A lot of things are terrible: Wenatchee may be pretty screwed, a WWII vet got denied benefits, and an alleged dog abuser is hosting a dog show. At least Courtney Love is going to teach LiLo how to stay off drugs!
Thursday Morning Headlines
Extra, Extra: Law Suits, Love's Tell-All, and a Hike in Minimum Wage
If you're working at minimum wage, you're about to get a raise. Which means you can buy Courtney Love's new book, or pay your legal fees if you're a longshoreman.
Courtney Love: Bitch Also Poor
In other Courtney Love news, Kurt Cobain's widow has woken up from her decades-long booze and pills coma to find that somebody done gone and stole her money. According to yesterday's Page Six: "some of the people handling Kurt Cobain's estate had lost all the money the Nirvana frontman had left her and their daughter, Frances Bean, her lawyer says. A team of investigators, forensic accountants, and lawyers found that Cobain's estate had been looted of more than $30 million cash and up to $500 million in real estate." In response, they plan on tracking down as much stolen booty as possible and filing civil suits aplenty. Courtney's crazy-ass Twitter feed had no comment.
Courtney Love: Bitch Still Crazy
Kurt Cobain's widow is supposedly all pissed off yet again, this time about moving men throwing out a dead bird that was actually a £8,000 piece of art by British taxidermy artist Polly Morgan. The piece of art was in Love’s bedroom, with its pedestal already packed to be sent to her new house; the bird was left sitting on a sideboard, and when the movers came, they threw it away. In response, Courtney fired her assistant. We scoured Ms. Love's completely unintelligible Twitter feed for any sic-heavy, crazy-ass, 140-character rants on the topic, and all we found were the following: "they threw out my El Pollo Loco the first Polly Morgan piece and she is gracious enought o find another embryonic chicken and put it under a belljar w a lil chandelier." and "Polly Morgan is a great artist and i thought this would stir uop a debate about art vs trash." Indeed.
Mariners Week in Review: Friday the 13th Edition
Our beloved boys of summer (?) return to the friendly confines of RoBro after a 3-3 road trip to Boston and Toronto, cementing them firmly in last place in the AL West—16.5 games behind the Angels.
Cortny Luv Fukken Rote Thiss Post
So Krist Novoselic blogs for the Weekly now. Oooh. Courtney Love doesn’t need any stinking alt-paper to share her anarchic thoughts. She’s got authenticity. She’s got voice. She’s got MySpace.
Zac Efron to Play Kurt Cobain in Heavier than Heaven, the Movie
Wait--choke back that vomit. We're making shit up. Speculating doom, if you will. Only half of that title is true.
Aberdeen Memorializes Local Boy Cobain with “Lounge Acts”
Kurt Cobain’s widow and his hometown have a lot in common. Both Courtney Love and Aberdeen have battled substance abuse. Both are scorned for their blighted appearance. And both had a lot of wood running through them in their heyday.
Kurt Cobain: Skip the Courtney-Commercial Shit, See the Indie Movie
Remember the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the album that made the band—and the word "grunge"—a household name? A naked baby, swimming blithely in pristine water, reaches for a dollar bill—a dollar bill that's on a large fish hook. The image is memorable for its ironic, dangerous, clear message. Courtney Love didn't catch the meaning. Director AJ Schnack does.
Nirvana Song Whored Out to Baseball Video Game
"I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, care if I'm old."
Governor Gregoire Wants Your Opinion
That chair, the one with the plaid fabric? Should it go next to the couch, or over by the fireplace?
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one.
The Rachel Corrie Story: Not ready for prime time
Courtney Love) and we more or less recall the political foment of The Evergreen State College, the lo-pro, no-letter-grades hothouse that produced Rachel Corrie, the student-activist who was killed when she was struck by bulldozer in Gaza three years ago today.
News From the World of Drugs (Formerly the World of Sports)
One day after legendary hitter Rafael Palmiero was suspended for steroid use, ESPN reports this morning that Mariners starting pitcher Ryan Franklin is suspended 10 days for the same thing.
McDermott Is Number 38!
It may not be as desirable as hottest rock star wife or as prestigious as greatest novel, but our own Congressman Jim McDermott has been named the 38th worst American.
Revenge of the SIFF
Here we are in the home stretch of the 31st annual Seattle International Film Festival. If you haven't seen a great foreign film/documentary/indie flick, or at least an advertisement featuring aspects thereof, you only have till this Sunday to do so. Between now and then, some festival films of note (and in a nutshell) include:

