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"A Shore Thing" will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.

The story follows a girl "full of big hair, dark tans, and fights galore,".

"I'm pumped to announce to my fans a project that I've been working on for some time," said Snookers.

"This book will have you falling in love at the shore. It's 'A Shore Thing!,'"

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"I mean, look, I'm controversial. It's not that people don't know who I am . . . If people want to work with me, then they want to work with me. If they don't, they don't. You also have to create your own things. " - Naomi Campbell

Such a shame..

Needles are no bueno!!!!!!!!

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(CNN) - A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of an openly lesbian former Air Force major who was dismissed from the military under the government's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Judge Ronald Leighton of Tacoma, Washington, made his ruling Friday. It is the latest legal and political setback for the Obama administration, which is seeking to end the policy through a legislative and executive solution.Maj. Margaret Witt, a decorated flight nurse with 20 years of service, had sued to return to the Air Force Reserve. She was honorably discharged in July 2007 on the grounds that she had a six-year relationship with another woman, a civilian.


"Her discharge from the Air Force Reserves violated her substantive due process rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. She should be restored to her position as a flight nurse with the 446th AES as soon as is practicable," wrote the judge.
An Air Force spokesman said the Air Force believes that "Major Witt's discharge was fully consistent with the law and thus appropriate."
"While we are disappointed the district court judge did not agree that important Congressionally-recognized
military interests were furthered by Major Witt's discharge, we are pleased he allowed the government to develop a more detailed factual record for the appellate courts to consider," said Lt. Col. Todd Vician.
The "don't ask, don't tell" policy enacted in 1993 prevents gay men and lesbians from openly serving in the military and bars officials from inquiring into a service member's sexuality.
The Senate this week temporarily turned aside legislation to repeal the law.
Witt joined the Air Force in 1987 and was suspended in 2004, after her superiors discovered her personal relationship with the civilian woman. At the time, she worked for an air-medical transport unit that evacuated and treated wounded soldiers.
She was described in employee reports and by trial witnesses as an "exemplary officer" who was an effective leader, caring mentor, and skilled clinician. She had hid her homosexuality for years.
The judge found no compelling reason for her dismissal.
"The application of 'don't ask, don't tell' to Major Margaret Witt does not significantly further the government's interest in promoting military readiness, unit morale and cohesion," he wrote.
In 2006, Leighton had ruled against Witt, but a federal appeals court had ordered him to take another look at the case.
A six-day federal trial had wrapped up earlier this week, and Leighton had openly indicated he would likely rule in Witt's favor.
"My colleagues -- my friends -- said, 'Ron, you got it wrong,"' Leighton said near the end of the trial, referring to his earlier decision. "They told me what I needed to do, what I needed to ask."
The judge is a 2002 Bush appointee.
Witt's lawyers from the ACLU argued that the Spokane native's sexuality never led to any problems within her unit. Several members of her squadron had testified they would welcome her back.
"Today we heard the hammer of justice strike for Major Margaret Witt," said ACLU of Washington Executive Director Kathleen Taylor. "We look forward to the day when all members of our military can serve our country without invidious discrimination. To discharge her simply because of her sexual orientation was entirely unfair to her and unwise for the military, which needs her significant skills."
Witt was released just before she was set to retire with full benefits. The judge rejected a separate argument from Witt that her procedural due process rights were violated. Leighton said the Air Force gave her full notice of the charges against her and she was given the opportunity to challenge the charges.
Air Force lawyers argued the military -- not the courts -- was in the best position to evaluate and enforce the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. A federal judge in California earlier this month had similarly ruled the policy unconstitutional. That judge will soon rule on whether the Pentagon will be barred from enforcing it.
President Barack Obama is pushing for a repeal of the controversial policy. A bill that would overturn the measure after a Pentagon review is completed in December is currently before Congress.
More than 12,500 gays have been booted from the military since "don't ask, don't tell" went into effect

"Judge Elden Fox threw Lindsay Lohan in jail earlier today after the actress failed two drug tests and violated her probation, but Judge Patricia Schnegg, Assistant Supervising Judge for the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts, has thrown out his ruling and set Lindsay's bail at $300,000! Lindsay is expected to leave the Lynwood Correctional Facility tonight, and she'll have to have a SCRAM bracelet put on within 24 hours. The terms of her bail also dictate that she is not allowed to be in establishments where alcohol is the "chief item of sale," she can't be around known drug users, and she must submit to search by law enforcement at any time, according to TMZ."
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Former president Bill Clinton told CBS News anchor Katie Couric that he regrets the "don't ask, don't tell" policy created in 1993 under his administration, but that Colin Powell, his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, misrepresented how the policy would work.


President Clinton spoke with Couric hours after an attempt to repeal the policy in the Senate failed to overcome a Republican filibuster.

"Do you ever regret it as a policy?" asked Couric.

"Oh, yeah," Clinton responded. "But keep in mind, I didn't choose this policy."

The president said he resorted to "don't ask, don't tell" when it became apparent that both houses of Congress would put an absolute ban on gay people serving in the military unless he did something else. He also said that Powell misrepresented how the policy would work.

"'Don't ask, don't tell' was only adopted when both Houses of Congress had voted by a huge veto-proof margin to legislate the absolute ban on gays in the military if I didn't do something else," said Clinton. "So there's been a lot of rewriting history, saying 'Bill Clinton just gave into that.' That's just factually false. I didn't do anything until the votes were counted. Now, when Colin Powell sold me on 'don't pass, don't tell,' here's what he said it would be. Gay service members would never get in trouble for going to gay bars, marching in gay rights parades, as long as they weren't in uniform. That was what they were promised. That's a very different 'don't ask, don't tell' than we got."

Discovered by Lil Wayne on a street DVD, Nicki Minaj enjoyed an early buzz that, while strong, hinged on a common archetype: a female rapper who wasn’t hard to look at. But after a year in which the 26-year-old Queens native, born Onika Tanya Maraj, contributed sexually explicit and surprisingly self-aware verses for a slew of Young Money bangers (“Bedrock,” “Up All Night,” and “Roger That”) and became the go-to gal for Usher (“Lil Freak”), Robin Thicke (“Shakin’ It 4 Daddy”), Ludacris (“My Chick Bad”), and Mariah Carey (“Up Out My Face”), she transcended hood-ornament status to be one of the hottest rappers in the game, period.
Her penchant for animated accents and a Harajuku-influenced love for colorful getups begat a cult of personality so strong that even a big-budget disaster like her poorly received first single, “Massive Attack,” couldn’t hold her down. Nicki simply licked her wounds (if only we had been there to help) and came back with the sweet and sultry “Your Love,” which became the first female single to top the Billboard rap charts in eight years. With her debut, Pink Friday, due in November, we’ll soon have a clearer view of which Nicki will be remembered. But whether mold-shattering superstar or Young Money footnote, one thing is clear: She’ll be the one calling the shots.

Complex: Everyone has this image of you as a cartoon character with outlandish wigs, but at our shoot today you were much more low-key.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] Every woman is a character—but people need to see I’m a regular human. It’s like you wear a pink wig and you’re no longer human all of sudden. You’re a thing. Like today [the photographer] was like, “Where is that Nicki Minaj smile?” But this shoot doesn’t call for the Nicki Minaj smile. You guys wanted me subdued, so I’m gonna give you a different side. I’m not gonna pull a string and be like, “It’s Barbie, bitch!”
Is it intimidating to know that, besides The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, there are very few indisputable classic female rap albums?
Nicki Minaj: I want to do well, but I don’t think I’m intimidated. People’s expectations of what I’m capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.
You think people still underestimate you, even with the success you’ve been having?
Nicki Minaj: Absolutely. A lot of people don’t know I wrote all the hooks on the album. I arranged the music, did the transitions. [Other female rappers] are told what to do, but I run my entire empire; I don’t think people would expect that.
Was it hard for you to get that latitude from the label?
Nicki Minaj: My generation is creative; all we need is a Baby or a Slim to back us. We don’t need you to tell us what to do, but we need you to nurture our decisions, and I think Cash Money understands that. I didn’t have Wayne obviously, since he’s been in jail, so there wasn’t anyone I could have called and asked for help. Actually, when I’ve relied on people in the past is when I’ve made the biggest mistakes. When I trust my gut, I win.
What are some of your biggest mistakes?
Nicki Minaj: I won’t say.
Were they recent mistakes?
Nicki Minaj: Yeah.
Recent as in “Massive Attack”?
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] Next question.
What has Wayne’s involvement been on the album?
Nicki Minaj: He really hasn’t had any involvement on it. But to be honest, the album doesn’t sound like Wayne. I mean, he’s my biggest influence, but it doesn’t sound like Wayne’s stuff. It sounds like Nicki.
You have the smash single “Your Love” out right now. When did you record it?
Nicki Minaj: Two years ago, before I dropped Beam Me Up Scotty. I loved the beat and the hook, but I didn’t like my delivery on it; that’s why I re-recorded it when it leaked. [Before it leaked] I was like, “This is going in the trash.”

When you look at the two singles you’ve had so far, “Massive Attack” is more experimental and “Your Love” is more conventional. Does it bother you that people were less receptive to something different?
Nicki Minaj: It was a good lesson to learn early on. I actually think the public made the right choice.
What was the lesson?
Nicki Minaj: To just go with my heart and my first instinct.
So your first instinct wasn’t “Massive Attack”?
Nicki Minaj: You’re making it seem that way. I didn’t say anything.
It’s just the way you looked down…
Nicki Minaj: Why are you looking at my eyes?
Should I look somewhere else? I don’t want you to slap me.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] I don’t want you to read into my eyes, just listen to what I am saying. When I first heard ["Your Love"], I loved it; I played it for Wayne and he yelled at me. When we were working on Young Money’s album, I played him just the hook and the beat. He can’t remember it, though. To this day, he’s like, “Nah, I ain’t never heard that.” But he heard it and was like, “What the fuck is this?” I think that’s one of the reasons I fell back on it.
Where do all your different voices come from?
Nicki Minaj: I have no idea. I think Wayne kind of influenced that. He has always been really carefree when he raps and I was like, “I don’t have to stay in one cadence or stay in one tone when I rap—I can just do what I want.”
But you’ve been saying in recent interviews that you might tone down the voices.
Nicki Minaj: Sometimes the shit I say is over people’s heads and I feel like I need to dumb it down a bit so people can understand it. I think if I had said a lot of raps in a particular voice, people would go, “Yo, that shit was hard”—but when you change up your voice a little bit, they can’t see past that. And they’re lookin’ at me like, “This bitch is stupid”—and I’m lookin’ at them like, “No, bitch, you’re stupid.” [Laughs.]
So on your album and going forward, you’re going to mellow out on the voices?
Nicki Minaj: I definitely made a conscious effort to tone the voices down a little bit.
Did the label or management talk to you about it at all?
Nicki Minaj: Again, I run my empire. Does that answer your question? No one tells me anything unless I ask their opinion. No one can make a decision for you. Not if you’re the boss.
How have you gone from being a hot mixtape rapper to possibly the next pop culture icon?
Nicki Minaj: It’s interesting that you say that, but I still can’t believe that happened. I’m not gonna sit up here and act like I have a dope answer. I don’t know how that happened, and I don’t know why it happened, but I’m just happy that girls who look like Nicki Minaj can now have a face in pop culture.
The successful female rappers that have come before you each had a strong male counterpart. How do you make sure people don’t say Lil Wayne is pulling the strings on your career?
Nicki Minaj: I always keep Nicki Minaj separate from Young Money. I allow Wayne to call the shots when we do group albums, but when I do other things and have other choices, I don’t necessarily need everyone’s go-ahead. I write my own raps, I go in the studio by myself. There are some female rappers who can’t go in the studio unless they have a ghostwriter sitting right next to them. I’m the complete opposite—I’ll go in and ghostwrite for someone.
It seems like Young Money as a whole doesn’t get caught up in beef. Has Wayne sat you or Drake down and advised you to avoid that route?
Nicki Minaj: He’s definitely told me, “Yo, leave that bullshit alone. That’s for people who ain’t got shit else to do.” I’ve watched Wayne handle himself so well. I’ve seen people take shot after shot after shot at him and if it fazed him, I never saw it. People take shots because they’re hoping for a little bit of your energy. They need fuel.
How hard has it been not to respond when people take shots?
Nicki Minaj: It’s not hard when you’re making a lot of money and everything you do is sold out, and people adore you and little kids are crying just to take a picture with you. I’m laughing all the way to the bank, just like Wayne said. Young Money is good.
Speaking of Young Money, did your labelmate Drake tell you he’d be mentioning wanting to marry you on his verse for “Miss Me” before you heard it?
Nicki Minaj: He told me he said something about me on a verse, but I didn’t think it would be anything like that. He let me hear it for the first time when we did Jay’s show at Madison Square Garden, the day before Wayne had to go to jail—that night he let me hear it on the headphones. But you know what else he told me he wrote for me? The Alicia Keys song “I’m Ready.” I happen to love the song. I never told anyone that, I hope he won’t get mad that I said that.
Then you have Wayne calling you his future wife.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.]
You’re gonna have Drake and Wayne fighting over you.
Nicki Minaj: You have no idea how much I love them. We joke around. That’s the thing about Young Money, we will say a lot of crazy shit in the press but we will get around each other and start cracking up laughing like brothers and sisters. Drake is a playboy. He probably told mad bitches he wrote them songs for ‘em.
Do the guys in Young Money ask you for dating advice?
Nicki Minaj: They always ask me to hook them up with something!
Drake asks you to hook him up with chicks?
Nicki Minaj: Well, no, Drake knows better. [Laughs.] Drake tries to be the suave dude and not seem pressed, but Wayne will straight-up ask: “Nick, you got something for me?”
There’s been a lot of speculation about your sexuality in the press. Your verse on Usher’s “Lil’ Freak” adds to the buzz that you’re bisexual.
Nicki Minaj: When I rap, it’s just an extension of how I speak, and that’s how I talk. If you don’t like it, don’t listen. I’m also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. [In the press] I didn’t say [I don't like women]. I said I don’t have sex with women. I don’t have sex with men right now either. If [bisexual is] what they wanna call me, then fine.
So right now Nicki Minaj is celibate?
Nicki Minaj: Yes, and I encourage all my young Barbies to do the same. I just don’t have time.
Sex doesn’t take that long, I can tell you that right now. I’m talking seven minutes—and that includes foreplay.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] Oh my God! Maybe it’s because we don’t need that physical stimulation all the time. I can just have a daydream and it does it for me.
Or maybe it’s the Rabbit.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] What?
That vibrator is making men obsolete.
Nicki Minaj: No, I don’t got no damn Rabbit, you lunatic.
You know, you kinda put Diddy and Cassie out there on “Lil’ Freak.”
Nicki Minaj: How did I put them out there?
They never speak in the press about being together, and you say, “I’m plotting on how I can take Cassie away from Diddy.”
Nicki Minaj: Oh! Did I do that? [Laughs.] Sorry.
I saw a video interview where you said you wanted to have a threesome with Cassie and Lauren London. What is it about Cassie that you love so much?
Nicki Minaj: She’s so peaceful and serene. There’s something about her that is so effortless. She’s my friend on BBM.
How did your relationship with Diddy start? Obviously, he manages you now…
Nicki Minaj: Who said that? Who told you that? Did I tell you that? I don’t want you to say “obviously” if I didn’t tell you that, so let’s start that question over.
OK: It has been reported that Diddy and James Cruz manage you now—so how did that relationship start?
Nicki Minaj: I don’t care to discuss management and don’t care to discuss Diddy any further.
Moving on, then: You’re one of the few female rappers I’ve heard saying “pause” and “no homo” on your songs.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] I stopped saying “no homo” because a gay person said I was perpetuating homophobia, so I accepted that. I was just so used to being around my boys and them saying, “no homo,” it’s like second nature. With “pause,” it just means no sexual connotation intended. A guy can say “pause” to a girl and vice versa.
You’ve said in recent interviews that you want to tone down the sexual content in your music. What prompted that?
Nicki Minaj: On “My Chick Bad,” I had to show people that I can spit a verse without sex or talking about how good I look. I’m actually timid when it comes to being overtly sexy, which is weird because in the beginning people thought of me like some freakin’ porn star. Guys reference sex all the time in their raps—I can’t even think of a record where Wayne doesn’t talk about sex—but when a female does it, people start tuning out. Then this gay dude the other day told me, “I say to dudes, ‘Maybe it’s time to put this pussy on your sideburns.’” I was crying laughing and I was like, “I can’t take this shit out of my act.” People live for that shit. [Laughs.] I just have to balance it a little bit.

You Boris fans, we know you've been waiting! Your favorite DJ takes his turn on the increasingly legendary Island, fresh off a Classics set fit for a "Warrior." Come join the whole Believe gang for a night you won't forget, at a venue you can't miss.



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"TMZ broke the story that Lindsay tested positive for cocaine last week. Sources connected with the case tell us Lindsay failed another test as well -- we're told it was not for cocaine, but they would not be more specific.

And our sources say ... the tests were both conducted within a short span of each other.

Lindsay could face 30 days behind bars for each failed drug test."

"Lindsay Lohan tested positive for cocaine last week and that is why she failed her drug test ... sources tell TMZ. As we first reported, Lindsay failed the court-mandated drug test -- and according to the terms of her probation, she will go back to jail for 30 days as a result. Sources close to Lindsay say she's been telling friends she's "getting her life together." However, we're also told, she's surrounded herself with some "bad influences." Story developing..."

(Lohan was cracked out @ boom boom room this weekend)

Dynamite killlllls it!

From Malan Breton NYFW

i tore up the L.E.S on Saturday for Lady Fag's Bday Party.. Photos by the one and only Paul Alexander

Friday, September 24th from 6pm to Midnight.

"Join over 10,000 on Superman: Ultimate Flight, Kingda Ka, and Rolling Thunder. There will be plenty of gurls and girls shaking to the grooves of DJs Seth Gold, Corey Craig and Rhino Starr throughout the theme park.

Find one to play "Robin" to your "Batman" and hold your hand as you scream on Batman the Ride. If you lose him to the Joker in Movietown or Frontier Adventures, just find another toy in line for the enclosed Dark Knight coaster and get ready for a wild ride. Later that night groove to "Dirty Talk" and other hits by the sexy Wynter Gordon.

Gay and Lesbian Days at Six Flags, the brainchild of Mark Nelson (formally Fairgrounds 7), is one of the largest private LGBT event in the United States. A portion of the roceeds benefit the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund."

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Sep 25th -> SPLASH NYC

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"Dolce & Gabbana celebrated Naomi Campbell's 25th year in fashion at its Madison Avenue store last night, but, this year, the iconic model is taking some time for herself. "I'm not retiring, just taking the season off," she told us. "I mean, if one of my friends asks me, like Stefano [Gabbana], sure, I'd be professional and walk," she added. But, "I don't really [walk]."

So how has the model's summer been? "Pretty good," she explained. "I've run around, had fun, traveled." Also,
testifed at a war-crimes tribunal for former Liberian leader Charles Taylor at the Hague, but that didn't seem to be worth mentioning. Before she was pulled away, we asked if we could keep up with her over the Internet. Alas: "I don't do Facebook," she said. "I don't do Twitter. None of that. I don't have to do any of that. I just don't want anyone to know where I am."

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DJ Drama Interviews Nicki Minaj by Rap-Up

I slept through the show, but peep the looks & invite!