Roseanne Cash cancels tour dates due to brain surgery

Country singer Roseanna Cash is cancelling her dates on her ‘Black Cadillac‘ tour because she is having a brain surgery
According to Danny Kahn, manager of the singer whose dad is the late Johnny Cash’s condition is non-life threatening, it ‘just’ an elective surgery.
The surgery will take place in a New York hospital.

The cancelled dates are:

November 8: MO Voodoo Lounge, Kansas City
November 9: Purdue University, Indiana Loeb Playhouse
November 10: Ohio, Kent State Folk Festival
November 30: Library of Congress, Washington DC

According to the Website posting, Cash kicks off the second leg of the tour as scheduled next spring, beginning with a March 3 show in Tampa.

In addition to returning to both the studio and the road early next year, Cash is working on a book to be published by Viking sometime in 2009.

Good Luck and have a fast recovery!

Tom Perkins the Silicon Valley Man

Three years ago, worst episode in Hewlett-Packard’s history started to unveil.First they dismissed their chief executive, then they got rid of the chairman as well of a phone-bugging and identity theft scandal in which members of the board accounted for their secret surveillance of each other in front of Congress.

“It was never my intention to be a whistle-blower. In fact, I was not,” says Tom Perkins, the former head of the nomination and governance committee, with whos help Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive, and Patricia Dunn, the former chairman went down.

It is coincidental that as Mr Perkins launches his new book, Valley Boy, speaking to The Times in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, less than a 15-minute taxi ride away, two other giants of American business are enduring the same bloody coups. Knifings, plotting and timely leaks to the media are being reenacted down the road on Wall Street, at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.

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Ryan Hall wins Olympic marathon qualifier

Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenheim and Brian Sell will represent the United States in the marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Videos

You might remember about my recent post about New York occupied by dressed up dogs in sunglasses

I just found a short movie clip about the event, here it is:

Tyson Beckford To Host Bravo Reality Show

Tyson Beckford and Niki Taylor will host the Make Me a Supermodel reality show.
The prize is $100,000 which will be awarded to the lucky winners.
The show features both men and women on their way to launch their modelling career.

The reality show is originally based on the popular british ‘Supermodel’ reality show.
The 14 hopeful contestants will face challenges to prove their professional modelling abilities during last 14 weeks a in New York City loft.

There is though a similar show going on by the name America’s Next Top Model, hosted by Tyra Banks.

New York occupied by dressed up dogs in sunglasses

Dozens of costumed canines walked the walk in Times Square for the Dog Day Masquerade. Some of the pampered pooches preened while others couldn’t wait to get off the catwalk.

Their costumes were supposed to resemble something from Times Square past or present. The event raised awareness for pet adoption.

Grace Forster Portia, the yorkshire terrier dog, was dressed up as Reese Witherspoonnak (from Legally Blonde).

King, Pimp, Astronaut
There were many professions represented at the event.One of the Bassett Hounds was dressed up as a pimp, though clothings looked more like a geeky aristocrat.
Tequila, the Chihuahua made it further, he was one of the lions from the popular Lion King.
One creative fella dressed his dogs Mindy and Dash to look like they came from some 60s sci-fi movie.

New York, New York
The Judges? Well, the infamous Times Square ‘celebrity’ Robert John Burck was there, playing guitar in white underpants and a cowboy hat.Many dogs had cowboy hats to honor him.
Petey, the 4 years old yorkshire terrier’s costume was composed of metro tickets, while Bella represented the Statue of Freedom.As we know americans are famous for their patriotism, still Max and Herbie were dressed as Venetian Gondolliers.

Fun.