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Essay by Louis Hearn on 27 Oct 2009
Disney won’t show film in Spanish porno cinemas

Disney’s Buena Vista has decided not to release Saw VI in Spain after the Ministério de Cultura gave the film an X rating, effectively condemning it to a limited release in Spain’s porno movie theaters.
This brings up an important question facing Spanish society: do you not find it strange that in the age of Internet you still have porno movie theaters?
It also brings up another important question: do you really want to drive up the hype for this crapfest of a movie? Apart from the expected Internet indignation from genre …

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Essay by Louis Hearn on 25 Oct 2009
Drunk Asian chicks will need permission to touch the lizard

The neighbors of Park Güell have had enough. Used to be, they could walk around in peace and observe the unnatural beauty of the grounds designed by Barcelona’s favorite shrooming architect. Now it seems that every day the common rabble of the Ramblas is moving further up the hill. Where there used to be only a few sunburnt guiris (1.6 million in 2000, to be exact), there is now an annual flood of 4 million tourists who come to have their picture taken next to the happy lizard.
And just …

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Brief by Louis Hearn on 25 Oct 2009
Morrissey collapses onstage after pampering life’s complexities

“Good evening … probably,” was how Morrissey greeted his audience after arriving on stage at a concert last night in Swindon, Wiltshire.

According to The Guardian, the 50-year-old former Smiths frontman then jumped into a rendition of This Charming Man and promptly collapsed, suffering from respiratory problems. As he was being pulled offstage by band members, the crowd reportedly began booing.

He was taken by ambulance to Great Western hospital. A spokesman for the hospital has described his condition as stable.

Morrissey has already talked about retiring within 5 years, saying, “It’s very …