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True Blood parody on a children’s show: Sesame Street puppets do ‘True Mud’.

Sesame Street has lost its mind. Or there’s some appeal of the graphic ass phucking and throat ripping out of True Blood to the toddlers of the world that I’m just not seeing. Seriously. I like the show and towards the end of its third season I was on the edge of my seat and replaying Eric Northman’s scenes an alarming number of times over and over (until they were lather, rinse, repeated and happily burned into the back of my eyes where I could see them whenever I wanted). As if Sesame St. releasing a clip of Katy Perry’s bewbs serenading the formally pure Elmo wasn’t controvertial enough, the children’s show, that needs to get its $hit together, has released a clip in which they parody True Blood. The Sesame Street version is entitled True Mud and is sadly vampire sex-free. It shows a puppet vampire Bill, his ridiculous hair, a puppet Sookie, and Lafayette. Am I the only one hoping the infants watching have no effing idea what True Blood is? Jesus, take the wheel. If they do there’s even more sloppy, neglectful parenting going on in this world than Britney Spears has led me to believe.

Joaquin Phoenix on The Late Show With David Letterman September 22, 2010.

Joaquin Phoenix owes David Letterman a million dollars. Or something. I forget. Let’s get to that in a minute. After making an ass of himself in the worst fake documentary of all time, Phoenix returned to David Letterman last night. During his unemployment-beardy 2009 showing, during which he basically used Letterman’s show for free mockumentary footage and publicity, we saw a side of Phoenix we never should again… the side that can’t act. For that show, Phoenix and I’m Still Here director Casey Affleck used the ruse that they were making a documentary. I gather, not that I’m ever going to bother watching, Affleck included the stupid footage in his movie without clearing the rights first. When Letterman found out, his lawyers contacted the film’s lawyers and were told ‘Too bad about those monies… bro’… it’s a documentary, thus fair use’. Though, as Affleck’s now admitted, this wasn’t a documentary. It’s a movie and the footage was essentially bootlegged and stuck in the movie under false pretenses and never cleared. ‘You owe me a million dollars,’ said Letterman, annoyed. ‘We’ll work it out, but can we talk about it privately?’, asked Phoenix. In something that made me LOL, literally, when reading, Letterman responded, ‘We’ll go to one of your screenings’. Pictures show Phoenix arriving at the Late Show with David Letterman, where Affleck shot footage of him in February 2009.

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