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Shopping While Slopping: Retailers Bring On The Booze

Finally, someone has combined my two favorite things: shopping, & drinking.  Stores everywhere are popping up with their very own bars, complimentary wine/beer/champagne, or any other way to get their customers boozed up.  Whole Foods, the latest retailer to stumble on to the band...

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Go Bama or No Mo Obama?

Who else feels like we just elected Obama like two minutes ago? Well guess what kids, it's election season again (a full year and a half before elections counts as election season now.... it's almost like Christmas in department stores).  President Obama officially filed papers for his re-...

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Professor Arrested for Assault, For Shutting Laptop

Last week Assistant Professor Frank Rybicki of Valdosta State University was arrested for assualting a student. Sounds horrible I know, but wait, there's more.  What allegedly went down was, a student was slacking in class cruising the internet instead of taking notes. Rybicki had enough, went...

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Be American: Watch Baby Eagles Being Born

There is nothing more patriotic than this. Check out the UStream video of the three baby eagles being born right now in Iowa.    Live video by Ustream This is the eighth little bundle of joy for the bird parents. Mazel tov.

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Ron-Ron Puts A Ring On It

YA BUDDY you heard it right and you heard it first here at Sumo Skinny. Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Sammi "The Sweetest Bitch You'll Ever Meet" Giancola are making it official. The pending nuptials for MTV's most infamous guido/guidette couple are scheduled for a June celebration at none other than the...

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Politicians, You Crazy (And Probably Drunk)

And, Montana officially just made it onto my shit list.  Republican Lawmaker Alan Hale took to the floor at the House of Representatives in Montana to tell the rest of them to cut back on those pesky DUI laws, saying they are destroying small business and that drinking and driving are a "time-...

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The Tweeting Cobra!?

A female Egyptian cobra escaped from its cage in the Bronx Zoo so what are people doing?  Making a twitter account of course!  The poisonous snake escaped on Sunday and officials are saying that it could take several weeks for them to find her.  They have locked down the reptile...

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Angry Birds Explains the Middle East

I think everyone knows Sumoskinny.com loves some Angry Birds. (It was in fact the number one reason why we bought another iPad). But now, Angry Birds is not only the best game ever, it is the smartest. Check out Angry Birds explain the Middle East uprising.  OOOO ok now I get it. 

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Professor Franco Coming To NYU

Talk about hot for teacher.  James Franco, noted NYU alum, is heading back next fall to teach a class for graduate students in NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.  For the class, each of the students will bring to life a Louise Gluck poem. Hot damn, what a time to be...

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A Load of Horror

On a stormy night in California three youngsters were alone in a giant house.  While they sat on the couch eating popcorn and watching TV they heard a moan come from the floors above.  At first they thought nothing of it but after a few moments the groaning started up again.  They...

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