“Warner Bros. Pictures is now developing a live-action/CGI movie on the lovelorn French skunk and [Mike] Myers is attached to voice the lead role.” [New York]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k

We’re slowly coming to the upsetting realization that Other Things Happened during our Lost Week — things we would have been happy to note, had we not been caught up in noting things that surely qualify us for a Local Peabody.

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The No-Longer-ARCO/BP gas station that’s on the corner of Castro and Market across from Harvey Milk Plaza and catty-corner to the Twin Peaks Tavern, one of the oldest gay bars in SF [with some of the oldest gay men, badump!] apparently decided it wanted to invoke a boycott, as this morning its owner allowed The Liberty Freedom Foundation* to put up a billboard advertising the Snowbunny grifter’s speech on Oct. 14 at San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts.

Victor Cocchia, executive director of this bizarro foundation, told the San Francisco Chronicle that “the Castro is supposed to be about a message of tolerance, and we hope that tradition stays.  Hopefully, people will listen with an open mind…at least they heard it straight from us.”

I’ll go by the station this evening and report as to whether the sign is still there or if a mob of gheyz have torn it down in response to the middle finger from Palin supporters.

*No, really, click on the linque, their website is hilarious…

Damn, glad we got BozoGate in before this dropped…

Democratic Virginia House candidate Krystal Ball (yes, that’s her real name) went on the offensive Wednesday after racy photos of her surfaced online this week.

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[CNN]

“BE IT REMEMBERED, this date, the Court having ordered all present in the courtroom to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegience, and having found that Danny Lampley, Attorney at Law, failed and refused to do so, finds said Danny Lampley to be in criminal contempt of court.” [NMissCommentor, via Sully]

Well, if it’s Thursday it must be another domestic worker drama affecting a right-winger.  Today it’s former CNN anchor and current Tea Party darling Lou Dobbs, best known for his vile diatribes against undocumented workers and the people who employ them.

According to The Nation, one of the few media outlets that still does hard-hitting investigations, Dobbs has employed at least five illegal immigrants for years to take care of his daughter’s champion horses in Florida and Vermont, and to maintain his million dollar estates in New Jersey and Florida.

Dobbs, who has said that employers of undocumented workers “should face felony charges” refused to comment on the story.

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