Wednesday October 31 2007Andrea Hess
Paranormal Specialist and author of "Unlock Your Intuition: How to Accurately and Reliably Access Your Most Valuable Resource ". About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts. Nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence. About one out of five people, 19 percent, say they accept the existence of spells or witchcraft. Nearly half, 48 percent, believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP. The most likely candidates for ghostly visits include single people, Catholics and those who never attend religious services.
http://www.empoweredsoul.com & http://www.myspace.com/yourempoweredsoul Joe Hiles
Promoting his serial killer websites and marketplaces for macabre merchandise. Fascination with murder isn't an internet phenomenon, though the web helps people find each other. Jean Murley, a professor at Queensborough Community College, wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on true crime novels, and says the books are just a step away from murderabilia -- if that.
http://www.skcentral.com & http://www.serialkillertv.com John Safran
Re: John Safran vs God DVD. Australian documentarian and media personality, well known for pranks and indelicate handling of controversial issues. August 2004, he debuted his new show John Safran vs God, also on the SBS television network. The first seven episodes were typical Safran informative satire, but the series' finale was something else. It featured John being exorcised of demons which had allegedly possessed him during his dabblings with world religions. The exorcism was performed by well known Christian fundamentalist Bob Larson. It was widely criticized as being fake.
http://www.johnsafran.com Tuesday October 30 2007Kim Reierson
Author, "Eighteen: A look at the Culture That Moves Us". Reierson encountered both the trucker lifestyle and photography early in life. Her father drove an 18-wheeler for 17 years, and she only saw him sporadically as he drove around the nation. She never knew him very well, and after her parents divorced when she was in college, she stopped speaking to him. He never knew she was working on the book. Her obsession with truck driving didn’t take root until after Sept. 11, when she drove from New York City to Santa Barbara, Calif., to meet her mom. She traveled through more than 20 different states in five years and shares what she discovered about trucker culture with the world through this book of photography
http://www.kimreierson.com Mark Schuette
Creator of a dog-powered scooter from Bend OR. A great way to get around town if you have a dog and are too lazy to walk it. Pooch gets strapped into a cradle contraption on the side and then you give a few kicks (to the scooter, not the dog) and you're off.
http://www.dogpoweredscooter.com Christopher Malasics
Playing dead might just be the reason 14-year-old Chris Malasics is still alive. He was camping with his troop in Hickory Run State Park in Pennsylvania three weeks ago when a bear invited himself into the boy's tent late at night. One of the 15,000 black bears that roam the forests of Northeastern Pennsylvania yanked Chris out of his tent and “turned him like a toy”. Monday October 29 2007Henry Coffer
Henry is a barber in Charleston, Missouri who is submitting a 167 pound hair ball to the Guiness Book of World Records. He's also published a book, "50 Years of Barber Shop Jokes". Brad Johnson
29 year old Brad is on the show ‘Last one Standing’ on The Discovery Channel Thursdays at 8pm. Bradley Johnson is one of the top lightweight strongmen in America—and for Brad, “light” means a little less than 240 lbs of pure muscle. There are few things he can’t lift, shift or throw. And he’s out to show just what strongmen can do! Dale Carman
Dale had been mowing his lawn Oct. 5 in Stony Brook, N.Y. on Long Island when he felt something hit him on the right side of his chest. He had a nail embedded in his heart and told his wife it was only a flesh wound. Friday October 26 2007Jay Moore
Co-founder, MyFreeImplants.com. As a member of the MyFreeImplants website you have direct access to contact the many girls that are seeking help in achieving the physical appearance that they have long desired. Once you create your account you can choose to buy message credits in several denominations. When you use your credits to send messages to the ladies they earn credit towards their procedures.
http://www.myfreeimplants.com Christopher Knight
Promoting “Dr 90210” on E! Dr. Will Kirby, who is a clinical and cosmetic dermatologist on “Dr. 90210” this season, as well as the winner of the second season of “Big Brother,” is doing hair removal procedure for former Brady Bunch star Chris Knight. They are friends and business partners. The episode airs on 10/29 on E!.
http://www.christopherknight.tv Robert Violante
Robert is auctioning off his 1977 Billy Martin Yankees Jersey, which was given to him by Billy Martin when in the hospital after being shot in the head by The Son of Sam. The Son of Sam's last victim is finally cashing in on New York's wild Summer of '77 - selling the spirit-lifting baseball jersey manager Billy Martin gave him after the Yankees won the World Series. John Finley
Runs Haunt XXX an adults-only haunted house in Houston that serves up its scary with a side of sexy. 2720 SW Fwy, between Kirby & Buffalo Speedway.
It features the Lorena Bobbitt room, the infamous Shower Scene - 20 scenes in all, including animatronics and special effects. Some were offended by the XXX scares, but the owner insists it’s nothing more than a marketing ploy.
http://www.hauntxxx.com Thursday October 25 2007 Marcelle Shriver
Sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. The 57 year old Stratford, New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq. American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her 28 year old son, Todd, a soldier in Iraq. Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible. Donations of Silly String or other similar products and money to help defray costs. Checks can be made out to Marcelle Shriver and sent to St. Luke's Church, 55 Warwick Rd., Stratford, N.J. 08084. Liz Patterson
Re: Idaho Falls "Phantom Pooper". One local neighborhood can barely breath because of a disgusting stench in the air. A phantom pooper is taking a squat in the back of one Idaho Falls neighborhood. The city has gotten so many calls about the phantom pooper that they've set up a pooper stake out to see if they could catch him doing his business. His preferential place to leave a log is under the Lindsey Boulevard Overpass and fancies himself a Rembrandt. Dazzling abstract expressionist fingerpaintings are the phantom's distinct calling card, executed with a limited brownish palette. Diana Marek
Asst. Director of Northwestern University Transportation Center. They found Travelocity Roaming Gnome, which had been missing, being in the center's kitchen. The "spokesgnome," a two-foot tall figurine and star of Travelocity's ad campaigns, had been missing since Oct. 12. Intern Diamond James discovered the Roaming Gnome. James, a Medill senior and former Daily staffer, was looking for shopping bags in the center's lower level kitchen when she happened upon the Roaming Gnome shoved next to an industrial refrigerator. Wednesday October 24 2007Jonathan Karsh
Emmy Award-winning host Jonathan Karsh helped develop CBS' "Kid Nation" and serves as the show's host, as well as its supervising producer. CBS’ reality show “Kid Nation” puts 40 kids from across America on their own in a New Mexico ghost town. The kids, ages 8-15, spent 40 days without their parents or modern comfort. AJ Jacobs
Author, "The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible". Jacobs is the editor at large at Esquire magazine. He has written for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine and Dental Economics magazine, one of the top five magazines about the financial side of toothcare.
http://www.ajjacobs.com John Finley
From Haunt XXX, an adults-only haunted house in Houston that serves up its scary with a side of sexy. 2720 SW Fwy, between Kirby & Buffalo Speedway. It features the Lorena Bobbitt room, the infamous Shower Scene - 20 scenes in all, including animatronics and special effects.
http://www.hauntxxx.com Tuesday October 23 2007Russ Dillingham
Newspaper photographer for the Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine. Russ captured photos of a car theft suspect jumping from a third-floor balcony and tackled the man and held him until police arrived. Rev. George Malkmus
Author, "The Hallelujah Diet". In 1992, he and his wife Rhonda and started the Hallelujah Acres® Ministry in a small store in Rogersville, TN, where they served carrot juice and other vegetarian fare, as well as shared his health message with all who would listen. From that humble beginning, Hallelujah Acres® has grown to an estimated two million plus followers today.
http://www.hacres.com Will Bowen
Author, "A Complaint Free World: How To Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted". Will is a pastor at a small Unity Church in Kansas City, and started a movement that has now been embraced by more than 6 million people in 80 countries. Just what was this movement? Simple: he challenged people to try to make the world a better place by simply trying to stop complaining for 21 days in a row. What began as a simple sermon one Sunday afternoon has now become a real-life, worldwide sensation.
http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org & http://www.ccunitykc.org Monday October 22 2007 Craig and Paul Pumphrey
Promoting National Geographic Channel's show Super Strength Monday October 22nd at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Pumphrey brothers hold seven world records for outrageous feats of strength. The show features some of the world's strongest professional athletes and delves into how they are able to surpass the limits of ordinary strength. Iimagine bending steel with your teeth, shattering stacks of concrete bricks with your head, pulling a 26,000-lb truck by yourself or driving in a nail with your bare hand. Nick Harper
Author, "Man Skills: Everything Men Need (or Just Want) To Know". Harper is the features editor for Four-FourTwo, Britainis biggest selling soccer magazine, and writes for Men's Health, The Guardian, Q and FHM. He lives in England. Man Skills provides the answers to the questions most men are afraid to ask.
-How to Communicate with Morse Code
-How to Fight a Raging Fire
-How to Navigate by the Stars
-How to Dive Like Tarzan
-How to Make a Bow and Arrow
-How to Write a Best Man's Speech
-How to Perform the Heimlich Manouver
-How to Dump a Woman the Gentlemanly Way
-How to Pitch a Tent
-How to Start a Fire with Two Sticks
-How to Beat a Hangover
-How to Hit a Carnival Hammer (and Make the Bell Ring)
-How to Tie a Bow Tie
-How to Pass Yourself Off As Some Kind of Wine Buff
-How to Blow a Smoke Ring
-How to Undo a Bra Using Only One Hand
-How to Survive in Prison Jeffrey Toobin
Author, "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court". Staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, former legal analyst for ABC News, and the author of five books. Toobin is a CNN legal analyst for CNN Worldwide. Based in the network's New York bureau, Toobin joined CNN in April 2002. Friday October 19 2007Jay is off today. Best Of Jay Thomas. Thursday October 18 2007Dennis Kucinich
He is the only candidate who advocates universal health care, eliminating the profit motive in health care. Since Americans hate anything that smacks of government control, he calls it a single payer system. Kucinich and Ron Paul are the only presidential candidates who voted against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He has since voted against funding it 100% of the time. Kucinich sent a letter to his Democratic colleagues saying that he planned to file impeachment proceedings against Dick Cheney.
http://www.dennis4president.com Dr. David Eigen
Author, "Men-The Gods of Love". Dr. Eigen describes the emasculation of men in today's society. Why it is happening, and the impact it could have. Dr. Eigen has appeared on FOX News Channel and has appeared on numerous shows across the nation.
http://www.menthegodsoflove.com Leigh Turner
Owner of The Black Frog Restaurant in Greenville, Maine which offered their ‘naked lunch’, a sandwich called the Skinny Dip - for free to anyone willing to plunge naked from the restaurant’s dock into Moosehead Lake. Now there's a movement to ban the skinny dipping.
http://www.theblackfrog.com Wednesday October 17 2007Doris "Granny D" Haddock
97 year old stars in "Run Granny Run" a documentary by Marlo Poras, premiering on HBO Thursday October 18th at 9pm. A tale of doggedness versus dollars, grit against greenbacks, "Run Granny Run" is an unlikely portrait of a remarkable activist and an exploration of our fragile democracy in the corporate age.
http://www.grannyd.com Bill Wiese
Author, "23 Minutes In Hell". Promoting paperback edition release. At exactly 3:23 a.m. on November 22, 1998, Annette Wiese awoke to her husband's screams. Rushing down the hall of their Santa Ana, California, home to the living room, she found him lying on the floor in a fetal position, his hands grasping at the sides of his head, begging her to pray for him. After he drank several glasses of water, Bill Wiese explained in gasps to his wife that God had taken him into hell. Adlee Bruner
47 year old caught an 11-foot, 844.4 pound mako shark during a fishing rodeo Saturday near Destin, Fla. With a post-gutting weight of 638 pounds, it shattered the previous shark rodeo record of 339 pounds. Tuesday October 16 2007Damali Ayo
Creator of The First Annual National Day of Panhandling for Reparations which was held on October 10, 2007. She is also the author of " How to Rent a Negro". She is a conceptual artist, author and speaker who integrates social issues in her visual visual and performing art. She has spoken to colleges, high schools, non-profits and communities in 20 U.S. states and Canada about race, diversity, art and eco-living. Damali and her work have been featured in over 100 publications world-wide including Harpers, the Village Voice, Salon.com, the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, CSPAN2's Book TV. Her award-winning work has been shown at galleries around the world.
http://www.damaliayo.com Michael Townsend
36 year old Michael and seven others created a secret studio apartment underneath Providence Place mall, where they stayed, on and off, for nearly four years until mall security finally caught their leader in late September. The artists illegally ate, drank, slept, read, held meetings, watched TV and enjoyed games on a Sony Playstation2 in a palace of American commercialism.
http://www.trummerkind.com & http://www.tapeart.com Michael Gates Gill
Author, "How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else". The inspiring true story of how one man found out what is really important in life. Tom Hanks bought the movie rights. Monday October 15 2007Jason Chambers
Jason stars in the hit History Channel Series "Human Weapon." He will be in New York City on October 15th and 16th he is playing in the Vail Celebrity Poker Tournament. Chambers is a mixed martial arts fighter. In addition, Chambers is an actor who has appeared on "Sex in the City" and "All My Children." He was a contestant on a season four episode of "Fear Factor."
http://www.jasonchambers.net & http://www.myspace.com/jasonchambers Suzanne Bagert
Suzanne and her husband filed a lawsuit in state supreme court over the infestation of cockroaches in their apartment at the Ansonia in NYC. Alan Arkin (not Alan Arkin the actor, but handily for this purpose, a lawyer) and his wife, Suzanne Bagert, a consultant to private equity funds, say that since mid-September, they have hardly been able to sleep at night and have stopped using their kitchen, for fear of the pesky invaders. They started seeing roaches about a year ago and had an exterminator spray, which helped only temporarily. Jacob D’Aniello
The founder/owner of Doody Calls, Premier Pet Waste Removal Service. With annual growth nearing 50%, "the pooper scooper industry is now experiencing a lot of consolidation," says Jacob D'Aniello of DoodyCalls, which has 20 locations nationwide.
http://www.doodycalls.com
Friday October 12 2007Frank Stallone
Frank will be playing tonight at The Cutting Room 19 W. 24th Street, New York. Tickets available at www.smarttix.com     (212) 691-1900 . Check his website to see his full schedule.
http://www.frankstallone.com Marc Mathews
He runs Connecticut Tree Care, LLP which offers a free service to rescue cats from trees. He has a dump truck and a chipper. What he doesn't have is a $120,000 bucket truck. That means Mathews has to use ropes and climbing gear which makes him an old-school tree climber. He says he'll go as high as he possibly can to get a cat. James Fitzgerald
Author, "The Joys of Smoking Cigarettes". You know who you are: you're one of the one billion adults who takes pleasure in smoking cigarettes. This one-of-a-kind treasure trove of memories, meditations, fascinating facts, tantalizing trivia, wit, and wisdom about smoking will only enhance the unparalleled pleasure of lighting up! Thursday October 11 2007Kevin Meaney
Emmy Award winner who has been one of the country's most popular standup comedians for more than 25 years. Last appeared on the show July 12, 2007 where he publicly admitted for the first time that he is gay. Kevin is in the Broadway cast of Hairspray starring as Harriman F. Spritzer, Principal, Mr. Pinky and Guard. Also, understudy for Edna & Wilbur Turnblad.
http://www.kevinmeany.com Jean Jahnke
President of Dancers with Woofs, a free-style dance class for dogs.
http://www.forpetssake.cc Wednesday October 10 2007Mo Rocca
Best known as a former correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Does satirical commentary on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgoode. Played the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in the Broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
http://www.morocca180.com Diana Falzone
Co-host of DeVore and Diana 7 pm - 11 pm ET on Maxim channel 108. Promoting women doing manly jobs on their Sirius radio show.
http://www.dianafalzone.com & http://www.devoreanddiana.com Dr. Brady Barr
Herpetologist and Ph.D. promoting National Geographic Channel's "Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr: Snake Bite" premieres Sunday, October 14, 2007, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Barr had a true dangerous encounter while conducting field research on pythons in Indonesia. During his research into why these enormous snakes like to inhabit dark caves and why this unexpected environment may be critical to their survival, Dr. Barr encounters a large python. While attempting to capture the python for further study, Dr. Barr is repeatedly bitten by the python and wrapped in its powerful coils. Tuesday October 9 2007 Susie Essman
Promoting Bravo's New Reality Series Better Half premiers on Bravo Wed. Oct. 3, 2007 at 11pm and will thereafter be on Wednesdays at 10pm. Play's Jeff Garlin's wife in Curb Your Enthusiam on HBO. Headlines at Caroline's on Broadway October 12, 13 and 14
http://www.susieessman.com John Cross
The founder of Hot Body International - a progressive men's entertainment company specializing in tasteful images and videos of beautiful naked women from around the globe. With close to 300 video titles under his belt and an avalanche of exciting and eye-popping new marketing ventures.
http://www.hotbody.com & http://www.myspace.com/hotbodyprez Mark Maske
Author of "War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football’s NFC East". Mark has a celebrated history of revealing exclusive details of the NFL in his NFL Insider column for The Washington Post. Now, Maske takes readers into the boardrooms, the locker rooms, and onto the field of four of NFL’s greatest rivals—The Washington Redskins, the Dallas Cowboys, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the New York Giants—to chronicle a year of bitter on-and-off field competition and disclose the triumphs and struggles of America’s most storied and successful division in professional sports. Friday October 5 2007Paula Bernstein & Elyse Schein
Authors of ‘Identical Strangers’: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited. They take turns recounting the story of how each woman, at age 35, discovered she had an identical twin sister, and the reunion that followed.
http://www.paulabernstein.com & http://www.elyseschein.com Fatal1ty aka Jonathan Wendel
Professional gamer. He's finishing up his 12 city mall tour. He will be MC’ing the Video games Live Concert during the Grand opening weekend of the Nokia Theater in LA in a few weeks. He will be appearing at E For All gaming show in LA.
http://www.fatal1ty.com Psychic Suzanna
http://www.mediapsychic.com Wednesday October 3 2007Brant Walker
Creator of a Web site called RottenNeighbor. 27-year-old from San Diego, said his own dealings with rotten neighbors inspired him to create the site. It provides a forum for disturbed dwellers to vent about the punk-rock singer in 4C who practices at midnight, or the clashing couple who fight all weekend long.
http://www.rottenneighbor.com Jim Stevenson
Founder and director of Galveston Birders (Galveston Ornithological Society) is accused of felony animal cruelty in the shooting of a feral cat that was hunting endangered piping plovers (and other federally protected species).
http://www.galvestonbirders.org Mason Tvert
Executive Director of SAFER - Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation. the group that made Denver the first U.S. city to remove all legal penalties for simple adult marijuana possession is encouraging NFL superstar Ricky Williams, who has been repeatedly penalized by the league for his marijuana use, to come to the Mile High City and join the Denver Broncos. They will put up a billboard directly across the street from Invesco Field at Mile High.
http://www.saferchoice.org Tuesday October 2 2007Sugar Ray Leonard
Promoting season 3 of The Contender on ESPN with Sylvester Stallone and Mark Burnett producing. The show premiered July 18 2006 on ESPN. "The Contender" is an unscripted drama about the lives, fears and hopes of 16 professional boxers as they compete for the chance to change their lives and the lives of the people they love forever.
http://www.espncontender.secondthought.com Linda and Gerald Polley
Gerald Polley says God told him to run for president. Husband and wife psychic speakers (aka celebrity channelers). Linda channels John Lennon and George Harrison. Gerald Polley channels God, Jesus and Kurt Cobain.
http://www.voicesfromspirit.com/president.htm David Martosko
Senior researcher for The Center for Consumer Freedom. Yesterday the CCF ran a full-page ad in The New York Times highlighting the hypocrisy of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA’s campaign against NFL quarterback Michael Vick is disingenuous given that PETA itself has killed over 14,000 more animals than the NFL star.
http://www.consumerfreedom.com & http://www.petakillsanimals.com Monday October 1 2007Peter Allison
Author, "Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide". A highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!” The local Batswana dubbed him "The Sexually Frustrated Elephant." The origin of this epithet is explained in the book.
http://www.peterallison.com & http://www.classicsafaricompany.com.au Zaib Shaikh
Promoting Little Mosque on the Prairie season 2 debut Wed 10/4 on the CBC. Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom on CBC Television created by Zarqa Nawaz. The series focuses on the Muslim population of the fictional rural prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan.
http://www.myspace.com/zaibshaikh & http://www.cbc.ca/littlemosque Kinky Friedman
Promoting his new book, "You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics". Kinky lays forth his ten commandments for improving the state of Texas and politics everywhere, and for restoring order, logic, decency, and above all a sense of humor back to this country. It's classic Kinky in a brand new way.
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com |
