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Obama Yells at Hillary and Bitch Slaps Bill Clinton
Recently spammers have been taking the tabloid approach to get people to open their emails. There's been a lot of emails with subjects like Rare nude photos of Kate Moss, Paris Hilton Charges For Pussy, Paris Hilton violated by Gypsies. I suppose they're working on the principle that if it works for the mainstream media (just look at the "most popular" article lists of most newspapers) should work for them.
One that just wound up in my spam box was headlined Obama Yells at Hillary and Bitch Slaps Bill Clinton. If it wasn't clearly spam, I know I'd be interested in that! Sounds even better than Anti-war protesters menace intrepid Faux News reporter.
29 Aug 2008 10:17 [category: /weird] #
Russ Meyer: Auteur
News.com.au describes Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill as an "arthouse classic" in this article about a putative Tarantino remake. That's hilarious!
Though if anyone was to remake Meyer films, I hope it's Tarantino. But Britney's gonna need a much bigger boob job to do it justce.
08 Aug 2008 13:12 [category: /weird] #
Blue plaques with a twist
Nosey In Newtown notes a fun take on the blue plaque, spotted in the People's Republic of Newtown. Quite funny!
31 Jul 2008 13:38 [category: /weird] #
Conspiracy or fuckup?
Conspiracy nutters are everywhere these days. George Bush and Dick Cheney ordered the "controlled demolition" of the Twin Towers. The Duke of Edinburgh, a 12th-level Mason, ordered MI6 to kill Di and Dodi, to prevent the British Royal Family including a Muslim. MI5 America faked the moon landing!
The problem with all these conspiracies is they forget how useless we humans are at running large-scale projects without fucking it up. We're just not good enough at enormous projects, particularly when they're supposed to be big secrets.
Charlie Brooker has a good look at them.
It's hard enough to successfully operate a video shop with a staff of three, for Christ's sake, let alone slaughter thousands and convince the world someone else was to blame.
PS: If you read the version in this week's Guardian Weekly, you might want to read this version. The GW version was quite savagely cut down.
28 Jul 2008 11:48 [category: /weird] #
Blank Reg
I love the fact that the Secretary of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties is named Stephen Blanks.
It just goes to show that Max Headroom really was a documentary showing the world twenty minutes into the fu-fu-future.
