You can turn your Internet off for the rest of the day. This is the best it's going to do. You know, it doesn't take much sometimes. For all of the anxieties and frustrations of modern life, occasionally, finding some... CONTINUE READING EVENING NEWS REPORTER MENACED BY HORRIFYING MONSTER»
Posted on October 22, 2009 in Bloopers, Local News, Love-Watching
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Tags: Australia | Birds | The Flaming Lips
You probably already saw this clip since it was everywhere yesterday, and I promise never to ever be on an airplane again* so that you do not have to suffer the indignity of seeing something posted a few hours later... CONTINUE READING HARRY CONNICK JR. + AUSTRALIAN BLACKFACE = ERACISM»
Posted on October 8, 2009 in Awkward Live TV
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Tags: Australia | Blackface | Eracism | Harry Connick Jr. | Hey Hey It's Saturday | Jackson Jive | Michael Jackson | Racism
There was a shooting at a nightclub in Sydney on Sunday, and the local news interviewed bystanders. And that was how Australia, and now the world, was introduced to Clare, a young lady who witnessed the non-fatal shooting and stepped... CONTINUE READING MEET CLARE THE RACIST AUSTRALIAN INTERNET CELEBRITY»
Posted on May 20, 2009 in Local News
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Tags: Australia | Internet Stars | Racism
Mad Men's second season is coming to Australia, and they're advertising it sneakily with this fake commercial for a pots and pans company that is sure to send modern ladies rushing to the website to complain. Now your husbands meals... CONTINUE READING MAD MEN'S FAKE SEXIST COMMERCIAL»
Posted on April 30, 2009 in Commercials, Pranks And Stunts
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Tags: Australia | Jon Hamm | Mad Men | Sexism
The Reverend "Die Already!" Fred Phelps is rejoicing in the Lord's destruction-by-fire of property and human lives in Australia for the crime of, no shit, having birthed Heath Ledger, who played a gay character in a movie before he died.... CONTINUE READING GREAT, NOW AUSTRALIA KNOWS FRED PHELPS EXISTS»
Posted on February 20, 2009 in Animals On Film, Local News
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Tags: Australia | Fred Phelps
A sweet cute-animal video has emerged from Australia's devastating bush fires this week. When a firefighter stumbles upon an injured wild koala, she sticks around and lets him give her three bottles of water: Aww. ... CONTINUE READING KOALAS ARE THE NEW PANDAS»
Posted on February 11, 2009 in Animals On Film, Cute As Balls
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Tags: Australia | Koalas
Aboriginal groups are mad at Nicole Kidman for playing a didgeridoo on a TV talk show, because, as a woman, she's not supposed to and it denigrates their culture. Sure, whatever, but this is what the official spokesguy said: "I... CONTINUE READING NICOLE KIDMAN'S WOMB NOW OFFICIALLY CURSED»
Posted on December 15, 2008 in Celebrity Gossip!
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Tags: Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Hugh Jackman | Nicole Kidman
Let's look in the mirror and be honest with ourselves, HBO. Things haven't been so great since the Sopranos ended. Even the fifth season of The Wire was butt. And do not pretend like you've still got some kind of... CONTINUE READING HBO'S NEW SHOW SUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD»
Posted on October 17, 2008 in What America Wants
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Tags: Australia | Chris Lilley | HBO | Summer Heights High
Baz Luhrmann directed an advertisement for Australian tourism (via Defamer) and whoops, Australia, this is your new tourism ad: "Australia, only go there if you're so fucking miserable that your life is about to fall apart." "Australia, we have enslaved... CONTINUE READING BAZ LUHRMANN HATES AUSTRALIA»
Posted on October 8, 2008 in Free Advertising
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Tags: Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Coachella | Liars
Harry Potter fans aren't the only ones who have to suffer the INCREDIBLE DISREGARD of Hollywood. Now that Warner Bros. has callously pushed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince back 8 months (let's all kill ourselves), FOX is showing the... CONTINUE READING HEY, WHERE IS THE AUSTRALIA PUSH BACK DATE OUTRAGE?»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in Backlashes
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Tags: Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince | Hugh Jackman | Nicole Kidman
We've been avoiding the Shia LaBeouf car crashtroversy this week for a few reasons: It's celebrity gossip, so BARF The accidents we cover are trampoline accidents Transformers sucked As we know now, of course, Shia has been charged with misdemeanor... CONTINUE READING IF WE'VE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM SHIA LABEOUF'S ACCIDENT, IT'S THAT AUSTRALIA IS AMAZING»
Posted on July 30, 2008 in Celebrity Gossip!
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Tags: Australia | Isabel Lucas | Justice | Shia LaBeouf | Transformers 2
The trailer for Baz Luhrman's Australia, guys: I'm pretty sure Nicole Kidman died before filming was completed on this and had to be CGI-d in for the narration sequences. Either that, or she saw an episode of The Hills and... CONTINUE READING NICOLE KIDMAN'S LATEST ROLE WAS CREATED BY LUCASFILM'S INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC»
Posted on May 19, 2008 in Trailer
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Tags: Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Hugh Jackman | Nicole Kidman | The Plastics
The Terminator trudged along the wooded path towards the lake, his gun dangling by his side, the taunts still ringing in his hypersensitive bionic ears. He stared at the ground as he walked, and didn't even bother scanning anything with...
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Do you ever eat foods that you know you don't like, just to remind yourself why you don't like them? I think that's a good thing to do sometimes! The worst case scenario is that you might momentarily have a...
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Last weekend, something strange happened. Some of the Videogum Monsters created their own secret, password-protected chat room. In 2009! Incredible! I suppose every monster has his cave, or whatever. As it turned out, though, we already had a Videogum Chat...
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The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
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I went to see Where the Wild Things Are on Saturday, but it was sold out. Ay-ay-ay. That was a surprise! I mean, anticipation for this movie seemed pretty high, but anticipation for lots of movies seems high, especially when...
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