i'm a humpbacked geek & billy bob is still a douche bag

I'm sorry, I can't let this go just yet. Billy Bob was on Jimmy Kimmel the other night doing some damage control. Basically he still came off looking like a jerk.

Here are the highlights or lowlights... however you want to look at this:

- he's surprised it was news, but it gave 'humpbacked geeks' something to talk about and blog about for a couple days

- he says he acts like that all the time

- he told Jian Ghomeshi to kiss his ass

- he blames the marines for not capturing the pirates sooner therefore having media focus o him

- he has a metal plate in his head where he can recieve signals from Venus

i still don't like billy bob

So I'm still obsessed with this Billy Bob Thornton - Jian Ghomeshi thing. I was told by a great friend that on The Boxmaster's website there was an article in defence of Billy Bob's actions on Q. So of course I read it. And get all obsessive compulsive about this story again. Thanks a lot!

First of all I do have to admit that this story has been way overblown - even by me. So here's the link to Swampland.com, the site who has decided to come to Billy Bob's defence. In their attempts to debunk the myths surrounding this incident I get terribly frustrated.

So Myth#1: Billy Bob Thornton's actions were weird or inexplicable - This is clearly false. Anyone watching or listening to the interview can see by his actions that he was merely choosing not to participate in the interview. This might be uncomfortable, but it is his right.

If he didn't want to participate he should have just stopped talking, deferred to another band mate or left and not talked about monster magazines.

Myth #2: There wasn’t an previous understanding about the content of the interview

Here the author uses a transcript of the interview where Jian Ghomeshi (whose name always has to be said in full... it's just that type of name!) says that his produces had said Billy Bob didn't want to focus on questions around his acting career. There were no questions about his acting career, only music. Too bad there weren't any monster questions, Billy Bob did have an answer for that topic.

There are a few more defences 'myths' - how it was Billy Bob's right to request to have no questions asked about his acting career, another similar one, and the last one is that Billy Bob does like Canadians. But my most favourite line in the entire article is...

It is the downside of celebrity that every word you say can be parsed or taken out of context.

Why is this the best line? Because the author of this article is taking everything Jian Ghomeshi said out of context! I love it. How ironic is that? And hypocritical? Amazing!

Oh and they used the word 'parsed'! The word 'parse' means to analyze an object specifically. Commonly it's used in computer science to refer to reading program code or breaking up ordinary text. Search engines typically parse search phrases entered by users so that they can more accurately search for each word. I think they wanted to use the word paraphrase. But I'm no English major!

So yeah, I'll let this story die now. I just get worked up about somethings. Don't even get me started about plastic bags!!

billy bob flu home

After the infamous interview with Jian Ghomeshi, Billy Bob's was booed and jeered at by the Canadian crowd - the crowd he deemed was like 'mashed potatoes without gravy." Putting on a major pout session, he and his band have pulled out of the rest of their Canadian tour with Willy Nelson claiming that one of their members and some crew have come down with the flu. So they flu home - get it, flu home, flew home? Ahh, I love it!

But honestly, if Billy Bob had enough balls to act the way he did on the radio and with Jian Ghomeshi why isn't he just honest is saying that he now despises Canadian crowds, hates the CBC and wants to quit the Canadian part of the tour? I'm surprised they used the flu excuse. He probably thought that nobody listens to the CBC, let alone a little show called Q, and never expected this thing to go beyond the Greater Toronto Area. In reality, it went globally and quite quickly. Welcome to the new media age Billy Bob.

And mostly likely Willy Nelson probably asked him to leave for the Canadian part of the tour. Willy knows how to treat fans and be a class act.

Why am I so interested in this story?!?!?

billy bob douch bag

So could Billy Bob be more of an asshole-ish douche bag? I don't think so! You can just feel the awkwardness in the studio, the rest of the band was just thinking "shut the fuck up Billy Bob!" Jian Ghomeshi did a great job though, I'd love to hear his comments about this sometime. If only we were friends. Check out the awkwardness. It gets super good after the 5:00min mark. Trust me, it's worth the time investment to watch this!