1. Adult Swim announced yesterday that it has picked up Loiter Squad, a 15-minute live-action show from Odd Future that’s described as a mix of “sketches, man on the street segments, pranks and, naturally, music.” It will premiere next year. [via LAT]

2. Strange but true: Mel Gibson is writing a movie about Judah Maccabee, the second century Jewish hero who led a rebellion against the Seleucid Empire and inspired Hanukkah. [via Vulture]

3. Rolling Stone has posted an exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming book Pearl Jam Twenty, an oral history of the band’s career which hits shelves on September 13.

4. According to Deadline, Dexter star Michael C. Hall is in talks to play the lead role in the Broadway musical adaptation of Big Fish next year. The part was originally written for Hugh Jackman.

5. “I first I heard about this on Monday and it has taken me completely by surprise! Everyone knows that NEW ORDER without PETER HOOK is like QUEEN without FREDDIE MERCURY, U2 without THE EDGE, SOOTY without SWEEP!” – Peter Hook is not so pleased that his former New Order bandmates plan to play two benefit shows this year without him.

Bonus Buzz: 17 Photo Booth Pictures Featuring Puppies

Today at Flavorpill, we saw the 90s-est thing that we had ever seen. We met the model behind the enormous hands on the cover of Tina Fey’s Bossypants. We learned how to look punk, thanks to this zine from 1977. We got Baroness Elsa Schraeder’s side of the story behind her breakup with Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. We wondered what exciting things Jay-Z’s new development deal with Adult Swim will bring. We felt compelled to adopt a pair of sea otters, just so that we could watch them sleep. We liked io9′s roundup of the 10 most frightening TV horror series ever made. We watched both the real and imaginary Andy Samberg converse with Bert on Sesame Street. We wanted to know the story behind these cement filled Budweiser nun chucks. We laughed out loud over this Nancy Drew mystery cartoon. And finally, after seeing this preview of Amy Poehler’s upcoming photo spread in New York Magazine, we couldn’t wait to get ours hands on the issue when it hits stands.

1. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, making him the second youngest recipient of the award ever, after Charles Lindbergh in 1927. In case you’re curious, the Tea Party was the runner-up among Time editors (and the top choice among readers), followed by Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai, and the Chilean miners. [via MSNBC]

2. Meet the 2011 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Darlene Love, and Tom Waits. The ceremony will take place on March 14th at the Waldorf Astoria. [via Billboard]

3. “Yeah, it’s cornier. Well, corny’s not a dirty word for us either. When you’re talking about a young-adult adventure story, there’s something very simple and elemental about those kinds of stories. You don’t want to change that. It’s what’s compelling about them as stories. It’s where they get their power.” – The Coen Brothers talk to Vanity Fair about the ending of True Grit

4. Adult Swim has ordered a pilot for a new live-action comedy about the skateboarding world called Shredd: The Jon Johnsonsen Story that will be co-produced by Jack Black and Jason Lee. Lee will also star in it. [via Screen Rant]

5. True Blood casting update: Dane DeHaan (Jesse from HBO’s In Treatment) will play Timbo, one of the teens Jason takes care of in Hotshot. Rebecca Wisocky (who is Principal Nowack on 90210) has scored the part of Queen Mab. [via Deadline]

Bonus Link: The Big Picture’s 2010 in Photos

Whether photographing adult swim stars or vinyl Gorillaz, Brian McCarty transforms real backgrounds into imaginary scenarios and make-believe characters into lifelike subjects.

By capturing art toys in realistic settings, McCarty creates multimedia tableaux based on constructed narratives. The effect is disarmingly spontaneous, with colorful creatures becoming engaged storytellers in a practice that redefines the meaning of play.

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It’s almost shocking to realize that Aqua Teen Hunger Force has been airing for ten years now. Of course, it’s not much more shocking than anyone’s first reaction to watching the show — or even trying to process how a cartoon about anthropomorphic fast-food items with a disturbed sense of humor even came to exist in the first place.

Still, a decade later, Frylock, Master Shake, and Meatwad remain on the air, 100 episodes strong and as insane as the day we met them. To celebrate, co-creator Dave Willis and voice actor Dana Snyder took the show on the road, screening rare clips, playing songs, and doing live readings on the appropriately titled Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live tour. We were able to catch Willis on the way, so he could share his top 10 favorite ATHF moments of the decade. Watch all his picks and read his commentary after the jump.

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1. Movies about the world sucking and/or ending dominated the weekend box office. [via Gawker]
2. “That’s the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.” – an interesting interview with Damien Hirst in the Guardian
3. Check out the Frank Gehry-designed hat that Lady Gaga was rocking at Saturday night’s MOCA gala. (During a five-minute production by video artist Francesco Vezzoli, she debuted her new song “Speechless” on a piano decorated by Hirst.) [via LAT]
4. Adult Swim is allowing fans to customize their own DVDs; for $20 you get to pick 110 minutes worth of episodes, customize the box art, and then they put it together for you. [via Collider]
5. New fiction from Sam Shepard; an excerpt of Nabokov’s The Original of Laura [via The New Yorker; The Times]

Today at Flavorpill, we enjoyed this slideshow of the 10 most brutalized wangs in movie history. We went window shopping in communist Europe. We read Smurf facts. We were excited to see the hospital drama parody “Children’s Hospital” will make the leap from the web to Adult Swim. We weren’t surprised to hear that Bon Jovi is going to be the first person to play the new Giants stadium. That’s going to be some great people watching. We wanted a mobile home thanks to this honest commercial. We debated whether we’ll watch David Hasselhoff’s reality show. We felt stupid for feeling sorry for Lil Wayne — what was he doing with a loaded gun on his tour bus? And finally, we got hungry thanks to this Karamel Sans font. We’re going to bake a cake and try it out.

After its late-night TV debut, UK comedy sensation The Mighty Boosh is available in full in the US.

Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt have been performing together for over a decade, since starting out with a stage version of their show. Their increasingly surreal humor made its biggest splash outside the UK when “The Legend of Old Gregg,” an elaborate musical skit from Season 2 of their TV series went viral online. With the release of all three seasons on DVD, fans are free to indulge in hours of mind-melting hilarity.
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