If you think your life sucks, at least your not Timmy DeMott, whose lovely mother put this tape of him singing “Bad Romance” online to humiliate him for years to come. This video has already been viewed over 1.5 millions times, so good luck with that, Timmy.

LOL!

A reporter trying to cover fan reactions to Michael Jackson’s death was rudely interrupted by an inebriated idiot several times during his broadcast. Finally, enough is enough and he smacks the guy. I say, right on!

It’s been a while since I last posted anything on this blog and I decided it was high time to update.

Since we last spoke, I moved Trashwire to a new web host. As many of you (and our Twitter followers) know, I’d been more than a little displeased with the annoying downtimes of our former host. I’ve got to deliver Trashwire to the people 24/7! I can’t have some company standing in the way of your ability to read our completely unimportant-but-amusing ramblings! So far, so good with the new host but let me know if you notice any problems or glitches by using the contact form on the site.

In other news, I decided to change the Featured Article block (that one with the larger picture off to the left on the main page) to include two feature stories. Most of you already know I’m a HUGE Michael Jackson fan and I was completely torn up by his death. The reason behind the change is that I just couldn’t bring myself to shrink down that lovely Thriller image and put that article off in the Recent News block before the memorial had even taken place! I’m thinking I’ll leave it there until July 25th so it can have a good 30 days of glory before I move it over.

On a related note, I’ve been weighing how much coverage I should give to the media storm that’s been kicking up around Michael’s death. I’ve seen some really touching clips on YouTube from news shows to fan vids, and even superstar tributes from Beyonce and Madonna, but I’ve been undecided on how to bring you all this news without trivializing the significance of what Michael meant to the world. His name, his image and his music are everywhere you look right now and I’m worried that people will get burnt out. I’ve made a conscious effort not to post videos like the “haunted Neverland” clip from last night’s Larry King or the dancing inmates tribute to the late King of Pop because I feel like that might dilute the real impact of the loss. Like I said, I’m still undecided on how much we should be posting about Michael Jackson, so I’d love to hear your opinions. Should we be posting the videos of the Beyonce and Madonna tributes? How about clips from Larry King’s interview with Michael’s brother Jermaine? Old clips of Michael from interviews or making-of videos? Links to download Captain EO online? Since my main goal is to keep the readers happy, let me know what you’d like to see.

To shift the mood a bit, I wanted to acknowledge some of the awesome people that have contributed to Trashwire over the years. Ann Rakowiecki’s article about meeting Johnny Depp on the set of Public Enemies has been getting a ton of hits with the release of the film and (my mom) Pat Sue’s interview with Arj Barker was a fun multimedia addition to the site. Our tweeps in Phoenix have been super rad with Greg Esposito sending us a killer article about the possible cancellation of NBC’s Chuck and Chris Coffel contributing a great review of Away We Go. Of course, who could forget our favorite contributor of all, Wil Chinchilla?! Wil’s writing has grown by leaps and bounds since he first started sending us articles way back in 2007 and now he’s kicking ass (and doing parkour) all over this site! Thanks so much to everyone who’s ever sent in an article! If you’re interested in getting your writing published on Trashwire, just use the contact form to send something over.

Anyway, I realized that what I intended to be a short letter has now become a sizable post, so I’ll end things there for now. Keep checking out Trashwire.com!

Alexis Gentry
Creator/Editor
TRASHWIRE.COM

Thanks to Keith for showing me this!

Thanks to Amy (AKA @DigitalRoyalty) for tweeting the link to this video

As Twitter-mania reaches new levels, Slate V presents a mockumentary about a company that wants to take microblogging to the next level.

This is way funny for anyone as obsessed with twitter as I am.

Super funny, but also NSFW.

I don’t really have enough for a full blog post today, so instead, I’m posting a few links to lists I saw on Digg that I thought were funny, amusing or interesting.

• Famous Mustaches
  Because there’s no other list that includes Salvador Dali, Ron Jeremy and Ned Flanders.
• 29 Creative Movie Posters
  Particularly well done movie posters of the past couple years. Interesting to see how movies that aren’t necessarily good sometimes have very cool poster art.
• Top 20 Fictional Gadgets
  Sure, these things aren’t real, but we can still wish they were.
• 14 Horrific Celebrity Plastic Surgeries
  Though I don’t think Octomom qualifies as a celebrity, there are certainly some genuine disasters on this list.
• 9 Most Obnoxious Movie Watchers
  An almost anthropological classification of the people who can make going to the movies pure torture.

If you’re like me and you couldn’t get this to load on suns.com a couple days ago, now is your chance to finally catch Lou Amundson’s segment on “Nothin’ But Net”