A Motorcycle Hearse

A British company, http://www.motorcyclefunerals.com/ , offers a unique motorcycle hearse service that's very popular with rockers, bikers, ton-up boys and other UK motorcycle culture groups. The company offers several very attractive custom built motorcycle hearses including a classic Triumph, a cafe racer styled Triumph, a Suzuki, and custom Harley complete with a nice engine note roar.

What a way to go out....

Jesse James Affair Story Generates New Embarrassments For Sandra Bullock

As if the story of the purported affair between Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James, and tattoo model, Michele McGee, hasn't been painful enough for the award winning actress, new embarrassments popped up overnight about the story. Reportedly, TMZ has acquired a picture of Jesse James wearing a Nazi officers hat giving a Nazi salute, and TMZ also uncovered a video of McGee shot about two weeks ago performing onstage at the Pure Platinum strip club.

For Sandra Bullock, the steady drip-drip-drip of awful stories over the last few days must be presenting a terrible public image nightmare. Bullock has always been known for kindness and giving to charity and other good will. But, the reported antics of her husband have to be presenting a serious public relations crisis for the actress, and some way to have some damage control over the situation.

Probably, the marriage is in critical condition right now. Whether it survives all of this is a big question.

Some FOX Affiliates Wary Of Possible New Conan Show

Reportedly, FOX is putting pressure on local stations to set aside the 11:00 pm time slot for a possible new Fall season Conan O'Brien show. However, no financial deal has yet been struck between FOX and O'Brien, which is still a critical issue.

But, some local FOX network affiliates are kicking at the notion of bumping profitable programming such as THE OFFICE reruns in favor of the O'Brien, who badly failed in the 11:35 time slot over at NBC. And sometimes, moving a show cover to another network badly fails in the ratings.

A prime example of moving a show to another network that grossly failed was the mega-disaster $40 million dollar deal that moved FAMILY MATTERS and STEP BY STEP over to CBS from ABC. CBS had hoped to start a new family comedy programming block called the "CBS Block Party", but audiences failed to watch in big numbers, and FAMILY MATTERS was a huge ratings disaster for CBS where the show soon fell out of the top 100 TV shows.

Many local CBS affiliates found the ratings so low that some even aired paid programming infomercials in the 8:00pm FAMILY MATTERS time slot because it made more money than airing the fresh CBS episodes of the show. CBS soon pulled the program from the network lineup, and during the Summer ran the unaired episodes as a sort of dumping ground for all of the money they wasted on this $40 million dollar disaster.

CBS's bid to create a family oriented programming slot on Friday nights failed for several reasons. Part of the problem was that the ratings for FAMILY MATTERS had been on a slow slide ever since the second season of the show where it peaked at #15 among all shows. By season eight on ABC, the show had tumbled down to #50. For the ninth season at CBS, the show was down to #108 among all shows. For CBS to pay $40 million to purchase a declining entity was a very bad business decision.

Another problem for CBS was that with their older demographic of viewers, fewer younger viewers would migrate over to CBS, where many of the viewers tended to be near 50 at the time. Another problem is that there really wasn't as much of an audience for "family programming" as some would think. CBS has done far better in later years by airing dark dramas such as GHOST WHISPERER in this Friday time slot.

What FOX can learn from all of this is that Conan O'Brien has his fans for sure, but he was a ratings disaster for NBC in the 11:35 time slot. And usually moving a show to another network brings along less viewers as well. Further, as local stations find a network show lagging, they're willing to even air paid programming junk at prime-time if they have to to break even. All of this are bad omens for FOX here.

But FOX hopes to buck the trend, and Conan O'Brien will give FOX the best shot that they can at putting together a 11:00 talk show to compete with Leno and Letterman, even if the ratings are much smaller. FOX also hopes that Conan can build an audience as well. FOX looks willing to gamble on O'Brien here, even if many local FOX stations aren't too excited to be onboard for looks like a huge financial risk to them.

The Sporty Rambler That You Never Saw

In the 1960's, when the sporty Dodge Charger fastback was all the rage, little American Motors Corporation wanted to develop their own sports fastback model. One concept car was the Tarpon, a sports fastback based off the small compact Rambler model. Sadly, designers at AMC decided to instead base the actual Marlin production sports fastbacks off of the larger Rambler Classic series of cars because the cars were more similar to the Dodge Charger in size.

Looking back, you just can't help but wonder what a big success some awesome 390 cubic inch powered little fastback sports Rambler could have been. For little AMC, this might have a major missed opportunity.

Pharmacy Cut Off Brittany Murphy's Prescription Drugs

When it was found out by Eddie's Pharmacy in Los Angeles that the late actress Brittany Murphy was using hundreds of prescription pills a month under an alias name, the pharmacy cut her off. Records from the pharmacy show that the late actress was prescribed as many as 400 pills one month for example.

Records also indicate that one of the drugs that the late actress sought were hydrocodone(Vicodin, an opiad analgesic drug, that is used for severe pain relief, but has a very high psychological dependence problem for some persons who abuse this drug). The actress also sought out vicoprofen(which is a combination drug with both vicodin and ibuprofen, prescribed for pain and probably inflammation issues). A third type of drug that the actress sought out were antiaxiety drugs such as clonazepam or Klonopin.

Interestingly, one Dr. Richard Kroop was responsible for all of the prescriptions. including the one's written under the alias name as well. According to a report by TMZ, authorities paid a visit to the medical office run by Dr. Kroop on Friday, which may indicate an ongoing investigation into the causes of death of the late actress.

Octomom Could Lose Home

Octomom, Nadya Suleman, is apparently a victim of one of those bad sub-prime loan arrangements to buy a home. According to one report, she must make a $450,000 balloon payment by Tuesday, or else faces foreclosure. Further, Suleman has fallen behind on a monthly payment of $4139 monthly as well, only complicating her situation.

It further appears that the seller to Suleman couldn't afford the house either, so sold it to her with the outrageous payment arrangements because it was what he owed on the property. What a mess. Lawyers are going to have their work cut out for them here.

Back in January, THE WASHINGTON POST ran this photo of the house and an unidentified woman carrying balloons in for the children.

Heil No! Outrageous New Photo Shoot From Woman Linked To Jesse James

Jesse James sure knows how to pick 'em. One day after the awful news about an affair rocked the marriage of Jesse James and Sandra Bullock, TMZ obtained these outrageous photos of the woman reportedly linked to the affair with James. Reportedly, she even has a swastika on her stomach as well as symbols for "White Power" on her legs.

The outrageous photos have only to be the latest blow to the marriage of Sandra Bullock and her husband, Jesse James. And probably, they leave Sandra Bullock today asking, "Why?"

Michelle McGee, the woman in the photos is a tattoo model. And her husband's lawyers used her interest in the Nazi-era as one basis to seek to seek custody of the children from the failed marriage.