I know this is a bit old, but I’ve been on a Bill Maher and Michael Moore kick this week to cleanse my soul after having been subjected to months of local soul putrifying Conservative hate mongering. I found this while I was Youtube walking through Atheist Experience videos (love those guys, and no, I am not an Atheist) and couldn’t agree more with what’s being said:

Thank you! Terrorism shouldn’t control our lives and it really does, even 10 years after the September 11th attacks on the World trade Center. I’m still hearing about how the Jews (my people, ethnically speaking) are responsible, or it was an inside job, or Islam is a religion of hate (just shut up about that). We have to learn to get on with our lives and not let this change us fundamentally or allow our liberties and freedoms to be taken from us because some ass munch declares marshal law.

Tagged with: Bill Maher • Conservative Hate Speech • Islam • Liberal • Michael Moore • Religion • September 11th • Terrorist Attacks

Posted by Faith on at 8:08 pm

2 O’clock in the a.m. and I’m chatting with Josh on twitter. It seems that since he has no photo and a weird username some girl has mistaken him for a real celebrity, and we can’t stop giggling about it.

I see my friends and co-workers tweets go by, the occasional from Simon Pegg, Nathan Fillion, Stephen Fry (and other random celebrities I don’t know but who have great tweets), and then all of the sudden I see it – trending: Christian Slater.

Of course my first reaction was to think, “Great! Christian is trending because of his newest project, it’s about time he trended!” but then something else caught my eye. The name trending right below Slaters was John Barry, the inspired composer behind the 007 themes as well as Born Free who passed on yesterday (I believe). That’s when I started to think, “Well, maybe it’s not such good news?”

I clicked my handy dandy Google shortcut and started to type Christian’s name into the box, but the automatic suggestion was, “Christian Slater Dead” — how do you not freak out when you see something like that?

Let me say that much like all other celebrities, I don’t know Christian Slater. I don’t know his family, his friends, I’ve met him once and gotten an autograph… in the 90s. No, this isn’t a post about how I’m an old lady, lol. But I don’t know him, so when I hit submit and saw that the top news story was that of his demise, I shouldn’t have freaked out but I did.

I’ve been a fan of his since I can remember, the first film I could quote with a sarcastic twinge to my voice was Heathers, so Christian (much like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp) was an iconic part of my child and teen-hood. The news of his death was tragic, it was horrible, it was… obviously not true.

Being the Faith that I am I did a little digging after my momentary heart failure, and I found such little clues like only a date of death on Wikipedia (no clean up snippet saying that this is an article on someone who’s recently died) along with several misspellings, and that the only ‘official’ news was hearsay on a blog. None of the major news outlets were publishing such a potentially massive story. (Eventually his publicist killed the rumour, too.)

And there was a good reason for that — it was a hoax. Why the hell the internet thinks it’s hilarious to tell people that celebrities die in fatal snow boarding accidents 10 at a time is beyond me, but now they aren’t even trying. If someone like me can figure it out in 5 seconds, with my 2 month old chimp I.Q.? Anyone can. If you’re going to take the time to make something this horrible up, at least do some leg work first. And you might want to get a spellchecker.

Tagged with: Christian Slater Death Hoax • Christian Slater is Alive • Christian Slater is Dead • Hoaxes • Twitter

Posted by Faith on at 1:35 pm

As you’ve likely heard by now, Disney is helping itself to yet another one of Walt’s masterpieces in order to make a little money, but for once it doesn’t seem like such a bad deal. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was a huge, even iconic part of Fantasia which has been turned into a live action film starring Jay Baruchel and Nick Cage (love both), and the trailers actually look pretty decent, as does this poster:

I don’t know what I think yet, but I know I want to see it. You?

Tagged with: Jay Baruchel

Posted by Faith on at 12:03 am

Have I mentioned that I’m technically, even literally in love with comedian/actor Patton Oswalt? No, not because he’s gorgeous – which he is – but because I end up agreeing with 90 percent of everything he says, and what I don’t is so funny that it doesn’t manage to offend me.

You HAVE to listen to this, this video is basically just audio with a little cartoon but it’s his take on that awful Christmas Shoes country song I’ve got to kill:

Tagged with: Christmas • Patton Oswalt

Posted by Faith on at 12:10 am