Hi Everyone,
We’re moving back to meaningfuldistractions.wordpress.com!

First off: Thank you and I love you. Those of you who read this site have been loyal since the beggining and have traveled with us from www.meaningfuldistractions.wordpress. It’s been nice on the new site (this one), but after several months we’re going back to the place of our birth.

This was a hard decision for me and one that took a long time. I like the way this site looks and it appears more legitimate. However, it does not show up in Google even after all these months. We do not have the funds or man power to really launch this thing and get it the attention it deserves. Since we put a lot of love and time into it, we’d like the most people possible to see it and the wordpress.com shows up higher in Google.

The biggest concern though with the move,  was pissing all of you off with yet another upheaval of rebookmarking and just being confused. If you have objections or thoughts, please email me at meaningfuldistractions@gmail.com. We hope that you’ll continue to follow us despite our gypsy-like nature. Consider this like a marriage (imagine me on one knee)-when you first met the person of your dreams they looked great and then suddenly, somewhere down the road, you open your eyes and they just don’t look that good anymore, maybe they’ve gone bald or grown a beer belly or their breast are kind of sagging. Yet, the substance is the same and you still stick with them because you love them. Right?

So please, we invite you to visit us at www.meaningfuldistractions.wordpress.com.

LIFE has just released never before seen photos of a 24 year old Marilyn. The negatives were discovered as the mag continues its quest to put every photo ever taken in its digital archives. At the time, the lighting and printing was felt to be off so they were never published, but they are gorgeous. Click here to view all 18 shots.

Everyone’s lost someone to them in their lifetime [Side-note: Kim, if you could have only stopped playing WoW, we could've been married by now!]

Still, interest in video games increases exponentially as we become a more-tech savvy society.

Oooooooooooold school!

The Wii made gaming less complex for all ages and genders.  Wii was a cheaper, less tricked-out system. PS3 and XBOX 360 needed to follow suit, despite having more technology than DARPA during the cold war. Nonetheless, those systems were only for hard-core gamers interested in uber-complex games with 96 buttons and crazier button-combinations.

As one of my closer buddies confided:

“What’s the point in playing if you can’t drink or play while your stoned?”

Enter Natal, stoner-dude:

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Please watch till the end. It’s fantatsic!

The U.S. military in Afghanistan is getting high tech. They’ve lanuched a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter to combat the fact that no one reads newspapers and the Internet doesn’t have enough info on them.

It will also aid in countering Taliban propaganda. “There’s an entire audience segment that seeks its news from alternative means outside traditional news sources, and we want to make sure we’re engaging them as well,” said Col. Greg Julian, the top U.S. spokesman in Afghanistan.

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Octo-mom’s mother, Angela Suleman, has her house up for auction. The cost is $534,289.54, which is significant because Nadya just purchased a new home for $564,900, instead of helping mom out of debt. Nice.

Meet American Girl’s newest doll, Rebecca Rubin. She comes with a story book and was born in 1914 to Jewish Russian parents.

She’s pretty adorable and un-criminal looking. Until you buy one for your child, and like all kids, she decides to hit the Google on Rebecca Rubin and discovers the real-life person of the same name is wanted by the F.B.I. on several counts of setting shit on fire.
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The Royal Family of Saudi Arabia funded Al Qaeda and has been part of a lawsuit filed by those whose family were victims of the 9/11 attack, holding them responsible. This past Friday, the Justice Department filed a brief before the Supreme Court saying that it saw no need for the court to review lower court rulings that found in the Saudis’ favor and threw out the suit.  They did not personally commit the act and financially funding it falls “outside the scope” of the legal parameters for suing foreign governments or leaders.

Next week Obama will meet with Saudi King Abdullah, so it’s a good thing for US relations with the Muslim world. 9/11 family members however, are seriously upset.

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The Obama’s were in NYC this Saturday for date night! The couple had dinner in the West Village at Blue Hill.  What they ate is a state secret, but Michelle did down two martinis. After, they saw Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Belasco Theater.

To see more pics, click here.

GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning as part of the Obama administration’s plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and give a majority ownership stake to the federal government, reports the AP.

It’s the largest bankruptcy filing for an industrial corporation. They’ve already recieved $20 billion in taxpayer money and will also receive $30 billion of additional financial assistance from the Treasury Department and $9.5 billion from Canada.

USA Today has a good article on 7 reasons why this happened. Thirty-one year old Brian Deese is in charge of the dismantling.

A jet carrying 228 people has disappeared off the coast of Brazil en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Ten minutes after reporting heavy turbulence, the plane disappeared off radar. No word has been heard since. It may have gone down so quickly all signals were lost and there was no time to put in an emergency call. Air Frances CEO says, “There is no hope. We are probably facing an air catastrophe.”

-Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno “fell” with his jockstrap in Eminiem’s face. While the whole show is staged, it actually looked like the rapper didn’t know it was going to happen and was pissed, making it a highlight of MTV Movie Awards History. Expect to see it a gajillion times.

-And the media-fan system has finally won out over Susan Boyle, who after losing Britain’s Got Talent was taken to a mental hospital for exhaustion.

-Heidi and Spencer are celebrities so get them out of there (there being the shitty show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here). The duo has apparently been bitching, moaning, and threatening to walk out. The jungle ain’t the hills.

-Kimora Lee Simmons had a baby!

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AQUA-NET ON SALE!

No one really knows much about whether the new species is harmful to humans, but I feel like there’s an awesome horror-movie film plot just waiting to be made out of this story! (Or a porno… )

Either way, whether you’re considering writing a script or not, read more about this species and others, here.

Which are you?

According to an article recently written by a psychologist, the way that you hold your drink says a lot more than you think about your personality.

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WTF is everyone picking on blondes lately? First Archie chooses the flaxen haired materialistic bitch Veronica over sweet yellow maned Betty, and now the Brits have come up with some crazy study of blonds vs brunettes.

The findings: Blonds are more likely to talk about their ex, get drunk, show up super-late, sleep with their date on the first night, and forget their name.

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NY Times has got a great profile on Zach in today’s paper. Check it out here.

Okay. I don’t know who Jon and Kate are, aside from the fact that they have a show on TLC that I don’t care about. Why they keep showing up on tabloid covers, why their ratings are up, and how they are inspiring Internet memes from bad hairdo’s are just a few more things I don’t care about.

The latest news though, is actually interesting. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor is looking into whether the hit reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ is complying with child labor laws.

TLC has said that they comply, but the findings could dictate just how many awful reality shows involving families with children can hit the airwaves.

Legendary music producer Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of a Hollywood actress in 2003, the Associated Press reports.

Mancow, a right winged radio shock jock, was waterboarded…or was he? Gawker has uncovered that the excercise was a hoax.

The marine who “waterboarded” Mancow told the site that he had “no idea what he was doing” and that everything he knows about waterboarding, he read on the internet. They also obtained a series of emails between the shows publicist Linda Shafran, who’s also worked for Jerry Springer, and David Kupcinet, who runs a Chicago-based foundation for veterans called Kup’s Purple Heart Foundation. [Read more →]