Travis McCoy, singer/frontman for the hip-hop/punk group Gym Class Heroes was arrested in St. Louis on Tuesday evening following their Warp tour set because of an altercation during their first song. According to Rolling Stone, McCoy reacted instinctively to a racial slur hurled by a front row fan who then hit the singer’s injured knee (he was wearing a brace). Here’s more from their story.

The punk-hop group had just finished the first song of their Warped Tour set, “Peace Sign,” when a black audience member near the front row called the New York-based singer a “fucking ignorant n****r.”

McCoy calmly asked the man, “What did you just call me?” As security was removing him from the crowd, the frontman reached down and broke his microphone over the man’s head. McCoy immediately apologized for his reaction and said it wasn’t representative of him as a person. “I’m sorry. But when someone calls you something that ignorant and that offensive, you have to bash their head in with a microphone,” said McCoy. The audience cheered as the man in question was carried away by security. Local police are not releasing the victim’s name at this time.

McCoy was arrested onstage at the end of his set. He was released early this morning on $500 bond, and this afternoon the band’s manager, Bob McLynn, issued a statement that reads, “Somebody in the crowd was taunting Travis with racial slurs. Travis invited him onstage with the intent of calling him out in front of the crowd, with absolutely no intention of a physical altercation. When he tried to help him onstage, the guy hit Travis in the knee area (which has been in a brace because of a recent sprain), forcing Travis to defend himself. At this point, a scuffle broke out. This whole incident is unfortunate. Travis McCoy and Gym Class Heroes are anything but violent. Their message is about racial unity and having a good time. It’s amazing that in 2008 there are still people out there that would say such ignorant things.” McLynn adds that McCoy has apologized to the Warped Tour’s founder and the band’s fans.

Why peeps need to be hatin’? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with kids nowadays? Why bother spending however much on a ticket to see a musical act when your intention is to insult them and then be subsequently surprised when they get mad and beat your ass? I don’t blame McCoy for conking that dumbass on the head. If someone had insulted me and then hit me in a sensitive, injured area I wouldn’t think twice about calling them out and giving them a chronic beatdown.

I loved the Gym Class Heroes before I heard this story, and now, I have a new reason to love them: beating by microphone. Better not let Amy Winehouse read this story, she’s already in enough trouble.

Someone mentioned the above display of “talent” today and was deeply impressed with this woman’s skillz. The fact that this person was 16 and a goofy boy should have been my first clue. But, in any case, here you go.

I feel compelled to state, not only is this a stupid use of one’s breasts, but also dangerous.

I love Starbucks as much as the next caffeine addict, but really, let’s face it, closing 600 stores nationwide won’t affect most people simply because there are approximately um, I don’t know, like 5 BILLION Starbucks in the world. Think about it. My local Target has a Starbucks, and then there’s the Starbucks in our town market area, and then the drive-thru down the road, and the one the next town over and so on. And I live in a fairly rural area, so imagine major metropolises.

When we were in Vegas last November, I counted like ten Starbucks locations in a 1-mile radius. Seriously, I am not kidding you. Urban sprawl and overindulgent excess are to blame. They charge $5 bucks for a caffeinated beverage and I am supposed to feel bad for Starbucks? I feel sorry for the employees who will lose their job, but then again, if Starbucks wasn’t so greedy, and grown only to fit the needs of community, not their corporate wallets, then this would not be happening.

Want to feel sorry for someone? Feel sorry for the factory workers in this country who’ve continued to watch their jobs disappear as we export so many jobs out of the country so we can buy our crappy, cheap trinkets from overseas. Why yes, I am guilty too. But that doesn’t mean I am not fed up.

Crazy gas prices, crazy cults, crazy flooding, crazy ass movie stars calling press conferences about their twins births? WTF? End of times people, we are seeing it.

I wonder if Tom Cruise has any room left in that bunker he’s building?

Guest Post as submitted by Marc M. Arcab, a member of Anonymous…..

L. Ron Hubbard was a genius. Not a smart genius. Just a clever one. While his competence in the maths, sciences, and even English writing was poor to abysmal, he was really good with ideas. His imagination was bar none. He could easily absorb ideas from multitudes of places, and channel them into an intricate reality. The problem is, as a poorly skilled writer, even the best of ideas will come out badly.

He worked his backside off for merely a penny a word. Even with a long novel, that would pay his bills for only a week. That meant that in order to live in any kind of comfort, he practically had to work 24/7. He even invented a suspended rolling butcher paper holder, so he could feed it into his new manual typewriter, so he didn’t have to stop to change pages. He feared the amount of work he was doing would lead him to an early grave, not that the alcohol and drugs weren’t helping. He had a history of mental illness and lying about his past, but these were useful in the world of science fiction.

However, then Robert Heinlein, an associate and fellow SF writer, told him that religions pay better. And thus Ron began writing his “masterpiece”, Dianetics. Now, in his personal life, L. Ron was a con. By conning Jack Parsons that he was really good at magic, he managed to get Parsons’ girl and his boat. But, L. Ron saw something very useful in all of the mysticism of Crowley’s version of magic..

According to an interview with L. Ron Jr., LRH Sr. was very into the occult.
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Well, well, well. It’s about damn time a celeb/media person call a spade a spade. According to substance abuse expert and internist, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Tom Cruise suffers from a mental illness AND he calls Scientology a cult. Yep, that’s about right. Here are the details from that tabloid hottie Dick Johnson at the New York Post based on an interview Pinsky did with Playboy Magazine:

TOM Cruise’s lawyer is comparing a TV doctor’s analysis of the star’s mental health to Nazi methods. In next month’s Playboy, Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,” says: ”

A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood - maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”

Cruise’s lawyer, Bert Fields, told us:

“This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”

I interviewed celebrity biographer Andrew Morton a while back, who wrote the definitive book on Tom Cruise. We talked at great length about Cruise and his childhood, and he described Tom’s relationship with his dad, an abusive absentee father, as a defining context for Tom’s evolution into who he has become now. Tom, being the youngest and the only son in a house full of women, was pampered by his mother and sisters, but despite this love and nurturing, Tom clearly missed having a father figure in his life.

When you add Tom’s size (he’s 5′7″ at best) and his inherent insecurities about this, you have a guy who is constantly over-compensating for a lack of something. In this case, a lack of a father. Tom was abused, but I doubt he was ever neglected. In fact, Tom’s world centered around Tom and always has. This made him a perfect candidate for Scientology, a religion built on the notion of constant self-improvement and the belief that those who practice the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, will become better than everyone else by achieving super-human powers.

Tom’s issue isn’t abuse and neglect, his issue is an extreme sense of “specialness” or as we like to call it in Hollywood: narcissism. Scientology appeals to those who think only “they” can save the world, and only they can achieve “enlightenment”, the fact that it’s a cult (which it is) has more to do with the mental illness of the individual (the malevolent David Miscavige who’s Tom Cruise’s best friend) in charge of the organization and the infrastructure centered around secretiveness.

While Dr. Pinsky has a few things right, he’s missed the mark in some key areas. I encourage him to pursue the subject further though, as he may be on to something by linking mental illness and joining cults.

Not that I am *happy* to report this, but it does put things into perspective. It seems actor Bill Murray, whom we reported a couple weeks back, was in the midst of a divorce from second wife Jennifer, isn’t the only issue in the breakup of his 10-year marriage.

Jennifer Butler-Murray filed for divorce from the very anti-Hollywood Murray citing physical and substance abuse issues, as well as infidelity, as her reason for divorcing the 57-year old actor. Butler, who just turned 42, worked as a costume-designer in Hollywood when she met Murray and the couple were married in 1997.

According to our earlier report, Butler claimed Murray abused her on several occasions, but specifically cited an incident last November when he hit her in the face and told her she was “lucky he didn’t kill her.” Pretty damning stuff for a guy known for playing generally sweet, but odd-ball characters. As I stated in the original post, Bill Murray is one of my favorite actors of all time and I was really disturbed to hear this stark account of his private behavior.

Well, as with all things out-of-the-blue, there are two sides to EVERY story. According to the New York Post, Jennifer Butler-Murray is NO saint herself. Here are the details from that story:

Bill Murray’s wife claims that he is the violent and booze-addicted one in the family - but police documents show that she has allegedly tied one on and kicked up some trouble herself.

Jennifer Butler-Murray has gotten a reputation in her suburban Charleston, SC, neighborhood as an avid drinker who gets “physical” with her children and gets into bizarre police incidents.

On March 17 of this year, Butler-Murray allegedly got drunk and two of her kids ran over to a neighbor’s house for help, according to a report filed with the Sullivan’s Island Police Department.

The trouble started after a witness saw her shouting loudly at one of her kids, the report said. Cops went to her home to investigate.

“I spoke with [her] and advised her of the complaint,” the responding officer wrote. “The w/f [white female] seemed to be very impaired and didn’t want me on her property anymore, she slammed the door and I left the residence.”

Later, a neighbor called cops saying Butler-Murray’s kids had come to his home seeking help.

“I then had the complainant meet me at the police station to talk with the juveniles . . . They informed me that their mother had been drinking heavily and had [become] physical with them,” the report said.

Butler-Murray’s lawyer, Richard Rosen, declined to comment.

The report said Bill Murray was in California at the time. The kids were sent over to a family friend until he got back.

Well isn’t that SPECIAL. I refrained from passing any judgment on this case or his wife, despite my misgivings about the one-sidedness of her story, but apparently my first instincts were correct, it seems Jennifer isn’t an angel who has been cruelly abused by an uncaring and callous husband. It looks like she too has some “issues” as it were and takes them out on the innocent kids.

For all we know, and I am merely speculating, she may be the catalyst in the breakdown of this marriage and Bill may have been lashing out at her abuse of the kids. I will be keeping you posted on this story and I hope in the end, my beloved Bill will be vindicated. Not for being perfect, but at least not as the vicious monster his estranged wife portrayed him as. It takes two to tango folks.

Amy Winehouse needs to stop already with the over-the-top, up-in-my-grill drama. I just can’t keep up — this is summer folks, unlike these crazy toofless crackheads, I have a life to lead.

So on to what our favorite whackadoodle’s been up to. It seems Amy’s delinquent hubby Blaaaaaaaaakkkkkkeeeee (who’s in jail on charges of ‘gross bodily harm’ and then subsequent attempted witness bribery charges) took some rather risque photos and videos prior to his incarceration of he and wifey Amy and those videos/photos were “stolen” by a “friend” and are now in the hands of my all-time favorite news site News Of The World. From the article:

As the camera pans back we see a coffee table in front of Amy. On it are SIX cigarette lighters and what appears to be HEROIN on a foil—a typical druggie scene set for “chasing the dragon” by heating the drug from below then inhaling the smoke through a tube.

This new evidence comes as Britain’s top cop Sir Ian Blair has called for celebrity junkies caught on camera to be put on trial.

He spoke out after police let off a string of big names filmed apparently snorting cocaine, injecting heroin or smoking crack.

Sir Ian said: “My position is that a sensible jury would not expect people to be sniffing talcum powder.”

One of the new dossier of Amy pictures shows her in a smart flat surrounded by all the familiar junkie paraphernalia.

On a table in front of the snarling star is a home-made crack pipe fashioned from a small brown bottle. Silver foil—used for heating deadly rocks of crack cocaine—is strewn about. Amy, who has a worrying history of self-harm, is clearly seen with a mystery cut on her left hand.

A further section of video, shot in the bamboo-papered den, reveals the disturbing relationship Amy and Blake have.

Oh, the sad, rich, irony of it all. Perhaps the worst of all this footage is that of Amy and a friend singing a lovely diddy (after Blake egged them on and promised to not be taping them) with every manner of racial slur, and then there’s video of Amy in a drug den surrounded by all sort of drugs (as described in the above quote,) plus NOTW alleges to owning video of Amy performing oral sex on Blake, as well as, an rather uninspired hand-related sexual act on Blake — all of course videotaped. I am not sure who’s more depraved, Blake for doing it, or Amy for putting herself in that position.

If you wish to torment yourself, the videos and pictures can be found here.

In other Blake/Amy news, reports have come out that Blake has pleaded guilty to the charges pending against him for beating up a bartender and then attempting to bribe the witness to change his testimony. Blake faces up to ten years, and will be sentenced at a different hearing. Oh man, can this story get any more perverse and sad?

Amy truly is not long for this world unless someone who gives a crap about her steps in. I read reports that her label has quietly backed out of any future dealings with her, and honestly, who can blame them? At some point, the responsibility to get your shizzle together is yours and yours alone.

Amy, it’s been fun while it lasted, too bad you chose the obvious road for doomed artists rather than the one less traveled road. If only you’d a wait a couple more years, you too could join the ‘27′ club with all the other idiots who destroyed their talent AND their lives before reaching the rip old age of 30.

Jeebus this video is scary. I am not entirely sure where this took place, but from the close quarters, the Asian sounding language and the general crazaziness, I’d say Japan.

I once worked in a cubicle infested hell-hole. Actually all my former jobs have been cubicle hell, but this particular job fostered this kind of attitude and there were the occasional “flare-ups” to put it mildly. I remember once when the company was heading in the sh*tter we had a “department-wide” meeting, but when we looked around the room, several of our co-workers were missing. During the meeting, after much hemming and hawing, it was announced a major restructuring was taking place, and they sequestered us while the unlucky members of our team were escorted like common thieves from the premises.

This was the same company which had to hire security after they “dismissed” a guy who, after the Columbine incident, muttered something to the effect of “those kids had the right idea.”

This must be how livestock feel in captivity. All living creatures need some damn space, sheesh.

That said, had one of my co-workers thrown a monitor at me I would have kicked his f*cking ass down the damn stairs. For reals. I will cut you for tossing company issued equipment at me. RUDE!

Same incident, different angle and with sound — did they taz that guy?! Damn!

Via the always excellent Dlisted.

After showing up one hour late (likely trying to sober up) Amy apologized to the crowd of 90,000 fans at the Rock in Rio concert in Portugal on Friday.

This video from the concert represents all that’s wrong with Amy. She’s destroyed her voice with drugs, her mind is addled and gone, her dancing is embarrassing and the light that used to shine from within has almost completely gone out. She is a shadow of her former self, and is now the butt of all jokes.

I can’t even make fun of her anymore, she’s beyond hope and clearly no one is going to step in and save this girl.

How they let her on stage in that condition is beyond me, but someone’s responsible and should be ashamed of themselves for allowing to Amy to perform in such a terrible state.

Depressing.

It’s been a while since we’ve discussed our favorite other addict, Lindsay Lohan. You may recall 2007 was a less than stellar year for Lindsay, as she released BOMB after BOMB at the box office, picking up like five Razzie awards for her thriller “I Know Who Killed Me,” oh yeah, and she went to rehab three times and was busted twice for cocaine possession and driving under the influence.

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