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Josh Board's Blog – April 2013 Archive (4)

Meeting a Star When You're in the Cheap Seats

The funniest story that involves Ashton Kutcher I heard around lunch time. The show Two and a Half Men is coming back for it’s 11^th season, but they aren’t bringing back 19-year-old Angus T. Jones. For those that aren’t familiar with the show, he’s the “Half” in Two and a Half Men.

Some may remember he recently had a YouTube rant in which he talked about his Christianity, and encouraged viewers not to watch the crap that was on that show. So this move…

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Added by Josh Board on April 28, 2013 at 11:38pm — 3 Comments

Beach Boys Blowout -- Perhaps the best band collection ever

You’ll have fun, fun, fun, until the bidding gets too far away!

Here’s the deal. In a Florida storage until there sat a Beach Boys bonanza for years. The storage company finally sold it (think Storage Wars). That’s what happens when payments aren’t made.

The buyer opened boxes and discovered these lost archives of Beach Boys material. The collection doesn’t have some cheesy 8x10 signed by Mike Love and Brian Wilson. Oh, it’s better than that. It has thousands of…

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Added by Josh Board on April 22, 2013 at 10:22pm — 6 Comments

What does Princess Di dancing with Travolta have in common with Jennifer Lawrence?

It’s always a lot of fun to read about the collectables that come up in various auctions. Sometimes it’s hard to wrap our minds around the prices these things sell for. For example, we just came off the topic of the Beatles signed Sgt. Pepper album selling for well over $200,000…and now something sells for $231,000 at Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles recently. And what was the item? A phaser gun Captain Kirk used from the second pilot of Star Trek in the ‘60s. They…

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Added by Josh Board on April 14, 2013 at 12:13am — No Comments

Late Night Autograph Stories -- Keith Richards and Matthew Perry

The late night shows had a few good autograph stories. Tonight on Conan O’Brien, Friends actor Matthew Perry was talking about being shown at a hockey game and booed by the entire crowd. Later, a bunch of people surrounded him asking for autographs. He said “You guys booed me earlier.” He said that all of them said “Not me, I didn’t boo.”

The night before, Jimmy Fallon had Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Fallon was telling a story about how they talked about lemons and other…

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Added by Josh Board on April 10, 2013 at 12:07am — 1 Comment