The Machinery of Night

Posted 5:39 PM by Angie Schultz

Going Out With a Bang

Hunter S. Thompson took his last ride over the weekend:

With a deafening boom, the ashes of Hunter S. Thompson were blown into the sky amid fireworks late Saturday as relatives and a star-studded crowd bid an irreverent farewell to the founder of "gonzo journalism."

As the ashes erupted from a tower, red, white, blue and green fireworks lit up the sky over Thompson's mountain home in Woody Creek near Aspen, Colorado.

The 15-storey tower was modeled after Thompson's personal logo: a clenched fist rising from the hilt of a dagger.

Uh, guys? That's not a fist. I mean, it's supposed to be a fist, on top there, but it looks more like, um... Anyway, I'm sure Thompson would be proud of it.

Here it is looking more like a fist, but also more like the Eye of Sauron (compare). I think the green thing is supposed to be a peyote button.

Now here are the sort of trappings you need at any funeral: blow up dolls!

Entire circus brought to you by the letters L, S, and D, and the tasteless, disgusting, hilarious wretches at Huffington's Toast.

Posted 9:01 AM by Angie Schultz

Attack of the Clonus

Unchain the lawyers!

A couple months ago, I wrote about a new movie, The Island, and its startling resemblance to an old movie, Parts: The Clonus Horror.

Last month, I posted an update noting that there was a movement on to give the writers of Clonus credit (*cough*) for The Island.

Now we see that the producers of Clonus are suing DreamWorks. They're asking the court to withdraw the movie from theaters, and they want part of the proceeds (which stand now at a whopping minus sixty-five million dollars, so they may want to reconsider that).

The SciFi article also noted a review in Premiere magazine:

...the first hour of The Island plays like a much more expensive albeit scene-for-scene remake [of Clonus]. How this picture went through all of its phases of development and production without a single human being pointing out the rather uncanny plot similarities between the two pictures is something that, thanks to the good graces no doubt of the legal departments at Warner's and Dreamworks, we shall surely never, ever learn.

Muahahaha! Or perhaps we shall!

Reported by Special Correspondent Jack at Captain Yips Secret Journal, who's one of the last two people still reading this blog (I'm the other one).