WEDNESDAY, June 1, 2011

The Kardashian sisters have announced that they’re collaborating on their first book.  And if all goes as expected, some day they may take the plunge and try writing one.

NBC is claiming their new 60s-era drama “The Playboy Club” will be their most realistic series yet.  In order to watch it, you’ll need a special key that fits into the back of your TV set.

A Las Vegas builder is planning to erect a giant Ferris wheel on the Strip.  Actually, it will be a combination Ferris wheel and roulette wheel -- if your gondola stops between the two pegs, you win a roll of quarters, a lobster buffet coupon and a free room at Bally’s.

Faced with chickens that were fighting with one another, a Chinese farmer outfitted them with special eye-glasses.  It stopped the fights all right, but now the rooster has stopped making passes at the hens.

In response to Japan’s nuclear power plant disaster, Germany will abandon nuclear power.  Which did not come as good news to some Bavarian breweries -- now they’ll have to carbonate their beer in the old-fashioned way.