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March 13, 2012

Bear Grylls Sacked!

What?!? The Bear Grylls we’ve come to know and love wouldn’t take that! He’d rip one of his own bicuspids out, use it to remove one of his tibias, use the two to fashion a makeshift tomahawk—and hack his way out of that sack!

Oh, wait:

Bear Grylls sacked from Discovery Channel

Bear Grylls has been fired from the Discovery Channel.

The British television presenter began working with the network on TV series Man vs. Wild – where he is challenged to survive in difficult climates – in 2006, but following problems getting him to work on two unannounced projects, they have decided to terminate their contract with him.

Well then. He should still make that tomahawk. Could come in handy when dealing with bill collectors!

Best of luck, Mr. Grylls. We hope you get a new gig real soon. And please don’t hurt us:

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Posted by Thom

Tags: Pop culture, TV

March 5, 2012

RIP, “Star Wars” Artist Ralph McQuarrie

From the WaPo:

Ralph McQuarrie, an artist whose paintings of a gold-plated robot in an otherworldly desert and an intergalactic sword duel between a scraggly youth and a black-masked villain helped persuade film executives to gamble on a young director named George Lucas and his visionary story, “Star Wars,” died March 3 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 82.

Can you imagine being the guy who drew this? (Pic found here.)

That’s as well known a face as Mona Lisa’s!

McQuarrie also worked on the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Cocoon, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Jurassic Park. Quite the resume.

A nice—and probably true—sentiment on his website:

His influence on design will be felt forever. There’s no doubt in our hearts that centuries from now amazing spaceships will soar, future cities will rise and someone, somewhere will say…

“that looks like something Ralph McQuarrie painted.”

RIP, Ralph McQuarrie.

Posted by Thom

Tags: Death, Pop culture

March 2, 2012

“Martin Scorsese Eats A Cookie – Directed by George Clooney”

Because why not?

Source.

Posted by Thom

Tags: Pop culture, Weird

February 6, 2012

Something old, something new, something plastic…

The groomsmen helped Ken keep stay calm; the bridesmaids were just so swell with Barbie, and the wedding of Ken and Barbie was just perfect.

And someone got photographs. A really lot of photographs. Here’s one:

From here.

• Yeah, pretty soon Ken and Barbie will settle down and get a nice house in the…Pooper Scooper Barbie! (That’s all we really needed to say, isnt’ it?)

Posted by Thom

Tags: Pop culture, Weird

January 3, 2012

“Alien Cathouse” Opening Soon

“Where no man has gone before” just became the worst joke in the world:

Have you ever dreamed of traveling to distant planets, meeting exotic alien women and having sex with them?

If so, you — and possibly Captain Kirk — are the target audience for brothel owner Dennis Hof’s newest Southern Nevada business venture.

The reality television star and outspoken sex merchant recently bought a rundown bordello 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas and unveiled plans to renovate and reopen it with a science fiction theme.

He is calling it Alien Cathouse and promising “girls from another world.”

We’re guessing this will be a popular request. Or maybe this?

* We really don’t want to, but we are compelled by the Laws of Weirdness and General Creepitude to finish this post by noting – with no further comment – that the linked story ends with this paragraph:

“There are times he still scares my diaper off,” Flint said, “but he has a stamina that’s hard for me to believe.”

Posted by Thom

Tags: Pop culture, Weird news

December 30, 2011

Breaking News: Mutants are not Humans!

After spending years in story boards and movies debating if mutants are humans or not, Marvel is now taking the stance that mutants are in fact not humans. The real life debate has nothing to do with mutant rights, but rather taxation on toys. Excerpt from article:

‘Dolls,’ which are toys that represent humans, are taxed at 12%. ‘Toys,’ meanwhile, are, well, toys, but ones that don’t represent humans. Those are taxed at 6.8%. You can probably see where this is headed.

But, where do you draw the line? Who is a mutant and who isn’t? As you can see in the article “11 X-Men Who Aren’t Actually Mutants,” it might be hard to distinguish between the two. For example, did you know that Storm was a member of the X-Men with no powers in 41 different issues?

Posted by BRI

Tags: Pop culture

December 22, 2011

The Batman Infographic

What a great idea:

Comic book writer Grant Morrison said it best: “[Every bat-suit is] completely different” – sometimes insanely different – “but they’re all instantly recognizable as [the-bat-suit].”

Unlike Superman, who has more or less been wearing the same blue and red strongman since Action Comics #1 in 1938, Batman just keeps changing his appearance every few years to keep up with the times. Basically, he’s the Madonna of superheroes.

Which is why I created this Batman infographic — to keep track of every single “significant” bat-suit across all mediums (which excludes a grand majority of the bat-suits featured in non-canonical comic books, in case you were wondering).

We contacted the creator of the infographic, Benjamin Andrew Moore, and asked him if we could post it here. (And told him we loved it.) He said “Definitely!” and thanked us for aksing. You are welcome, Ben, and thank you very much!

Click on the pic below. That will take you to the link. Once there, scroll down to the graphic, click on it, click it again, and you’ll get a huge version, so you can see all the costumes up close – and read what Batman is saying, such as “Welcome to hell.”

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Posted by Thom

Tags: Comics, Pop culture

December 21, 2011

Kim Kardashian [updated]

We just noticed that someone named “Kim Kardashian” is in the news – again – and we just wanted to say a few things about this, so here goes:

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That is all. Thank you.

Update: We just got a call from Kim Kardashian’s lawyer – who, as it happens, talks really loud! – and we’d like to say that we have no idea who made this post. It may have been the janitor. He hates Kim Kardashian. We don’t know why.

Anyway, we’d like to make it up to the lovely and erudite Ms. Kardashian by now posting one quote from her:

I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms…my entire body is hairless.

So there you go.

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Posted by Thom

Tags: Celebrities, Pop culture

December 14, 2011

Star Fight: John Cleese Calls Eric Idle “Yoko”

Because we live to serve you the latest and greatest (and, well, let’s face it, some of the most awful) news, history, wisdom, nonsense, and, as in times like these—still steaming piles of fresh gossip—we point you to the Twitter feed of comedy legend John Cleese, who twittered, just minutes ago (it’s around 10 AM on the 14th day of December, 2011), of his Monty Python partner, Eric Idle:

Oh dear. Somebody’s a Mr. Crabby Pants this morning.

He followed that up minutes later with:

Now, maybe it’s just us, but this kind of sniping from a superstar like Cleese is unbecoming – and we’ll be right here to update this post if any more sniping is to follow.

Nearly Immediate Update: Ah ha. Some background, from just three days ago:

John Cleese may have been forced to go on tour to pay for his third divorce, but he has won little sympathy from Eric Idle.

Idle says he dropped his fellow Monty Python star from his touring production of Spamalot, his hit musical, because he had given him enough money already.

“I fired John Cleese – surgically removed him,” he says. “It wasn’t mean – he’s had millions of dollars from it. He charges people a fortune for using his voice. He’s always been in financial crisis.”

Now stop. Come on – you guys are heroes! Okay, just a little more:

He adds: “His ex wife was married to him for 20 years. I wouldn’t take £13 million to be married to him.”

Do you understand the comedic possibilities if these two really get going? It’d be like two Jedi knights fighting! The Force could be seriously damaged!

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