Clownfish of the Week

Tupac Shakur didn’t die for this.

The Hollywood Reporter posted a Coachella recap early Monday morning on the duo of Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre closing out the show and the return (via hologram) of Shakur.

All of the search engines in the world must have been down (and the one staffer who knows hip-hop was asleep) because this is what “THR Staff” wrote when describing Shakur’s performance:

Tupac arrived via hologram, seamlessly — and amazingly — joining Snoop on “Come With Me,” “Hail Mary” and “Gangsta Party.”

So, Shakur not only performed for the first time in 15 years, but he dropped a new track at Coachella entitled “Come With Me.”

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New York-based reporters Scott Soshnick and Mason Levinson win this week’s prize for least obvious story angle about breakout New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin.

Their widely picked up Bloomberg News piece, filed yesterday, revealed that not one but two California opportunists have filed preposterous trademark applications for the term “Linsanity.” The first applicant lives in Alhambra, the second in Los Altos. Both filed last week ahead of Lin’s 38-point performance against the Lakers.

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LA Observed’s Mark Lacter asks a good question: What exactly is Peter Brimelow, editor of the white nationalist site VDare, doing writing for the Dow Jones-owned financial site MarketWatch? The issue arose after Brimelow was invited to speak at the most recent CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) gathering in DC. The increased attention drove both Lacter and Business Insider to question Dow Jones about its relationship with Brimelow (who, incidentally, was born in England, has an accent, and seems to find no irony in his anti-immigrant leanings). Neither heard back.

Brimelow was the editor of Forbes for a number of years. So it’s not like he appeared at MarketWach out of the blue from a Minuteman rally. Still, think how many journalists lost their jobs for just expressing an overt opinion on Occupy Wall Street. No way someone with such open prejudices should be anywhere near an outfit run by an entity as mainstream as Dow Jones.

Yep, Louisiana Republican John Fleming really thinks Planned Parenthood is building an $8 billion “Abortionplex.” He posted a link to this fake Onion story over the weekend–only to take it down shortly thereafter. But not before Blogging Blue caught the post.

Good to see fake news keeping it real in ’12.

It’s not every day an impersonator pulls a fast one on The Associated Press.

Washington D.C. radio producer Marc Sterne did his best Christopher Walken on Friday’s “The Tony Kornheiser Show” on ESPN 980. An AP reporter heard Sterne on the radio and thought it was Walken discussing the Natalie Wood investigation.

“After it aired and AP ran with it, everybody was calling the radio station saying we need the audio,” Sterne told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Access Hollywood Monday. “Finally there was a producer that tracked me down and said, ‘Can you just send me the audio?’ and I said, ‘Oh sweetheart, you’re going to be really embarrassed in about three seconds.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, (puts on Christopher Walken voice) ‘Because it’s me Chris right here, talking to you… It’s me doing the Chris Walken voice.’”

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Graphic novel legend and Hollywood writer/director Frank Miller apparently isn’t a fan of Occupy Wall Street. He also, apparently, thinks he’s one of his tough guy characters from Sin City. Here’s a snippet from a recent anti-OWS screed on his website.

Maybe, between bouts of self-pity and all the other tasty tidbits of narcissism you’ve been served up in your sheltered, comfy little worlds, you’ve heard terms like al-Qaeda and Islamicism.

And this enemy of mine — not of yours, apparently – must be getting a dark chuckle, if not an outright horselaugh – out of your vain, childish, self-destructive spectacle.

In the name of decency, go home to your parents, you losers. Go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft.

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This clip from Tuesday’s Los Angeles City Council meeting shouldn’t be funny … but the inner child in me can’t stop laughing.

This joke never gets old. Ever.

FishbowlLA thinks it takes some balls for the head of a company Rupert Murdoch had to unload for a net purchase price loss of $545 million to chime in with thoughts on how another suddenly embattled media firm might proceed. But that’s just what former Myspace president and current-outgoing CEO Mike Jones has done today at TheWrap under the headline “How to Fix Yahoo: The Innovator’s Dilemma.”

Towards the end of the matrix illustrated two-pager, Jones shares a most unfortunate Myspace tidbit. He writes that at the sputtering social network, he and his colleagues often debated whether to “upgrade the ship or move the passengers into new ships.” Insert Titanic joke(s) here.

It gets better. Jones actually has the gall to commiserate with Yahoo’s current predicament, suggesting that “we failed to capture the attention of the world–as did Yahoo’s $100M rebrand campaign.”

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Antonio Villaraigosa was in our nation’s capital yesterday to check out President Obama’s big jobs speech. Within a few hours of arriving, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham had already backed up the welcome wagon. Into his legs.

Welcome to DC Mr. Mayor!

H/T Media Matters

Or, if you prefer, “Metta World Putz.”

Just when we thought Ron-Ron’s plan to legally change his name to Metta World Peace couldn’t get any stranger, a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner has delayed today’s hearing until September 16 because the LA Laker has some outstanding, unspecified traffic warrants. (TMZ, get on it.)

Ha ha. So instead of a boot on his front, driver-side tire, Artest gets a kick in the pants in legal absentia. (No. 15 was not in court today, only his no-comment attorney Jill Rubin.)

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