A photo of "Mrs. Luisjuan" on what appears to be her MySpace profile.

There are certainly some creepy bits:

Bueller finally does the PCH.

Sure, we get a tired, squarish, middle-aged version of Bueller, who has morphed into a very mortal Matthew Broderick, the actor who played him as a teen. Broderick sleeps in nice Westside hotels, drives a soccer-mom minivan (most essential to Honda's cause), and his greatest ideal of freedom is winning a stuffed panda at the Santa Monica Pier. But that's pretty much the reality ...

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Cleo Berry: alive and two-legged.

It's another to wake up to an unflattering (and even more unflatteringly manipulated) photo of yourself on a New York City billboard, and all over the Internet, posing as a fat guy who ate so much junk food that he had to get his leg amputated.

Welcome to L.A. actor/director Cleo Berry's Friday night:

Floyd Brown

Did President Obama just bite the hand that feeds him campaign cash?

You might remember him as the guy who ties up traffic a few times a year when he comes to L.A. with his hands out, looking for the millions in contributions that are surely coming to him. He's a relatively liberal president backed by a relatively liberal Hollywood entertainment industry.

All good. Except that the Obama Administration's freeze frame on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) ...

BET

It all started when I reported that a weekend event in L.A., widely publicized as a free "Occupy Skid Row" concert organized by Public Enemy and frontman Chuck D, didn't have a permit.

Not only that, but ...

Kerry Tribe

Welcome to the future, New York.

You've got plenty of your usual fare: Social media is everything! Commenter is king! Down with the paywalls! Apps! Apps! Apps!

But one prediction in particular is crazy uncharacteristic of that crowd. University of Washington-bred media man Rex Sorgatz, now a full-fledged New Yorker, is biting the bullet and giving some pre-emptive kudos to Los Angeles, which he has dubbed "the future" of new media.

Cristian Hernandez

A Digital Future report summarizing 10 years of the Center's studies asks, "Is America at a Digital Turning Point?" and the answer seems to be yes.

On the question of newspapers, Center director Jeffrey I. Cole says:

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Hef's girls (and not a Latina in sight).

It's about time. Chicago hasn't been the nation's "second city" in quite some time. And "Holmby Hills Hef" still has a hand in approving layouts and pictorials, at least from what we saw on The Girls Next Door.

And, yes, this is where all the naked, circulation-grabbing starlets like Lindsay Lohan are. What took them so long?

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Stanton and Maharaj.

Los Angeles Times editor and executive vice president Russ Stanton is stepping down to spark "the next phase of his career," whatever that is, the paper's president, Kathy Thomson, announced in the paper today.

Taking his place is a relative unknown among local media watchers, 49-year-old Davan Maharaj, a 22-year veteran of the publication who steps up from managing editor for news.

Stanton was around for three Pulitzer wins and is generally seen as a sober force in an era of upheaval both in and outside the paper, so what gives?

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Simmons did his best to brush off reporter Laurel Erickson for months.

Their ongoing expose of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) -- based on documents that even L.A.'s own City Controller and District Attorney couldn't get their hands on -- have turned an over-entitled public agency that blew through hundreds of thousands in perks into a cowering puppy in the headlights.

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John & Ken under the gun.

The study (PDF) looked at single segments of John & Ken, the radio version of the Lou Dobbs Show and The Savage Nation on San Diego's 760 KFMB.

The National Hispanic Media Coalition, which has successfully targeted John & Ken advertisers over what it says is anti-immigrant hate, trumpeted the research at a press conference today.

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John and Ken.

But that wasn't enough to keep major advertisers from leaving the show following a campaign by the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which argues that John & Ken have exhibited a strong history of anti-immigrant, anti-Latino fervor.

The latest advertiser to bail?

Keith Plocek

The King of Pop is dead. Long live the King of Pop impersonators.

This didn't stop the characters from hanging out on Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles. As the trial continues, many of these folks will keep coming back, day after day, to bask in the proximity of being anywhere near another chapter in the legal wrangling that followed the death of the King of Pop.

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Oh, Inglewood -- you wouldn't understand.

Gellman is calling out the paper's senior VP of advertising and targeted media, Scott Pompe, and parent company Tribune Co. (a real trailblazer for marketing strategy in the digital age, haven't you heard) for allegedly firing and defaming him in spring 2010.

Here's the slimy-ass reason Geilman says he was shown the door:

Newsday via Washington Post

Jon Finkel, Magic champion and OkCupid "victim."

Many a nerd, and non-nerd, was outraged that Alyssa Bereznak, an intern at Gizmodo and close friend of yours truly, chose to blog so publicly about her date with -- and distaste for -- Jon Finkel, an average-seeming dude she met on OkCupid. As it turned out...

Bereznak gets her own Magic card. No fair. (Click to enlarge.)

Updated after the jump with Finkel's best responses during the official Reddit Q&A, and a couple obligatory edits to his Wikipedia page.

A dear friend of mine and former colleague at the UC San Diego Guardian -- Gizmodo intern Alyssa Bereznak -- is getting shit on from all directions today: Reddit. Canvas. Nerd Puddle. A bunch of other dork forums that I'm far too noob to know about. (So noob, in fact, that I still use noob.) Also, Australia.

Christopher Hawkins

Newspapers are hot.

How dare you.

By sticking to their old ways, the suits and MBA's that seemed to have ruined the business in the last two decades might have unwittingly saved it:

Desborough, left, accepts an award for exceptional (and possibly illegal) Hollywood scooping, circa 2009.

Desborough was arrested and questioned today by British police. (Surely thankful to be off the looting task force and back on this sophomoric hacking crap.) Here are his possible celebrity victims, based on various news reports and a quick review of his clips:

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David Strick.

As if the Los Angeles Times, dogged by the bankruptcy of its parent company and in the midst of more editorial layoffs, needs more troubles, celebrity photographer David Strick is suing the paper and its overlords for allegedly continuing to publish his photos after he left in 2010.

The Wrap has the exclusive story and posted the suit here. Here's our summary:

Newspaper suits want to go head-to-head with this.

The company is said to be working on a concept that will give a low-cost Android tablet to customers in exchange for subscriptions to its content.

This as layoffs appear to be ongoing at the Times, a paper that has atrophied from about 1,500 editorial employees at its peak in the '90s to about 500 today. Oh yeah, and did we mention Tribune was bankrupt? Media watchers and tech geeks have had fun with this one: