Happy almost-4th of July, everybody!

In order to get the countdown to the long weekend started off right, I present to you a photo of Rock of Love reality star / Poison frontman Bret Michaels dressed as a pirate from a recent People magazine photo spread:

Swashbucklers seem oddly patriotic, don’t they?  Especially if they’re Bret Michaels!  The U.S. of A is full of rebels and rock stars, after all.  Suck it, Queen Mum!

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Poor Bret Michaels.  As I’m sure everyone’s heard by now, the Rock of Love reality star/rocker got pelted in the head by a descending backdrop whilst performing on stage at the Tony Awards this past week.

If you haven’t seen it - then, well, fine, here’s some video footage:

Originally, Bret just laughed it off, saying “All I remember is Shrek and the donkey helping me up, and Liza Minnelli giving me a towel.”  Good sport!

However, today, his rep has come out with a public statement, expressing annoyance with the backdrop plopdrop.  My fave parts in bold:

“After a performance by singer Bret Michaels at the Tony Awards Sunday night, he turned to exit the stage and was struck in the head by a descending half-ton stage prop, sweeping him off his feet causing contusions to his face and knocking him to the ground. Even at that point of impact, the heavy prop was still not halted and continued to descend even though Michaels remained underneath it. Witnesses state the singer moved himself out of the way just moments before the prop touched down. With all due respect to everyone working the Tony Awards, somewhere down the line there was a lack of communication and the prop should have been immediately halted until Michaels was clear. Sunday morning at rehearsals, Bret was never informed that the descending set piece existed, let alone would be moving into position as he was exiting the stage. Although Bret was visibly dazed, he remained extremely calm backstage as members of Poison’s road crew brought him a towel to wipe the blood from his face. His only comment at the time was, ‘What the hell just hit me?’ The severity of this injury is not being taken lightly as symptoms from head and neck injuries at first may seem like nothing and sometimes do not present for days. At this time, the full extent of his injuries remain to be seen until all x-rays are back. I find it surprising that a Tony spokesperson would brush off this incident with a comment stating, ‘Mr. Michaels missed his mark,’ with no mention of concern for his condition. If everyone at the Tonys were aware that Bret missed his mark, then they should have been aware enough to stop the set piece from hitting him or at least slowed it down until he cleared the stage. I feel had this incident happened to Liza Minelli, Dolly Parton or Elton John, the Tonys would have at least issued a letter of concern.”

Oh MAN!  So, a) I can’t think of anything cooler than having a member of Poison’s road crew wipe blood off your face, b) there are no marks in rock ‘n roll (unless you count TRACK MARKS badummmchhhh), and c) show the man some respect, Tony Awards!

I’m with the Bret Michaels’s rep on this one.  Liza Minelli may be wobblin’ on her own already with all those martinis jostlin’ around in her belly, but seriously, the second she gets smacked in the head by a stage prop, she’d raise a stink so stinky it’d be stinkier than her 2003 divorce with David Gest (oops, too soon?).

I’m putting my foot down: Bret Michaels deserves to be treated as Liza Minelli, no better, no worse.  The man is a national treasure!

Besides, they both do equally wonderful things with eyeliner.

BAM!

That’s right, folks, Bret Michaels’ autobiography Roses & Thorns officially has a cover!

Out June 23rd by Simon & Schuster, the book’ll take us from the Rock of Love star’s humble Pennsylvanian beginnings to fame/fortune fronting Poison, all the way to present-day VH1 reality star status.

Love that plumped pout!  And so well-manicured!  Such high cheekbones!  Oh boy, look at those piercing baby blues!

This is what dude looks like now, bee tee dubs:

PLOP.  Ouch.  Reality hurts, bro.

Every cowboy sings his sad, sad song, I guess.

Hurrah!  Today is full of exciting reality show news!

Now I KNOW you guys weren’t satisfied with Rock of Love 2, Rock of Love Bus, and Rock of Love Girls Charm School being the only Rock of Love spin-offs out there.  Which is why VH1 has come up with Daisy of Love, a reality dating show featuring Rock of Love 2’s Daisy De La Hoya!

As you’ll recall, Daisy De La Hoya was the totally amazing contestant in Rock of Love 2 who was denied an all-access pass to Bret Michaels’s heart, beating out everybody but Ambre.

Oh happy day, the VH1 blog has posted pics of the Daisy of Love cast members!  I’ve peered at these images closely and ascertained that these d00ds fit into approx. five different categories.

My classification system below.  Get excited, y’all, Daisy’s coming!

Wahoo!  Here’s what Bret Michaels, star of Rock of Love, Rock of Love 2, and Rock of Love Bus had to say about Friends / whateverthatmoviescalled star Jennifer Aniston:

“There is no doubt I find Jennifer to be very hot, smart, funny down-to-earth and a great actress. She is creative and seems to be on top of her business as well. Most importantly, she seems like someone you could take home to meet mom — yet, behind closed tour bus doors, she could rock your world. I am really just stating the facts as I see them.”

On her relationship with John Mayer, he says he respects it, “but should John fall out of the picture for some reason… I’m just saying.”

Hey-ohhh!  As a huge Bret Michaels fan and a big believer that Jennifer Aniston is a total bummer, this hypothetical coupling warms me to my core.  Jennifer Aniston alone?  Sad and pathetic.  Jennifer Aniston and Bret Michaels?  A couple of adorable forty-year-olds who’ve decided there’s honor in settling for less and will forever live a warm life of mind-numbing comfort, crying in each other’s arms and flat-ironing one another’s hair!

Will you stay in this house and continue to rock Bret Michaels’s world, Jen?

And P.S., go ahead and lie to my face and tell me you can’t picture this young lady writhing around on stage wearing stone-washed denim and a Poison t-shirt cut off at the shoulders:

GET ON THE BUS, JENNIFER ANISTON!

Oh my gosh.  I’ve been trying to put my feelings for the VH1 Rock of Love reality series into words, but I JUST CAN’T!

Question: what does falling in love feel like to YOU?

Ahem.  So if you’re totally dumb and don’t know, former Poison frontman Bret Michaels has failed TWICE at making a tatted-up and implanted-out skank his perma-groupie with the two previous Rock of Love shows.  The season 1 & 2 ladies just couldn’t hang with his rock and roll lifestyle!

Listen, you guys.  I’ve got a plan.  We need to take these ladies on the road and on tour to see if they can hang with the hard-boozin, bimbo-dodging backstage world of bouncers and forehead bottle-smashing.  With this, we bring you: Rock of Love Bus!!!

That’s Rock of Love [space] Bus AND Rock of [space] Love Bus, if you ask me.  BRILLZ!

Ha.  Part of why I like this show is, Bret attempts to represent his world as what it might have been like back in the late ’80s, back when babes jumped on stage and slithered around in red leather mini-dresses with pythons around their necks, holding key-tars.  In reality, he’s probs just performing for fat people at State Fairs and may not know about the Internet.  It’s like one big non-stop reverie with this guy!

On to the show!  Most seasons have a couple of really awesome broads who’re so dumb, you think they’re probs secret geniuses creating outlandish characters (like Tracy Morgan, obv).  This season is no different.

Howevs, this season’s standout, for me at least, is Brittaney (sic).  This one’s my absolute fave.  Reasons I love Brittaney:

- Episode 1, Bret realizes he recognizes Brittaney from somewhere.  Oh, right, Brittaney used to be a porn star!  Good lookin’ out, Bret.

- Everything makes Brittaney cry, because Brittaney is IN LOVE WITH BRET!!! and DEEPER THAN YOU!!! and BEING VICTIMIZED!!! and VERY INSECURE!!!  Peep this amazing screencap from last night’s ep that says it all:

Heh.

- Brittaney realizes she isn’t getting enough ‘facetime’ with Bret, so she straps on a bikini and gives him a lap dance that’d basically be TMI for even her OB/GYN.

- Brittaney gets pissed she doesn’t win some trivia contest and thus screams at winner Natasha for only getting the prize cuz she’s black, which was totally kosher for her to say cuz her grandfather is “a beautiful black man.”  That’s like the OPPOSITE of racist, you guys.  I bet she even lets gramps drink from the same water fountain as her!

Heart this trainwreck!  Brittaney’s like Jen Aniston, except really fun to have around. What a hot mess, as Erin would say!

Le sigh.  I really do recommend people of every age, sex, race, religious denomination, and political affiliation watch Rock of Love Bus.  Heck, invite your beautiful black grandfather to watch with you!  It’s truly a feast for the senses.