Don Chavez

Sarcasm, folks. I’m sure they’re quite happy after having tied the knot in a surprise ceremony the day after his company went public, but you wouldn’t really know it from this picture, would you? Serving as the Yin to Friday’s IPO Yang, the wedding took place at Mark ZUckerberg’s Palo Alto house and was attended by 100 friends and family who thought that they showed up for his girlfriend Priscilla’s graduation party.

It’s cute the way it was so low-key, but give the girl a huge wedding, Zuck! It’s not like you can’t afford it.

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It’s nice to be able to just talk about the Lakers and Clippers together, because it’s half the work, and it looks like I’m tackling a bigger story than I actually am. The truth is that they’re in the same unenviable position, staring down elimination as the Clippers are 0-3 agains the Spurs going into game 4 tonight, while the Lakers head back to Oklahoma for game 5 down 3 games to 1 against the Thunder. In fact, by the time you read this, the Thunder could very well have taken down the Clips, so let’s talk Lakers.

The series has gotten much more competitive through game 4, but statistically, it’s hard to think the Lakers can do anything but save face at this point, and even that will be a chore in OKC, going back to one of the most rabid arena experiences in the NBA. I mean, what the hell else are people in Oklahoma City going to do?

Kobe has been calling out his teammates in the string of losses, but that’s nothing new. the Lakeshow is getting outplayed, flat out, by a younger, more spry OKC team. People are calling this the death of the Lakers, and while it’s true they’re not going to be any younger next season, that’s not really a bad thing, especially given Andrew Bynums progress at center.

What moves do they make in the offseason? I don’t know. Let’s see what Kobe has up his sleeve for game 5 before we go writing their obituary just yet.

I’m no photographer, but when the sky is over cast, and the subject is all bright like that, that means that there’s a ton of artificial light being used, which probably means that this whole thing wasn’t as spontaneous as some people *cough* Nicole Trunfio *cough* would like us to believe.

I think I’ve been doing this a bit too long when I get slightly upset that a PR person or someone is trying to make something look real that clearly isn’t. Further, Nicole Trunfio is an Australian model, so maybe I should just let this thing go and enjoy the damn pics, right? Right.

After the break see the rest of the pics…

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I don’t know why I used an exclamation point there. It’s really not all that exciting, but it is going to be interesting to see how the public determines the value of the most-visited website in the world. I think it’s worth $56,000. No wait. $4 trillion. Or possibly somewhere in between. The important thing is that those Facebook guys are finally going to get some money, which is nice. They deserve riches AND glory. And probably a few more movies.

Try as one might, it’s very difficult to escape the reach of this favorite of book clubs everywhere. I have actively tried not to learn about this book, but here’s what I’ve gleaned: It’s “erotic,” it’s about a prudish woman who interviews a kinky billionaire, and everyone on Facebook is reading it. I don’t even want to know that much, let alone more.

Well, to take the sexiness down a peg or 70, comedian and former AFLAC duck voice Gilbert Gottfried has decided to take his smokey baritone to the masses, reading selections from the book. If you have earbuds in, I would turn the volume on your computer WAY down.