If someone decided to re-make “Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang”, (a movie I fucking LOVED when I was a kid) with the cast of “High School Musical” and Raven Symone giving voice to a now sassy CGI car with tits that sang about race relations I think that I would not care either.

David Cross, in defense of getting paid to act in a movie meant for children

There are a lot of quotables in this defensive diatribe, in which he calls out Patton Oswalt for being a hypocritical Sierra Mist-guzzling sell-out oh snap and Jason Lee for leaving an empty void, so you should probably just read the whole thing.

The best bit, David Cross, since this will show up in your Google Alert, is the bit about your cottage up north.  Satirey goodness.

via fimoculous 

UPDATE: In case you don’t feel like reading it, Jeff at µ-slabs has created an audio version of the rant using the ‘Alex’ module of the Mac text-to-speech tool.  Weirdo.

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