EVENING NIGHTCAP: Aaliyah Gets The Barbie Treatment. Operation "Bear Claw".

 

 ► On what would have been Aaliyah's 46th birthday, Mattel released an Aaliyah Barbie to honor the late singer. The doll pays homage to Aaliyah's "One In A Million" music video by wearing a similar costume. I'm assuming Aaliyah Barbie's outfit is made of pleather and not real leather. If you want to get your hands on this limited edition Barbie, then you better camp your ass outside a Target. They will be selling it starting on January 26 for the low price of $55.99. Mattel finally got a celeb Barbie right. Aaliyah Barbie looks great. That's my say something nice for the day.  Read More

Comment: For PW Manor readers who don't know about Aaliyah, she was an R&B singer in the 1990s. She and eight people died in 2001 plane crash in the Bahamas. She was 21 years old. Her voice is best described as golden honey with a side of habanero peppers. In other words, smooth and powerful. IMO, had she not died, she would have had the career that Rihanna has. Aaliyah had natural, raw talent whereas Rhianna's was manufactured in a studio courtesy of auto tune.

Aaliyah gets the Barbie doll treatment. Photo: Mattel/ Barbie / IG

 

►  It's a slooow news day, so I was sniffing around articles that I haven't gotten around to reading. In what has been dubbed "Operation Bear Claw", we have 4 candidates for the Darwin Awards who tried to commit insurance fraud by dressing up in a bear costume.  It all started when the 4 morons claimed that a bear damaged their Rolls Royce while it was parked  in Lake Arrowhead, California. The area is known to have a large bear population. The quad of stoopids videotaped the alleged attack to their vehicle and submitted as part of their insurance claim. Apparently this wasn't the first time they had tried this, as insurance sleuths caught wind they had done the same thing to two Mercedes. When the insurance company reviewed the videotape, they knew Smokey & the Bandits were up to a scam. They turned over the case to local detectives who executed a search warrant of their home. What did they find? A bear costume with homemade claws. The 4 dinguses were arrested and the case has been turned over to the attorney general for prosecution. Read More

Comment: The bear costume they used had me cackling! First of, that area of California is home to black bears and not brown bears. Second, who the hell takes a Rolls Royce to the woods? And third, videotaping themselves dressed in a bear costume that looks like it came from Big Foot's estate sale has to be the dumbest thing I've heard since Winnie the Pooh got hate mail for not wearing pants.

Photo: California Dept of Insurance / NPR.org