Nevada

Have you ever been to the Burning Man festival? It’s an eight day festival in the Nevada Desert and it takes place from August 27th to September 3rd this year.

One of the highlights of the festival is the burning of a huge 40 foot tall man statue. The statue wasn’t supposed to be set aflame until Saturday, but an arsonist lit the statue and made it a burning man on Tuesday.

There are reports that festival participants were heard chanting “Save the man, save the man!”.

Authorities have charged Paul Addis for torching the statue and have charged him with Arson and a misdemeanor possession of fireworks.

The wooden statue will be rebuilt in time for the scheduled burning at 9 pm Saturday September 1st.

Paula Abdul has been named woman of the year by the Nevada Ballet Theatre. Huh? Have they been watching TV in the last week or listening to the news? She’s been doing some pretty whacky stuff.

During her acceptance speech Paula decided to do a little comedy by poking fun at a strange pre-Idol inteview with a local Seattle TV station earlier this month. Yes, that’s the whackiness to which I was referring … “Don’t ever give a swivel stool to someone who’s very hyper and active because I will spin and spin and spin.”

“I couldn’t do it without the three men in my life,” she said of fellow Idol stars Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest, who flanked her. “Every time Randy Jackson opens up his mouth, I look like a Nobel Prize winner. Every time Simon Cowell opens his mouth, Borat sounds like a Nobel Prize winner….. Ryan, I really do love him; almost as much as he loves himself ï¿½..These three brothers are the best thing a girl can hope for, just ask my therapists.”

That was some acceptance speech there Paula.

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