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Thursday, February 9, 2012
$$$ / Busey! Gary Busey Files for "Butt-horn!"—I Mean, "Bankruptcy"
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Guys! Gary Busey is filing for bankruptcy! From the AP:
The actor and reality show star does not state a reason for the filing. His manager Ron Sampson wrote in a statement the filing provides Busey "a new and clear path" to personal and career success.The filing states the 67-year-old has less than $50,000 in assets.
I have no reason for blogging about this other than to repost this video... AND RE-POST IT I SHALL!
That scene is worth more than all the gold doubloons in the world.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Busey! / TV Last Night's Celebrity Wife Swap: Busey vs. Haggard!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:59 PM
In case you missed it, last night marked a milestone in television history: nutbag actor Gary Busey and disgraced meth-head/male prostitute patronizer Rev. Ted Haggard participated in ABC's Celebrity Wife Swap! And while it did not reach the dizzying heights of the greatest episode ever of Trading Spouses, this episode was suitably freaky. Here's a quick clip-fest of the best/cringe-iest moments!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Busey! / Politics BUSEY BEAT: Gary Busey Stumps for Trump!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Gary Busey—who, incidentally just got kicked off of Celebrity Apprentice—is officially announcing his support for Donald Trump becoming the next president of the USA! And before you say, "Well, that's just about the worst news Donald is going to hear today," Busey does a pretty good job of holding it together in this video—that is, until the last 15 batshit crazy seconds. Nice try, though!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Busey! Gary Busey Overacts a Bit Here...
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM
...and yet? REMAINS HILARIOUS. This is a two-minute long commercial for VitaminWater—which doesn't even show up until the last 15 seconds, because Gary Busey will not be fucked with or patronized!! GARY... MOTHER... EFFING... BUSEY!!! OVER... ACTING!!! YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Busey! / Artsy Vote for TriMet's Poetry in Motion Poems
Posted by Alison Hallett on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:48 PM
(I'M DOING A POETRY POST, SUCK IT STEVE.)
Literary Arts just announced that they'll be adding thousands of new poems to TriMet buses in April, and there's a survey on their website where you can vote for the poems you'd like to see added. I find Poetry in Motion very conflicting because while I wholeheartedly agree with it in principle, in practice some of the poems drive me fucking nuts—I think because they seem selected for maximum pithiness, so even excerpts from great poems end up feeling trite and Hallmark card-y. So it's all about picking poems that seem least likely to induce bus-rage, even the 4695th time you read them.
Like "Palm Tree," by Jorge Carrera Andrade:
More than a tree, architecture
borne by sun and wind,
the palm is a column
of the sky's arched window.
That's pretty, and it'll be in Spanish, too—I'm voting a straight bilingual ticket. Take the survey here.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Busey! / News The Best of the 9/11 "Truthers" Hate Mail
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- Charlie Sheen knows what happened on 9/11... BECAUSE HE WAS THERE!
Yesterday all I wanted to do was just make fun of Charlie Sheen and 9/11 "Truthers," but it turns out that both respective camps—well, at least the "Truthers"—do not take well to my lazy attempt at humor. So instead of my usual Wednesday work schedule of YouTube cat videos and fantasy baseball box scores, I've been forced to trudge through an epic pile of hate mail from grammatically challenged people who are just as devoted to uncovering what happened on September 11th, 2001 as they are to using the CAPS LOCK key.
Since none of their angry emails were able to convince me that our government is skilled enough to knock down buildings with green screens and the same soundstage they filmed the moon landing on, I've decided to comb through the crazy and present you with the best of the 9/11 "Truthers" hate mail.
Slide on your tinfoil hat and watch out for black helicopters, because the real truth is out there:
"ezra caraeff = DUSCHBAG!"- - -
"I'm sure it was unwittingly, (much like the rest of your un-interesting, un-original existence) but your journalistic ineptitude, was displayed like a Peacock mooning a black light, in your story regarding Charlie Sheen."
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"Your prose style blows." [This one really hurt because the author was writing from a journalist.com email address]
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"pathetic attempt to critisize the heroic effort of sheen. you ARE A MORON EZRA CARAEFF! VERY POOR."
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"Subject: Your fired
sorry but you suck so much. I think that your article on charlie sheen was a paid for smear and I hope you don't choke on the can of beans you buy with your money."
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Comedy / Busey! / News Charlie Sheen's 9/11 Conspiracy Interview with Obama
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- Charlie Sheen hard at work looking at a blank computer screen
Everyone knows that 9/11 was a Jew-run conspiracy covered up by the government, except Barack Obama. For some reason our president doesn't agree with this FACT, so enter hooker/coke/sitcom star Charlie Sheen, who has penned a (unintentionally hilarious) fictitious interview with our president where he sets the record straight on 9/11 once and for all. Feel free to read that last sentence again, since nothing about this makes any sense. Basically, Sheen's "interview" is like the "Penthouse Forum" of 9/11 fan fiction.
Here's just a little taste of an article that very well might make your head explode.
(the President rises from his chair , I do the same).CS — Mr. President! One more second!
(The President starts towards the door — I follow him quickly step for step).
CS — Mr. President, I implore you based on the evidence you now possess, to use your Executive Power. Prove to us all Sir, that you do, in fact, care. Create a truly comprehensive and open Congressional investigation of 9/11 and its aftermath. The families deserve the truth, the American people and the rest of the free world deserve the truth. Mr. President -
(He pauses. We shake hands).
CS — Make sure your on the right side of history.
(The President breaks the handshake).
Woah. Mr. President, you just got served by the dude from Two and a Half Men.
Link: Gawker
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Busey! Umm… Please Stop Calling Me "Butt-Horn"
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Here's another nominee for our first Blogtown Meet-Up Movie Night (in which we plunk down outside somewhere with some booze, lawn chairs and a projector/screen—stay tuned for details). It's 1988's Bulletproof starring Gary Busey—in which Gary Busey is like… umm… bulletproof, I guess. And he rescues a tank! And he calls people "butt-horn," like, a lot.
Got some Blogtown Meet-Up Movie Night suggestions (including locations)? Leave 'em in the comments below!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Busey! An Examination of Oscar-Winning Actor Nicolas Cage (Part 5 of 5)
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Last one. This one might be my favorite.
Annnnndddd....... scene.
(Did he just say "Dance of the Reindeer"?)
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Busey! An Examination of Oscar-Winning Actor Nicolas Cage (Part 4 of 5)
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:49 PM
And so on...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Busey! An Examination of Oscar-Winning Actor Nicolas Cage (Part 3 of 5)
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Hey, does anyone remember Birdy? That movie was great. Anyway, here's this:
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Busey! An Examination of Oscar-Winning Actor Nicolas Cage (Part 2 of 5)
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM
As promised, the series continues:
I suspect that Nic was allowed to write his own scripts for these.
Yet more to come.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Busey! An Examination of Oscar-Winning Actor Nicolas Cage (Part 1 of 5)
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:15 PM
If you've already seen these, can it. If you haven't yet... you're welcome.
There are four more of these Nicolas Cage Pachinko commercials; I'll post the rest of them over the course of this week.
I posted this under the "Busey" tab, because—well, it just feels right.
More (oh, so much more) to come!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Busey! A Perfect Example of Why This Recession Is Lasting So Effing Long
Posted by Unpaid Arts Intern on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM
posted by former CEO and now Arts Intern Matthew Vollono
Is there anything worse than media-types getting all weepy over the misfortunes of an ex-hedge fund manager now forced to deliver pizza because of the economy? (delivering pizza??? That’s the only job you could get?? Are you serious??)
News reports seeking out the most extreme examples of financial misfortune do nothing to instill confidence in the American public. In an economy thats 80% consumer driven, overblown, melodramatic news segments like these are exactly why people are afraid to spend money.
From ABC news service.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Games / Busey! Hi. I'm Nex And I'm A Peggle Addict.
Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM
*Obligatory "Hi Nex" (and one dude questioning my dumb name)*
My story isn't all that different from yours, I suppose. I started playing Peggle when it was released on the PC in 2007. At first it was just at parties, with friends. Some guy would say "Hey man, we're gonna do some lines and play Peggle. You want in?" and I'd be up to my nose in colorful pegs and bouncing metal balls.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Film / Busey! New Almodóvar Trailer. AND OSCARS LIVEBLOGGING.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Pedro Almodóvar is probably the only dude who can get away with making a 30-second-long trailer with no hints as to dialogue, character, or plot, and still make the film being advertised look like it's going to be one of the best things to come out this year. Check it out below.
In other film-y news, REMINDER: I will be liveblogging the Oscars here on Blogtown on Sunday night, starting at 5 pm and going until whenever the motherfucking thing ends in 2012. I'm already working up some more great material about Penelope Cruz and Anne Hathaway making out (it's a possibility!), so I should really be in fine form drunk and angry and waiting for Busey. Come back on Sunday, won't you?
Trailer for Almodóvar's Broken Embraces via FilmDrunk.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Drunk / Busey! Summer Boozy Goodness: Great American Distillers Festival
Posted by Patrick Alan Coleman on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:47 PM
I'm am incredibly excited about the 4th Annual Great American Distillers Festival, this weekend at Portland Center Stage's Gerding Theater.
Why? Well, Because:
a. I love booze
b. I love local booze
c. I love talking to people who make booze
d. I love learning about booze
Based on what I've seen from the festival's website, the weekend should requite these loves quite sufficiently. I'm certainly looking forward to a couple of the seminars. The History of the Cocktail at 1 pm on Sunday should be interesting—but I think when talking about cocktails, history should be put in quotes, considering the bleary eyes through which that "history" was documented.
Aside from the seminars and a mixologist showdown, there will be 24 participating distilleries on site offering sips of their wares. The cost is $10/day to get in and $16 for a two day pass. Admission includes 3 taster tickets.
I'll try to do some live blogging from the event, so check back here during the weekend for possible drunken ass-millinery.
Bottoms Up!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Busey! Gary Busey... YOU'RE BRILLIANT!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Our series of videos that proves once and for all that Gary Busey is BRILLIANT continues with these new commercials for Gotvmail, in which Busey also proves once and for all that his head contains the greatest brain God has ever placed in a noggin. BEHOLD THE BRILLIANCE!
AND THIS!
OMIGOD, and there are so many more here. I'm bathing in Busey!
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