The iTunes Music Store is finally available in Mexico. Apple says American users should stay clear of the Mexican version, unless they want their computer to get diarrhea.

Nicolas Cage owes 6.2 million dollars to the IRS. I guess there is a new tax on shitty movies. 

The Arena Football League may soon have to shut down due to a lack of interest. You can read all about it in this week's "Stuff You Thought Already Happened".

CNN's 'Showbiz Tonight' has named Octomom the most controversial celebrity mom. In a related story Wolf Blitzer has named 'Showbiz Tonight' the most embarrassing thing on CNN.

I hope no one noticed me taking this picture.

New Yorkers will tell you that subway graffiti is not uncommon, in particlar on the subway. Even in more particular is the practice of drawing a penis next to someone’s mouth. My pal Nasry even has a joke about how he is afraid to have his own TV show because it will inevitably lead to penises being drawn next to his face. (So far so good!)

But in this case I have to take exception. This girl doesn’t deserve this. I could understand if it was some skanky Bravo reality show about cutting hair or real housewives or “The Cougar”* which seem to fill the subway. Those ads cry out for penis drawings. This is a young lady trying to better herself by getting an education. She’s stuck with a shitty sounding book too: Fields of Reading. If reading Catcher in the Rye is the equivalent of finding a million dollars in a suitcase, Fields of Reading sounds like the equivalent of well… having a dick drawn on your face.

Plus, not to pile on here but it’s Queens College, it’s not like she is at MIT and needs to be taken down a peg. Does this guy (shot in the dark it is a male) really feel like he has to publicly shame her just for taking any form of initiative in her life? “Yeah whatever with your reading and classes, this is all the thing attached to your neck is for.”

Also, is this hovering, unattached penis supposed to be his? It appears to be either flaccid, tiny or both. I guess good art is supposed to generate discussion.

I know, I haven’t touched on the buckteeth or the mustache, because the penis really is the main point of the graffiti, in the same way bacon is the main point of a BLT. But it does once again compound the confusion if the artist is suggesting that is his penis. Why is the penis interested in a woman with facial hair and horrible teeth?

I just hope this doesn’t discourage young New York women from following their dreams, for fear that it will surely only lead to a man forcibly sodomizing their mouths while they try to do some homework under an Elm. Women, if you are reading this allow me to assure you that only happens like half of the time.

Now if you’ll excuse me, all I can think about is eating a BLT.

-Mike

*Has anyone told self-proclaimed cougars that the term more or less means old slut? That’s how I use it anyway. They should really be aiming for the classification of hot chick, without any age-related sub category.

Heath Ledger won the Oscar for his performance as the Joker at last night's Academy Award ceremonies, beating out Robert Downey Jr. among others. Even though this proves that Ledger was the superior actor Downey remains the superior drug-taker.

Now the idea of a evil bank sounds like it might be a little complicated and over the heads of the average movie-goer so the trailer makes sure to make in nice and easy for everyone to understand. Oh did I say that they make it easy to understand? I meant to say they made it fucking stupid. What is with me today?

The trailer starts with a person using an ATM:
 

Then the following cryptic message, meant to pull you into the exciting world of banking:



 

Whoa. Something else? Something else? Other than what? They don’t say. Normal bank stuff I guess. Okay, you have me hooked trailer, this bank is up to no good. You even have the guy from Children of Men involved. But now you better bring the thunder so I know you just how high the stakes are:

HOLY SHIT! HANG ON! NO WAY! Is he going to push the murder button on the ATM? He better not! HE BETTER NOT! This movie is fucking crazy! It looks like the screen says something like “Believing in A Better Tomorrow” but this bank doesn’t do that. They have ATMs that murder people somehow! ADMs is more like it! This bank is bad motha flippin news! My bank just tries to scam me into a bullshit credit protection service and gives me free pens that don’t work that well. These guys murder from touch screens!

The extortion and corruption are even scarier because I have no idea how they would work. I mean I’ve been extorted by an ATM before but it was in a bodega or a strip club, not an actual bank. ($2.75 my ass!) I guess for the extortion you have to bring your victim to another ATM. Corruption would be a little harder though, I imagine there is a lot of face time & paper work required to pull off something like that.

This is clearly a movie meant for the summer blockbuster season, not February. Boy are the movie studios faces gonna be red when they realize their mistake!

This almost reminds me of another trailer I saw for a movie about an evil fast food chain:  

That number 5 will go straight to your hips!

A new poll finds that 64 percent of Republicans want to see Governor Sara Palin make a run for the White House in 2012, putting them on the same page as 100 percent of Democrats, joke-writers and metaphorical glass ceiling repairmen.