Sunday in the park with Swan

It's a Native American summer Sunday afternoon, and the hapless 49ers are manhandling the equally inept Raiders. So much for the NFL. Instead, let's give the pop culture world a vigorous shake and see what tumbles out.

• Negro League star, baseball ambassador, and all-around good guy Buck O'Neil died Friday at age 94. According to news reports, "no cause of death was given."
  
  I'll take a wild guess: How about "being 94"?
  
  
• Sixteen-year-old Kiwi actress Keisha Castle-Hughes is expecting her first child with her 19-year-old boyfriend, Bradley Hull. Castle-Hughes is best known in this country as the youngest-ever Best Actress Academy Award nominee for the film Whale Rider.
  
  I'm not certain whether it was a humpback or a sperm whale, but I suppose the result would be the same either way.
  
  
• Singer Jimmy Buffett was busted at a French airport last week when his suitcase was allegedly discovered to contain 100 tablets of the popular recreational pharmaceutical Ecstasy.
  
  Maybe the margaritas aren't doing the job for old Parrot-Head anymore.
  
  
• Here's a heart-wrenching tale: In Salem, New Hampshire, a black Labrador retriever burned its house to the ground — and itself along with it — while attempting to reach a box of doughnuts its owner had left on top of a toaster oven.
  
  The FoxNews story doesn't say, but I'm thinking this must have been a police dog.
  
  
• Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham would like you to know that she looks "really awful naked." Says Posh to Harper's Bazaar magazine: "I've got so much saggy skin on my stomach, and I've got no bum at all."
  
  In a related story, Sir Mix-A-Lot announced today that Posh is no longer his anaconda's favorite Spice Girl.
  
  
• Jamie Lee Curtis told Access Hollywood this weekend, "I'm not an actor anymore. I really don't imagine I'll do that again."
  
  Apparently, Jamie Lee finally got around to watching Perfect on DVD.
  
  
• The first casualty of the fall network TV season has been announced. Of course, it was a show I actually liked.
  
  Curse you, Les Moonves.