Books
Woman publishes books with text messages she send to her dead husband.
New Kurt Vonnegut short stories to be published.
Politics
Some anti-anti-gay marriage ads. Here and here.
TV
BBC releases the first Creative Commons TV show. YAY!
Completely Different Things
Uncomfortable plot summaries like (more at the link):
300: Gays kill blacks.
BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Peasant girl develops Stockholm Syndrome.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: Teenage serial killer destroys town in fit of semi-religious fervor.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: Deranged pedophile big-business industrialist tortures and mutilates young children.
CUJO: Family neglects to give family pet rabies shots, pays price.
DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: Aging sadist corrupts, endangers minor, facilitates murder, destroys superhero comic books for 30 years.
DOCTOR WHO: Elderly man serially abducts young women.
E.T.: Out-of-control pet causes mayhem, sadness.
FIGHT CLUB: Deranged sociopath guides yuppies to their deaths.
FIREFLY: In an analogue of the post-Civil War west, a white man on the losing side bosses around a black woman.
SERENITY: Men fight for possession of scantily clad mentally ill teenage girl.
GHOSTBUSTERS: Unemployed college professors destroy hotel with nuclear weapons.
GROUNDHOG DAY: Misanthropic creep exploits space/time anomaly to stalk coworker.
HAIR: Hippie dodges draft, dies ironically.
HARRY POTTER: Celebrity Jock thinks rules don’t apply to him, is right.
IRON MAN: Alcoholic rich white man with technology fetish goes vigilante.
JURASSIC PARK: Theme park’s grand opening pushed back.
KING KONG: Endangered animal stolen, shot.
LORD OF THE RINGS: Midget destroys stolen property.
LOVE ACTUALLY: Prime Minister risks war with United States over a sexy secretary.
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL: British comedy troupe inadvertently creates language lab for nerds.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Woman with gold-digging mother nags wealthy man into marriage.
SCHINDLER’S LIST: Wealthy industrialist expands not-for-profit ventures.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: Incompetent manipulated by several murderers, stumbles upon suspect completely by accident. Creates situation that allows serial killer to escape.
THE EXORCIST: Jesus trumps science.
THE FIRM: White lawyer learns hard work is irrelevant.
THE MATRIX: Hacker is given perfect justification for mass slaughter.
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: Dangerous insurgent invades neighboring country.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: Mel Gibson fulfills fantasy of showing a Jew beaten to a bloody pulp and killed on-screen.
TITANIC: Crazy old widow disregards lifelong memories of husband, children, and grandchildren in favor of that one time she fucked a bum.
TRAINSPOTTING: Statutory rapist and junkie sifts through human waste, gets enormous sum of money.
TWILIGHT: Girl gives up college for stalker.
BREAKING DAWN: Native American guy is romantically obsessed with ex-girlfriend’s baby.
WALL-E: Obsolete robot disrupts big business, disrupts lives of millions of innocent civilians.
WATCHMEN: Homosexual destroys New York, blames God.
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I can’t wait for the XKCD book.
And I heart Blueberry Girl.
And have you seen the NOM parody with Alicia Silverstone and George Takei? Gay-repellant umbrellas!!! http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6eddb255b2/a-gaythering-storm
And…and…and…
Oh, right…what I wanted to say: Great list :)
I can’t wait for the book either. And Blueberry Girl is wonderful.
And the NOM parody was one of the videos I linked to. ;)
Okay…I take back the link – you can delete it. My preview-thingie was showing me the wrong site ^^
But it’s my new goal in life to use “gay-repellant umbrella” in a sentence. Maybe in combination with a Batman reference.
Don’t worry about it. It happens… But it’s nice to hear that somebody actually uses snap like I do. Because sometimes it really gets on my nerves and I think about disabling it… :)
Hmm, like when you’re listening to the radio and Gloria Gaynor comes on. “Quick, Robin! The gay-repellant umbrella! Lest we start fondling each other!”
Gay-repellant bat-umbrella!!!
Okay…I *really* need to get this out of my system ^^
But why? There can never be enough Batman references in the world… :)
The plot summaries are hilarious! I love the ones for Batman and LotR.
Yeah, me too. Absolutely awesome.
Peasant girl develops Stockholm Syndrome. *gg* great.
Definitely. And I never thought about it that way, although it really is obvious…
haha, love the anti-anti-gay marriage ads! “oh god a storm is here!” … “do you work out?” – lol!
“it’ll be choreographed” :D
and the uncomfortable plot summaries are awesome!
“It’ll be choreographed. It’ll be good.” *gg*
Oh yes, they are.
by the way, a spoiler warning for breaking dawn would have been nice… not that i didn’t expect it (am now in the middle) but i still had a faint hope that it might not actually be as bad and predictable as i was dreading, which is now lost…
I agree with b.
I just finished New Moon, so I didn’t expect anything. But the way things seem to go in the Twilight Saga is really disturbing. And you said, the most lowbrow book you’ve ever read ist The Da Vinci Code? Seriously?
I followed the link and found an uncomfortable plot summary of AMERICAN HISTORY X: Right-wing militant changes views after homosexual experience.
I’m sorry about the spoiler, you guys – I wasn’t thinking about that.
@b:
Never underestimate the badness of Twilight. Never ever.
@abstrakt:
At least the Twilight books don’t pretend to be anything more than they are. The Da Vinci Code is so full of itself – it really thinks it’s a good book. That’s why it’s the most lowbrow. ;)
The American History X one’s good as well.
… I thought the anti-anti-gay-marriage ads not so great. They were well acted, had nice special effects and really resembled the original ads… but the script just sucked. Could have been funnier.
Btw, do you know “Prop. 8 the musical” starring Jack Black ( “Shrimp cocktail is abomination”) ?
Of course I know Prop 8 the Musical. It’s absolutely awesome.
I also liked it better than the NOM parodies but that doesn’t make the NOM parodies less funny in my book.