Where is Ashlee Simpson’s career? Well, judging from the reception she got at the Orange Bowl, her career is circling the toilet somewhere.

Ashlee Simpson was booed with conviction during the infamous Orange Bowl halftime show. Twice. When she began and again when she finished.

So far as I can remember, even Up With People and Anita Bryant have never been booed at one of the renowned schlockfests of American kitsch entertainment.

I guess the American people really don’t like manufactured celebrities - especially when they flub on SNL and try to blame their band instead of taking the heat themselves. What a vapid girl.

The new 2005 Jeep Wrangler has, as a standard feature, a manual 6-speed transmission.

Fuck I want one.

Sometimes just randomly surfing the internet can take you to wild and mysterious pages. I’m not quite sure how I came across this page, but I spent close to an hour reading about life as a passenger on a cargo freighter sailing from port to port.

There are also some pretty crazy freighter-related stories, like this one about a first mate trying to keep a crazy captain under control while being threatened by the Chinese Navy.

Going up to the bridge I found the second mate busy with the Aldis signaling lamp on the port wing. Two C:A 125 foot long gunboats, #3-651 and #3-671, were signaling us to “STOP AND ANCHOR IMMEDIATELY”, with blinker light as well as semaphore. Each boat had about 30 or more men on deck in combat gear and at battle stations. They were armed to the teeth with guns as well as rocket launchers. Our position at that time was about one mile north of Ichow Tao Island’s western end. When one of the gunboats shot a rocket flare across our bow, it was clear they meant business.

Neat!