Jamie Oliver's going to publish a new book on 2005-10-03, called "Jamie's Italy". So that's what he made of his summer stay over there! Mikaela's first reaction: "I wanna go to Italy and write a cook-book, too!" Check Jamie's post on the book here and more on the book in itself, here.

A real-life psycho dad is on trial for having boxed his 3-year-old son into a coma; the child later died from his wounds. The allogations stem from his former girl-friend and others who corraborated her testimony, according to this article in TBO. According to different people, the 21-year-old father didn't want his son to turn out "a sissy" and/or "gay".

Ronin Ro, author of "Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records", has written a biography on RUN-D.M.C. which should be interesting. Will Ro ever stop writing extremely pretentious subtitles?

Writing on hip-hop, don't miss this interview with DMX, where he makes sure to point out what a waster he's become. Unless his new album suddenly, inexplicably, contains collaborations with Einstürzende Neubauten, I think it's going to be just as boring as his previous stuff.

If you want the real word on the streets - of New York, anyway - check out this blog, supposedly written by a bouncer. He's interesting, in a film noir sense of the word.

You like The Simpsons? You like the music? Check this out.

The WordPress plug-in-contest is through, and I found Avatar Popup to be the best (even though I'm still waiting for a promised easy-to-use admin quicktag interface), apart from Popularity Contest.