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Art Bell’s back in Pahrump!

Nevada is complete again!

Evidently when his mail-order-thing got knocked up and stopped fucking him, he decided it was time to move back to the states.  Wonder how long she’ll want to stay.

Kudos to Art for growing his balls back – I might just tune in again now that CtoC is coming “from the High Desert & the great American Southwest” again.

I really need to find the episode a few weeks back where he was mourning Ramona and saying that sometimes people make mistakes in their lives.

I made 7 points on my deadpool.

5 days before the year ended.

I need to get my new one up soon.

I’m pig-biting mad and I’m not gonna take it anymore!

Did I lose you?

If so, then you’re probably not familiar with Ed Anger. And Countess Serena. And the page 5 whore.

Yes, I speak of that wondorous piece of tabloid trash known as The Weekly World News.

Back when I was po’ and lived in the Argonne with two working electrical outlets and no heat, I would treat myself to a WWN every now and again and it never failed to provide me with an hour or so of mindless gleeful entertainment. I’ll never forget that one time when the headline screamed “BAT CHILD FOUND IN CAVE” and featured a photo of the now infamous Bat Boy. That issue became a treasured possession and I probably still have it somewhere in a box.
The WWN was black and white – really cheap black and white. Your fingers would inevitably be black after you were a few pages in.

And if you ate Cheetos while reading it you couldn’t lick the orange stuff off your fingers.
My quality time with the WWN will always be a happy memory for me.

I actually told Rick about Ed Anger the other night. About how his right-wing rants would make me giggle and how he’d always open his column with the “pig-biting mad” or “madder than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest” or… well, you get it. He Wikipedia’d Ed Anger and read up on him. LOL.

So. Tonight.
Going through the checkout line at the drugstore I moticed that “WORLD’S FATTEST CAT SAVES CHRISTMAS” and just had to pick one up.

Horrible.
The pages are glossy.
But worse than that – the pictures are TERRIBLE.
I mean, one of the best things about the old WWN was that the photos were horribly doctored. You just KNEW there was some old man in a tiny room doing the bad airbrushing that he thought was awesome. They were obviously faked and deliciously bad.
Well, the new pictures are still bad. Buit like bad ON PURPOSE. Like some hipster with Photoshop is deliberately trying to make the pictures look as fake as possible. It sucks.

And Ed Anger (who was actually the editor of the mag who died several years ago) is now ragging on REPUBLICANS! Yes, I read him saying he was an Independent and making fun of Bushtard and something inside me died. It’s no longer Ed Anger.

It makes me sad.

Oh shit – I just looked at it more and it has a DISCLAIMER!!!!!
A fucking disclaimer saying the stories are FICTION!
That makes it a completely different magazine entirely. Because it used to be that you could still hope that maybe just maybe they had actually captured Bigfoot in some strange foreign town you’ve never heard of.
Hate.

Rick said I should link to the Wikipedia article as well. Good info on the old WWN there.

Oh, and the mall sucks.
But I found this.

ForthefuckingHorde!
I love you, LoC!
(Alli sucks, DJ.)
(You’re a stalker, Riak)

It will go on my new Jeep.
Oh wait, did I say new Jeep?
LOL.
Yeah, JeffEd, I’m gonna give up the old XJ for a TJ. I love the XJ, but it needs too much stuff done.

Mr. Fish says “Hi Haley!”

I had to bribe him to pose with food.  LOL.

Isn’t he creamy & delicious?

So…

They’re making Preacher into a series for HBO.
At first I was nervous because the guy who did Daredevil (aka Suckfest) is doing it, but them Rick read me this article.

So I understand people’s confusion at first thinking, “Is this going to be Preacher lite?” It’s not. It’s going to be exactly the comic book. We had our first meeting with Garth Ennis on the phone and Garth Ennis was the one saying, “You don’t have to be so beholden to the comic. Some things we just did…because. There are other ways to go.” It’s funny to hear him say something like that. But that’s usually the case. Creators say stuff like, you can add to it, you can take away from it, you can try something different. But I made it very clear to him and to HBO that this is a series based on one of the greatest comic series of all time. Therefore you don’t want to stray from it, you want to make it exact and thank God for HBO, they’re the only place I could think of that could do it…

That made me happy.

Now, on to casting.
Colin Farrell would be perfect for Cassidy, but HBO’s not know for going after names.  The biggest name in Carnivale was Clancy Brown and… well.. let’s just say not everyone loves him as much as I do.
Likewise, Hugh Jackman would play a damn good Jesse Custer, but he’s a name and probably too old for what they want to cast.  And there’s that Wolverine thing too.

I suppose they’ll go with unknowns, which is probably for the best.

The saddest thing in the whole world though, is that THE Saint of Killers just recently passed away.
(See my previous entry.)
I honestly don’t know who else could do it.
Maybe David Carradine with some serious lifts in his shoes?
The aforementioned sex god Clancy Brown could probably pull it off, but he might not be uh… grizzled enough for it.
And the Saint has to be perfect.  I mean he kills the devil and all.

I soooooooo hope it doesn’t suck.

Speaking of, there was a big discussion at work yesterday along the lines of:
“If you had to recast A New Hope with modern actors, who would you choose for Luke & Leia?”
Evidently they had all decided on Christian Bale for Han.  Uh… dunno about that.  Bale always looks haunted or something and Han Solo was just smarmy.
I haven’t thought about it much because you don’t mess with the holy trinity.
Ideas?