CandyKirby.com Debuts

If you like funny, you got to read CandyKirby.com

I am excited to announce the debut of my (sorta) new celebrity and pop culture Web site, CandyKirby.com, which takes the place of the now-defunct Holy Candy and Circus Hour. (R.I.P.)

Clearly, I commit to blogs like Clooney commits to women.

However, CandyKirby.com, which is undergoing a style makeover in a couple of weeks, is now my home for good. For those who are wondering, I didn't return to Holy Candy because I'm expanding my creative wings beyond the "altar of the superficial." So now in additon to the daily celebrity craziness, I'm also writing about wacky news (such as porn camp and Hello Kitty tombstones), live blogging TV shows (like "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson") and life in Los Angeles.

And I hope that, as someone who has previously visited Holy Candy, you'll pull up a chair and join me for the fun. Because just as I don't like drinking alone (but I will), I don't like blogging alone (but I will... while drowning my loneliness with margaritas).

With fondness and laughter,

Candy

The Revolving Door At The LA Times Keeps Turning

LAObserved.com reports:

L.A. Times editor Russ Stanton takes great pains in his memo to make it sound like current managing editor John Arthur will still have a crucial post, but the real winner is new managing editor Davan Maharaj. He is the current business editor (succeeding Stanton) and is seen inside as part of Stanton's team — "the titan from Trinidad," Stanton calls him. Arthur got his post under the old Jim O'Shea regime — and not that long ago — and was a rival for the job that Stanton got. Memo follows, as posted on the LAT website. (Story on the Times site.) Separately: Rebecca Trounson is the new higher education editor in Metro, and Eryn Brown takes over as letters editor on the opinion staff.

If You Want A Boy, Eat Tons Of Cheeseburgers, I Guess

The Very Deep NY Times reports:

How much a mother eats at the time of conception may influence whether she gives birth to a boy or a girl, a new report shows.

The sex of a child may depend on a mother’s eating habits. (Paul Hilton for The New York Times)

The report, from researchers at Oxford and the University of Exeter in England, is said to be the first evidence that a child’s sex is associated with a mother’s diet. Although sex is genetically determined by whether sperm from the father supplies an X or Y chromosome, it appears that a mother’s body can favor the successful development of a male or female

Only Someone From Britian Would Use the Word Imprudent

LONDON (AFP) — A British foreign minister said Wednesday that US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's threat to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons was imprudent.

Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, a former United Nations deputy secretary-general and the foreign office minister responsible for Asia, questioned the comments by the New York senator, made in an interview broadcast Tuesday.

"While it is reasonable to warn Iran of the consequence of it continuing to develop nuclear weapons and what those real consequences bring to its security, it is not probably prudent... in today's world to threaten to obliterate any other country and in many cases civilians resident in such a country," he said.