Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event

123,456 miles without dusting the dashboard. WORD!

Thanks Tehran Times

PARIS (Agencies) – An Air France plane with 228 passengers on board has gone missing, and the families of the passengers, in response to this sad news, can only hope that their loved ones find a fate similar to the passengers on the plane of the U.S. TV series “The Lost”, who survived and were stranded on an unknown island, where they struggled to stay alive.

It's ridiculous (and offensive) that the headline has already declared "French plane crashes with 228 aboard" without that actually being confirmed anywhere else in the news world, but then to talk about fucking Lost in the lead paragraph? Now That's Infotainment.

E! online also knows how to look on the bright side:

Twitterverses: Celebs Saddened, Nervous About Missing Air France Plane

Today 12:42 PM PDT by Breanne L. Heldman

Like you, Hollywood is holding its breath waiting for news of the missing Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Some, like Stephanie Pratt, are terrorism theorists: "I really dont think its the result of a lightning strike...Why is my gut thinking it was a terrorist act," she says.

Most, however, are saddened or just plain scared.

"I can't believe what I just read about the Air France plane that's missing," Samantha Ronson writes. "So sad and frightening. my heart goes out to all affected."

Mark Hoppus from Blink-182 says basically the same thing. "Just read the news. Terrible. My thoughts and prayers to everyone involved in the Air France flight loss."

"Say a prayer for Air France Flight 447," Emmy Rossum orders.

Thankfully, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Urie and Denise Richards are in sunnier moods.

• Elizabeth Banks had a good time in hell at the movies this weekend. "Saw Drag Me to Hell this weekend. So much fun. I giggled thru the gross parts like a baby boy."

• Michael Urie is proud of his Ugly Betty costar. "Congrats to my girl Becki Newton, she won a Glamour UK award, commiedienne of the year!"

• Happy birthday to Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen's kiddo! "My daughter Lola turns 4 today," the proud mama writes.

• Soulja Boy, we're not sure you want us to answer your question… "Has anyone of my followers use to not like me and then woke up one day and said 'Hey.. I think i like Soulja Boy'.?"

• Tweet Topic: What's up with this June gloom people are whining about in California? Brooke Burke is complaining, as is Emmy Rossum. East Coasters, start your comment engines!

The National in Abu Dhabi, UAE is now reporting "'No hope' for lost airline passengers" in their headline. The "No hope" quote is actually pulled from No Where. Unless you count their own paraphrasing: "The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and French aviation sources conceded that there was no hope of finding survivors." Quoting yourself has got to be a party foul in international journalism, no?

Just so it doesn't look like I'm only picking on Middle Easterners and Americans, the UK's Times Online also claims "No hope for 228 passengers..." in their headline. They soften their outlook in the first sentence of the article though: "There is virtually no hope for the 228 people on board a packed Air France jet which went missing over the Atlantic Ocean today, the worst disaster in the airline's history." The article was written by two French correspondents. Maybe those were the "French aviation sources" that The National was citing?

Ok, I think I finally found the source of "No hope." The Telegraph in the UK had the headline "Air France plane lost: officials say 'no hope' of finding airliner." Reported by two correspondents in Sao Paolo, Brazil, their lead is "Officials said they had 'no hope' for Air France Flight 447 which dropped off the radar three hours and less than 200 miles into a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris." I am still not satisfied with this "No hope" claim. In subsequent paragraphs, the article quotes "Air France," "sources," and "authorities," but I'm still not seeing a sentence anywhere that has the phrase "No hope" attributed to a human being nor is it linked to a longer sentence. Unless there was a press conference and someone asked "What have you got?" and the spokeperson said "No hope" then I think this reporting is no bueno.

Last Aid

I know I complain a lot, usually about anything that gets in my way. There's a train crossing that I seem to get stuck at once a week or so. It's technically a shortcut, but at the time of the morning I go to work, it's a gamble. The trains are very long, so depending on my mood, I either sit there and make the best of lost time, or turn around and go back.

Last week, I saw something that really sucked. A Liberty Health ambulance was stuck at the crossing. I don't know if they were on the way to pick someone up or if they already had the person, but their lights were flashing. I pulled up and probably only waited for a minute or two, but it felt like an hour knowing the pressure was on for the ambulance.

One of the drivers actually ran out of the ambulance at one point to see how much longer the train was. Those things go on forever.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Big News Day

No sooner did I read a front page article bragging about how safe commercial flying has been over the past two years...

A FLOCK OF BIRD SHIT PLANE. I was in my new Jersey City Heights apartment when this came up on the screen. With the view from the living room, we could actually see the plane floating down the Hudson River, but I was way more enthralled by the word SHIT sort of being on television. 2 ENGINE SDISABLED, not as funny though.

Oddly, this was the second picture of a news ticker I took that day.

That seemed like a oversimplified headline for the situation in the Middle East, but in retrospect, it's really dead on. Even more accurate would be:

They may as well just leave that ticker running nonstop.

Then they published some old wrestling news:

Poor Yokozuna, may he rest in peace. Let's hope the Pope didn't get him while he was on his way out.

I'm totally going to hell for this one:

Here is some lighter humor (or heavier depending on which way is up).

Well, after he found love, what was he gonna do?


That's all for now. I gotta go easy on the Hot Chocolate.