• Alice In Chains bassist and former “Celebrity Rehab” cast member Mike Starr dies at 44 of unknown causes [RS]
• Another day, another weed grow house bust, but this time authorities uncovered a 4-foot alligator, a “watchgator”, named Wally! [KTLA]
• Millions of fish die in Redondo Beach’s King Harbor due to an apparent lack of oxygen, poses a huge cleanup and smell that could take days to clear [KABC]
• We once joked about Charlie Sheen writing poetry, but this is not a joke: behold “F**k It”, an original Charlie Sheen poem from ’96. Magical stuff. [TMZ]
• Michaele Salahi is so prone to crashing things like White House state dinners, even “Celebrity Rehab” just gave her the boot for being illegitimate [PE]

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Are you following the wild adventures of Charlie Sheen? Well here’s the latest: he’s currently holed up in the Bahamas with two floozies and today called into “The Alex Jones Radio Show” to unleash the cray cray, covering such topics as Apocalypse Now, Chuck Lorre, his new tattoo, Vatican assassins, a comparison of himself to an F-18 pilot, and he had this to say about Thomas Jefferson: “he was a pussy.” The nonsensical tirade was like a coked-out tour through the batshit dimension of crazy that probably only Charlie Sheen is privy to, but we’d like to shed a little light on his thoughts about Alcoholics Anonymous. Ready? Okay, here we go… Read the full story

Hint: his profession prior to money managing made him uniquely qualified to offer commentary on the flick of choice, Major League.

Charlie says he assembled a crew [that included SF Giants pitcher Brian "The Beard" Wilson, Kenny Lofton, Todd Zeile, Eddie Murray, Lenny Dykstra and others] to screen his classic flick, “Major League” … and he even brought in the writer and director, David S. Ward, to give an introduction in Charlie’s private theater.

During the party, Charlie let some of the guys try on Babe Ruth’s 1927 World Series ring … which Sheen purchased at an auction more than a decade ago. Charlie called it, “The ultimate VIP baseball excursion.”

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As mentioned earlier, today is a day for folks to revise up their Apple (AAPL) estimates following last week’s online sales for the iPhone at Verizon Communications (VZ).
I mentioned Needham & Co., but Charlie Wolf over there is not alone. Susquehanna’s Jeffrey Fidacaro today reiterated a Positive recommendation on Apple [...]

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Our fair city's food trucks will become subject to the health and sanitation letter grade system of restaurants and be required to explain to customers why they received anything below an A [KABC]
If you're interested in seeing Charlie Sheen's state of mind during his legendary 36-ho[...]

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The pop culture world is a strange and scary place these days. Pregnant teens get MTV shows, America loves “Glee”, and Charlie Sheen is still alive. But all that's nothing compared to halfway around the planet where Paris Hilton poses for Terry Richardson on this month's cover of Turkish [...]

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via guestofaguest.com: From the resourceful Egyptian protesters finding ways to showcase their environment to the rest of the world, to the secret genius of Charlie Sheen, there's mucho going on today. Why Facebook makes us all feel like losers, Barbie as a serial killer, and a great s[...]

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When VentureBeat first reported on Silicon Valley investor Marc Bodnick’s departure from Elevation Partners, the private-equity firm he cofounded, I noted his enthusiasm for Quora, the online question-and-answer community founded by Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo, two early Facebook employees.

When rumors broke that he was actually taking a formal job at Quora, I asked him — on Quora — how the startup recruited him.

This morning, he finally answered my question! Here’s his response:

Meeting the founders and using the product were the first steps in my growing interest in the company. I knew Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo through mutual friends. I’ve been an active Quora user since October 2009, a time when there were only a few hundred users. I got onto the site after running into Charlie and Rebekah Cox, Quora’s lead product designer and first employee, at a birthday party in Palo Alto and bugging them for a beta invitation.

In October, Charlie invited me into the beta and I became immediately addicted. I have an eclectic set of interests, and I spent a ton of time on non-technical topics -> U.S. Politics, Movies, Children’s Books, Crossword Puzzles. In 2009-10, my kids and I were in the middle of reading Harry Potter, and I ended up writing dozens of questions about the books as I read each one. Then I did the same thing for the Matrix movies, Iron Man 2, and Black Swan. (I’m currently plowing through Percy Jackson, btw.) I wrote way more questions than answers.

In early 2010, Charlie and I started talking about policy on the site, and he asked me if I wanted to get more involved with the company. So I started meeting most Sunday nights with Adam, Charlie, and Rebekah. These were awesome discussions for me. I was like a Madden fan getting to hang out with Bill Walsh to talk about the West Coast offense.

Toward the end of the year, Adam, Charlie and I started talking about the idea of me joining Quora in a more active role. It’s a small company, so I’ll take on a variety of roles including product marketing, community, and business operations. This is a big change since I’ve been an investor my whole life. I start Monday Jan 31 at Quora and it is a super-exciting new adventure for me.

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Companies: Elevation Partners, quora

People: adam dangelo, charlie cheever, Marc Bodnick, Rebekah Cox

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Coinstar (CSTR), owner of the Redbox DVD rental kiosk business, has more than doubled this year.
Perhaps it’s time to take profit, according to a note today from Needham & Co.’s Charlie Wolf, who started coverage with a Hold rating.
Wolf argues that Redbox revenue is already slowing and will only suffer [...]

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Shares of Linux distributor Red Hat (RHT) are up 72 cents, or 1.5%, at $47.64 after Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt this morning raised his rating on the stock to Overweight from Equal Weight following a meeting with the company’s CFO, Charlie Peters.
Hold writes that Red Hat’s billings should hold [...]

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