To anyone who’s seen The Arcade Fire in concert, is this kind of percussive ritual beatings on display here a normal occurance?

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Rick in Cougartown

So, last week I went to an event here in LA called the Cougar Convention, a singles dating event that tried to match cougars (women over 40) with cubs (men at least 10 years younger than them). It was depressing!

So, here it a quick photo essay I did for Vice about that sadness! Enjoy!

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“ I admit that I have winced at some of the lurid speculations about Governor Palin’s family life, and thought them unkind and tasteless even as I lapped them up. She now claims that Levi Johnston is a fabricator when he describes a wildly dysfunctional Palin household. So then: what if she’s right about him? It wasn’t the liberal elite media who dug up this scapegrace and nudity artist. It was the Republican nominee for the vice presidency who hauled the lad before the cameras and forced us to look at him: a fit husband for her beloved daughter and an example to errant youth in general. Once again, one is compelled to ask which would be worse: a Sarah Palin who really meant what she merely seemed to say, or a Sarah Palin who would say anything at all for a cheap burst of applause.

— Hitchens on Palin

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Baditude

Probably worth a look:

Perhaps the proper fictional character to reference isn’t Peter Pan, but Matthew McConaughey’s Wooderson from Dazed and Confused— we all get older, Rivers Cuomo stays the same age.

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More outlets than a power strip.

Been a busy few weeks for me on the Internets. First, there was the extremely fun to write piece on Jason’s mask for ESPN, along with the obligatory “how is this about sports again?” list they had me put together of the ten scariest goalie masks. After that came a pair of Halloween-themed interviews for VICE, one with an old real witch and one with a photographer of staged horror. And then yesterday saw the virtual publication of an ESPN Travel profile for a foodie college commentator. Today, there’s this simple ol’ satire of how shitty the umps have been this postseason.

There. You’re all caught up.

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No reason not to post this.

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Following the trail of douchidity.

It’s already gone now, but there was a fantastic craigslist ad looking for a script. Here it is, saved for posterity in my Google Reader:

We are looking to shoot our 4th feature film, 11th total, and will have it completed by the end of the year to be a apart of our other 3 features for our campaign starting in February. The script should be atleast 80 pages, a murder mystery, one house, victorian, in and out, 5 - 8 characters, one man open being dead. Richard Ryan and Ox Films will make another classic with your script, guranteed and you will be apart of the Ox Films family. www.oxfilms.us

A quick Google and IMDB search takes us to this profile for Richard Ryan, a man who no doubt spends a good majority of his time updating his IMDB profile instead of, I don’t know, writing murder mysteries that take place in Victorian houses. Not only is his mini-biography not so mini, but he gives himself about 7 credits per movie he makes. Seeing as the weird guy from The Room has yet to get a follow-up off the ground, this here, everyone, might be our best hope for an Ed Wood. But judging by these amazing trailers, it’ll be with horrible sound equipment, shot in awful grainy video, and be a whole lot douchiery!

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» Roger Ebert lays down all the reasons why one should be an alcoholic at some point in their lives.

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Truth.

(I know some folks hate Ed’s singing, but it mostly seems like they’re reacting to the fact that his voice launched a thousand Nickelbacks, which is like hating “The Simpsons” because of “Family Guy” or “American Dad”.)

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