Entries from February 2006 ↓

From March’s issue of Premiere, everyone’s favorite badass explains how he examines each and everyone of the scripts he’s sent.

“When I picked up the script and I saw the title, I didn’t even read it and I said, “I want to do it.” You know, before I opened the first page, Snakes on a Plane. If this is what I think it is, I want to be in this. I want to be on a plane full of poisonous snakes. You say Snakes on a Plane, people who don’t like snakes are intrigued. The people who don’t like to fly are intrigued. The people who don’t like both are totally terrified now. People who just like seeing mayhem are ready for that. They want to see, you know, people enclosed in a big tin tube getting attacked by poisonous snakes. Come on! What could be more exciting than that, you know? What do you do? What do you do until the plane lands? Come on, Snakes on a Plane, that’s the title.”

Screenwriter Josh Friedman had a near miss retooling Snakes on a Plane, what would be Jackson’s second cimematic foray into animal induced mayhem. You can read about that experience here on his site I Find Your Lack Of Faith Disturbing.

From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel :

“People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork.”

A group of four young men climbed onto “Standing Woman,” a tall, bronze sculpture of a goddess-like woman with exaggerated features by early 20th-century American artist Gaston Lachaise.

“They were standing on it, grabbing the boobs, and somebody was just taking pictures with a cell phone,” said Laura Collins, 35.

Thirty dollar unlimited martinis and an art museum. Were they surprised this happened? Wonder if anybody was scrubbing puke off the artwork?

Karl Pilkington has debated the merits of eating a kangaroo’s penis for breakfast, envisioned a wristwatch that counts down the time left in a person’s life and proposed a new population control system in which elderly women give birth at the moment of their deaths. He has mused on topics ranging from caveman “bear pants” to dishwashers on Mars, and reported “news stories” about the triumphs of chimpanzees as bricklayers and television talk show hosts. In so doing, Mr. Pilkington, a 33-year-old unemployed radio producer from Manchester, England, has become the object of a global Internet cult, a Guinness world record-holder and the unlikely harbinger of a technological revolution.

There are few things funnier than The Ricky Gervais Show and it can not be missed. How else would we keep up to date on ‘Monkey News’?

If you’re a Death Cab fan or better yet a fan of Jeffrey Brown’s comics check out this video.

No, this isn’t the lion that did battle with the Cambodian Fighting Midgets, but a Dirty Old Man who turns  27 today.

Yes, you read that right. Forty-two Midgets.

The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back.

Sihamoni was quoted before the fight stating that he felt since his fighters out-numbered the lion 42 to 1, that they “… could out-wit and out-muscle [it].”

Unfortunately, he was wrong.

The proceeds from t-shirt sales go to aid the surviving fighters. Dig deep folks, after all there are brave fighters who lost limbs.

Ross “The Intern” from The Tonight Show has been blogging about his experience covering the Olympics.

SuicideGirls interviews Jeff Rougvie, producer of the recent Bill Hicks projects Sane Man and Salvation which were released last month.

I was a fan of Bill’s when he was still alive and I had been working really hard to track down the two CD’s that he had released in his lifetime. I found one of them but they were mostly sold at his shows and I always missed him whenever he’d come through Minneapolis where I was living at the time. Then while I was working on a project with an agent in New York who represented Bootsy Collins, he mentioned he represented Hicks as well. Bill had died about a year earlier so that’s when the relationship started.

And, here is a piece I did on Bill Hicks a couple of years ago.

Courtsey of Crimmings, Man Shot In Accident After Laughing At Cheney

Associated Press

LAFAYETTE, Colo. Hours after laughing about Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting mishap, Josh Kayser was himself shot by a friend during a hunting expedition.

The 21-year-old Lafayette man was taken to the hospital Monday night after his girlfriend accidentally shot him while they were trailing a raccoon that had been preying on chickens on his family’s property.

“I read that thing about the vice president and said to myself ‘how can you shoot your friend with your gun?’ And look what happened,” he said Tuesday.

Kayser was crouched down to look under a shed where he thought a wounded raccoon was hiding, and his 17-year-old girlfriend accidentally shot him with a .22-caliber rifle. Police have not identified the girlfriend.

Say what you will about America, land of the free, home of the brave… But we have some dumbass motherfuckers floating around this place. Not any of you of course.