In Apprehension

Oh For Fucks Sake

Now Michael Phelps is apologizing to the Chinese. Why?  Um....well, I have no idea, except that he's promoting Mazda products in China.  Why that means he has to apologize for smoking some weed at a private party, something that's completely his own business and happened in a completely different country, is beyond me.

Oh C'mon!

Hey, remember when Chevy Chase and Burt Reynolds had careers?  Neither do I.

Chevy Chase, Burt Reynolds, Vinnie Jones, Michael Madsen and "Stuttering" John Melendez are spoofing the nonstop flood of spoof films in the upcoming indie comedy "Not Another Not Another Movie."

Chase plays a studio head who quits his floundering company, leaving his ex-con sibling (Madsen) in charge. Soon their equally inept gangster friend (Jones) takes over and assigns a production assistant (David Leo Schultz) to direct a spoof of spoof movies. Reynolds plays an actor playing the director of the chaotic film within the film.

Sweet Zombie Jesus.

Yeah...no

No, no, a thousand times no.

And Now...

The most awesome thing you will read today.

Your Transmet Moment of the Day

From Warren Ellis:

Verging on the camera-armed "liveshades" Spider Jerusalem wore in TRANSMETROPOLITAN. Another "oh fuck what ELSE from that book is going to come true" moment:

Weird

I just noticed that when I turn my new phone on, it reads "HELLO" in a font eerily similar to the OBEY signs from They Live.

No Joking Title

Read the whole thing first, before making any judgements, but just be warned that it is about a guy who willingly amputated his own hand for some pretty out there reasons.

BME: We’ve touched on it, but I guess now the big question — “why”?

I’m one of those body-integrity-disorder (BIID) dudes. As long as I can remember, having two hands was a defect in my body — something that was not meant to be. For me philosophically, it’s totally different from body mods, which I also have. I don’t think I had any choice. My right hand just didn’t belong to my body. As a little kid, I soon learned that I was the odd one out, and that amputation was a bad thing. My parents reprimanded me for staring at amputations, but it was totally mesmerizing for me. Somehow I made it through high school, with hormones and peer pressure doing their best to mask my feelings. In college, I met a wonderful woman, and our love kept my thoughts of amputation at bay at first, but the need grew and grew. I don’t know how I ever made it through to getting my Master’s. My mind was more and more consumed, so that sometimes I would even blurt out an embarrassing word, like “stump” or “hook”.

English is Useful!

I don't even know what to say about this (via Jezebel; visually safe for work, but some NSFW language):

Fake?  Real?  Just plain weird?

Dear God

Warren Ellis: I’m starting to feel like sf writers such as myself should be running apologies on the inside front covers of our books.

Oh My

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