Spawn of Spoonfreude

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permalink Arnold Schwarzenegger sends a message—or rather, two of them. [WSJ]

Arnold Schwarzenegger sends a message—or rather, two of them. [WSJ]

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Consuming the Corpse--with Relish

“Art is dead; Godard can’t change that,” the Situationists proclaimed in 1968. “Comrades, stop applauding, the spectacle is everywhere.” Jean-Luc Godard must have anticipated both of these sentiments when crafting Pierrot le Fou (1965). Quoting literary art at every turn, the titular Ferdinand-Pierrot insists that art remains very much alive… [continued]

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Wonderful! Lars von Trier’s The Perfect Human. Bigger version [here].

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Hall-of-Famer George Brett: Auto-Tuned and Uncensored

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Alabaster!

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Roman Polanski Is Mad

After spending thirty-two years living the life of a carefree sociopath in France and three days as a child rapist in a Zurich detention center while he waits to be extradited to the United States for raping a 13-year old California girl in 1977, Roman Polanski is reportedly in a “fighting mood” and will fight any and all attempts that will force him to man the fuck up and serve his sentence that he already plead guilty to before running like an escaped slave…

Samantha Geimer is the victim, not Polanski. She only wants the case dismissed because she just wants this to be over. Much like how I want Grey’s Anatomy to be over.

UPDATE: Here are a list of names in the entertainment industry who have signed the FREE POLANSKI! petition. Woody Allen is obviously no surprise, but fuck you Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Darren Aronofsky.

[idontlikeyouinthatway]

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I have a couple of quibbles with this (her response to Cameron’s dubious claim that atheist professors are responsible for growth of atheism is weaker than it could have been), but for the most part, I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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Brilliantly weird PlayStation3 commercial that was not shown in the US.

permalink Hakuna Matata!

Hakuna Matata!