"SHUT UP AND READ!" ...(please??!!)

"Supernova's SUPER BOO-BOO" leads to California's confusion!

Supernova, please meet Supernova OR, which came first, Supernova or Supernova? Suppose you're a struggling band that's been making 45''s, LP's, and CD's on independant record labels since 1989, and while still struggling, one fine day in 2006 you turn on the television only to see Tommy Lee, Jason Newstead, and Gilby Clarke (Motley Crue, Metallica, and Guns and Roses, respectively) searching for a lead singer for a new band they were forming named "Supernova" too? You'd scratch your head and immediately pull out the yellow pages to find a good Jewish lawyer! That's almost EXACTLY how it went down with CBS' RockStar television show. Still buzzed from the success of last season with INXS, I guess everyone in CBS' Legal Department "forgot to look things up" about copyright infringement when they gave the green light to the guys to use "Supernova" as the name of the group they were auditioning for. Truth is, the "original Supernova" which has a big fan base in California may have not even blinked an eye had it not been for candidates heading to the auditions thinking they may be joining the techno/rock/punk group that they love out there on the West Coast only to find three hard rockin', hard drinkin', hard livin' tattooed body pierced guys give them a thumb up or thumb down. Maybe someone at CBS didn't do their research, maybe everyone figured the band was long gone or maybe wouldn't notice or care that these three hard rock heavyweights took their name. Well, thanks to a lawyer and as is always mentioned on My Name is Earl, there's this thing called "karma" (and friends in high places) that turn a bad situation into a positive. The original "Supernova" managed to file a lawsuit against CBS and the three members of the band for the name...and WON! Kind of. You see, the band that emerged from TV has a CD due out for the beginning of November. Since a lot of the artwork and so on was already finished, All that Tommy Lee has to do is add "RockStar" to "Supernova" and that's it...or is it? Tommy and the others probably would have started out with the above name in the first place. I say, take the loss, destroy what's done and come up with a new name for the group. On the other end is the 1989 to present "Supernova" who have used this gaffe as a steppingstone to further their career which has been struggling to get recorded on anything other than someone's MP3 player for years. They want you to know that they appear on the soundtrack to the original Kevin Smith indie film Clerks. You know, the black and white one from the early '90's? Meanwhile, what could be a big break for these California surfer dudes, may not be so good for Tommy Lee. This is only a money-making scheme and I predict, if the original guys chugged along so many years without a major label, they'll be playing clubs and bars a long time after Tommy Lee's side project releases only one CD and then like Tommy, gets burnt out!

A week full of "Hello's", "Goodbye's", and "Haven't I seen you somewhere befores?"

Hello...Pleased to meet you! Renewing interest once again in the age old argument of "Life" between religious leaders and scientists. The science community has brought something new to the table with the discovery of a skull from a small child in Etheopia believed to be nearly 3.5 million years old! If this is true, this would make the skull already named "Selam" the oldest human to have walked the planet. Wow! Ain't that neat? Now what do we do with this thing? One thing that has already been done is speculation on what this girl looked like, what she ate, how she walked and how she communicated with the other humanids of the time. They say that Selam was half ape and half human with arms as long as her legs however, stood upright and climbed trees for berries and other vegetation to dine on. Isn't that amazing? You can get all this information just from someone's skull! They also found an old Starbuck's coffee cup buried next to her which I guess even 3.5 million years ago proved that too many double lattes will eventually kill you. The Archeologist in the above photo proudly displays the skull of what he believes is his long lost relative. So, I ask again, this team has spent over 30 years digging with spoons and dusting with toothbrushes, they found it, so now what? Take the DNA and clone another Selam? Stick it in a museum to collect dust? Sell it on eBay? That's probably the best thing to do. I'm sure that casino that snatches up grilled cheese sandwiches, potato chips, and tree limbs with images of Jesus will find room in their museum for Selam. Otherwise, the happy man above will be stuck with just another Halloween decoration.

• A Crappy Winter I think that's what the new CW Network stands for. The line "Haven't I seen you someplace before?" isn't just something you say to the nice looking woman at the Bennigan's bar while waiting for a table...nope. We HAVE seen you before! After a few months of hype and fanfare, the CW Network made it's big bang on Monday however, was more like a wet firecracker that never popped. Here's an idea... let's start a new TV Network and then build it up for a few months, and then for the first week of it's debut we'll play reruns from last season and in a few weeks when we get you up to speed on all of last season's "cliffhangers" like Gilmore Girls, Reba, and Everybody Hates Chris that never actually had a "cliffhanger", then we'll get around to playing the new stuff. The best thing that could happen in this situation is all the Cubs, Sox, and Bulls games that are going to get in the way of their silly shows and force them to the wee hours of the morning. Sorry CW, you combined two forces to win a World Series, but just like The Cubs, you're going to finish in last place. It's Deja Vu all over again!
• Did I Just Quit, or Was I fired, OR Was I only dreaming? That's what just about every cast member of Saturday Night Live is wondering as we head into this weekend. As is normally the case with a new season, the cast would have already been hard at work getting ready for next week. This time however, budget cuts by NBC have already let the axe drop on six people who still have no clue what happened. The only person that had something to say to The Chicago Sun-Times was ousted comedian Horatio Sanz who was at a loss to explain what happened other than to say that both parties involved mutually agreed to part ways and he's already moving ahead with other projects of his own. Tina Fey was one of those who managed the duties of "The Weekend Update" mock newscast. She announced her departure last year to work on another NBC show. Normally, the pieces of the puzzle would have already been in place with the vacancies already filled. In this case, Lorne Michaels suggests that "leaner is better" for this year and has even hinted that there won't be anymore guest appearances by "extras". This isn't exactly good news for the show itself where last season reduced the number of shows by around 4 for the year. Meanwhile, nobody knows what will happen next. They'll just have to wait by the phone.