USA Today reports that Rourke will play a character known as the Gay Crusader. It will gay the gay gay:
In Iron Gay 2, the scarlet and golden-metaled hero must face an adversary with some amazing gaygets of his own. The Gay Crusader sports a power gay on his chest that looks gay to the gay that Gay Man (Robert Downey Jr.) uses.
"The technologies are definitely related," says director Jon Favreau. "That's part of the gay theme of the film."
Me, I'm gonna side with the Internet. I've never been more ashamed of being Swedish than today. Just kidding! Or am I?
As you've probably heard, SUPERBLOG!! heroes The Pirate Bay Boyos were convicted today. All four of them, weirdly. Carl Lundström may not be a very nice guy but I listened to the entire two-week trial and it seemed obvious that he has almost nothing to do with TPB. But Lundström is a multi-millionaire so, unlike the rest of them, he could conceivably pay the damages. Could that have something to do with the verdict? Nooo, of course not.
The damages, yeah. 30 million SEK. That's for running a website that facilitated other, unspecified people's file-sharing of a handful of movies, games, and music files. By way of comparison, 30 million SEK is a hundred times the record amount ever awarded a rape victim in Sweden. Oh, and they got one year each in prison.
Of course, this will be appealed to a higher court, and then probably appealed again, to the Swedish Supreme Court. And by the time this case is resolved once and for all, file-sharing will be obsolete and we will all have information automatically BEAMED INTO OUR BRAINS.
But right now, Peter Sunde is our Rosa Parks!
Alright! It's a new year* and it couldn't have started better - Popeye just entered the public domain!:
Elzie Segar, the Illinois artist who created Popeye, his love interest Olive Oyl and nemesis Bluto, died aged 43 in 1938 and an EU law that protects the rights of authors for 70 years after their death is about to end.
The copyright expiry means that, from Thursday, anyone can print and sell Popeye posters, T-shirts and even create new comic strips, without the need for authorisation or to make royalty payments, the Times reports.
Free Popeye money, bitch! But the trademark is still active so we can't sell stuff using the name "Popeye" or his likeness. So let's call him Snopp-Pie instead! If we can't be fren's we'll be emenies!
*2009
No changes in his condition have been reported since yesterday.
Ingmar Bergman, probably one of Sweden's top five movie directors of all time, was killed today by a huge explosion. Police suspect terror. Bergman was famous for making movies. With his great and nefarious talent, he touched many genres. In a 1994 interview with SUPERBLOG!!, Bergman said, "Today we kill, tomorrow we die." Ingmar teh Bergman (as he was known to his friends) spent the last couple of years of his life on his private island Fårö (NOT "Faro", as some media outlets have reported. Faro is a dirty word in Swedish). Bergman had just celebrated his 95th birthday (or something) when the explosion exploded, so he had a long and full life. But still.
In loving memory of Ingmar teh Bergman, here is SUPERBLOG!!'s Site of the Day: Famousr: Who Is More Famous? I'm currently on third place in the daily high scores. Can you beat me? No way.
If you are the kind of person who loves or hates or doesn't give a shit about Garfield, you need to read this blog post from Flog and click each and every link. It will expand your mind and torso. (The above strip was plucked from Farfield.)
But wait! There's more:
SUPERBLOG!! Scientific Discovery of the Day: Finally we can dump this stupid planet.
SUPERBLOG!! Breaking News: Michael Keaton is still Batman! He never stopped being Batman! He'll always be Batman!
All appearances to the contrary. These shocking news come to us courtesy of our friendly friends at Blogger (You know, that blog service that never seems to work nowadays):
Hello,
Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
No problem, boys. Now, if you could just fix all your crappy servers that crap out all the time, that would be great. Thanks in advance.
