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Bob Dylan’s Christmas Idyll

1:26AM Ryan Tate | Here’s the cover to Bob Dylan’s forthcoming Christmas album. Proceeds go to charity; as Vulture notes, this lends hope the project won’t be commercially corrupted and critically panned. We still wish the sleigh driver had a harmonica holder or something. After all, a Dylan flourish would make the disc all the more gift-able!
Music

Bob Dylan Is A Mysterious Hobo

2:03PM Jess McGuire | The story of Bob Dylan being picked up by a young police officer in New Jersey who had no idea who he was and believed him to be a delusional homeless man is so goddamn perfect, I could die. More »
Music

When Good Musicians Record Terrible Christmas Albums

7:43AM Ryan Tate | Bob Dylan has been recording a Christmas album featuring songs like “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Here Comes Santa Claus,” according to two websites. His career trajectory does seem about at that regrettable stage. The precedents are sad. More »
Big Screen

Lars Von Trier Is The Best Ball-Banging Director In The World

4:56AM Joshua Stein | Recently two films have shocked the world with graphic depictions of violence followed by acts of sex: Bob Dylan’s Beyond Here Lies Nothing and Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist. Coincidence or zeitgeist? You decide. More »

Bob Dylan Excites New Zealanders By Not Being Seen On Holidays In New Zealand

3:10PM Jess McGuire | God bless New Zealand. As some of you may be aware, I’ve got quite the affection for the land of the long white cloud. Lovely people, stunning scenery, cold weather… heaven! Well, for me anyway. And while I try to figure out how on earth and when I’m going to get over there again (and can one walk across New Zealand once they get there, do you think?), I try to sate my Kiwi desires by perusing their publications online and revelling in their local news. And the following article from a local paper about Bob Dylan not being spotted by anyone in New Zealand pretty much made my day, and had me wishing that the country itself were actually a small cherubic child whose cheeks I could squeeze and whose hair I could ruffle. The Marlborough Sounds are beautiful, and wouldn’t it be great to share them with celebrities trying to holiday in privacy? Well, that may be the case. Rumours suggest that both Bob Dylan and Shania Twain have separately been spending time in the Sounds. What follows is an epic tale of absolutely no one having any evidence whatsoever that Bob Dylan is holidaying at The Marlborough Sounds. More »

Barack Obama Reels From Scarlett Johansson Paternity Claim

3:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Congratulations go out this morning to Paste Magazine, winners of the race to reclaim Scarlett Johansson as the precocious nubile muse we knew and loved prior to this week’s grim news of her engagement to marry… never mind. What’s important here are her “Five Dads” pervily cited in the magazine’s new cover story — Woody Allen, Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and, ahem, Barack Obama. After the jump, if you have the stomach for it, see if you can match the pop culture father figure to Scarlett’s eyelash-batting, daughterrific praise. (Bonus points if you can accurately guess which one will give her away! It’s even harder than Mamma Mia!)