Not sure exactly who Abbey Clancy is, but now I know that I should start caring. Giggity!

• Julie Roehm, former rock star CMO and 2006 Grambo’s Gals Finalist, is once again back in the news now that Wal-Mart has filed a countersuit against Roehm’s wrongful dismissal suit. While there’s no denying that there was some inappropriate email action going down between Roehm and one of her (male) subordinates, your Uncle Grambo still thinks that Wal-Mart is the villian in this story. Not just because Roehm is a hottie, either. Rather, because it seems to this observer that Wal-Mart’s corporate ethics policy seems to be unnecessarily stingy (much like it was when I was at GM). [via Gawker]

• While these pics of Katherine Heigl picking a wedgie are pretty disheartening (in that it brings her back down to Earth from her orbit in the Fantasy Vixen Supreme solar system), it ain’t gonna stop her from becoming America’s Next Top Sweetheart™.

• James Murphy really digs the drugs, eh? I say no biggs, esp. if continuing to live in a state of chemical complicity allows him to make another “Sound Of Silver.”

• Is this really what Rufus meant when he sang “My phone’s on vibrate for you”? (NSFDubs)

• Best random Nintendo reset evs? It comes courtesy of a song that’s been getting a lot of spins in your Uncle Grambo’s iPod of late. The song in question is the long-forgotten “Shuffle It All” by Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds, which just so happens to be one of the most underrated jawns from the early `90s. What raises the song from merely good to all-time best evs is the fact that it resets Dr. Mario (” My woman playing Dr. Mario / On the TV all night long”), easily the best 2 player game in the history of Nintendo.

• Lindsayism is right. This IS bullshit.

• Leafblower is right, too. Both Record Reviews and Send Me Dead Flowers are bringing all sorts of A-Game back to The Blogosphere™. Helmed by The Gorilla and Kegzies, respectively, it’s like it’s 2004 all ovah again up in this bitch. BRAVO!

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Take it from someone who spends just as much time pouring through the pages of Advertising Age as surfing gossip blogs, there was NO bigger scandal in 2006 than Julie Roehm’s unceremonious ouster from her position as CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) at Wal-Mart. Considering the salaciousness of the source material (Roehm left Bentonville in disgrace amidst swirling allegations of illegal bribes and “fraternizing” with her subordinates), I was incredibly surprised when this story didn’t gather any steam in any mainstream media¹, let alone turn into a made for TV movie. ESPECIALLY considering that the one, undeniable fact about this entire bedroom meets boardroom brouhaha is that Unruly Julie is this: Homegirl is Built. For. Speed!

I mean, just look at her. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. Beaming smile. And, by most (off-the-record) accounts, she’s got the kind of gams that make men stop in their path and stare. Mix in the other key ingredients of her personality (cunningly charismatic, fiercely intelligent), and BAM! What you’ve got on your hands is a living, breathing incarnation of Meredith Johnson. And that, my fine feathered friends, makes her classy AND sexy. Hollaback.

¹ UPDATE (2.5.2007): It seems like the mainstream media is just now starting to catch onto this story. There’s a HUGE feature on Unruly Julie in this week’s New York Magazine, in which she’s simultaneously labeled as a “femme fatale” and “by New York standards, Rachael Ray as a midwestern business executive.” DEVELOPING!

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