Movie Buzz Bobcat’s fifth feature-length film stars Joel Murray (“Mad Men”, “One Crazy Summer”) as a suicidal man gone homicidal — particularly taking aim at reality TV stars. Oh, and pretty much any other moron who gets in his way. In theaters May 11.
Stand-up comic and indie auteur Bobcat Goldthwait (“World's Greatest Dad,” “Shakes the Clown”) discusses his new film after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last night. “God Bless America” is about a middle-aged man (Joel Murray) who believes he's doing the world a service when he kills a reality TV star. (via.)
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With baseball season starting up, Americans have been googling the lyrics to their own national anthem. Seriously. Enough people have googled this in the past 24 hours for it to have registered as “spicy” on Google Trends. C'mon, America, you're making us look bad.
As long as you pull the trigger stuff with the love of Christ in your heart and mind, you're all good. And while you're at it, you might as well buy a hot dog.
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Best case you have to read articles like this one in the Saudi Gazette. Worst case you get punished by a judge for being gang raped.
On a day when the death toll in Mumbai raises to 150, five hostages are executed, and fighting continues at the Taj Hotel, almost none of the top search terms on Google are related to the international crisis. Americans care more about walmart stampedes, thanksgiving leftover recipes, and TV re-runs than dead hostages, religious warfare, and international politics. Hey foreign policy nerds! Extra credit if you can find the Google trend keywords that ARE related to the Mumbai crisis.
Culture Buzz Church signs that make me happy to live in a Christian nation. And by happy I mean dangerously depressed. I love when God talks to me through vinyl lettering.
Culture Buzz Did you know that you could have sex with a porcupine in Tacoma, but not if it were clinically obese? Incidentally, forget about it if you’re in Florida, where sex with porcupines is — you guessed it — prohibited. Also, you’ve got to wait until your married to have sex with your boyfriend or girlfriend in Georgia. However, if s/he’s your cousin and you’re both over 65, head to Utah where you can get married — two birds, one stone!
Culture Buzz When the body of the Private First Class was returned to her parents in Missouri from Iraq, LaVena Johnson’s father called bullsh*t on the Army’s claim that her death was the result of a suicide. Footage clearly indicates that, in reality, Johnson was likely beaten, raped and murdered (in fact, a trail of blood was photographed outside her tent). The Army, however, has refused to provide further information regarding the case, proving that, even in an “army of one,” it’s not hard for a soldier to be easily forgotten if she isn’t a white male (or, better yet, a star football player).
TV Buzz And it all comes full circle as VH1 rounds up contestants fromFlavor Of Love, I Love New York, and Rock of Love to compete for $250,000. Between all the contestants, the amount of collagen, silicone and eyeliner might officially make the set of I Love Money a toxic wasteland (in every sense of the word).