Dave Roth: That Wasn't Me

A Cadanian newspaper reports that the Ontario police officers who believed that they had pulled Van Halen's David Lee Roth over in May and saved him in the midst of an anaphylactic episode were duped -- by a dupe. The impersonator had everyone fooled, from the police to the medical personnel.

Roth's publicist, though, says that he was in New York performing with the band that night and couldn't have been in Ontario:

"The story is completely false," David Lee Roth's personal publicist, Elaine Schock, said this week from her Los Angeles office. "I don't even understand where that came from. David doesn't drive himself. He has a driver. And he doesn't dress flashy unless he's onstage."

It makes sense. If Roth truly was allergic to nuts, he would've had a reaction to his bandmates a long time ago.

Those Brown M&Ms Had Nuts?

Van Halen's David Lee Roth was pulled over for speeding in June, 2008 in Ontario. Apparently, he was racing to a medical facility because he was in the midst of an allergic reaction he had suffered from coming into contact with nuts. He was in anaphylactic shock, a dangerous, near-fatal condition. Thankfully, the officers who stopped him rushed paramedics to the scene, and Dave recovered. They reported that he was dressed in flashy clothing with a silky scarf.

For years I've wondered if the diamond one was bisexual. It turns out he definitely isn't. He's allergic to nuts.

The Big Bang Had No Center

This is a fascinating chart, the back of which compares the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe to raisin bread. As the bread rises, the raisins grow farther apart, although they do not increase in size themselves. Much like my brain cells.