Members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike early this morning.

The shows most impacted are news-centric talk shows, like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

There are rumors that Jon Stewart has decided not only to support the writers’ strike, but to pay his staff through his production company, Busboy Productions. His rep denies it, but the rumors persist.

It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Happy Monday, ya’ll!!

I’m flying back from Miami this morning so I’ll be MIA until around lunchtime in LA. Get it? MIA? Miami? Ha ha. I slay me. I have had the most amazing time in this city — now I understand why Will Smith wrote an entire song about it. What a vibrant and friendly city. Thanks to those of you who sent me ideas about culturally enriching activities in which I might participate while here; instead, I alternated my time between three bars called Tavern, Sandbar and Mr. Moe’s. Talk about diverse. They were like a whole two blocks apart! Oh, and then Sandbar ran out of Red Bull and I really wanted Red Bull so I left to go look for a mini mart and wandered a little far and suddenly I was in this ghetto and this crackhead with one leg and a bicycle is like “Honey, you are walking in the wrong direction” and I’m like “I just want Red Bull!” and so the (nice) crackhead with one leg and a bicycle gave me an escort to the mini mart and I gave the crackhead two dollars to buy crack. So that was pretty cultural of me, I think.

Now on to other matters.

Over the past month or two, I’ve had a lot of you contact me about wanting to know more about who I am, what I look like, how I turned out this way, who raised me, etc. I think it’s kind of obnoxious when certain bloggers (not naming names, but you know who you are … ahem … Perez) pepper a celeb gossip blog with 100 photos of themselves every week. So I’m not going to do that. If you come here for the gossip and the snark, that’s what you’re gonna get. If you are one of those people who wants to know a little more about my life, I’ve added a photos section, where you can check out photos of me and my friends and my life. I’ve got a few pics of me up there now, and will add to it from all the pics I took in Miami, and we’ll go from there.

And now, the most important thing of all:

CONGRATULATIONS to Beet reader and my friend Emily, who got engaged to a truly wonderful man this weekend. Emily was one of our very first readers and fans, all the way back in the early days, so we know she has fantastic taste. Everyone here at The Beet wishes Emily and Adam our sincerest congratulations and all the best in the future. (And this is also the cheapest engagement present we could think up.) Welcome to the family, Emily!

Ms. Katie Holmes completed the 26.2 mile course in 5 hours, 29 minutes and 58 seconds. It won’t qualify her for Boston, but it’s a full three days faster than I could do it. Unless I tried to use the subway system as a shortcut, in which case just go ahead and add twelve days to my time. I did not fare well on the NYC subways.

Tom and Suri were at the finish line to congratulate her and escort her back to the cage where she’s kept when not appearing healthy and independent for the media.

It doesn’t get much better than this, kids. Here I thought this Shia LaBeouxxyiuiuf character was going to fade in and out of the limelight like so many Elijah Woods before him, but now homeboy went and got his drunk ass arrested. At a WALGREENS. He is here to stay, people!

Chicago police say actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested at the Walgreens at 757 N. Michigan Av. around 2:30 a.m. Sunday after repeatedly refusing to leave the store.

A security guard repeatedly told LaBeouf that he wasn’t welcome and had to leave because he appeared to be drunk, police said.

When the actor refused to leave, the security guard detained him and called police.

After he was arrested, LaBeouf was “very courteous and polite,” and he posted bond before 7 a.m., police said.

LaBeouf, 21, of Glendale, Calif., was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing. He is scheduled to appear in court in Branch 29 on Nov. 28 at 9 a.m.

That’s crazy to me, because it’s pretty hard to get asked to leave a Walgreens just because you’re drunk. In high school, we’d get wasted and then walk to the Walgreens around 3 a.m. because that’s when they got out the floor buffers. We liked to ride the floor buffers when we were drunk. The staff were always very courteous and obliging and allowed us to push each other around the store on the floor buffers for twenty minutes or so as we screamed obscenities at one another. Then we would politely take our leave and vomit in the bushes. So I can’t imagine what Shia was doing to be kicked out. Perhaps he was refusing to wait his turn on the floor buffers. That’s a big no-no.

Lindsay Lohan spends an exciting Friday night going to the hair salon.

She looks amazing!

She looks happy!

She looks sober!

Yay, Lindsay!! We may have a bona fide rehabbed starlet on our hands, now, kids.

Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley and Shawn Pyfrom celebrate Penn’s 21st birthday at TAO in Las Vegas.

He’s only 21????

I am so old.

Also, everyone in this picture is really sober.

The glazed look in their eyes?

Food coma.

JC Chasez was there, too, but I can’t even really handle the weirdness of that fact to elaborate much on it. I guess he just likes younger men. You think he’s with Shawn these days? I think so.

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY, PENN!

Nick Lachey knows exactly what’s happening later tonight.

Honestly, Vanessa, if you don’t want us to write these things about you, don’t pose for photos with your face that close to his penis.

At a pool party in San Juan.