Ladies and gentlemen, the inevitable Apple Daily animation.

Yesterday at the gym I read the latest David Sedaris piece in The New Yorker, all about flying in America. My favorite line, which the fashionistas can appreciate, was in regard to how most people dress for flying, and along the lines of: “It’s as if they were all cleaning grease off a pig, stood up and said, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to LA.'”  Sedaris writes about how flight attendants have told him how they get back at disruly and annoying passengers by walking down the center aisle letting out silent but deadly farts.

That’s just child’s play. Steven Slater, a flight attendant with Jet Blue pictured in the above photo, has taken bitchy queen snappiness to a whole new level.

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Since the news appears to have taken off early for the weekend, please enjoy the most popular video on YouTube right now.

How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made [ReadWriteWeb]

[National Enquirer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFv3z7Q6tsI

Today’s Blogger Buzz appears to be Nevada’s Sharron Angle walking out on reporters while her campaign manager calls one an “‘an idiot’ and another term that can’t be repeated.” (Nominations welcome!)

We’re having a hard time getting worked up about that, but then we found another Angle video that we think is much more illuminating.

It’s a new era in, um, target marketing:

At the Blackwater Pro Shops in Fayetteville, North Carolina and Salem, Connecticut, you can “purchase clothing and equipment emblazoned with the logo,” the Solider Systems blog explains. “If that doesn’t get your blood pumping you can also try out your new firearms at their indoor range.”

Customer tip: Avoid the Genius Bar.

Retail Guns-for-Hire: Blackwater Opens Storefronts [Wired]

Blackwater Pro Shop

Update: Next time you drop by the Blackwater Pro Shop, you might want to make an offer on Blackwater itself.

Sayonara: Blackwater puts itself up for sale [AP/Raw Story]

We thought there was a code of omertà about these things:

​The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times the Baptist minister is a homosexual who paid him to provide body rubs once a day in the nude, during their ten-day vacation in Europe.

Rekers allegedly named his favorite maneuver the “long stroke” — a complicated caress “across his penis, thigh… and his anus over the butt cheeks,” as the escort puts it. “Rekers liked to be rubbed down there,” he says…

New Times spent more than three hours with Lucien in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Check back this afternoon for stories detailing the trip…

Dammit, we paid good money for a Learning Annex class on this. The Rent Boy Guild is gonna be pissed.

George Rekers Is a Homosexual, Escort Says [Miami New Times]