1. It turns out that Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem got hitched earlier this month in the Bahamas. We wish them a marriage full of all of the passion and none of the drama of their onscreen romance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and lots of insanely beautiful babies. [via US Weekly ]
2. Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are getting married too; all he had to do was publicly grovel, disown his sister, and take their baby, Tripp, for a walk. [via Gawker]
3. Last night M.I.A. self-replicated during a performance of “Born Free” on Letterman. She was joined by Suicide’s Martin Rev. (video) [via Vulture]
4. If we’re all very, very lucky, then Michael Jackson‘s Neverland Ranch could become a state park. Sadly, most of the rides have been dismantled and sold. [via Billboard]
5. Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said the FCC‘s indecency rules are “too vague and violate the First Amendment, undermining the government’s primary tool for policing civility over the airwaves.” [via WaPo]
Bonus link: Graffiti Proposal
1. The kick-ass trailer for Kick-Ass is up; the movie, which is based on the comic book series of the same name, is due in theaters next April. [MySpace via Pop Candy]
2. Vampire Weekend reveals the inspiration behind the title of their upcoming album, Contra. [via NME]
3. 600,000 gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft’s Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games. [via BBC]
4. Playgirl is really trying to do its nude shoot with Levi Johnston on a budget. [via NYP]
5. Denzel Washington will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winner, Fences. [via Variety]
Bonus link: Best American Short Stories: By the Numbers
Today at Flavorpill, we ate some really tasty Lego sushi. We were happy to hear that the Getty Institute will work with Egypt to help conserve and manage the tomb of Tutankhamen — we still need to see him! We discovered the flu shot finder, which will make our moms happy. We watched a man shooting bananas out of his nose. No, that’s not a euphemism for something else. We read Nick Hornby’s take on Levi Johnston’s accidental celebrity. We were depressed by My Morning Jacket’s upcoming appearance on American Dad. We decided that Rihanna and Chris Brown are definitely just toying with us. We enjoyed Jason Reitman’s diagram — and felt kind of embarrassed for our kind. And finally, we wished Sesame Street a very happy 40th birthday. We wish we’d been around back when Cookie Monster smoked a pipe!
Time Magazine interviews My Life on the D-List star Kathy Griffin about her new tell-all memoir, Official Book Club Selection, and touches on flames both past (Steve Wozniak) and present (Levi Johnston). So that explains that. We had assumed that Griffin and Johnston were forming some sort of irresistible-to-the-gays power couple. Really it was just Captain Segway fallout.
By the by, are you following the Apple Press Event? SlashGear is live blogging it.
