Sadness

Todd Homme, one of the three finalists on Lifetime's reality show Blush: The Search For the Next Great Makeup Artist, was found dead in his NYC apartment on Saturday at the young age of 23. Todd's mother told TVGuide that he went to sleep during the afternoon and never woke up. His boyfriend found him.

Todd's mother also said that the medical examiner is currently investigating the cause of death. Todd didn't have any health issues and there were no drugs, pills or alcohol in his system. They think there might have been problems with his heart.

She said, "It's devastating to us. We're in shock right now. He was born a month and a half early, walked at ten months and never sat down. He was always helping people and everyone calls him a guardian angel and he just loved everybody."

I just caught up on all the episodes of Blush after a ton of you recommended I watch it for Maxi's craziness. I was looking forward to the finale tonight, but damn. This is tragic, weird and surprising.

Rest in peace, Todd Homme...

I hate to be such a downer this early in the morning. It's not too early to start hitting the booze again after reading this shit. You have my permission.

TMZ says that Peter Falk's daughter, Catherine, filed papers in L.A. County Court asking for a conservatorship to protect her father. Catherine says that 81-year-old Columbo suffers from Alzheimer's and dementia and can no longer make decisions. Peter currently needs 24-hour full-time care.

Catherine is afraid her daddy "can easily be deceived into transferring away property"and wants to protect him against evil doers who will take advantage of him.

A hearing has been set for next month.

Seriously, Alzheimer's is the cruelest and most hideous disease ever. I'm sure most of you have known someone who suffers or suffered from it. I have and it's the worst thing to witness. This gives me the sads.

Yeah, let's start drinking again. You get the Sunny-D, I'll get the vodka. Hey, Sunny-D has vitamins in it (I think), so it counts as a nutritious breakfast!

17-year-old Socks the cat, the former head pussy of the White House, is laid up in bed with cancer and not doing too good. Socks is currently shacked up with Betty Currie, who used to be Bill Clinton's personal secretary, in Maryland. A family friend said Socks' days are numbered. The friend also said that the vet was willing to put Socks on feeding tubes, but the Currie family decided he was too old for that mess.

I actually wrote a letter to Socks when I was in high school. It was a poem. That fucking says a lot about me. Writing poems to cats when I'm in high school! I think I thought he could really read it.

I barely knew Bill Clinton's name, but I knew everything about Socks! And when Buddy came along, I was just as pissed off as Socks was. Replaced by a dog!

Oh, Socks! Smoke up a little cat nip and get comfortable. Soon you'll be making your way to the big White House in the sky where Buddy is patiently waiting to make your afterlife a living hell (in a loving way, of course)!

Source: US News & World Reporter

The world has lost a true icon! Bettie Page went off to heaven today at the age of 85. Her agent, Mark Roesler, said that she passed away this evening at a hospital in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack over a week ago which left her in a coma.

Mark wrote this message on Bettie's website:

With deep personal sadness I must announce that my dear friend and client Bettie Page passed away at 6:41pm PST this evening in a Los Angles hospital. She died peacefully but had never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack nine days ago.

She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality. She is the embodiment of beauty.

Rest in peace, Bettie Page. The world is a little less beautiful and glamorous without you!

You may or may not have heard, but Scott Ruffalo, brother of Mark, was shot last Monday at his home in Beverly Hills. TMZ reports that he passed away last night. Scott was 39. Sadness.

Police issued an arrest warrant for Shaha Mishaal Adham, a suspect in the shooting, yesterday. She turned herself into the police last night. Shaha's friend, Brian Burton Scofield, was named a "person of interest" by police. Brian was arrested for a misdemeanor traffic warrant for past
 violations.

Sources say that Shaha is related to Saudi Arabian royalty and she has already hired a high-powered attorney.

Scott Ruffalo, who was a well-known hairdresser, is survived by his wife Luzelena and stepdaughter Lucinda.

Condolences to Mark Ruffalo and his family.....

Well, this fucking sucks. Icon Bettie Page is in the intensive care unit of a Los Angeles hospital after she suffered a heart attack on Tuesday. Bettie's agent said she was hospitalized three weeks ago with pneumonia and she was about to be released when she had a heart attack. 85-year-old Bettie was transferred to another hospital on Friday. She's listed as "critically ill."

A friend of Bettie's family told AP that she's currently in a coma. Her agent wouldn't confirm it, but said, "I would not deny that."

I have the urge to call my rockabilly chola cousin to see how she's coping with this. I don't want to bother her though, because I'm sure she's holding a candle vigil in front of her Bettie Page shrine. I'm not joking. She really has a Bettie Page mini-shrine.

Good thoughts to Bettie.

Image VIA TheBettiePage.com

When I first read these two horrific stories yesterday, my first thought was "Only in fucking America" and that's the damn truth. Every year, we hear of bitches getting into knife fights over the last Bratz doll or choking each other for a discounted portable DVD player, but this shit right here is beyond disgusting. Beyond.

At a Wal-Mart (of course) in Long Island, NY yesterday, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to help to control the crowd of blood-thirsty zombies that stormed into the store at 5am for holiday discounts on dumb shit like X-boxes and flat-screen TVs. The crowd was so hungry to get their fat, greasy hands on stupid shit that they knocked the man over and kept on going. 200 crazies trampled over the man, killing him. He died at a Wal-Mart in Long Island, the day after Thanksgiving. Even when the man was on the ground and lifeless, shoppers continued to run past him like he wasn't even there.

One Wal-Mart employee, who was also knocked down in the stampede, said, "He was bum-rushed by 200 people. They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down, too ... I didn't know if I was going to live through it. I literally had to fight people off my back."

Damour's family members were told that he died of a heart attack. Four shoppers, including a pregnant women, were also injured. When shoppers were told that they had to leave because an employee had died, they started shouting "I've been on line since Friday morning!!!"

Wal-Mart's spokeswhore, SATAN, issued this statement: "We expected a large crowd this morning and added additional internal security, additional third-party security, additional store associates and we worked closely with the Nassau County police. We also erected barricades. Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred."

Unfortunate event?! An unfortunate event was me almost pooping my pants yesterday. This is way, way, way beyond an "unfortunate event." You know, it makes so much sense that this happened at Wal-Mart, the epitome of American grossness. I hope that on Christmas morning, when the Wal-Mart savages' children are opening their stupid presents, they tell them "I hope you like it, because I had to kill a man for it."

And on the other side of the country, two men died at a Toys 'R Us in Palm Desert, CA. According to the L.A. Times, two chicks started arguing inside the store. One witness said it might have been over a toy, but another witness said it was over personal issues between them. Both were with dudes. One of the dudes pulled out a gun, shot it in the air and then shot the other man. It's assumed that the man who was shot also had a gun and used it to shoot the other dude. They both died.

What the fuck is wrong with America? Even wild animals behave better than we do. Stories like this make me want to donate all my shit to charity and go live in the woods for the rest of my life. People suck.

Crazy shit always happens to Paula Abdul! Skat Kat must have put a curse on her or something.

The body of a woman was found last night in a parked car just a few yards from Paula Abdul's house in Sherman Oaks, CA. The cops say she might have died from a drug overdose

Police believe that the woman was a crazed Paula Abdul fan and might have been stalking her for a while now.

The woman has "ABL LV" (Abdul Love or Lover) on her license plate and has pictures of Paula hanging from her rear view mirror. Police sources told TMZ that they've been called out to Paula's house a few times to deal with the stalker.

The cops also got a call from the woman's parents yesterday afternoon. They reported their daughter missing and said she might be at Paula Abdul's house.

Paula was not at home last night, because she was off being insane while filming "American Idol."

Paula's handlers better clear the room of dolls and booze, because she's going to have a major meltdown over this news. She probably has a nervous breakdown when one of her fake eyelashes falls off, so I can only imagine how she's going to take this shit.

And I've never heard of a Paula Abdul stalker before. I mean, "Cold Hearted Snake" is a hot song, but damn!

The world is a prettier place today (that's a bad thing), because Gus, the world's ugliest dog, has gone on to heaven at the age of 9. His family said he suffered from cancer.

The one-eyed, three-legged Chinese Crested was rescued from a shitty home and adopted by a family in Florida. He lost one of his legs because of a skin tumor and lost one of his eyes in a cat fight. You should see the pussy.

Gus entered the World's Ugliest Dog contest in Norther California this past summer and won the top prize. The prize money was used towards Gus' radiation treatment.

Rest in peace, Gus.... I know you are permanently winkin' at us from above, where you were just crowned the Most Beautiful Dog in the Heaven.

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Thanks Katherine

Wow. Michael Crichton unexpectedly passed away in Los Angeles at the young age of 66. A rep issued a statement saying he died after a "courageous and private battle against cancer."

Michael is credited for making me fall in love with dinosaurs in the 90s thanks to "Jurassic Park." He was also the author of such thrillers as "Disclosure," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere," and "Congo." I can go on and on. In addition to writing books, Michael also created "E.R" and was an executive producer on the show.

He is survived by his wife and daughter.

He was a talent that will be truly missed. Rest in peace, Michael....

Source: Mom Logic