Tuesday September 23 2008Dr Michael Salzhauer
Author,"My Beautiful Mommy". Here's the perfect Mother's Day gift for your favorite surgically-enhanced breeder: My Beautiful Mommy, a picture book explaining plastic surgery to the under-8 set.
www.mybeauifulmommy.com
Steve Oswald
He billed the city of Saugatuck, Michigan for cleaning a filthy public restroom. He didn't get paid but he did win the Golden Plunger award.
Norman Teitler
Executive director of Metropolitan New York Towing, Auto Body and Salvage Association. Saturday, September 20, 2008, the Metropolitan New York Towing Association broke the world record for the largest parade of its kind when 292 tow truck drivers and their rigs assembled to spell out “New York” at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field in Gateway National Park in Brooklyn, where the Winnie Mae in 1933 lifted took off from and carried Wiley Post on his record setting solo flight around the world. Monday September 22 2008 Al Machado
New Bedford, Mass. firefighter who saved a cat nmaed Kiki by giving it CPR. He's bewildered by all the attention and that he wants people to keep some perspective. Keith Smith
Manager of Minocqua Winter Park, where they hold wife carrying competitions. He will be joined by winner
www.skimwp.org
Chuck Heath
Sarah Palin's father. Friday September 19 2008Sandi Bachom
In addition to hosting a guest preacher who told the folks in the pews—including Sarah Palin—that terrorist attacks in Israel are just God punishing Jews for rejecting Jesus, Sarah Palin’s batshit church also recently hosted a “pray away the gay” conference. New York filmmaker Sandi Bachom got some reactions from New Yorkers.
www.laughinginhell.com & http://sandibachom.com Fay Crevoshay
A spokeswoman for Wildcoast who came up with controversial ad campaign using a Playboy model. In Mexico, a new campaign to protect endangered sea turtle eggs has been launched across the country with the help of a controversial spokesperson: Playboy model, singer and pin-up icon Dorismar.
www.wildcoast.net Marsha Normandy and Joseph St. James
Authors, The Handjob Handbook. With a little practice and a lot of passion, sexual power is easily within your grasp. There are times when only an hj will do. It's fun. It's practical. It's quick. Thursday September 18 2008Paul Moller
Dr. Paul Moller, founder and President of Moller International, has invented flying cars that look like flying saucers. Moller has pursued his vision of a flying car since 1970.
www.moller.com
Dave Chameides
He is living with his trash for 365 days. He began January 1, 2008. The idea is to keep everything for a year and in doing so, be able to see how much waste he creates and how much he can avoid. For the last sixteen years he has worked as a director/cameraman in Hollywood.
http://365daysoftrash.blogspot.com & www.sustainabledave.org
Darren Taylor
Dove 35 feet into a foot of water. Ex-strip club DJ Darren, 47, dubbed Professor Splash, defied death in a warm-up plunge for a world record attempt. He already holds the record shallow dive at 35ft 5in. He will try to raise that to 40ft — again landing in 12in-deep water.
www.professorsplash.com Wednesday Sept 17 2008Bill Copenhaver
Mayor of the city of Hoschton, Georgia (population 1700) which is on its way to becoming the new “Scarecrow Capital of the World”.
www.hoschtonfallfestival.com Jon Wolf
After a presumably fake bidding war drove the price above $200,000, and some wrangling to avoid the site’s no-food rule, Wolf won the auction for a tidy $1,350. "That's the most perfectly Illinois-shaped corn flake I've ever seen," said Jon Wolf.
www.triviamania.com Allison Jones
36 year old Allison Jones of Hanover, PA is deathly afraid of bananas. She suffers from bananaphobia. Tuesday September 16 2008
Mark Bavaro
Author, "Rough & Tumble: A Novel" (Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: St. Martin's Press September 2, 2008). A riveting debut novel of a season in the life of a professional football player—written by one of the NFL's best tight ends of all time. He was drafted in the 4th round of the 1985 NFL amateur draft by the New York Giants.
www.markbavaro.net
John McCain
He has the same name as McCain, but looks like Obama and is voting for Barack Obama. Johnathan B. McCain, is a Brooklyn-based musician and, until now, McCain's main claim to fame was as the longtime drummer for the influential ska band The Toasters. These days, he pounds the skins for a two-man indie-pop outfit called Ghost Front, which recently played a gig at The Knitting Factory.
www.myspace.com/ghostfrontnyc Dennis Mascari
Creator of "Beyond the Vines" and president of Fans Forever, Inc. Ground was broken Friday for "Beyond the Vines," an internment area at Bohemian National Cemetery on Chicago's Northwest Side that will be built to look something like the ballpark's ivy-covered brick center field wall.
http://beyondthevines.net Monday September 15 2008 David Felinton
Mayor of Huntington, West Virginia vowed in June to veto any pay raise that City Council intends to give him because it would send the wrong message to residents and other city employees. UPDATE: He did not have to veto the decision. There was a tie vote 5 for and 5 against. So Felinton "won".
Keith Smith - Holiday Road
Manager of Minocqua Winter Park in Wisconsin, where they will hold the 2008 WI Wife Carrying-Wife Ferrying- Pike Carrying Championships Saturday, September 20th beginning at 11:00. Two new events have been added this year: Wife Ferrying and Pike Carrying. Winner takes home five times a wife’s weight in cash money and her weight in mustard, cranberries, bratwursts or composted cow manure. About 120 miles northeast of Minneapolis, 80 miles northwest of Green Bay or Eau Claire. From Hwy 51 in Minocqua, take Hwy 70 West. Drive west on Hwy 70 six miles to Squirrel Lake Road. Turn South and drive on Squirrel Lake Road six miles to Scotchman Lake Road. From Scotchman Lake Road, follow the signs and flags to the chalet.
www.skimwp.org & www.active.com
Don Gorske
Has eaten two Big Macs a day everyday for 36 years, since 1973, is up to 23,000. The Fond du Lac, WI man said he hit the 23,000 milestone last month, continuing a culinary obsession that began May 17, 1972 when the burger price was 49 cents.
www.bigmacbook.com Friday September 12 2008Julie Kicklighter
Rookie player from Tampa Breeze of the LFL (Lingerie Football League) playing Lingerie Bowl VI in Tampa. She's also a stand-up comic.
www.lingeriebowl.com Pillow Fight League
PFL's motto: "Fight Like A Girl". Promoting their appearance Saturday September 13 at 8 pm at Exxxotica New York at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center located at the Raritan Center in Edison, NJ.
www.gopfl.com Kevin Alderman
47 year old happily married father of two who founded the company Eros LLC and developed the SexGen software for video game Second Life. Alderman's own alter-ego - the rugged lothario Stroker Serpentine - is now something of an SL legend. "And then I met Fyre Rain, who I love dearly and became my online partner," he says. Thursday September 11 2008Bryce Lane
The president of PeopleFinders.Com. Last month, PeopleFinders, a 20-year-old company based in Sacramento, introduced CriminalSearches.com, a free service to satisfy the need to peek into the backgrounds of people.
www.criminalsearches.com Roland W. Haas
Author, "Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin". The gripping story of one man’s journey from skinny, troubled immigrant kid to highly trained covert operations specialist working for the CIA during the Cold War.
www.enterthepasttense.com Nancy Fiddler
California resident Nancy Fiddler has put for sale on eBay a mastodon skeleton that takes up most of her garage. Fiddler set the minimum opening bid at $115,000. She figures the thing to be worth $800,000. Wednesday September 10 2008Charlotte Kimple
Owner of the Driftwood restaurant in Linesville PA. Just outside this town of about 1,100 is one of the oddest roadside attractions in America that's been described as Linesville's Niagara Falls. Visitors, hauling bags of bread, go to the edge of the spillway at Pymatuning Lake where carp by the thousands, no, tens of thousands, maybe millions — guessing how many is part of the standard experience — gather and surge collectively out of the water at the slightest hint that someone might be tossing them a piece of bread, bagel or hot dog bun. Dave Beckham
Co-Owner of A Conservative Cafe 201 N Main St, Crown Point, IN. Southwest of Chicago, about 20 miles south of Gary, IN. Just off I-65, in Lake County, a conservative working class area of Reagan Republicans.
www.conservativecafe.com Josh Temple
Promoting America's Toughest Jobs Mondays on NBC 9-10 p.m. ET hosted by Josh Temple. A new extreme competition series that will test 13 men and women who venture out of their safe and comfortable careers and are injected into some of the most challenging, dangerous and demanding jobs on earth.
www.joshtemple.com Tuesday September 9 2008Lisa Lampanelli
Nicknamed "Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean" (NY Times). Promoting her gig at Radio City Music Hall, New York Sat, Sep 13, 2008 08:00 PM. Also promoting 2nd special on Howard 101 Monday, September 8, from 7 to 8 p.m. Lisa will be doling out words of wisdom to people who need her homespun knowledge and loving advice. Also promoting Dirty Girl CD and merchandise on her website.
www.insultcomic.com Malcolm McDowell
Promoting "Coco Chanel" on the Lifetime Networks. The three-hour event premieres Saturday September 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell and Barbora Bobulova. “Coco Chanel” follows the rags-to-riches story of influential and iconic French designer Coco Chanel from her humble beginnings in an orphanage outside Paris, through her meteoric rise to fame and success, revealing a fiery and ambitious woman and the significant relationships, both familial and romantic, that shaped and inspired her success. Glenn Martin
Inventor of the Martin Jetpack and Managing Director of Martin Aircraft Company from Christchurch New Zealand. A personal flight vehicle that will transport people over all terrains has huge potential for the armed forces and huge recreational markets. Oshkosh, Wisconsin was the launch pad for a world first in personal flight on July 29, 2008 when Martin Aircraft Company unveiled the ultimate personal flying machine – the Martin Jetpack.
www.martinjetpack.com Monday September 8 2008Dane Keane
Has lost two fingers working at a Washington state rodeo. Courtney Humphries
Author, "Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan … and the World". A natural history of pigeons.
http://chumphries.gather.com & www.chumphries.org Friday September 5 2008Gene Capell
National distributor as well as a proud and happy user of the male masturbating machine called The Venus 2000.
www.malemachine.com Damian Holbrook
Writer from TV Guide to talk about the new fall season highlighted in the latest issue of TV Guide. Joel and Ian Gold
Psychiatrists who discovered the Truman Show delusion. Brothers from Montreal believe they have discovered a signature mental illness of the YouTube era: patients who claim they are subjects of their own reality TV shows. Thursday September 4 2008John M. Marzluff
In the Seattle area, where rapid suburban growth has attracted a thriving crow population, researchers have found that crows and their relatives — among them ravens, magpies and jays — can recognize individual human faces. Professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington and holds the Denman Chair in Sustainable Resource Sciences. Hunter Weeks
Co-creator of “10 Yards: Fantasy Football”. From award-inning Filmmakers, Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell (10 MPH, 2007) comes the hilarious, offbeat, and all-encompassing portrayal of fantasy football. 10 Yards captures the phenomenon of fantasy football in our society with specific focus on wacked-out j.fred’s Intergalactic Championship League, where the top prize is a box of Twinkies®. As the season progresses, filmmakers Hunter & Josh (both members of j.fred’s league) travel the country interviewing a variety of diverse fantasy football leagues, NFL players, commentators, and the guys who started it all in 1963. From all women’s tackle football to Mexican mariachi bands, get ready for some of the best camaraderie ever in this 90-minute fantasyland.
www.10yards.com Craig Glazer
Author, "The King of Sting". A true crime story as riveting and exciting as Blow or Catch Me If You Can. His story began in 1971 in a student apartment where, as a freshman at Arizona State University, the skinny Jewish kid from Kansas City got ripped off trying to buy marijuana. Fueled by fantasies drawn from movies of the era like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which the hero was just on the edge of the law, Glazer decided to strike back at the dealers.
www.craigglazerkingofsting.com Wednesday September 3 2008Susan Squire
Author, "I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage". The book catalogues the history and religious significance of the institution of marriage from Adam and Eve to the Renaissance and beyond. Squire imparts the horrendous ways every western society--Greeks, Romans, Christians--treated women. But Squire is not out for vengeance. Instead, she tells the story of why and how society became organized into couples and families.
http://www.susansquire.net Sarah Kaufmann
Manager, Creative Services and Advertising for Jungle Jim’s International Market, Fairfield (Cincinnati). This six-acre “World of Food” mega-supermarket sports a brand new two-acre addition featuring a show-stopping cheese shop with 1600 kinds of cheese, butter, and sausage; plus deli, olive bar, sushi and wine/beer/spirits (among numerous other food ‘attractions’) is under Kaufmann’s charge to “Sell more Stuff”.
www.sarahcheeselady.com Tuesday September 2 2008 John Ho
Runs the Yvonne Hair and Nails salon with his wife Yvonne. They offer fish pedicures, where tiny carp suck dead skin off customer's feet.
www.yvonnesalon.com Benjamin Bratt
Promoting "The Cleaner" the A&E show in which he stars. Airs Tuesday nights at 10pmET. "The Cleaner," inspired by the true story of a real-life "extreme interventionist," stars Benjamin Bratt as William "The Cleaner" Banks, who, after hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions after the birth of his daughter, strikes a tentative deal with God.
www.congenialityguy.com & www.aetv.com/the-cleaner Tom Vanderbilt
Author, "Traffic: Why we Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says about Us)". Traffic. The mere word evokes a multitude of opinions. As the author Mary Roach wrote in last weekend's Book Review, Mr. Vanderbilt's book "is not a dry examination of highway engineering; it's a surprising, enlightening look at the psychology of human beings behind the steering wheels." In short, you, not the road, are responsible for traffic jams.
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