Gordon in the morning: Jerk

This, apparently, is a thing:

LUDACRIS has a taste for London restaurant Jerk City since he’s been over in the UK working on The Fast And The Furious 6.

Rather than head for posh grub in the capital the rapper has been regularly visiting the Caribbean eaterie in Soho – and has been trying to persuade his movie castmates to go with him.

It definitely beats a Big Mac.

Apart from the warning about a sixth movie in the Fast And The Furious franchise, why does this warrant a mention? It's not even like Smart has a picture of Ludacris wiping his fingers on a napkin. And what does "regularly" mean? Does he go every day? Has he been twice?

Also: "eaterie"? Is the ghost of PG Wodehouse sub-editing The Sun at the moment? (Probably not, as Plum would have spelled it correctly - one eatery, many eateries.)

RIAA won't listen

Cassettes Won't Listen had recently been pitching for free the album Ludacrisdemocracy, a mashy-bashy delight that took the Chinese Democracy tunes that had previously leaked and slapped chunks of Ludacris over them.

Quite a delight.

Of course, the sound of young people having fun attracted the attention of the RIAA who have rushed forward with a cease and desist causing it to disappear from the internet in everything but fact.

Ludacris unloved

Boston, it seems, isn't that bothered by Ludacris. Not only has he had to pull his show there, but his poor ticket sales were so spectacular, the guy who runs the venue has been running round telling everyone how poor they were:

President of the venue, Wayne MCCary, says the show had to be called off because only 700 tickets for the 6,100-capacity arena had been sold.

When even the guy who took a soaking on the gig is giggling at the poor sales, those are some bad figures.