Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check

Sucking the life out of the wire services:

ZSA ZSA GABOR is back enjoying the comforts of home. Her husband, PRINCE FREDERIC von ANHALT, tells ETOnline.com that his leading lady was released from the UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday morning but admits the poor thing is in a "lot of pain."
   Meanwhile, the German Bild newspaper says Zsa Zsa's hub told them he'd like to preserve her body by "plastination" after she dies to preserve her beauty forever.
   Von Anhalt said he'd like German anatomist GUNTHER von HAGENS to carry out the procedure, after his controversial world exhibitions displaying plastinated bodies with just muscles and tendons intact.
   "I would like to show the plastinated body of Zsa Zsa Gabor in the context of a scene in one of her films" he said.

Grace notes:

AXL ROSE is at it again. NME.com says GUNS N' ROSES went on an hour late Wednesday night at the O2 Arena in Dublin, Ireland.
   During the band's second song of the evening, "Welcome To The Jungle," Axl stopped the band when a few water bottles were thrown on stage from the audience. The singer told the crowd that if one more bottle was thrown, he'd end the concert. It was, and he did.
   The lights came on and everyone was told to leave the arena. But, the promoters insisted that the band finish the concert. By the time they came back on stage, the place was empty, but Guns did continue and wound up staying on until 1 am. Local politicians are demanding that all the audience members gets refunds... even those who stayed. (Marino)

Taking things much too seriously:

Good news music lovers: Now you can be immortalized when you die by having your cremated ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones.
   The BBC says a U-K company called "And Vinyly" will press your ashes into the vinyl recording of your choice, or you can record your own final farewell and press that into a vinyl version of your last will and testament. Or you can have nothing on the vinyl and all you'll here are pops and crackles.
   The company even offers personalized RIV (Rest In Vinyl) artwork from listing your name and dates lived, to a personal portrait painted with your ashes mixed into the paint.
   The company founder said the idea came to him when his mom went to work for a funeral director. What would he put on his recording? (There's your obvious phoner, guys!) He says "It's something I'm working on."

Immortalizing songs for famous people (Maiman):

   --Sandra Bullock (or Elin Nordegren), "Picture to Burn," Taylor Swift
   --Monica Lewinsky: "Devil with the Blue Dress," Mitch Ryder
   --Bill Clinton: "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias
   --Barack Obama: "You Can't Always Get What You Want," Rolling Stones
   --Lindsay Lohan, "Get Drunk and Be Somebody," Toby Keith
   --Sarah Palin, "It's All About Me," Chelsea Staub
   --Tea Party: "Send in the Clowns," by Barbra Streisand
   --Snooki: "Go Away, Little Girl," Donny Osmond

That "Big Bang" Theory:

Last month brilliant British physicist STEPHEN HAWKING said it's time to build a spaceship and get off Earth.
   Stephen said he was concerned about both man-made mishaps like nuclear warfare, and cosmic calamities like an asteroid hitting the planet.
   Now, Hawking is in trouble with the God Squad because he claims God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.
   The statement comes from a new book called "The Grand Design," which Hawking co-authored with physicist LEONARD MLODINOW. In it, they claim "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
   The book goes on sale next week.
   Quotable: "If you called Stephen Hawking and got his machine... how would you know?" (Marino)