Thursday July 31 2008Mark O'Connell
Author, "The Marriage Benefit: The Surprising Rewards of Staying Together in Midlife". This is a book about marriage, but it’s not the kind of “how to make your marriage better” book that we have come to expect. This is a book about how our intimate relationships can make us better.
www.markoconnellphd.com Peter Vack & Troian Avery Bellisario
Subway Romeo and Juliet. They are drama students at the University of Southern California who have decided to spend the summer in New York bringing Shakespeare to the sweltering masses. Most mornings they board the No. 1 train outside Vack's Upper West Side apartment. Holiday Road - Andy James - Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
The store has thrived, moving to various locations, since 1899 with its unique merchandising and shopping experience, selling offbeat items such as back scratchers made of alligator feet, pottery, jewelry glazed with ash from Mount St. Helens, Native American crafts, novelty joke items, and souvenirs.
1001 Alaskan Way, Seattle, Wa. 98104 (206) 682-5844
Downtown. North of Pioneer Square and the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal, on the waterfront, where Madison St. reaches Puget Sound on Pier 54.
www.yeoldecuriosityshop.com Wednesday July 30 2008Adam Arber
Roadkill toy creator promoting new toy Grind the rabbit. Toys' creators, Compost Communications, have styled themselves 'toy terrorists' and according to their website: 'We squash and burn and bludgeon and maim. But we're also toy fanatics like you. We love toys.
www.roadkilltoys.com Chad Hardy
The 31-year-old entertainment entrepreneur has been excommunicated from the Church of Latter-Day Saints for creating a 2008 calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries.
www.mormonsexposed.com Dwayne (no last name)
e closure: the official definition
the act of gaining emotional finality by sharing a story of a breakup with the world, via the internet (specifically through e-closure.com).
ex: Johnny was tired of pining over his ex-girlfriend from 8 years ago, so instead of hanging himself in the barn or torching his old love letters, he sent them to a website, and got some e-closure.
www.e-closure.com Tuesday July 29 2008BEST OF SHOW FROM MAY 1, 2008 Lenore Skenazy
Her son, Izzie, wanted to travel home by himself, so armed with a fare card, a subway map and $20, his mom sent him off on a New York City adventure. Lenore Skenazy is an op-ed columnist at The New York Sun. When she wrote a column April 1, 2008 called “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Take The Subway Alone,” she figured she’d get a few e-mails pro and con. Two days later she was on the Today Show, MSNBC, FoxNews and all manner of talk radio with a new title under her smiling face: “America’s Worst Mom?” Mitch Albom
Promoting the DVD release of "Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom’s For One More Day" (executive producer Oprah Winfrey) on May 6th. The television movie about a despondent baseball player who gets to spend a final day with his departed mother was developed from Albom’s popular novel of the same name and he is available to discuss the book and the movie. Lewis Black
He is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often simulates a mental breakdown or rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends, and cultural phenomena. He hosts Comedy Central's The Root of All Evil and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show delivering his “Back in Black” commentary segment. Monday July 28 2008Jason Peter
Promoting his NY Times bestseller, "Hero of the Underground: My Journey Down to Heroin – and Back". An NFL first-round draft pick by the Carolina Panthers whose career was shortened by a recurring and chronic neck stinger that forced him to retire after the 2001 season.
www.jasonpeter.com Elizabeth Royte
Author, "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It". In the follow-up to Garbage Land, her influential investigation into our modern trash crisis, Elizabeth Royte ventures to Fryeburg, Maine, to look deep into the source—of Poland Spring water.
www.booknoise.net/bottlemania BEST OF SEGMENT FROM JUNE 5, 2008 Kenny Mayne
Promoting his book "An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: . . . and Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood". Kenny is known for his offbeat style, dry humor and unique sayings -- has served a variety of roles in more than 10 years with ESPN. He currently provides features to SportsCenter and "The Mayne Event" segments to Sunday NFL Countdown.
www.kennymaynehaswrittenabook.com Friday July 25 2008Andy Ofiesh
A stand-up comedian from Boston who created the Naked Comedy Showcase featuring comics doing stand-up in the nude.
www.nakedcomedyshowcase.com & www.myspace.com/nakedcomedyshowcase Michael Gutradt
Sex Vacations for adults in the Dominican Republic.
www.oxygenretreat.com Mara Ranger
The Gorham, Maine woman found an 8-foot long snake in her washing machine. Thursday July 24 2008Marcus Henderson
A critically acclaimed rock and heavy metal guitarist from the San Francisco bay area. In 2005 he was chosen to take the role as one of lead guitarist's for the Guitar Hero series.
www.guitarhero.com & www.guitarinstructor.com & www.myspace.com/binarysuicide Robert Lee Camp
Author, "Your Birthday, Your Card". The Love Astrologer. Robert Camp is an author, teacher and master astrologer. Among his clients, many of whom are well known names in Hollywood, he is known for the accuracy and insight of his personal readings.
www.robertleecamp.com & www.7thunders.com Alan "Upshot" Brown
One man's quest to play every disc golf course in America. Alan "Upshot" Brown, PDGA#30235 (Professional Disc Golf Association), will attempt to Play 'Em All!
www.playemalltour.com Wednesday July 23 2008Jack Timlock
Bottoms Up padded briefs for men and women. Buy 2 pair get 1 free; buy 4 get 2 free; buy 6 get 3 free.
www.bottomsup.ca Tuesday July 22 2008Stefan Fatsis
Author, "A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL". Fatsis, a longtime sports reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the author of the national bestseller Word Freak (infiltrated the insular world of competitive Scrabble® players), spent three months embedded as a place kicker for the Denver Broncos and tunneled deep into the world of professional football.
www.stefanfatsis.com Holiday Road - Museum Of The American Cocktail
Ted Haigh, Curator
Riverwalk Marketplace Mall
1 Julia Street, Suite 169, New Orleans, LA
The Museum of the American Cocktail (MOTAC) opened the doors July 21 to its spectacular new home in New Orleans.
www.museumoftheamericancocktail.org & www.tedhaigh.com Henry Coffer
Henry is a barber in Charleston, Missouri who submitted 167 pound hair ball to the Guiness Book of World Records. He's also published a book, "50 Years of Barber Shop Jokes". Send $15 for the book, shipping included: 1115 South Main St. Charleston, MO 63834. Monday July 21 2008 Fran Baskerville
The Singing Psychic. Over the past ten years, Fran has repeatedly won World's Greatest Psychic Award. Ms. Baskerville has found over 5,000 missing persons, including children.
www.singingpsychic.com & www.detectiveinvestigator.com Victor Thompson
AKA The Patriot, the 39 year old unemployed Laconia, N.H., man is using his body as a billboard by selling tattoo advertising. Last winter, he garnered attention for tattooing his skull to resemble a Patriots helmet, a project that is still under way. The die-hard fan hopes to meet quarterback Tom Brady once his head is finished. The last tattoos will be performed live on Tru TV.
www.tattmetoo.com Gene Simmons
Promoting the release of his latest book, "Ladies of the Night: A Historical and Personal Perspective on the Oldest Profession in the World".
The KISS Alive/35 World Tour is winding down. Still to come:
8/4/08 Sturgis US Glencoe Camp Resort
8/29/08 Las Vegas US Pearl Concert Theatre (Palms Resort)
8/30/08 Lake Tahoe US Harveys Outdoor Arena
8/31/08 Kelseyville US Konocti Harbor Resort
He's started the fourth season of A&E's hit reality show Gene Simmons Family Jewels.
www.genesimmons.com Friday July 18 2008George Martin
The former NY Giant who walked across America to raise money for people with health problems linked to the Sept 11 attacks. Donations: To make a tax deductible financial donation, mail a check to “a Journey for 9/11,” c/o Valley National Bank, P.O. Box 707, Wayne, NJ 07474-0707, or call     800 889 8038 Contributions can also be made online.
www.ajourneyfor911.info Noelle Daidone
Holiday Road - The Museum of Sex in Manhattan
233 Fifth Avenue, New York @ 27th Street
Sunday - Friday: 11am - 6:30pm
Saturday: 11am - 8pm
www.museumofsex.com Ed Begley Jr.
Star of ‘Living with Ed’ on HGTV -- featuring six-time Emmy nominee Ed Begley Jr and his gorgeous wife, Rachelle (ruh-SHELL) Carson. Find out what it is like living with Hollywood's most famous environmentalist as the doors of his home open and the cameras start rolling. This show is informative, educational, chaotic and hilarious.
Promoting:
*ways to enjoy the summer while saving water
*now the official spokesperson for Bayes Cleaners. In particular they have a great Waterless Car Wash and a Stainless Steel Cleaner, great for cleaning the grill!
www.livingwithed.net & www.edbegley.com & www.bayescleaners.com Thursday July 17 2008Brant Walker
27 year old co-founder of Rotten Neighbor.com. The site founded last July is part online therapy, part trashy paperback novel. It singles out neighbors for offenses ranging from shoddy lawn upkeep ("They have garbage all through their yard") to alleged violence ("He has tried to run us down with his push lawnmower"). Users are invited to post advice on dealing with neighbors who fight and yell, who let their animals defecate on other people's property, who neglect their septic tanks -- even those who cook foul-smelling food.
www.rottenneighbor.com Gary Sohmers
Attending tapings for the 13th season on the 5 time Emmy nominated PBS TV series Antiques Roadshow, including appearances in Dallas, Wichita, Chattanooga and Hartford. He will give listeners “psychic appraisals” of their stuff.
www.allcollectors.com & www.collectorschannel.tv In God We Trust
57 year old school bus driver and amateur artist formerly known as Steve Kreuscher changed his name legally to symbolize the help God gave him during tough times. Wednesday July 16 2008 Mickey Maloof
The official McFLY 2015 project is a grassroots movement to get Nike to make available to consumers the futuristic-looking sneakers seen in the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part 2.
www.mcfly2015.com & www.myspace.com/mcfly2015 Kent Couch
Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert, landing in a field in Idaho. Couch is here to update us after being interviewed by Brazilian TV.
www.couchballoons.com Tuesday July 15 2008 Jim Mouth
Anaheim comic set a Guiness World Record on Wednesday for "Most Seats Sat in 48 Hours" by sitting in 39,250 seats. He began the task on a Monday morning, and sat in 92,542 seats by last Friday. The 56-year-old, who already holds 22 other world records, says he has dreamed of tackling the Rose Bowl seats for 20 years — ever since he sat in all 107,501 chairs at the University of Michigan's football stadium.
www.jimmouth.com Doug Benson
Just released documentary Super High Me on DVD. Benson is a comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever, and most recently as a contestant on Last Comic Standing.
www.superhighmemovie.com Brian "Young Gun" Krause
Brian Krause was crowned champ at the Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm International Cherry Pit Spit competition Saturday July 5. Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm sponsors the event every July since 1974.
www.treemendus-fruit.com Monday July 14 2008 Jesse Ventura
Promoting his book, "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!". Ventura just announced that he is running for Congress. He is going to take on incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R) and former comedian Al Franken (D). Stan Isaacs
Author, "Ten Moments That Shook The Sports World: One Sportswriter's Eyewitness Account of the Most Incredible Sporting Events of the Past Fifty Years". The Shot Heard ‘Round the World in 1951;
Ali vs. Frazier "The Fight of the Century" in 1971;
Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes;
Stan Isaacs saw them all live.
www.thecolumnists.com Edith Pittenger
96 yr old great-great grandmothermade laps at 180 mph with race car driver Arie Lyundyke Jr. at the Indianapolis Speedway. Friday July 11 2008 Marrena Lindberg
Author, "The Orgasmic Diet: A Revolutionary Plan to Lift Your Libido and Bring You to Orgasm". For the millions of women unable to reach orgasm, or for those who want to improve their sex lives, here is an easy-to-follow diet and exercise plan to bring women to orgasm for the first time and every time they have sex.
www.orgasmicdiet.com Jay Weinberg
29 year old from Valparaiso struck a chord with drivers in May when he staged an unauthorized concert on the roof of a gas station in northwest Indiana to protest high fuel prices. He was just in court to plead guilty to trespassing in return for a sentence of six months of unsupervised probation.
www.gasolinesong.com & www.myspace.com/dubdrag Thursday July 10 2008Mason Tvert
Co-founder and Executive Director of Denver-based organization Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER). He'll talk about the press conference held June 24 in front of the Denver Airports District Office of the FAA to call for marijuana lounges in airports nationwide to address the growing number of in-flight problems involving drunk and disorderly passengers.
www.saferchoice.org Kent Couch
Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho. Couch's wife, Susan, called him crazy: "It's never been a dull moment since I married him."
www.couchballoons.com Dr. William Bradshaw
Author, 'Sinisters Among Us'. He is an ordained minister and one of few Americans to receive a Ph.D. in demonology.
www.sinisteramongus.com Wednesday July 9 2008Dave Hall & Tym Burkey
Authors, 'Into the Devil's Den: How an FBI Informant Got Inside the Aryan Nations and a Special Agent Got Him Out Alive'. For years, the FBI had sought to infiltrate the Aryan Nations, only to be thwarted by the group’s extreme paranoia of new members. Enter Dave Hall, a tattooed, 350-pound, six-foot-four former biker.
www.intothedevilsden.com Congressman Robert Wexler
Author (with David Fisher), "Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress". Six-term Florida Congressman Robert Wexler has been at the center of some of the most volatile political debates in the last decade. Wexler provides a riveting, on-the-ground view of how these events played out, from the butterfly ballot controversy of the 2000 presidential election, to the Terri Schiavo case, to FEMA’s incompetence in dealing with hurricane damage.
http://wexler.house.gov Richard Roeper
Three time Emmy award winning (for his news commentaries on Fox in the 1990s) columnist/film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and, since September of 2000, has co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper with fellow film critic Roger Ebert.
www.ebertandroeper.tv Tuesday July 8 2008 Howard London
Celebrity Divorce Lawyer to talk about the Christie Brinkley / Peter Cook divorce case, etc.
www.beermannlaw.com Jay will be leaving at 4:20 pm to appear on FOX's "Happy Hour" today. The remainder of the show will be a re-broadcast of a show from April 16, 2008. Best of segment features the Hillstrand Brothers from America's Deadliest Catch and Captain Gill who offer topless fishing charters in Florida. Monday July 7 2008Kathleen Parker
Author, 'Save The Males: Why Men Should Matter, Why Women Should Care'. Exploring our burgeoning “slut culture” and the vividly narcissistic prevalence of vagina worship, Save the Males softens no edges. Rick Shenkman
Author, 'Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth about the American Voter'. With wit, passion and devastating evidence, Shenkman compels us, the praised and petted ‘American people,’ to look in the mirror for an explanation of why our elections are travesties of informed, intelligent debate.
http://hnn.us/blogs/72.html Deven Trabosh
Trabosh, a 42 year old divorced mother of two from Palm Beach Gardens FL, has listed her home online in an effort to sell her house and herself. She hopes that whoever buys the house will share her life. Thursday July 3 2008Fred Travalena
Promoting his CD, “The Spirit of America”, a song that he wrote about our flag, Old Glory. The old school impressionist is also a veteran, and a supporter of the USO and all branches of the military. Jeff Kluger
Author, "Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)". The senior writer at Time makes the modern world comprehensible, analyzing social and technological systems to reveal that things that seem complicated can be preposterously simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly complex. Christian Lander
Author, "Stuff White People Like'. They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees. They believe they’re unique, yet somehow they’re all exactly the same, talking about how they “get” Sarah Silverman’s “subversive” comedy and Wes Anderson’s “droll” films. They’re also down with diversity and up on all the best microbrews, breakfast spots, foreign cinema, and authentic sushi. They’re organic, ironic, and do not own TVs. Wednesday July 2 2008Dan White
Author, 'The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail'. The Pacific Coast Trail is an epic challenge for die-hard backpackers. White and his girlfriend, Melissa, set out, late in the season and bereft of experience, to tread all 2,650 miles of it, leaving behind lousy reporting jobs and hoping to find self-definition and a deepened relationship. Hodding Carter
The author of "Off the Deep End" reporting back after the New England Masters Championships swim trials for the Olympics. Crazy Legs Conti
He's participating in Nathan's famous 4th of July hot dog eating contest on ESPN at noon. The Nathan's Famous International Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Championship has been held each year on July 4 since 1916. |
