Actress/geriatric-heart throb, Bea Arthur passed away over the weekend at age 86.

Cute picture, eh? The “fox” on the right is former Bush front man, Gavin Rossdale, who was inadvertently “outed” this week by his alleged former lover, Marilyn. I suppose the great thing about being a guy who calls himself “Marilyn”, you don’t have to bother coming out of the closet. Go ahead and skip that step — we can do the “gay math” on that one.

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GUEST: Killers Singer Brandon Flowers

 

 Layne Mitchell Show Podcast #13 [17:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Emailed from SONiC Boy, Nick listening online in Calgary. 

Instead of playoff beards, all the guys around the station are having a moustache growing contest (I’m not in it; I’m just too lazy to shave). We have probably the weakest facial hair growing staff in all of Edmonton. I’ve seen menopausal women sprout more facial hair than most of the guys at SONiC. Shaun Bogner from the SONiC overnight show seems to be leading the pack… and he’s blond! Bogner’s laying the foundation for a big, fat, strawberry blond, handlebar moustache.

I’ve expressed my strong dislike for ‘stashes on numerous occasions, but I have to admit, the handlebar, I don’t mind. I think it’s because it’s almost a goatee. It’s like a goatee that’s been in a horrible shaving accident. Other stashes though — no thank you.

Why I hate moustaches so much? What have moustaches ever done to me? Nothing, I admit it’s completely unfounded, but in the spirit of getting a better understanding of my moustache hatred, I’ve decided to organize my hate by ranking moustaches from ugliest to most acceptable.

1. The Hitler: Nobody ever says “I wish I looked more like Hitler”. Enough said.

2. The Boot-cut Hitler: Picture a bell bottom pant leg made of fur hanging from your nose. Does that SOUND fashionable?

3. The Molestash: Slightly wider than the Boot-cut Hitler, this stash is favored primarily by people who spend their spare time circling elementary school playgrounds in their van with a bag of suckers on the passenger seat.

4. The Cookie Crumb Catcher: The perfect stash for those of us seeking to create the appearance of an oversized caterpillar humping your face.

5. The Handlebar: King of the lip-hair jungle, this is the moustache of choice for bikers. It’s about 90 percent of a goatee which suggests a certain distain for fashion norms.

The rumors are true; my feet spent the entire evening throwing up in preparation for today’s photo-shoot. That’s them on the right looking dapper (and just a little bloated) modeling some new DC Shoes from Easy Rider at White Mudd Crossing… but not just FROM Easy Rider, DESIGNED by the folks at Easy Rider.

BELOW: Al Ford, Garner Andrews, Shaun Bogner and I, putting our left foot in as we engage in our regular Wednesday afternoon High-Speed Hokey session.

I had a chance to chat with Killer’s singer, Brandon Flowers on the show today. Click on the play button below to hear the on-air interview.

We actually spoke for quite some time off the air as well (what can I say I’m a regular chatty Cathy!) While I didn’t get around to asking him why he dresses like a bullfighter from outer space, I DID manage ask him about his “true” tale of alien abduction and why pop has become a dirty word in the music industry. Hear THAT interview as part of this week’s edition of the Layne Mitchell Show Podcast on iTunes.

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 Layne Mitchell Show Podcast #12 [12:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

First there was blogging; the technological equivalent to keeping a diary and then just leaving it lying open in a public place for all the world to see. Then we discovered Facebook, which allowed us to do the status updates – a quick one line report or commentary on the day’s goings on (or the hour’s goings on, or even the minute for some). Which inevitably led to Twitter. Micro-blogging. No stories, just a quick 140 character summary. But Twitter, that’s SO mid-April 2009. I’m on to the new thing already… nano-blogging or Flutter. 40 characters. No more of those babbling Twitter updates that go on and on. Sometime it takes me 1 or even 2 seconds to read the whole thing. Who has that kind of time?

As our attention spans continue to dwindle, eventually we’ll reach a point where even LOL or LMAO seems long-winded and suddenly Pico-blogging will be born. Messages will consist of one or two characters. A standard pico-blogging entry will be something like…