I was obliged to join the choir at age seven. I went to choir practice twice a week and church twice on Sunday. I may have hated it but I never stole my dad’s car and made a dash for it. This kid has bigger balls.

A single heckler destroys Toledo mayor candidate Ben Konop’s press conference with incessant booing.

Wes Anderson has taken Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s novel and produced a stop-motion animation film featuring the voices of Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and George Clooney.

New black comedy from the Coen brothers hits the screens October 2. A Serious Man is set in 1967 and revolves around a Midwestern professor who, surprise, surprise, has a few problems – his wife is leaving him and his useless brother won’t move out of his house.

Reddit’s robot photographed every day for four years and edited together.

A 53-year-old man, thought to be a Miley Cyrus stalker, was arrested by police in Tybee Island, Georgia. Mark Mclead told the booking officer he was Miley Cyrus’s boyfriend. He was booked on two misdemeanor charges but released 24 hours later on condition he turns up to court on September 1, 2009.

A major bank heist in Baghdad saw a vicious group of robbers armed with silenced weapons steal local currency worth $6.5 million.

Deep thinker Glenn Beck tells it like it is.

National Lampoon’s Matt Zaller attempts to pitch his idea for a movie called Beer and Chicks. Epic fail.

As it was intended to be heard. For many, this will be a religious experience.

“As soon as I looked at it I got chills all over my body.” Shit on a car will do that to a person.

Leif Olson gets a highly lucrative hole in one at the 2009 Canadian Open.  A total four players – Olson, Casey Wittenberg, Briny Baird and Arjun Atwal – all accepted BMW Z4 Roadsters for hole-in-one shots at the 15th hole at Glen Abbey golf course. BMZ have now stopped that particular incentive…

Pink flags, green blanket monsters, a white dinghy, hand claps. Not entirely sure what the Austin-based indietronica outfit are up to here.

A mentally ill San Antonio, Texas, woman decapitated her baby claiming the devil made her do it. Otty Sanchez was charged with the capital murder of her 3 1/2-week-old son Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez. 

So farewell then, brave savior of truth. Palin is officially out but sensible Americans are still terrified of Palin run in 2012.

Those prisoners have too much free time. Does being forced to dance to Jacko for the duration of your incarceration constitute torture?

23-year-old New Jersey man Daniel Bark was arrested for the hit-and-run killing of American Idol season 7 and 8 contestant Alexis Cohen.

Kayaker Tyler Bradt launched himself over Palouse falls in Washington State, dropping 186 feet and breaking the world record. It looks like suicide but he survived virtually unscathed.

Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, issued a 13-chapter military code for Mujahideen fighters.

Fortunately there’s no record deal pending. Miss U.S.A. finalist and staunch gay marriage opponent Carrie Prejean “sings with Bing” at the Del Mar Racetrack 2009 opening day.