Paris Hilton smokes a joint

Just as poor, skinny Paris Hilton is on the verge of doing a little jail time for driving while here license was suspended and failure to appear in court for DUI, pictures have surfaced of her smoking pot backstage at last month's Coachella music festival, according to the London Daily Mail.

Paris attended the festival with a group of friends weeks before her court hearing, but clearly wasn't concerned about keeping out of trouble in advance of the case.

Hilton now faces a 45-day jail term for for driving while her licence was suspended, although it is doubtful that with her money, she will actually have to do the time.

Hilton has appealed to California Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger for a pardon in an online petition. The online Free Paris Hilton petition has gathered more than 25,000 signatures.

But unfortunately for the reality TV bimbo, a rival campaign, Jail Paris Hilton, is twice as popular, with more than 60,000 supporters.

As I have written in the past, I interviewed Paris Hilton and partied with her at the Girl's Gone Wild Mardi Gras party on a Bourbon Street balcony in New Orleans while working for People magazine in 2003. She wasn't quite so famous then, just a few months before her reality show "A Simple Life" went on the air.

And as far as I was concerned, she didn't seem particularly bright either.

As I'm drinking my coffee this morning and posting this, I'm wondering why I bother to write anything about her at all. She's just another rich bimbo who is famous for being famous. Who cares, really?

But hey, part of the job of a blog is to spoof the tabloid press. When there's a photo, run with it, right?