end," sons Josh and Jake Harris said in a statement released by the network. Read the rest HERE from yahoo.com and http://wwww.corneliamarie.com/

Apple iPad tablet unveiled today by Steve Jobs 1/27/10

Steve Jobs holding the new Apple IPad tablet Photo by AP

The iPad has a 9.7-inch touch screen. It is a half-inch thick, weighs 1.5 pounds and comes with 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes of flash memory storage. The device comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technology, but no mention was immediately made of a data connection through a wireless carrier. Jobs said the battery lasts for 10 hours, and that the device can sit for a month on standby without needing a charge.
Read more here Apple unveils iPad tablet with onscreen keyboard AP

Indianapolis Colts to face New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl 44 February 7, 2010

Peyton Manning Quarterback of the AFC Champions Indianapolis Colts

Drew Brees Quarterback of the NFC Champions New Orleans Saints
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Haiti and the Red Cross need your help....

Please help the Haiti earthquake victims by donating to the Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/ you can also text HAITI to 9-0-9-9-9

Tattoo regulation in California?

Ma wants to regulate tattooing, piercing
Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
When you get your hair cut or your nails done in California, you know that your stylist or manicurist has attended school, received a license and is maintaining the businesses up to legally mandated standards.
You can even check the records online.
But if you decide to get a tattoo or body piercing, you'd have no such reassurance, because California doesn't regulate body art practitioners.
Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, wants to change that. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/19/BA0F1BJRSQ.DTL#ixzz0dHYzQ5oV
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Artie Lange's Suicide attempt

After speculation surrounding his recent hospitalization, it's been reported that Artie Lange attempted suicide.
Artie's mom called 911 on Saturday morning as she found the blood-drenched comedian in his Hoboken apartment. She came by his place to deliver food and discovered that her son had stabbed himself. Lange suffered six "hesitation wounds" and three deep plunges, but surgeons managed to save him despite the vast amount of blood.
Sad. Hope he gets the help he needs! From Perez Hilton

Get well bro!!! I'm one of your biggest fan... it just shows that opiate addiction is hard to kick. If you havent started dont bother and if you did get help soon.... a lot of these recent deaths have one thing in common "opiates" Vicodin, Oxycoton, Hydrocodone

Cincinnati Bengals Chris Henry dead at 26 RIP

Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model
By MJD

Redemption stories are the best kinds of stories. If someone's failed, lost their way or made more mistakes than we deem acceptable, I always find myself on that guy's side.
I'm not there supporting what they've done or making excuses for them, but hoping that they'll find a way to be better. Hoping that they'll learn from their mistakes, grow and become the person they can be. In one way or another, I think we're all striving for that.
That's what Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry was doing when he lost his life this morning after falling out of a truck reportedly driven by his fiancee.

We know the guy had made mistakes, getting arrested multiple times and being suspended for half of the 2007 season, but those aren't important today. That was Henry's past. By all accounts, his future was better and brighter, because he had worked his tail off to make it that way. Changing your life is not easy.
Henry was doing it, though. In the preseason, his quarterback, Carson Palmer(notes), had raved about Henry's work ethic and his ability. According to Palmer, Henry had a great offseason and had "really turned his life around." Unfortunately, his season was cut short by injury when he broke his forearm against the Ravens on November 8. Read the rest HERE on yahoo.com

UPDATE: HEAR THE CHRIS HENRY 911 CALL HERE: From tmz.com