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I done stole this hurr pitcher, from FilmDrink.

Burying A Good Idea With a Fart

Teaching is interesting. Kids have a lot of ideas and they want to try everything. Editing is important. Something I often find myself telling my students, is not to bury a good idea under a landslide of mediocre or bad ideas. Find your most compelling bit, and run with that. Exploit the hell out of it.

This new campaign for Morgan's Hotels is an example of the opposite. It's three ideas, two of which are complete bullshit. One of which is clever, unfortunately they didn't have the balls or the integrity to run with it. Stefan Sagmeister's famous quote is "Style = fart". This piece is 2/3 fart. Embarrassing.

Avohontas — File Under, So True

We Live In Public — Cautionary Tale of a Douchebag

We Live In Public TRAILER from We Live in Public on Vimeo.

This Movie Is Actually Getting Made

In "Passion Plays", Mickey Rourke is a down-on-his-heels trumpet player, and Megan Fox is an angel in 1950s Los Angeles, with Rourke finding redemption in Fox after he attempts to save her from a gangster.

Rachel Maddow PWNS AIG and Their Evil PR Hacks

Rachel Maddow sheds some additional light on the financial insanity that is the AIG bailout. Apparently, they're using your 173 billion on (drum roll) Public Relations.

Kirk Cameron's Fireproof Now Available on DVD – Fuck Yeah!

Kirk Cameron’s Fireproof is about God and saving your marriage and finding religion and not saying "bitch" apparently (?) It was an enormous success ($34 million gross on a $500k budget.) Where'd rednecks get that kind of money?!

This is a highlight reel from the recently released DVD ... let me repeat, this is NOT a gag reel. These are actual scenes that were included in the film. Based on these clips I'd say the plot also focuses on a profound hatred of computers, recycling and naturalistic dialog. I've watched it three times already. It's really THAT good. Swiped over at FilmDrunk.

Britain and France Crash 25% of Their Nuclear Submarines Into One Another

They only have four nuclear submarines each. So how the F do they manage to crash them into each other? Who's the Admiral over there, Benny Hill?

From the NY Times.

LONDON — Two nuclear submarines, one French and the other British, collided in mid-Atlantic earlier this month, reports in the British and French news media said on Monday, quoting sources in the two defense ministries.

Britain and France each have four missile-carrying nuclear submarines, constituting the core of their nuclear arsenals. According to military journals, Le Triomphant carries 16 ballistic missiles with a range of 5,000 miles, each with six warheads. H.M.S. Vanguard is a Trident-class submarine, 492 feet long and weighing 16,000 tons. It, too, carries 16 missiles, each with three nuclear warheads.

Burton + Boobs = Burlington Blow Up

How's that for creative alliteration! Full article at Boston.com, excerpted here.

Burton's new line of "Love" Snowboards featuring retro images of Playboy bunnies has found itself at the center of a growing controversy in the lame, err .... pseudo liberal state of Vermont.  

The Burlington City Council discussed asking Burton to withdraw the boards, and the Girl Scout Council of Vermont is considering taking concerns to lawmakers next month.

The outcry hasn't made a dent in sales of the new lines, Burton cofounder Jake Carpenter told the Burlington newspaper Seven Days in November. The Playboy line and a second line called Primo, which depicts mutilated hands, have "completely oversold by virtue of this exposure," he said.

Mark Redmond, the head of nonprofit, Spectrum Youth & Family Services, said he pulled his enrollment from a Burton program that donates snowboards to needy children after learning about the Playboy line because objectification of women increases the chance men will become abusive, he said.

Fuzzy Logic:

Yeah, refusing free charitable donations from the states largest employer, that'll teach 'em Mark!

Seriously, everybody just take a deep breath and have another cup of herbal tea. The concept of using Playboy bunnies on snowboards qualifies as edgy and counterculture ... but the design execution, utilizing tasteful cropping, is actually pretty tame. By the time you pop the bindings on these boards, everything's pretty much covered up anyway. We've all got bums people! (and most of them aren't this nice)

When reached for comment Jake Burton had the following to say. "Fuck you bitches. I own this state."