Subject: Nadya Suleman

• New Digital-Only Japanese Motors EP Released Today

  Costa Mesa's Japanese Motors have been as popular lately as the Octomom has been unpopular, selling out theaters across the country with their sweet opening gig on Modest Mouse's current tour. They continue their momentum today with a new digital-only EP, Perception of Reality, available now on iTunes and the link. The three tracks go for $1.99, and include acoustic takes on two songs from their 2008 self-titled debut--"Spendin' Days" and "Better Trends"--and a demo version of "Bummin' Out." See

  March 3, 2009

• It's a Quick Read X

  Orange County Register: The top viewed story on the Reg website as my knuckles drag across the keyboard? Octuplets' mom reportedly moving to La Habra. That should shut up anyone who whines the media should stop covering Nadya Suleman so she'll slither back into obscurity. It's not like journos are being deluged by people demanding, "Give us more Ben Bernanke!" But I had to laugh while watching a morning news reporter on the teevee sticking his microphone into the faces of Su

  March 10, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 14: Weekend and Monday B.S.

  Orange County Register: Octo-Mom took spawn from her oldest litters to Knott's Berry Farm on Saturday and Disneyland the day before, and all she got were crummy t-shirts reading: "More kids have passed through my log fume than Knott's" and "Your Kaiser co-pays helped pay for the 8-pack I just dropped, so what am I doing now? I'm going to Disneyland!" TMZ's got pics of the getaway, which allowed volunteer contractors to finish getting her La Habra home

  March 16, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 15

  Orange County Register: Here are some select reader comments to a story on people camping out for tickets to President Obama's Wednesday town hall at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa: "He is owned by the same people that owned Bush, he is called a PUPPET." "What do you expect from a Bill Ayers loyalist?" "Obama is no different than Blagojevich, he's just a little smarter." "Like I tell my friend who is Chinese and who suffered under Maoism, if you liked China in the '60s, you'll

  March 17, 2009

• Urgent, Dire OctoMom News Update

  News reporters, news photographers, news helicopters, police cars and dozens and dozens of random (apparently bored) locals flocked to a La Habra neighborhood after 10 p.m. tonight, all to see OctoMom arrive at her Orange County home with two of the more recent offspring.   For context: Ponder the dire state of our world affairs--terrorism, war, disgusting sex crimes and cover-ups, pending economic collapse, grotesque political corruption, disgraceful health care costs, sex slavery, st

  March 17, 2009

• Obama's Chin and a Little Bit of His Forehead

  by Daffodil Altan and Vickie Chang He came. We saw (kind of). He left. For one hour and 15 minutes, Building 12 of the OC Fairgrounds, which normally houses things like Sugar Plum craft festivals and ShamWow demo booths, turned into the Church of Obama--those lucky enough to get tickets were fanning themselves with fliers, napkins and whatever else they could find in purses and on floors. Shouts of "mmmm-hmm" and "that's right!" punctuated the crowded town-hall style meeting; loud che

  March 18, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 18: Gone Since Friday Edition

  Orange County Register: Miss me? Great economic news! Pier 1 Imports will only close 80 or so stores, not the 125 anticipated originally. . . . The California Energy Commission is considering a ban on big screen televisions. It's not the pollution network programmers spew that is spurring the proposal but a desire to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. . . . Who says Santa Ana is not welcoming? Its city jail will soon house more immigrant detainees. . . . Signature gathering

  March 23, 2009

• The Ripple Effects Of Octo-Breeding

  Adhi DarmawanIt seems the hyper-breeding antics of "octomom" Nadya Suleman have now prompted television networks to halt production of reality shows or documentaries about women trying to have babies in any non-conventional way, writes former NPR "Day to Day" host Madeleine Brand on her new parenting blog. The move is meant to hold on to advertisers who might otherwise flee out of fear of some kind of negative octo backlash.Brand heard this latest development from a talent agent, so it's hearsay

  March 24, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 19

  Orange County Register: The alleged boobie bandit turned herself in. Based on the MySpace photo the Reg includes, the woman police say stole an indentity to pay for cosmetic surgery is the one who got ripped off. Hey, Yvonne Pampellone, Melissa Rivers called and she wants her face back. . . . America's shrillest shark, Gloria Allred, says Octo-Mom's children are endangered, and Nadya Suleman only cares about them when the cameras are rolling. . . . Hang zero? A 16-year-old Afghan

  March 25, 2009

• It's a Quick Read Two-Two

  Orange County Register: The Catch restaurant and sports bar that had been in the shadow of Angel Stadium for 32 years before closing in February 2008 will reopen even closer to the Big A. . . . While noting highway deaths dropped nearly 10 percent locally and nationwide, the Reg unveils a map showing Orange County's deadliest spots on highway and surface-streets. . . . An ex-El Modena High School band student tried to blackmail a band teacher with sex allegations, charges the DA. Silly Migu

  March 31, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 32

  Orange County Register: Eighth sign of the Apocalypse: Ambulances spontaneously combusting in Fountain Valley. . . . It won't be galloping from four white horses South County residents hear Wednesday and Thursday, but F-18s bombing Camp Pendleton. Don't worry, the Marine base planned it. . . .  Former La Habra resident Melissa Huckaby, 28, could face additional charges of rape and molestation in the murder of a little girl in Tracy. . . . Andrew Thomas Gallo, 22, San Gabriel, cried in court

  April 14, 2009

• Smoking Gun: Octomom Seeks to Trademark Octomom

  Smoking Gun gets the scoop on La Habra's newest celebrity having filed an application to trademark the word "Octomom," which the mother of 14--including eight she spit out in January--wants to slap on disposable diapers and assorted clothing items for major chi-ching. Nadya Suleman, who has shown a knack for cashing in on her post-natal predicament, last Friday filed two applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in a bid to commercially exploit her tabloid-bestowed nickname. In her

  April 15, 2009

• La Habra Octomom Nadya Suleman Is Ready to Rocto Your World

  May 14, 2009

• OC Craigslist Erotic Services: A Farewell

  Flick / Creative Commons / **Mary**Whenever I have to describe the publication I work for to anyone only vaguely familiar with OC media, I usually start innocuous: "It's that free paper you pick up at the car wash or coffee shop." But that often gets a blank stare. So..."You know, the one with the sex ads." Ahhhh. That usually does it.Even so, it's  been weird sitting in Weekly World Headquarters, scrolling through the "exotic services" section of Orange County's Craigslist, where any colle

  May 19, 2009

• Gloria Allred To Say Things Next Week. Also, Fate Of Gays To Be Decided.

  This morning, media-master attorney Gloria Allred sent out a press release that scooped my RSS reader to the news that the California Supreme Court would be announcing its decision on the challenge to Proposition 8 next Tuesday. As if you need a refresher, Allred's the lawyer whose dipped her toes into OC-related cases like Octomom and Donna Jou, and she also was somehow involved in OJ Simpson, Paula Jones and Borat. I somehow had missed the unsurprising fact that she also represented the two ga

  May 22, 2009

• Crime Time: A Weekly Round-Up of OC Police Calls

  The "Clean-Cut Bandit": Coming to a bank near you?MONDAY, JUNE 1Shroomin' in Lagoonan: Laguna Beach Police arrested three people at a La Mirada Street property for alleged possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, heroin, Xanax, Levitra, Alprazolam and "numerous other unknown pills." Steven Christopher Aiello, 27, of Mission Viejo; Joseph Donovan Black, 26, of Laguna Beach; and Cable Jonathan Jansen, 19, of Aliso Viejo, were arrested on suspicion of trespassing and various drug offenses. Upon his

  June 9, 2009

• Court Orders Guardian for Octomom's Kids

  ​Ocotomom Nadya Suleman's dreams of reality television show cash-ins crumbled today after a federal judge ordered that a guardian be appointed to oversee the financial interests of her kids. The ruling comes just two days after she'd signed a deal that would earn each of her pups $250 a day to star in a reality t.v. show. The ruling was a response to the lawsuit filed by former child star Paul Peterson in May, who sued Suleman (with his attorney Gloria Allred) for exploiting her brood for fina

  July 27, 2009

• Octomom Uncensored To Air on Fox Next Week

  ​For anyone who still cares, the AP is reporting that candid footage of the notorious La Habra baby mama with no baby daddy will make Nadya Suleman's reality show dreams a partial reality next week when Fox airs what it is promising will be mostly uncut, uncensored and un-narrated good stuff for a two-hour special.The footage for the special was compiled by RadarOnline, but apparently it's not the drivel that they've been posting to their website for months. The private, candid stuff was sold

  August 11, 2009

• Last Night: Depeche Mode, Peter Bjorn and John at the Honda Center, Anaheim

  Andrew Youssef​Last Night: Depeche Mode, Peter Bjorn and John at the Honda Center, Anaheim; August 19, 2009.Better Than: Staying in and watching Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage, a two-hour "special," on Fox. Words fail me.Music for the Masses: Not only was it a sell-out crowd, but it was a fantastic mix of ages and ethnicities (Hispanic, Asian, Brits, Americans, Germans, French). Some came alone. Some came in couples. Some came to dance. Some came to get totally off their face. Some cam

  August 20, 2009

• Octupdate: Life Imitates Art Imitating Life

  Perhaps you saw the May 14 edition of OC Weekly--excuse me--OctoWeekly--wherein all manner of reality-show mayhem is imagined for Nadya Suleman, the La Habra resident and mother of the world's longest-surviving octuplets.Our lampoonage came hot on the heels of lilliputian Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred filing suit against Suleman for inking a deal for a reality-TV show. Allred ostensibly sought to protect the infants from media exploitation and Allred's crack-like addiction to the same.Howev

  June 1, 2009

• Octomom Cleans Up the Floor With Kate Gosselin

  Mom fight! Mom fight!​In last Wednesday's Fox TV "special" Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage, Nadya Suleman takes potshots at Jon & Kate Plus 8's Jon-less, down-on-her-luck Kate Gosselin."It's so staged," Octomom said of tabloid pictures of Gosselin in a bikini on the beach. "She's doing it to get people to take pictures of her. ... I feel like it's cheating [to get a tummy-tuck]. It's her choice. If she has enough money to fix herself, let her. I have a better shape, though. I'm sorr

  August 25, 2009

• Feeling Slutty? Let Us Dress You Up as OC's Scariest People!

  October 29, 2009