Okay, so let me get this straight...earlier this week,  Slashfilm.com reported via Bloody Disgusting that John Travolta is reportedly interested in starring in a remake of The Toxic Avenger. Of course. Why not. Hollywood is so far out of ideas they are remaking shit at a record pace (Spider Man or Superman, anyone?), so this wouldn't really be all that surprising.

Granted, I know industry-tracking websites don't always have a positive win-loss record when it comes to shit like this, but still...Travolta in The Toxic Avenger? Maybe as a villain, because let's be honest- all the CGI in Hollywood won't pass Travolta for 98 lb weakling Melvin Ferd.

I'm just not really enthused about a large-budget remake/reboot/revisioning of this flick. The low-budget feel is a huge part the flick works so well (maybe not the sequels, but that's a story for another time), and I just can't help but think they would jump the shark or royally screw the pooch (and/or a masseuse) with this, especially with the idea of a less-violent, "family-friendly" movie (Hot Tub Time Machine's Steve Pink is attached as writer/director on this)

Yep, welcome to the brave new world of campaigning.

Sure, you are already starting to feel the lag from the never-ending machinations of he would be the next to further drive this nation into the ground, but they are even starting to find you in your happy places.

News broke the middle of last week, thanks to ProPublica, that Pandora was allowing political advertisers access to their targeted email sharing for the first time this year. Not that this should be surprising. Online companies live and breath off ad revenue, and certainly services like Pandora are no exception.

That this would shift to the political landscape was hardly a shock, either, except for maybe how long it's taking to fully envelope the Internet campaign culture. I mean, haven't we already heard about up-and-coming candidates leveraging social networking marketing to swing elections into their favor? People are already advertising every imaginable kind of shit on Facebook, G+, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc., so why get wound out over ads for political campaigns? More to the point, do presidential campaigns even fucking end anymore? Yes, that question is targeted to Mitt Romney and his people.

Both mainstream parties have been going to town with this, mining valuable voter email addresses in local and national races and battling for the online voter, an ever-growing demographic to exploit without the need for a mess of doorknockers and local phone banks.

Despite people getting overly indignant about the horrors of a pop-up ad on a free service, what this is apparently coming down to is just how Pandora is targeting their ad recipients. Pandora offers targeting based on favorite artists and music, as well as the standard age, gender, state groupings, as well as state, county, or congressional district the candidate and his staff are sweating.

Yep. This is what we have to look forward to for the next few months. Non-stories like this. A "controversy" over an opt-in on a web radio site? Hasn't "Woman receives spam pop-up" surpassed "Man bites dog" by this point in history? And you wonder why the "two-party" system will never go away...