More, more, more...

Today's doomsday for Mikey's finances and while we wait for news of the outcome, Roger Friedman's supplying more scuttlebutt. Mikey and company are in the UK, ensconced at the Dorchester Hotel. At the urging of L.A. Reid, none other than ego-run-amok, Kanye West, was working with Mikey on the 6-month old Katrina single over the weekend. You remember Katrina, right? Hurricane, New Orleans, death, devastation, thousands homeless, Kanye saying on national teevee that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." I know — it has been a while! So you can imagine the breathless excitement that awaits this single's release! Anyway, the hope is that Kanye, who's top of the current hip-hop heap, will be able to upgrade the singles' participants list from C-list to A by supplying his usual sample-heavy magic. We're gonna wait and see about this. One can only imagine how the meeting between these two went down: one's the top banana right now, with an ego the size of, erm, Iceland (he recently was quoted as saying, "I changed the sound of music more than one time... [I should] be a part of the Bible. I'm definitely in the history books already." And the other hasn't had a hit in recent memory, still thinks of himself as the "King of Pop" and lives as if he still were, although nowadays it's mostly on borrowed money. Did Mikey kiss Kanye's ass? Did Kanye genuflect and kneel before "the King?" Did Kanye see his future before him in Mikey? Did Mikey see what he used to be in Kanye? Did they forget about the single altogether and just kick it with the porn Kanye says he's addicted to and never without? So many possibilities! Oh, the column also includes more on Mikey's courting of Arab royalty as a way to get back on easy street but it's too tiring to go into. Here's the link for those who know their Princes from their Sultans.

NOTE: We like this pic of Mikey taken during one of his numerous court appearances a couple years ago. Not only does he seem to be struggling to comprehend whatever evidence has been placed in front of him but he's also using a diminutive magnifying glass (?) that's having the unfortunate effect of showing his prosthetic nose seam. And then there's that monster-ish hand: swollen-looking, oddly colored, somewhat cadaverish and altogether way outta proportion for this manufactured elfin features. I know it's gross but there's really nothing like a good shudder to get the day going. Later!