Friday November 30 2007

Jeri Priest
69-year-old Denver Broncos fan is facing a disorderly conduct charge for honking her “Broncos Horn" in her yard, which is disturbing her neighbor.

Derek Goss
The 28 year old, who is disabled, is a self-made stuntman and Internet personality. There are 59 episodes of his variety show, "The Derek Goss Show" on YouTube. His ultimate goal is to find a sponsor or deal that will land the Derek Goss Show on television, thus "taking it to the next plateau."
http://www.youtube.com/Derek32112 & http://www.myspace.com/d_rock126

Roz Savage
Following her successful crossing of the Atlantic in 2006, Roz is bidding to be the first solo woman to row across the Pacific Ocean from California to Australia. Her 3-stage row launches in Summer 2008.
http://www.rozsavage.com  

Thursday November 29 2007

Bonnie Brown
She worked for Google as a masseuse back in 1999 when the company was a start-up with 40 employees. Part of her pay was stock options and she is now a multi-millionaire. She has  book coming out in 10 days titled: “Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google.”
http://www.giiglebook.com  

Morgan Spurlock
Promoting his movie (he's the producer) ‘What Would Jesus Buy?' which follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!
http://www.wwjbmovie.com

Horace Cooper
The Fort Collins, CO city council decided against taking the color out of Christmas Tuesday night (Nov. 20) as the City Council voted 6-1 to allow lights, Christmas trees and wreaths. Horace Cooper, Senior Fellow with the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) says actions such as these are limiting Americans’ rights and promoting misuse of our local governments.   

Wednesday November 28 2007

Rupert Christiansen 
Author, "The Complete Book of Aunts". Of all our blood relations, an aunt offers the most potential for uncomplicated friendship.The Complete Book of Aunts is an entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises and varieties, culled from real-life, literary and historical sources.Bewitching illustrations and anecdotes illuminate various aunt types: Bargain Aunts, Mothering Aunts, Damned Bad Aunts, and X-Rated Aunts.With stories and poems about famous or historical aunts, Christiansen and Brophy attempt to uncover what "aunt-ness" is.

Carolyn Jessop
Co-author, "Escape". The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS.

Fred Rosen
Author, "When Satan Wore a Cross". When Satan Wore a Cross is a shocking true story of official cover-ups, madness, murder and lies—and of an unholy human monster who disguised himself in holy garb.
http://www.fredrosen.com  

Tuesday November 27 2007

Ken Jennings 
Promoting paperback release of "Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs". The Jeopardy! question that defeated him: "Most of this firm's seventy thousand seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." Ken's response: "What is FedEx?" The correct response: "What is H&R Block?" (Nancy Zerg got it right)
http://www.ken-jennings.com

James Brady
Author, "Why Marines Fight", a ruthlessly candid book about professional killers not ashamed to recall their doubts as well as exult in their savagely triumphant battle cries.

Billy West
Promoting DVD releases of Futurama (Bender's Big Score Review) and his new short form series, “Billy Bastard,” premiering in December on Comcast. Voice artist Billy West and directors Bill Wray and Jim Gomez - veterans of Ren & Stimpy all - are back together working on a new puppetry project called Billy Bastard, the story of a "strung out puppet battling it out with the police & his own demons" that's loosey based on West's drunken shenanigans as a band member in the `70s.
http://www.billywest.com    

Monday November 26 2007

David Levy
Author, "Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships". An eye-opening, superbly argued book that explores a new level of human intimacy and relationships—with robots.

Dr. John Lerma
Author, "Into the Light: Real Life Stories About Angelic Visits, Visions of the Afterlife, and Other Pre-Death Experiences". Despite our advancements in science and medicine, death remains one of human civilization's most glorious mysteries. A handful of doctors have written books on phenomena such as near-death experiences, but research and data is scarce on pre-death experiences.
http://www.drjohnlerma.com

David Rosenberg
Owner of Rosenberg Diamonds & Co in East Boca Raton, FL. He was ready to deck out dogs in expensive jewels for the now postponed grand opening of luxury pet hotel 'Chateau Poochie'. He spent hours fitting the dogs with diamond-studded jewelry -- necklaces, bracelets and earrings. French Bulldog was chosen to wear a 58-carat yellow and white diamond necklace worth $350,000. Rosenberg took out a $4 million insurance policy for the event and hired four police officers to stand guard.

Friday November 23 2007

Alvin Kupperman
Consumer products expert to discuss new gift ideas for the 2007 holidays.
http://www.productivity.net 

Rob Grader 
Author, "Cuddle Sutra: An Unabashed Celebration of the Ultimate Intimacy". The Cuddle Sutra is an all-encompassing resource for the act of cuddling, filled with detailed descriptions and illustrations of all the ways to express affection, whether youre in the privacy of your own bedroom or walking down Main Street.
http://www.thecheapbastard.com

Robbie Stevenson
She runs a business called that supplies no-cell-phone signs to businesses around the country.  Businesses are increasingly posting signs asking people to stop using cell phones during transactions.
http://www.phonesoff.net     

Wednesday November 21 2007

Jack Coughlin
Co-author, "Kill Zone: A Sniper Novel". Gunnery Sergeant Jack Coughlin, USMC, served with the Marines during the drive to Baghdad and has operated on a wide range of assignments around the world.

Melissa Naatjes
Co-owner of The Sports Page Bar and Grill in Tea, SD. Tea is a suburb of Sioux Falls SD, about 200 miles SW of Minneapolis. Attempted to break world records to celebrate the bar’s two year anniversary. "We were going to do a 160-pound hamburger. But somebody in Montana made a 6,000 pound hamburger."

Wendy Northcutt
Author, "The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design". The fourth in a series of such books by the author, this seamless abridgment reports the antics of real individuals who have acted so stupidly that they sometimes die, thus removing themselves from the reproductive chain. Starting a paper fire under a car engine that is too cold to start, snowmobiling across water, blowing up outhouses, idiotic gun mishaps--these true stories are sometimes funny, sometimes sad.
http://www.darwinawards.com   

Tuesday November 20 2007

George Bell
50 year old George Bell is the tallest man in the US and works at the Norfolk VA City Jail. He is 7 feet 8 inches tall. His girlfriend, Shirley Mason, is only 5' 2". He played for the Harlem Globetrotters and the Harlem Wizards and has previously been featured by Guinness as the World’s Tallest Athlete.

David Rosenberg
Owner of Rosenberg Diamonds & Co in East Boca Raton, FL was ready to deck out dogs in expensive jewels for the now postponed grand opening of luxury pet hotel 'Chateau Poochie'.

David Michaelis
Author, "Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography". No other cartoonist tapped the nation's psyche, or touched its heart, like Charles Schulz, who wrote and drew Peanuts for 50 years. While Schulz's gentle humor and endearing characters are what made Peanuts arguably the most beloved comic of all time, it's the strip's psychological insights and underlying melancholy that turned it into enduring art.
http://www.schulzbiography.com  

Monday November 19 2007

Winnie Shilson
Fired from Taco Bell after 30 years and no sick days, she even took a bullet in the knee when being held-up by a robber.

Randi Berger
Author of My Recycled Pets: Diary of a Dog Addict. Abused, homeless and sick dogs. These seemingly unremarkable animals taught a high-energy, Type-A personality how to tame her simmering impatience through an inspirational tale of rescue and enlightenment.

Kyla Ebbert
Kyla was on the show Sept 17 when she was in the news for the skimpy outfit she wore on a Southwest flight; she’s now posing for Playboy.  

Friday November 16 2007

Liz Patterson
A waitress at a nearby Denny's with an update on the Phatom Pooper. He (or she) is taking a squat in an Idaho Falls neighborhood under the Lindsey Boulevard Overpass. That's  where the phantom drops his/her loads and artistically smears feces on the concrete
 
James Greenebaum
The 18 year old Ohio State biology major saw Whitey the albino squirrel, considered a campus legend, killed by a hawk.
 
Kevin Eldredge 
Newcastle, Oklahoma man built a high-frequency, high-voltage resonant transformer better known as a Tesla coil. Tesla coils are very popular devices among certain electrical engineers and electronics enthusiasts. Someone who builds Tesla coils as a hobby is called a "coiler". The world's largest conical Tesla coil is on display at the Mid America Science Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Eldredge alarmed his neighbors when he first fired up his lightning machine. The fire department showed up.    

Thursday November 15 2007

Susan Martinez Ph.D. 
Author, "The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln ". Martinez recounts the paranormal events of 1848 giving rise to belief in spirit communication, pointing out that many celebrated names, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Emily Dickinson, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Queen Victoria, and W. B. Yeats, became investigators and proponents of the new "Spiritual Science."

Jared & Justin Serovich
Eight year old twin boys from Columbus OH who invented “Rip Away 1000” wedgie-proof underwear. The bully proof underwear earned the boys a spot on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show".
 
Ethel Sanders
81 year old from Mobile AL who shot a homeless man in his underwear after finding him washing his clothes in her laundry room. 

Wednesday November 14 2007

Eric Dubin
Author, "The Star Chamber: How Celebrities Go Free and Their Lawyers Become Famous". An unprecedented inside look behind the celebrity trials of our times, from attorney Eric  Dubin, who spent five years in the high-profile trenches culminating with his $30-million-dollar  jury verdict against Robert Blake for killing his wife.
http://www.dubinlaw.com

Neal Smither
Promoting “Taboo: Jobs”- Wednesday, November 14, at 10:00 PM ET/PT (World Premiere) on the National Geographic Channel. Some jobs are so gross and disgusting that few would want to do them.  Taboo Jobs takes viewers into their world.  In Oakland, Calif., see how Neal Smither makes his living out of the business of death - cleaning up the bloodstains and body fluids left at the scene of violent deaths.
http://www.crimescenecleaners.com

Dan Dunn
Author, "Nobody Likes a Quitter (and other reasons to avoid rehab): The Loaded Life of an Outlaw Booze Writer". Describes his website as part drinking guide (well, in the same way that “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” is a child-care tipsheet); part bartender’s guide (well, in the way that “The Sun Also Rises” is a travel guide); and part expose into the sloshy world of big-time spirits reportage (well, in the way that “Airplane 2” exposed the truth about airline culture).
http://www.theimbiber.net    

Monday November 12 2007

Debora Beam
Talking about her "Martini Bash" renovation event. Homeowners looking to save money by having friends for drinks and renovations may discover the results are sobering. During her 2005 renovation event in Toronto, Debora Beam wandered upstairs to find one of her friends halfway through sledgehammering out the wrong wall.

Rich Eisen
Author, "Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe". Thanks to his role as host of the NFL Network’s signature program, NFL Total Access, Rich Eisen gets to go to virtually every event on the NFL Calendar---the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Scouting Combine, the NFL Draft, and the Hall of Fame Induction Weekend. You name it, Rich Eisen is there. And thanks to this book, you can go along for the ride with him--in front of the camera interviewing league MVPs and former presidents of the United States or behind the scenes with some of the game’s all-time greats like Deion Sanders, Ray Lewis, and Brett Favre, just to name a few.

Ethel Sanders
81 year old from Mobile AL who shot a homeless man in his underwear after finding him washing his clothes in her laundry room.   

Thursday November 8 2007

Joe Piscopo
Promoting The Positive Impact Foundation. Joe Piscopo founded Positive Impact Foundation in 1997 in an effort to make a difference in the lives of New Jersey youth by promoting positive images. A Home Run for New Jersey Kids to benefit Positive Impact Foundation November 13, 2007 at Liberty House Restaurant, Jersey City, New Jersey 6:30 PM Reception with entertainment and program to follow. The event honors former Yankees manager (new Dodgers manager) Joe Torre with its 3rd Annual Humanitarian of the Year Award. PIF recently partnered with SpikeTV to create the latest installment of Positive Impact Television (PITV), a video diary that highlights at-risk youth and the organizations that support them as they make a positive difference in their communities. 
http://www.joepiscopo.com & http://www.positiveimpact.org

David Joseph
CEO of Red Light District. The company, based in the San Fernando Valley, the porn-biz hotbed outside Los Angeles, is best known for its dealing in celebrity flesh. It has pushed sex tapes of hotel heiress Paris Hilton ("1 Night in Paris"), professional wrestler Chyna ("1 Night in Chyna") and even former child actor Dustin Diamond - best known for "Saved by the Bell." The Los Angeles porn peddler says he's going forward with plans to sell an Amy Fisher sex tape, despite her threats to take him to court.
http://www.clubredlight.com

Bryan Tucker
A writer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live," reports from the strike line in Queens. He wrote a piece in the NY Post this morning called"I'VE GOT 'RAT' STUFF - WRITER'S LIFE ON THE (PICKET) LINE". The networks are expected to augment the inevitable reruns with brand-new fare that doesn't need a script from anybody (at least, not a WGA writer). News programs will likely swell in number. Look for new game shows. And an explosion of reality shows. Average WGA writer's annual income (at least, according to the studios and networks): About $200,000.    

Wednesday November 7 2007

Gordon Javna (aka Uncle John)
Promoting the Triumphant 20th Anniversary Edition of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Since 1988, the Bathroom Readers' Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom. The Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series is the longest-running, most popular series of its kind in the publishing industry.
http://www.bathroomreader.com

Todd Gallagher 
Author, "Andy Roddick Beat Me with a Frying Pan: Taking the Field with Pro Athletes and Olympic Legends to Answer Sports Fans' Burning Questions". Last December, at a charity event, Gallagher squared off against Roddick on the tennis court. Gallagher, who has played tennis most of his life, used a tennis racket. Roddick used a frying pan. A surprisingly earnest and energetic attempt to answer some burning and some much-less-flammable sports questions that might or might not come up at a sports bar or desperate book proposal meeting near you.
http://www.todd33.com

Dr. Dorian Paskowitz
Author, "Surfing And Health". He splits his time between Dana Point and Hawaii. The 86 year old continues to surf and attributes his longevity to surfing, fitness and a healthy diet. His book, "Surfing and Health," focuses on those topics.    

Tuesday November 6 2007

Barry Cooper
Retired Texas police officer who founded Never Get Busted and sells a DVD to help you avoid getting busted. Cooper believes marijuana should be legalized and regulated by the government which he says will cause the crime rate to drop. He points to Prohibition, America's failed experiment in outlawing alcoholic beverages. Prohibition merely empowered the criminals, he says, and that's just what's happening now with prohibited drugs
http://www.nevergetbusted.com    

Roger DeGroat
A New Jersey squirrel hunter who bags his game with his 12-gauge shotgun. Hunters, especially members of the Ramapough Mountain tribe in rural Ringwood, grow up on the land and are taught to eat squirrel. Ringwood, where more than half of the Native American population dines on squirrel.

Michael Gilbert
Author, "The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money--Your World Through Darwin's Eyes".  Men's ancient and defining roles as resource provider and defender have been down-sized and outsourced. Declared obsolete and cast adrift, the modern hunter is searching for a new job description.
http://www.thedisposablemale.com  

Monday November 5 2007

Mark Halperin
Editor-at-large at Time Magazine and political analyst for ABC News, is the author of "The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President: Who the Candidates Are, Where They Come from, and How You Can Choose". "I get the same question all the time: Who will win the 2008 presidential election? Rarely does anyone ask me, Who would make the best president?"

Finesse Mitchell
Author, "Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much - A Brother’s Take on Dating and Mating for Sistas". He did 3 seasons on Saturday Night Live (2003-2006) and has also appeared on such television shows as Showtime at the Apollo, BET's ComicView, Comedy Central Presents and NBC's Late Friday
http://www.finessemitchell.com & http://www.myspace.com/finessemitchell2

Alex Roy
Author, "The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World". The high-speed, unbeleivable, illegal, bittersweet, hilarious, danger-packed true story of Team Polizei, from his father’s revelatory deathbed confession to his search for the truth behind the greatest secret in racing history. A prior record for crossing the U.S. from New York City to Los Angeles of 32 hours, 7 minutes was set in 1983 by David Diem and Doug Turner during the US Express, an unofficial successor to the Cannonball Run. On October 7 2006 Roy and co-driver David Maher, a New York investment banker, embarked on another run. On this, the successful 31:04 run Roy claims 2,794 mapped miles and 2800 road miles - which he covered at an average speed of 90.1 mph.
http://www.gumball144.com

Steve Ochs
Author, "National Lampoon’s Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: Verbal Abuse Edition". People thought that National Lampoon could not publish anything more outrageous than its first joke book, Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: Collegiate Edition (2006). Boy, were they wrong. Steve Ochs, the author of that earlier collection, outdoes himself with his new book, National Lampoon’s Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: Verbal Abuse Edition, finding whole new realms of petty meanness, put-downs, insults, and depravity.  

Thursday November 1 2007

Bobby Collins
Promoting appearance November 2 - 3 Comix Comedy Club, 353 West 14th Street, New York NY between 8th & 9th Avenues. He describes his comedic style as a combination of the physical movement of Jerry Lewis, the sleek, good looks of Dean Martin, and the heart of George Burns. Also promoting DVD "You're Not Coming With Us" and new CD "I Wanna Go Home".
http://www.bobbycollins.com

Bob Husick
A Pittsburgh-area couple, Bob and Ricki Husick, are offering anyone who buys their home full cash-back upon their death and even their full inheritance, currently worth at least $500,000. The Husicks have been trying to sell their home for almost a year, but have failed to do so in the current shaky market. Bob Husick said he's asking $399,900 for the four-bedroom, three and a half bath home about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
According to the Husicks' offer, the buyer would get the money back when the couple dies. And if the buyer agrees to care for them in old age, they could also inherit their retirement home in Arizona, bringing the estate's current value to about $500,000.

Beverly Maves
Her husband LaVerne has been delivering the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper for 54 years. She has been helping since he collapsed with a heart ailment 11 years ago. Conveniently, he was delivering the paper to Edgerton Hospital right then.