I Love Paris in a Taurus

Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Have you suspended a Ford lately? The Seattle Art Museum, home of the Hammering Man, reopens Saturday after an $86 million addition project that more than doubles its exhibition space (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/05/04/100ae_ae24sam001.cfm?refresh=yes).

Among the space-hogging pieces SAM can now exhibit is “Inopportune: Stage One,” which suspends several Ford Tauruses (“Tauri”?), each impaled with a profusion of lighted tubes.

Here’s your chance to be a part of Seattle’s trendy art scene: Cars impounded for unpaid parking tickets will be rotated into the exhibit.

That’s hot! Life could get much simpler for Paris Hilton, following her sentencing for violating probation for reckless driving. Prosecutors are recommending the celebutante and handbag designer serve 45 days in jail (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/05/04/100wir_a2queen001.cfm?refresh=yes).

She’s lucky The Buzz isn’t handing down her sentence. We would have locked her in a Taurus hanging from ceiling at SAM.

And always have a backup plan. The University of Washington is having to scramble to find a commencement speaker after the person it had originally lined up pulled out (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/05/04/100wir_b6uw001.cfm?refresh=yes).

The Buzz’s suggestion: that guy who talked about always wearing your sunscreen.

— Jon Bauer, Herald staff