Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Archive: February, 2013

POSTED: Monday, February 4, 2013, 12:59 PM
(Screenshot via YouTube)

A 54-year-old Tacoma man has been arrested for allegedly driving his car into a Pacific Gas & Electric worker in Fresno, trapping the man between two vehicles. According to a witness, Jett Simmons claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ before making racially charged threats and ramming his car into the PG&E worker.

The witness—a hitchhiker "from Dogtown" by way of West Virginia named Kai (that it—just Kai)—says that after Simmons rammed the man, he got out of the car and tried to smother a bystander with a bear hug. That's when Kai sprung into action and hit the 6'4", 290-pound Simmons on the head with a hatchet. Once, twice, thrice.

In the aftermath of the ordeal, the victim asked not to be identified and said that he only hopes his assailant gets the help he needs. Kai, meanwhile, gave the greatest interview in the history of television news. Peep the full, NSFW version below.


Incredible. Can't wait for the auto-tuned version.

Mike Bertha @ 12:59 PM  Permalink | 20 comments
POSTED: Monday, February 4, 2013, 11:11 AM
The Iowa Supreme Court's consideration of a gay marriage bill rallied activists on both sides of the issue. (Liz Martin/AP/The Gazette)

A new study suggests that exposing heterosexual men to pornography increases the likelihood that they'll support gay marriage.

A new scholarly analysis suggests that the more straight guys, especially those who are less educated, watch pornographic videos, the more they warm to same-sex marriage. The reason: Porn opens their mind up to accepting non-traditional sexual situations, like gay sex.

The authors used studies of approximately 500 straight guys over the past six years that were funded by the National Science Foundation . Their findings were published in the Communication Research journal. They also speculate that the popularity of lesbian pornography helps warm the heterosexual men to the idea of same-sex marriage.

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POSTED: Monday, February 4, 2013, 8:39 AM
Will Ferrell starred in a Super Bowl ad that aired in three small towns. Image via (AP Photo)

Will Ferrell starred in a Super Bowl commercial for Old Milwaukee that you surely missed, unless you live in Sherman, Texas, Ardmore, Oklahoma, or Glendive, Montana. The spot—which only aired in those three small towns—features a heavily mustachioed Ferrell playing tonsil hockey with an older woman on a bus. That's it. Seriously, that's the commercial.


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POSTED: Friday, February 1, 2013, 2:48 PM
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA (Image via Ishrona on Flickr)

Woo hoo this is a good one, you guys. Cops tried to stop a man driving in California after they suspected him of driving under the influence. The guy led L.A.P.D. officers on a slow-speed chase for 10 minutes. Then—with a spike strip tangled underneath his car—the man proceeded to fill up balloons in his vehicle and inhale the contents repeatedly as police surrounded him. Eventually, officers swarmed the car and placed the man under arrest, but not before "whippit standoff" became a thing that exists. Happy Friday, everyone. [NBCLA]

Mike Bertha @ 2:48 PM  Permalink | 1 comment
POSTED: Friday, February 1, 2013, 1:33 PM

Have you ever secretly wondered which of your friends and co-workers would be interested in seeing you in a more, ahem, intimate situation, but were too nervous, shy, or concerned about the potentially negative consequences to do anything about it? Well, you're in luck because Bang With Professionals and Bang With Friends are coming to your rescue.

The apps allow you to select which of your Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections you would be DTF. Your selections are confidential, unless you and a friend or co-worker are mutually DTF, in which case you'll both get and email notifying you that it's on like Donkey Kong. The creators of Bang With Friends spoke with The Daily Beast about their monster site.

“We’ll be honest with you, we made this in two hours… with a lot of Red Bull and vodka … and it took off on its own,” one of the creators said. “What we’re working on right now is building sexual preferences. I personally am completely towards gay rights. We want to give everyone this awesome access to finding people who want to bang.”

Mike Bertha @ 1:33 PM  Permalink | 3 comments
POSTED: Friday, February 1, 2013, 11:36 AM
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Hall of Fame basketballer and accomplished thespian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has finally weighed in on the HBO series Girls (for The Huffington Post), rendering all other opinions of the show entirely irrelevant. America's greatest television critic and "star" of the "Hi Mom" episode of 21 Jump Street back in 1990 goes out on a limb and rips into Dunham's show for its attempt to diversify the show in Season 2.

He writes (probably with a caligraphy pen because he's fancy and well-trained in all forms of art):

This season that white ghetto was breached by a black character who is introduced as some jungle fever lover, with just enough screen time to have sex and mutter a couple of lines about wanting more of a relationship. A black dildo would have sufficed and cost less.

Mike Bertha @ 11:36 AM  Permalink | 3 comments
POSTED: Friday, February 1, 2013, 8:55 AM
'Game of Thrones' returns for a third season this March. HBO recently released a behind the scenes video of the show's production. (Screenshot via YouTube)

Blistering cold, a perpetual blizzard, and only five hours of daylight—that's what the Game of Thrones folks have to work with while they're filming Season 3 in Iceland.

In this video released by HBO, the actors and creators gush about Iceland's beauty. They're using the Icelandic landscape as their 'place beyond the wall.' The actors actually have to huddle up for warmth between takes, there are actually icicles in their beards, and they're actually freezing their asses off. Art, folks—they're doing it. [Wired]


Mike Bertha @ 8:55 AM  Permalink | 1 comment
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