• I was absent for a week due to a trip to NYC, where I had big dreams of spotting celebrities, becoming an extra in at least one movie shoot and meeting Liz Lemon. As it turns out, I only walked by an area where I heard Gossip Girl had been filming earlier and the trailers were totally still there and I took a special tour of NBC where I am sure Tina Fey was just hanging around, but I didn't see her. I was so close to fame and fortune in the Big Apple, yet so far away. *Sigh*

  • Gisele Bundchen says that mandatory breastfeeding "should be a worldwide law." Well, maybe models shouldn't be allowed to speak. Maybe that should be a "worldwide law."

  • Last week, I was discussing the name of Weezer's soon-to-be-released album, Hurley. We joked that it must be named after the fledgling surf/skate company or the best character on LOST. A good laugh was had by all and we moved on; clearly, these namesakes were both ridiculous. Clearly, we were wrong.

  • We all saw what happened when Matt Lauer went up against Tom Cruise in a duel of "psychology knowledge" and now the genius, Dina Lohan, has decided to argue with the Lauer. Fail.

  • Potpourri used to be a bunch of colored tree bark and dried flowers that my mom had to hide from my pet rabbit in the ’90s. Now they make it in Bachelor Pad scent, which is apparently a "potpourri of sex, drama, lying." You can also find it in Jersey Shore, an earthy mixture of spray-tan, STD's and Axe body spray.

After the jump, Paris and her hair extension disaster, Kellie Pickler's Python, Rihanna's bad tattoo and more….

  • The newest IHTW-ish weekly feature: Hair Extensions in the News!! Paris Hilton is sued for gluing a competitor's hair onto her heiressy scalp. The horror!!

  • Tila Tequila was inexplicably performing at some sort of Juggalo festival and exactly what you assume would happen, happened. She was pelted with bottles, poop, rocks and lit fireworks, even after she took her shirt off. Today we learned that hatred for stupidity is greater than silicone.

  • People magazine jumped the gun a bit by asking "Will Kellie Pickler Use Her Python as a Ringbearer?" I think that technically, it is still his python until they get married. Then she can claim some ownership. Hehe, penis joke, get it?

  • Stars are just like us guys! They get tattoos in foreign languages and don't check to be certain they are grammatically correct until it's too late. Poor "Flower Rebel" Rihanna may want to invest in some turtlenecks.

  • Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman reported weather on the Fox affiliate in the ATL this week. How did Klystron 9 miss this opportunity to get Weather on the Nines the kind of exposure that it so clearly deserves on a national level?! I am disappointed in you, Bay News 9… we have hurricanes, we should have been able to get this forecasting duo, not stupid landlocked Atlanta.

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This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2010.