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everything has a fansite: Martin Scorsese’s Eybrows’ edition

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Martin Scorcese's eyebrowsHaven’t I told you, many a time, that everything on Earth, no matter how sordid, obscure, or meaningless, has a fansite?

Oh yes I did, and here is the proof: a fansite devoted entirely to the poetical expression of the attraction/repulsion principle as it relates to Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese’s eyebrows.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog are proud to present Nosebleed Ridge. via Defamer.

The Getaway

I scream in my sleep
Martin Scorsese’s eyebrows are chasing me
across LA
I carry a tired cardboard suitcase stuffed
full of my old writings
novels and screenplays
and scraps of ideas
jotted onto bar napkins
crowding away the
phone numbers
of lovers gotten
and forgotten
notes for unwritten books
spill as I run
Martin Scorsese’s eyebrows are chasing me
across LA

Discuss.

halloween costume of the year

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Alex P. Keaton and his dream dateThere was a lot of competition for this year’s top spot. The Malcolm Gladwell, being Canadian, enjoyed home team advantage, as did the Alex P. Keaton. The Tara Reid, we imagine, was popular with a certain set (an unmatched, lopsided set), and looking around the Downtown Eastside it seemed clear to me that the most popular costumes by far were the Novelty Whore and the Hipster. Unfortunately, as this is the Downtown EastSide, nobody looked as if they were in costume; everyone here dresses like an extra from Hedwig and the Angry Inch anyway. Boys, if you’re dressed like Bing Crosby, you’re not in costume. Girls, if you’re dressed like the girl in a Benny Hill sketch and you’re on East Hastings, you’re not in costume, you’re in mufti (muff-ti?). But it certainly was amusing to watch the confused looks on all those women’s faces when the guys in the cars would try to strike a deal. That’ll teach you to wait for the light at Cordova and Columbia, missy!

But finally, we have a winner. Here, via BoingBoing, is the bestest little Halloween costume ever.

a tadpole of the Elder Gods

calling all bigots: new reality show casting call

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Bigot-SaruIt’s great to see reality shows getting away from covering bumbling, nanocephalic heiresses, curdled, past-their-sell-by-date rock stars, or gospel-trained yet soulless MOR singers and covering…well…you know…

reality.

From Craigslist, via Gawker

Do you get nervous when you see a Muslim on an airplane? Have your opinions about Muslims changed since September 11? Do you have family or friends that get nervous around Muslims?

A NEW CBS SHOW SEEKS New York families who have traditional family values but are uneasy around Muslims.

Got to love the postscript: This is not a home makeover show. What would people have expected? “Watch as Cletus and Jolene slowly realize that the price of their new indoor pool is a mosque in the carport!”

Now that I would watch.

Vicarious Halloween Vid

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Stolen from Gawker. Not as much fun as my Halloween,  but theirs apparently doesn’t take several days of bed rest afterwards.

Gawker cover’s an event that needs no introduction, the Greenwich Village Halloween Day Parade. Watch as “hundreds of artists, 53 bands of different types of music, dancers and artists, and thousands of other New Yorkers in costumes of their own creation” take to the streets to celebrate this year’s theme “The Village Hearth.” If you’ve never been then this is a definite must-go event at least once in your life.

Ann Coulter, 45-and-counting, violated, awaiting probe

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Can I write an incendiary headline or, like, what, eh?

Ann Coulter, gag me with a spoon!

Everybody’s favorite right-wing harpy Ann Coulter, 45, appears to have voted fraudulently in the last federal election. An investigation has begun, with which she has stated she will not cooperate. Is it too much to ask that she be jailed for contempt of court? Contempt for the democratic processs and the ideals of the American Republic doesn’t appear to be jailworthy any more…

From the Palm Beach Post via Gawker

An alleged voting violation by GOP pundit and bestselling author Ann Coulter will be investigated by Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer‘s office.

Arthur Anderson, Palm Beach County‘s elections supervisor, said today that he would refer the accusation that Coulter voted knowingly in the wrong precinct Feb. 7 in a town of Palm Beach election to the state attorney “within 48 hours.”

Anderson said that Coulter, since the allegations surfaced, made “efforts to distract and divert focus on the process regarding this complaint.”