Jimmy Kimmel explains his performance on Jay Leno‘s show. “What they didn’t understand is I like beating things to death.”

Apparently Jay went and whined to Oprah that Kimmel “sucker punched” him.

Now how did Kimmel get involved in this late night dramedy?

Via Huffpo

Previously on FBLA:

Above is a video by Emily Braken featuring comedian Robin Reiser trying to figure out who’s homeless and who’s just hip. But the always fun, Curbed LA caught this ad on Craigslist:

A new Reality Show is casting Silver Lake’s rich, wealthy, hipster GUYS and GIRLS 21-30 whose personal style is homeless chic: Guys with beards, ratty hair and raggedy yet stylish clothing – and Girls dressed in fashionable, vintage hippie-type garb accessorized with large sunglasses and oversized tote bags. You must be incredibly involved in the Silver Lake social scene, enjoy a sensational nightlife Silver Lake style and be very outspoken with a vivacious personality. You must also hang with a racially diverse, intriguing group of friends who all live in Silver Lake.” The show sounds like it’ll be The Hills: Slightly Farther East, but we’re still crossing our fingers for a Jersey Shore: Way Farther West.

Just what we want on our teevee more greasy hipster dandruff.

Kudos to Reiser and Braken for calling it last year.

David Lazarus reports how, why and when production went away from LA and how we can get it back. Apparently in South Carolina when the film crews want to park a truck in front of someone’s house they’re baked a pie. Take note, City Hall.

“What about the people who watched the speech but found it too straight forward and understandable? Well there’s always CNN,”Says Jon Stewart.

Gotham Group, Village Voice – could it sound anymore New Yorky?

Here’s the press release in full:

Leading Entertainment Management and Production Firm Will Represent Country’s Largest Group of Alternative Newsweeklies

LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – January 28, 2010) – The Gotham Group, a leading entertainment management and production firm, announced today its worldwide representation of Village Voice Media, publisher of 14 metropolitan alt-weekly print publications and 20 online properties.

Village Voice Media, anchored by the company’s namesake, Village Voice, in New York City, is the country’s largest group of alternative, metropolitan newsweeklies. It is dedicated to hard-hitting, high-spirited journalism and multimedia storytelling.

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This is very informational. Charlie Brooker clues us in on how it’s done.

Via Reddit

The decision of the Los Angeles Fire Department to use their tax-payer-funded resources to rescue a German Shepherd from the L.A. River has received some criticism. But the LAFD is unrepentant, and their spokesman Steve Ruda makes a clear case for the choice to save the animal. From L.A. Now:

One was the concern that someone would risk his or her life to save the dog.

“If we did not do anything, there was potential for another human being to enter the river,” Ruda said, citing national statistics showing that of 900 people who die in drownings each year, a third involve would-be rescuers.

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Although the current was moving quickly, firefighters determined the water was not that deep, Ruda said. He said it also was an opportunity for rescuers to hone their skills. Even though firefighters train for such incidents, it’s no substitute for real-life conditions.

“Any time we get a chance to practice our craft, it sharpens our skills,” Ruda said. “They felt it was low risk and high return.”

Ruda said he hopes people realize the rescue was rooted in what firefighters consider their most important calling, saving lives.

“It was an animal life,” he said. “It is a life.”

The owner of the dog, an elderly Maywood woman, has come forward to claim her pet. The lucky pup’s name is Spikey.

Photo by Mark Boster for the L.A. Times

Previously on FBLA:
Fire Crews Save Dog From L.A. River

The best-selling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife will be reading from her latest novel tonight in Los Feliz. Audrey Niffenegger‘s reading of Her Fearful Symmetry will begin at 7:30 at Skylight Books – 1818 North Vermont Ave.

The New Yorker says of Her Fearful Symmetry:

The endurance of love animates this gothic story set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. Niffenegger’s prose can be wearyingly overblown, but she has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secrets… It’s no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected.