TicketMaster buys TicketsNow

A couple days ago, ticketmaster, the primary ticket giant, acquired ticketsnow. TicketsNow is a huge player in the secondary market, and they are second only to StubHub in total revenue.

Many speculate that this merger spells the end for all ticket brokers. Many believe that ticketmasters intent is to squeeze ticket brokers and ticket broker websites out of the industry. Ticketmaster says that they will share future revenue with venues, promoters, and other and brokers. I wouldn't hold my breath. Ticketmaster has never been number one on anybody's Christmas list. In fact I am pretty sure that the fat man himself gave them a big lump of coal this past holiday. They don't play nice, and this acquisition, while nice for TicketsNow, does nothing but make all the little brokers out there squirm and rethink their strategy.

Britney Spears continues radical behavior

Britney Spears was taken away in an ambulance Thursday night from her Hollywood home after a nearly three-hour custody standoff with police over her two sons. Spears was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. just 14 minutes after she arrived. Spears appeared to be under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

All I can say is: this is just another log in the flame.

Britney has spent the past few years destroying her squeaky clean pop icon image that she established in the late nineties. Since 2002, it has been nothing but a full out freak show. After marrying Federline, popping out two kids, shaving her head, detox, several auto accidents, public intoxication, indecent exposure, crappy music, and running over a photographers foot - nothing I hear surprises me about this woman!