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| 04-28-2005 Norway First woman convicted of rape in a Norwegian court. That guy is a wussy! If that was me I would be embarrassed to go to court and look like such a wuss. Rest of the story here. |
| 02-28-2005 Moscow A man breaks in to a porn shop and steals a blow up doll and some lingerie. Below is a sketch of the suspect. Here is the official story. |
| 04-23-2005 Berlin Exploding toads baffle German experts. Hundreds of toads have met a bizarre and sinister end in Germany in recent days, it was reported: they exploded. According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre (three feet). But we all know what is really going on. Our favorite fartknockers have been spotted in Germany (see the pic. below) leaving in their wake toad death and destruction. Read the official news report here. Yes this is a true story! Mostly |
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| Interview continued from home page MJ: But I think if I do another Beavis And Butt-Head movie, I'd get final cut on it. Q: Is that project still a possibility? MJ: It was for a while. I had renewed interest in it a couple of years ago, and then MTV released a DVD that was completely unauthorized, that they didn't tell me about, and basically broke a contract with me by releasing it, so I said no Beavis And Butt-Head movie. We're just starting to work it out now. Q: Did you not want that material out there, or was the problem just that they didn't consult you before doing it? MJ: There are a couple things. There's a DVD they put out called The History Of Beavis And Butt-Head, and it was all the episodes that I didn't pick for the home-video series. So it was basically all the worst episodes, with some exceptions. With that title, it appeared to be a definitive collection. And I'm thinking about my kids and their friends, if they ever ask, "What did your dad do?" I had absolute approval rights, and they just blatantly did this without telling me. I still don't understand why it happened. It wasn't like somebody had been fired and somebody new was there: These were the people I'd been working with since '93. But I got them to recall a lot of them. Q: What has your relationship with Fox been like? Have you been happy with the King Of The Hill DVD sets? MJ: Yeah. I mean, I still cringe at a lot of those episodes, but it's been pretty good, I think. With these, I know which episodes they're putting on there, but with Beavis And Butt-Head—you know, they cut the videos, and they cut the word "fire" out of all of them. They cut stuff I didn't even know was in there. So I'm looking at this episode that makes no sense, that's like 90 seconds long, and it says "Written by Mike Judge." It drives me crazy. Q: Speaking of the "fire" controversy, you've taken criticism for some of the messages in your work, and obviously you've been censored. Do you think there's such a thing as unsafe comedy? Are there things that kids need to be protected from? MJ: It's up to the parents, I think. My daughter chewed me out a few years ago, because her friends were watching Office Space and we wouldn't let her watch it. She was 10 at the time. We ended up letting her watch the Comedy Central version, which has stuff bleeped out. I don't think the government should come in and say that all books, movies, and so on should be kid-friendly. You've got to have stuff for adults—you can't have the whole country watching Barney. Once you make that distinction, you can't go blame the person who made this stuff that's for grown-ups, because "My kid saw it and it's your fault." That's kind of ridiculous. Q: You mentioned that you're working on a movie now. Is that 3001? MJ: Yeah, although I'm not going to call it that. It's set more like 400 years in the future. There have been so many movies about people being frozen and waking up in the future. This is mine. Apparently, a bunch of Futurama nerds are pissed off, because that's the year in which that show is set. You know, neither of us invented guys getting frozen and waking up in the future. But I didn't mean to set it in 3001 anyway—that was just a placeholder title. Q: What's the movie's current status? MJ: We started shooting right in the beginning of May, in Austin. The basic premise is that most science fiction shows the future as being more civilized or more intelligent, and that's just not the way we're headed. Like, if someone made a movie in the late '50s about the year 2004, it probably wouldn't have had The Maury Povich Show, and gangs, and whatever. So this starts out as a documentary about how the people who are reproducing the fastest are guys who are too lazy to put on a rubber, and lots of highly educated people are waiting until they're 40 to have a kid, and then having one or none. It's kind of a sleeper movie about how, 400 or 500 years from now, a guy who's your average dumbass today is the smartest person in the world. Q: Did you learn anything from doing Office Space that's going to affect how you work on this movie? MJ: I should have learned not to write so many characters, because this one has 65 characters, and that makes the casting process really tough. I learned a lot on Office Space, though some of the things are hard to describe. You can get a feel for watching someone read during auditions and knowing how they're going to act in front of the camera. Mostly, it's just production-design stuff. It sounds corny, but I feel like I'm learning stuff all the time. |
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