Sideshow | John Popper's high-caliber trip
When police in Spokane, Wash., stopped Blues Traveler singer John Popper's car Tuesday for going 111 m.p.h., they said they found the 39-year-old tunesman, who has been described by at least one critic as "a big fat guy who plays an amazing harmonica," had a little bit of pot in his black Mercedes SUV.
When police in Spokane, Wash., stopped Blues Traveler singer
John Popper'
s car Tuesday for going 111 m.p.h., they said they found the 39-year-old tunesman, who has been described by at least one critic as "a big fat guy who plays an amazing harmonica," had a little bit of pot in his black Mercedes SUV.
Oh, and they discovered secret compartments (and a haunted basement dungeon?) in the vehicle containing four rifles, nine handguns, a switchblade, a Taser and night-vision goggles (never leave home without them).
Washington State Patrol cops told the Associated Press that Popper, whose car is also outfitted with sirens and flashing emergency-services red lights, explained he needs this survival kit in case of a natural disaster.
"He didn't want to be left behind," the Patrol said.
The singer and an apparent bud, Brian Gourgeois, who was behind the wheel, were booked and released. They will probably face minor drug charges.
Manslaughter for Garrison
Lane Garrison
- a.k.a. David "Tweener" Apolskis on the Fox show
Prison Break
- may get himself broken into prison for real. TMZ.com says the L.A. County district attorney has finally decided to slap the 26-year-old Dallas native with the felony charge of vehicular manslaughter.
On Dec. 2, Garrison crashed his car into a tree in Beverly Hills, leading to the death of a passenger, 17-year-old high school student Vahagn Setian. Authorities say Garrison had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system - and was also high on coke.
Garrison has said he was saved from a life of thieving and general punkdom when he went to live with his family minister, and Jessica and Ashlee's pa, Joe Simpson.
If convicted on the felony charge, he would face a max of six years in prison.
K-Fed hunts for Benjamins
Stencil this in: March 21 will mark the 29th birthday of
Kevin Federline
, who is parenting his two boys while their ma,
Britney Spears
, is taking a breather and a cure for the human condition at rehab.
To celebrate, the veteran R&B crooner, jazz dancer and hip-hop rhymester will have a party at some sheeshee club in West Hollywood. And to pay for his drinks that night, K-Fed plans to sell exclusive coverage of the party to the highest tabloid bidder. So says the New York Post, which reports Mr. Spears believes that the clubbing experience - the drinking, the table-top dancing, the grope 'n' makeout sessions in the dark - is worth $25,000 if he's on the premises.
The party, the Post's anon source implies, will be a lame-o affair that any one of us could probably walk into - no real celebs have confirmed they'll be there.
Brooding on their broods
Is
Brangelina
's decision to add a fourth child to its warm bosom merely part of a horse race between that blessedly pretty couple and that other mother to stray children,
Mia Farrow
? As an observer from USA Today notes, celeb observers have observed that
precisely
like Mia's family, the
Brangelina Brood
(good name for a neo-
Partridge Family
band?) is a "blended family," made up of an international heapin' of celeb hatchlings (biological and adoptional).
The tally? Fuggedaboutit. Mia slams Mr. and Mrs. Smith with her 14. But at 31, Angie Jolie, who has an Oscar under her belt, still has plenty of time to catch up to the 62-year-old, Oscar-less (a significant oversight, no?) Mia.
Meanwhile, People mag's cover story (out today!) is about the arrangements and preparations the family has been making for months for the new child, who comes from Vietnam.