Following the Swine flu epidemic on TV is pretty intense. Way better than Bird Flu, and a contender with the economic recession. Today, I saw a couple people on the New York City streets sporting surgical masks. If this trend continues soon New York is going to look like Mexico. I didn’t want to be left out.

It took me an hour and seven pharmacies to locate a surgical mask. Every single store was sold out. The only reason I obtained one was because a pharmacist gracious gave one of hers. It wasn’t really until then I realized the severity of the Swine Flu. Or, at least, the portrayed severity, seeing as how this outbreak is quite similar to a regular flu season.  But still, I rushed home to try on my new contraption, which looks much like a 1930s maxipad. (more…)

When a rich celebrity rolls around with 4 bodyguards it’s usually the hired help that does the roughing up. Not the case this weekend!

Puff Daddy had a good old Rocky vs Tommy Gunn style street brawl this Saturday night at Kiosk in SoHo. What started as a verbal argument with his acquaintance Steven Acevedo escalated quickly and ended when Diddy gave Acevedo’s face the one-two combo.

Once the fight ended Diddy (I can’t believe I’m calling a grown man “Diddy”) decided to revert to his former hood ways, talking smack to the man while he was down, reportedly yelling, “I’ll kill you, punk!”

This time around, Diddy can’t pin his crimes on somebody else.