• Scanner brings us the bizarre, the beautiful, and the Chuck Norris. Starting with the bizarre, we’ve got the latest in Britney Spears propaganda (she wants you to make her next video!); “The Bizarre, Obscene, and Disturbing Hidden Images in Leonardo da Vinci’s Sacred Art” as well as the incredibly long headlines in Italian newspapers; and the real reason R. Kelly’s publicist quit. No, not because he dates teenage girls. Because he was dating her teenage girl.
Onto the beautiful…Funny or Die imagines a world where the Writer’s Strike forces actual actors to perform scenes from reality TV. See a scene from The Hills, James Franco- and Mila Kunis-style. And somewhere between bizarre and beautiful: Kansas State’s Bill Walker takes a piss in a towel, mid-game. All the world’s his urinal…
And the truth about Chuck Norris is revealed. A sample: Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Ever. But he has done things to cobras and vaginas we mere mortals can only dream about…
• In honor of director Julian Schnabel, who's caused quite a stir in France with his latest, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Screengrab decides to take five…as in, the top five films that deal with the betrayal of the body as a theme. Can the human form become a cage for the soul? You know, just a nice light thought to start out the weekend.
If you can’t handle that, I’m afraid to tell you about the YouTube Fight Club, and that Edward Norton is trying (again) for comedy; he’ll be directing himself, playing twins who get in trouble with “murderous potheads.” Yep, funny!
• And the Hooksexup Video Blog celebrates the return of Futurama, as well as large lady rappers who like gold spandex jumpers and the DQ. “How We Go Out” is the perfect jam for Friday night pre-parties; I bet even murderous potheads will like it, too. And this is how we go out…
— Nicole Ankowski