Isaac Hanson, the oldest member of the brother band Hanson, was hospitalized in Texas with a pulmonary embolism, his rep said Wednesday.

Hanson, 26, was admitted to Baylor University Medical Center after suffering severe shoulder and chest pains after a Tuesday night show in Dallas, says rep Ken Phillips.

“He underwent several tests throughout the night and has been diagnosed with pulmonary embolism” – a clot in a blood vessel, says Phillips. “Isaac is currently undergoing treatment and will be re-evaluated shortly by doctors.”

After his hospitalization, first reported by the Tulsa World, the band’s show in Tulsa, Okla., was canceled.

In April, Hanson became a first time dad. He and wife Nicole welcomed son Clarke Everett in Tulsa.

Hanson and the former Nicole Dufresne, 22, wed last year.

Umm…. is Hanson still together? Everyone together now..ummmmmmmmmmm booooop……

And another one bites the dust….and another ones gone another ones gone…ok. Sorry. I’ll stop now.

The Meg White ‘Sex Tape’ rumor is definitely false. Untrue. Bogus. Imaginary. Fictitious. Fallacious. And FAKE!

TMZ is reporting Meg’s rep saying “Some people have a very twisted sense of humor and this prank is in particularly bad taste. The tape circulating on the Internet as featuring Meg White is fake. It’s definitely not Meg.”

You know, is it just me or have there been a HECK load of hoaxes really recently? I mean, I know it’s the internerd and it happens, but man, it’s just retraction after retraction these days.

And I just have to say, that sucks. If celebrities aren’t going to act ridiculous and allow us to mock them, to judge them and to point and laugh, what, good are they to us, people? What good?

Based on a 10-page proposal, Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to “Cleopatra,” a new take on the life of the Egyptian queen that will be written by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff. Scott Rudin will produce the adaptation.

Schiff has made a seven-figure publishing deal for “Cleopatra” with Little Brown and will complete the tome in 2009.

The last time Hollywood tackled “Cleopatra” in a big way, the result was one of the most expensive films ever, a 1963 symbol of decadence best remembered for a torrid affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who were married to others at the time.

Schiff’s proposal makes it clear she intends to dispel the movie myths that focused on pageantry and Cleopatra’s skills as a seductress.

Book will present her as a firm ruler and military tactician who embarked on a ruthless rise to power. Cleopatra twice married brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony helped her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undid both of them.

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Hollywood photo agency X17 is suing snarky gossip blogger Perez Hilton aka Mario Lavandeira, for copyright infringement. The agency claims Perez used their images on his website “without permission from the agency, thereby violating federal law.”

The tabloid agency is seeking over $7.5 million dollars in damages from Perez for what they say is a loss of profits and injury to their reputation. The photo agency believes their pics have played a large part in the success and profitability of perezhilton.com, which reportedly charges between $9,000 and $16,000 a week for ad space. It costs plenty to appear next to Britney’s crotch!

Perez tells TMZ, “I have yet to be personally served with this lawsuit. My lawyers and I will address the situation when we have the opportunity to review the materials.”

The self-proclaimed “Gossip Gangsta,” who calls a local L.A. coffee shop his “office,” is currently scheduled to appear on the upcoming “Big in ‘06 Awards” on VH1, and on MTV’s New Year’s Eve special.

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Check this out… holy crap…

Green is pageviews for today, and blue is unique hits…

I got an email from my server telling me I was going to have to shut down the comments for a while - because my server can’t keep up…SOOO… I need to figure out what’s going on.

All I know is that I’m getting an INSANE amount of hits from Google - and it’s making my site slower than snot.

I’m working on it guys, bear with me!!

UPDATE: Okay, so I didn’t turn off all the comments - I just turned off the comments in the Britney posts… there were like 140 comments in one of them.  So sorry…if you had some thing going with someone in a Britney post (some of you guys were getting pretty heated!) I’m sorry!!! I had to turn it off, so I can go back to posting as normal…

Thanks for all the love today… you guys made this a record breaking day for me!!

I’m going to go watch tv now… talk to ya’ll tomorrow!! (If my site is still up)

This Britney thing has been very good for business.  I’ve had a record-breaking week… with 120,000 pageviews (around 75,000 unique) for the last 3 days.  I’ll probably pass that today. 

With that said - my site might be running a bit slow… I contacted my server - and they said they’ve fixed it…but we’ll see.

So please be patient with me…there are a lot of you guys looking at my site at the same time.

Viva la Britney! 

This morning when I got up - it was frickin cold outside.  It had snowed a bit overnite, and there was a mix of snow and ice on the road.  And being from Oregon (I’ll just speak for myself here) I DO NOT know how to drive in the ice/snow/heavy rain.  It TOTALLY freaks me out. I feel like I’m going to die at any moment. I sat on the couch with my jammies on, and I was watching the news. I kept waiting for my son’s school to scroll across the bottom so I wouldn’t have to take him to school.  No such luck.

I thought, maybe they hadn’t made the news yet, and it would still be cancelled.  His school is on top of this really high hill, and I had visions of the school bus stalling at the bottom. So I called the school, and there was this voicemail saying “School is on as scheduled.” So crap!! I had totally let the kids sleep in, thinking they would get the morning off.  More importantly that I would get the morning off. 

It was 7:30, and Cameron had to be at the bus stop at 8:10.  If I didn’t get him there on time, then I would have to drive him up that steep hill to school myself, and well, let’s just say…that ain’t happening.  Both the boys were still asleep - and I was freaking out.

So no morning pleasantries today.  Usually, I go into their room, and wake them up one by one…slowly…and sweetly.  I lay next to my youngest and tickle his back…and I just sorta stand over my oldest and whisper (he’s not into cuddling).  But not today.  I was running up and down the hallway like a freakin nut case in a mental institution. 

I was yelling “Let’s go! Let’s go! We’re late!”  There was no way I could drive Cam to school… I had to get to the bus stop in time.  The kids didn’t move, so I yelled “Guy’s it snowed! It snowed!” And they hopped out of bed like it was Christmas morning.  They ran to the window and looked out - sorta dissappointed at the lack of snow…they - like I - had hoped for some huge downpour that would have buried our entire house in snow. See - where we are…it just doesn’t snow.  And if it does…it’s just a little powder on the road…nothing to write home about. 

Anyways - I put the kids breakfast in Ziploc baggies - and tell them tough cookies - they just have to eat it in the car.  I get them bundled up from head to toe (you would have thought my house was buried in snow) - my oldest growling the whole time.  He’s very warm blooded and sweats just looking at a hat.

We race out of the house - and get in the car.  No time to pre-heat the car today.  We just have to tough it out until the car warms up.  I wrap Connor up in my coat, and try to ignore the fact that his lips are purple.

I slowly and very carefully pull out of my driveway and start down the road.  I come to a 4 way stop, and realize I can’t see out my window.  It’s got a thin layer of snow on it.  So I do what anyone would do (okay, well as I now know - maybe this isn’t the smartest thing to do) and roll my window down to get the ice/snow off.  Then, I try to roll my window back up - and it’s STUCK!!!

Yes folks, my window was stuck DOWN!! Like majorly stuck.  Every time I pushed the button, it sounded like there were rocks in the window.  And I have a 2006 Mazda - things shouldn’t be falling apart.  Connor starts wimpering, his tears freezing to his cheeks (okay that was a bit more dramatic than it actually was, I just like dramatics, okay).

I told the boys to huddle together for warmth, and I drove them slowly to school.  I’ve never seen them so excited to be at daycare. I thought Connor was going to throw himself on the ground and kiss the floor.  I was just worried they were going to tell their teachers that mommy drove them to school with the window open.  People were already driving next to me giving me dirty looks.  Like I can help it people!!!

I zipped my fleece up to my nose and drove - with my window stuck - all the way to work (which was about a 20 minute drive).  I called the dealer, and they let me bring it right in.  They gave me a new Camry to have until my car is fixed.  I think I may just keep it.

Anyways - so that’s where I’ve been…I had to take my car in. Now, back to posting!!

Jocelyn

P.S. That’s not my car, and it didn’t snow that much… I just thought it would set the mood.  And I’m still in my fleece….having a hard time warming up today.  Wonder why.