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MONEY, HONEYS & PLAYBOY BUNNYS

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

To Asia, With Love

Oh, boy, the women of our world certainly are beautiful. In this segment, I’ve had a feature strictly for the gorgeous latina and black women and yet, no love for the beautiful asian ladies.

No longer. Today is the day we recognize them.

Lucy Liu

$$$MONEY$$$ LUCY LIU

Been a while since Ms. Liu debuted in Hollywood back in 1989 before turning into a star via Ally McBeal and Charlie’s Angels. Her first cameo appearances worth mentioning were on the television shows X-Files and Hercules: The Legendary Jouneys. Of course, most of us recognized her first on Ally McBeal but what you may not know is she originally tried out for the role of Portia de Rossi’s Nellie Porter. She was so damn good they wrote in Ling Woo and Lucy Liu wasn’t such a small star too much more after that.

Mika Tan

PORN HONEY – MIKA TAN

Mika Tan is one of your more popular porn stars in today’s world and possibly the most recognized asians in pornography. She comes from a Samoan/Japanese father and an Okinawan/Taiwanese mother. Her love for showing her body comes from her mother’s side of the family which has a long history of models and musicians. Her career started off from nude art modeling and stripping but her huge career really started when she was approached inside an AM/PM by porn director Jack Pearl. After tons of films, Ms. Tan now is a jack-of-all-trades doing a variety of different work inside the porn industry and is now officially a legal prostitute at Nevada’s world famous Bunny Ranch brothel.

Hiromi Oshima

PLAYBOY BUNNY – HIROMI OSHIMA

The one interesting thing about Hiromi Oshima that sort of shocked me was that she was the first ever Japanese playmate in the history of Playboy. And this is in 2004! For some reason I would have though Hugh Hefner would have researched the country of Japan for an array of beauties earlier on but I guess he had his hands full with other things. Her other pieces of fame are as appearances in the music video for Nelly’s “Shake Ya Tailfeather” and was also cast as herself in the 2008 Anna Faris comedy, The House Bunny.

Who Wins?

It’s always such a difficult choice but this one was a tad bit easier for me. Always dug Lucy Liu but she’s a little too feisty for me and seems like she’d knock my block off if I had a mere question for her. Hiromi Oshima is definitely a beauty but, unlike Lucy Liu, Oshima falls to the other side of the spectrum for me in that she seems somewhat timid and too nice. So, in a rare choice for me, I’m going with the ultra-sexy, ultra-freaky biochemist (yes, she has a degree in biochemistry!) porn star, Mika Tan. She’s a damn fine woman, just not one I would ever marry or bring home to mom. But, what mom doesn’t know won’t hurt her, right?

MIKA TAN WINS!

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Tags: Ally McBeal, Bunny Ranch, Charlie's Angels, Hiromi Oshima, Hugh Hefner, Jack Pearl, Japanese, Lucy Liu, Mika Tan, Money Honeys & Playboy Bunnys, playmate
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MONEY, HONEYS & PLAYBOY BUNNIES

Monday, June 8th, 2009

I had to go with Megan Fox this time around since Transfomers 2 is on its way to the movie theatres soon and she’s apparently every young man’s wet dream right now.

So, why not welcome her to Money Honeys & Playboy Bunnies the right way and having her join the competition?

$$$MONEY$$$ – MEGAN FOX

Megan started off her career opposite wannabe anorexic Ashley Olsen in the Fox movie, Holiday in the Sun. After roles on such television shows as Two and a Half Men and What I Like About You. It was only back in 2001 that her acting career was launched so stunningly gorgeous Megan hasn’t had much time to cool off since. After a few stints on tv, she got her big break as a member of the cast for Lindsay Lohan’s Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Not long after that, of course, was the movie that turned into the hottest chick in Hollywood at the moment: Transformers. Obviously, many young men will be flocking to theatres for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I doubt anyone really cares about any of her other upcoming movies as it will probably be used as a pitiful (yet legitimate) reason to justify going to see it.

PORN HONEY – GIANNA MICHAELS

Gianna Michaels, like Sasha Gray a few weeks ago, is one of the hottest porn stars at the moment. Funny, she actually started out in a burger joint in Seattle before heading south to sunny southern California where her first job landed her in an office as a receptionist. After frequently having people approach her to consider modeling, Gianna decided maybe it was time to try it out. At the worst, she would drop the new pursuit if it didn’t work to her liking. Well, that opened the door to nude pictures which blew down the door to a huge porn career. 293 DVD’s later and Miss Michaels seems to be on top of the porn world (no pun intended). You can also see her all over the internet as she’s just as big, maybe even bigger, on the Web as she is in the world of adult film.

PLAYBOY BUNNY – JAYDE NICOLE

It was a whole 26 years before another Canadian Playmate made the kind of impact on Hugh Hefner to realistically be considered for the annual award as the magazine’s top playmate. Well, Jayde Nicole broke that 26 year streak of non-Canadians by becoming the 2008 Playmate of the Year. Take that, Hef! It means that the Ontario native can now claim something only the legendary Shannon Tweed can: the only Canadian Playmate of the Year in the entire world! Her most becoming feature is a unique tattoo of the word ‘respect’ on her lower abdomen, apparently a reminder of a bad relationship. Not that we care much but it was another fact to take up space for this particular column so I plugged it in. Honestly, I really don’t give a shit so I doubt either of you do either.

Who wins?

Gianna Michaels is cute and I like that she’s the thickest of the three but she’s a little too much and is not because she’s a porn star. She’s just not my type but beauty is the eye of the beholder, right? Jayde Nicole is a pretty Canadian but is there anything else? Doesn’t seem like it. Hiding behind Playboy doesn’t win this contest. Megan Fox is a real pretty lady but has a unique look unlike the other two that stands out. Her Transformers connection gets her the sure nod here.

MEGAN FOX WINS

Tags: Ashley Olsen, Canadian, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Gianna Michaels, Hugh Hefner, Jayde Nicole, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox, Ontario, Playboy bunny, Playmate of the Year, porn star, Seattle, Shannon Tweed, Southern California, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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MONEY HONEYS AND PLAYBOY BUNNIES

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

This time around, I’m going with some of the up and coming stars in today’s world. Well, at least the one’s I thought I could manipulate into this column somehow due to my wildly ridiculous mind. But, I got some hot new names that are all over the place these days.

$$$MONEY$$$ - ZOE SALDANA

I have to put her here now that I’ve seen the newest Star Trek. Saw the flick yesterday and looooooved it. And, I can’t stand Star Trek! Never have, never will…unless, we’re talking about this new one. And, if we’re talking about the new Star Trek, it’s hard not to talk about Zoe Saldana, the actress playing the new Nyota Uhura. There is cute, there is hot, and then there is smoooooooooking hot! I wonder which category Ms. Saldana falls into. She’s Dominican, a New Jersey native and a good little actress as well. Not only is she gorgeous but she can live up to whatever role she’s playing. This, I dig. As in, I really dig this smoking hot and gorgeous chick named Zoe Saldana who is now officially my new crush. Stop Pop Culture is now officially following you and also officially one of your biggest fans. GO ZOE!

PORN HONEY – SASHA GREY

A Northern California girl, Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars right now, straight out of Sacramento of all places. Saved up $7K to move to the lovely City of Angels to pursue acting and wound up becoming a porn queen instead. She’s apparently big on aggressive sex such as degrading sex acts like being slapped and hit during intercourse. Such a lovely girl, ain’t she? She’s also been featured in the Roots video, “Birthday Girl”, as well as Smashing Pumpkins music video “Superchrist”. Recently, she’s been testing her mettle in the acting world, appearing in some low budget films. In a Rolling Stone interview, she was quoted as saying to the women in the world “it’s okay to be a slut”. Sasha, how about you have your opinions and the rest of the women in the world have theirs? Celebrities say some silly things but this porn star saying something that ludicrous is just dumb as shit. Also, one other thing, it was really hard finding any good pictures of Ms. Grey where she wasn’t blowing some dude or taking it up the you know what. How many women would admire that about themselves? I’m curious.

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PLAYBOY BUNNY – DASHA ASTAFIEVA

Dasha Astafieva, January 2009 Playmate of the Month, making the Playboy’s 55th Anniversary Playmate. This Ukrainian beauty is also part of the Ukrainian pop group, Nikita, showing that not only can she rock a hot body, she can rock a tune also. At least, that’s probably what she thinks. Me? I can’t see any Playmate of the Month rocking any kind of music unless it’s gorgeous Vanessa Williams who had a hell of a successful music career after she was stripped of her Miss America crown. Then again, that was Miss America, not a Playboy Playmate. Anyways, I guess you might start hearing more and more about her throughout this year since she’s apparently cutting in on The Girls Next Door‘s action and trying to win over Hugh Hefner. This is not sitting well with platinum blonde doll, Holly Madison. Yes, my anti-pop culture friends, you shall be hearing much more of this pathetic tale in the coming months.

AND THE WINNER IS…Sasha Grey is immediately out of the running in this battle due to that ignorant comment. Look, I understand you’re a super successful porn star and yeah, most of us watch porn however, telling young women out there that it’s “okay to be a slut” is just pathetic. So it comes down to Zoe Saldana and Hugh Hefner’s possible new squeeze, Dasha Astafieva. Is this really even a contest? Not in my eyes. Besides, Dasha is overrated to me. She’s not even one of the prettier Playmates I’ve seen. Zoe, on the other hand, is drop dead gorgeous and looks pretty classy too. She wins in looks and style!

ZOE SALDANA WINS!

*I will be going to the next Star Trek partly because of you, Zoe

Tags: 2009, celebrities, City of Angels, Dasha Astafieva, Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner, northern California, Nyota Uhura, Playboy, playmate of the month, pop group, PORN, Pornography, Sacramento, Sasha Grey, Smashing Pumpkins, Star Trek, stars, STOP POP CULTURE, The Girls Next Door, The Roots, Ukraine, Zoe Saldana
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STOP…PANICKING AND BUY

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Rally on, Mr. Market, RALLY ON! Well, at least it was fun while it lasted. Three straight weeks of gains topped off with last Friday’s market losing 148 points or 1.87%. Not terrible since that damn thing kicked major ass last Monday, gaining 497 points or 6.8%. What’s that spell: V-O-L-A-T-I-L-E.

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But does the three week gain mean anything? How much it means is up to the guys who have their big degrees and big paychecks to claim they know the answers. Unfortunately for those geniuses, they still don’t know shit. Analysts, researchers, economists are very smart people. Very, very smart. But they don’t know more than you, they don’t know more than me and they don’t know what they think they know about the market. They’re just a bunch of dudes who know a lot of numbers and can write a good report on them. In short, they’re smart asses.

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*Another great picture. Whoever designed this is brilliant!

Statistically speaking, according to the majority of these experts, this recent bull rally is really just a “bear market rally”. So, going with that theory, this “bear market rally” should be ending very soon. Soon as in last Friday thus starting a brand new bear market tomorrow, on Monday. So, what’ll be? In honor of Saturday Night Live’s Super Fans, we must ask,

“Are we taking da Bears or are we takin’ da Bulls?”

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Seems like an easy question these days. Everyone’s going nuts over what could be over 700,000 job cuts in the month of March when the jobs data gets released this Friday. If it’s worse than expected the Bears are attacking with machine guns. If it’s better than expected, the Bulls could hold their ground and reinforce their current attack with another missle rally upward. It could happen.

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Point is, something completely one-sided will take effect. Either the bears kick ass or the bulls. Trust me, either way, it won’t be an even week. Might not even be two or three. Something’s happening right now, on a Sunday night, all around the world that none of us little investors know about. But it’s a’happenin’. It’s a mystery as to what it is but it involves money and lots of it to be precise.

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Anyhow, bear or bull, war or not, there’s stocks out there worth a good look. However, there’s many that aren’t. Here are a few I’ve noticed that just look bad. In short, they suck.

Warner Music Group (WMG)

It’s not WMG’s fault that music is officially dead from a corporate standpoint. If it was alive, Warner would be just fine. See, most artists got smart and are now taking the DIY (doing it yourself) directiont. Basically, artists have been completely cutting out the middleman (Warner, Universal, Sony) and making lots of dough doing it. Thank yourself, the artists and the Web for taking down the evil empire of Big Music. Great job, ya’ll.

Playboy Enterprises Inc (PLA)

All guys have a special place in their heart for Hugh Hefner and Playboy but there may be a possibility that the once greatest adult entertainment company in the world could be done. Online porn has wiped out most of the big adult companies and will continue to do so unless the bigger companies can give the fans of that industry something worth their while that doesn’t cost $40. Charging that dough for DVD’s is ridiculous when the rest of the porn these people are watching online is free. Reconsider your business plan, Hugh.

Blockbuster Inc (BBI)

I might have mentioned before that it seems everyone has put a Stopbuster to their Blockbuster. Remember when it was always a Blockbuster night? I would hit up Blockbuster myself every Saturday night for a movie until I realized my wallet was empty every time I left with a new movie. I started realizing the mom and pop shop down the street was giving you a day less for half the price so you know what I did. Then, Netflix came along and the rest is history.

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MONEY, HONEYS AND PLAYBOY BUNNIES

Friday, March 6th, 2009

For some reason, this week, I wanted to make the MONEY part of this segment someone from the political world being that politics in such a focal point of our country right now. Don’t be angry at me.

$$$MONEY$$$

*even though Daddy lost, Daddy’s little girl is pretty cute

MEGHAN McCAIN (JOHN’S DAUGHTER)

You all know I’m a Democrat but you also all know I’m not predjudice to Republicans, especially when they’re hot. Anyways, scouring around, I come across this article on cnn.com written by Meghan about how Daddy’s campaign killed her love life. Apparently, she’s single. Apparently, she knows a bunch of douchey guys with no sacks because if they’re letting a cutie like Meghan slide by, they may just be women dressed as men. Trannies, possibly. You just never know.

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STORMY DANIELS (SENATOR PORN STAR?)

Stormy as you might know is a porn star. You may have heard her name during election time because her name was thrown around to campaign against a Republican Senator from Louisiana in 2010. Seems that every few years a porn star puts on some clothes and claims to be a politician. Certainly would be interesting having a former porn star as a Senator though. Especially if we could hear them discuss safe sex and teen pregnancy. That’d be awesome! And entertaining.

PLAYBOY BUNNY

INDIA ALLEN (1988 PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR)

Self described “die-hard Republican”, India Allen was 1988′s Playmate of the Year. Maybe Hugh Hefner and his staff lost their eye sight in 1987 and couldn’t see the 1988 playmates of the month very well. Either way, I’d like to know where a white girl like this gets name like India from. There’s certainly nothing saying “India” about her. Also, it turned me off to know that she “loves” cigars. This is probably sexist but the ladies shouldn’t “love” cigars. That’s just nasty.

AND THE WINNER IS…I’m not feeling the Playmate since she’s a die-hard Republican and loves cigars. Stormy Daniels is a porn star possibly running for Senate but she’s a little too t”bleached” for me if you know what I mean. I’m also not huge on redheads who want to be blondes. Meghan is cute and seems sweet even though she’s got that problem with her Daddy being John McCain and all. But MEGHAN McCAIN takes this one.

Tags: 1988, 2010, blond, cigars, cute, Daddy, fans, GOP, honey, Hugh Hefner, India, India Allen, John McCain, Louisiana, Meghan McCain, Money, Playboy, Playboy Bunnies, Playmate of the Year, porn star, Republican, Republican Party, Senate, Stormy Daniels
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