Deadmau5 calls Playboy Model Tricia Evans "piece of shit" for insensitive Colorado shooting "Joke"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Deadmau5 was RIGHT.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/deadmau5-tricia-evans-colorado-shooting-joke_n_1694500.html



Jokes about the Colorado shooting are not only "too soon," they are the furthest thing from "humor," according to Canadian producer Deadmau5 -- formally known as Joel Zimmerman. So when Playboy model Tricia Evans tweeted about "The Dark Knight Rises" being a movie "to die for" Deadmau5 quickly blasted the centerfold.

Last Friday evening, not 24 hours after the Aurora, Colo., shooting occurred at the Century 16 theater where 12 moviegoers were killed, Evans tweeted:

I heard the new Batman movie is really "to die for"! Too soon?
— Tricia Evans (@HollywoodTricia) July 20, 2012

Deadmau5, who previously followed Evans on Twitter, responded:

good to know. @HollywoodTricia i seriously had no idea how big of a piece of shit you are. unfollowed.
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) July 20, 2012

[edhopper]

1. Following a Playboy model on Twitter

is like a blind man going to a silent movie.

[LynneSin]

2. I'm not a Deadmau5 fan but I would have to agree!

as for that dingbat - really? She thinks jokes like that are funny? I hope Hef dumps her from Playboy - she's nothing but an asshole!

[snooper2]

3. Is DU being redirected to TMZ?

LOL

[RiffRandell]

4. I agree with Deadmau5. n/t

[HappyMe]

5. Wow.

Piece of shit indeed.

[TrogL]

6. Just found out (if I've got the right one) he grew up three houses down from me

He's younger than me so I'd left town before he grew up, but I likely knew his parents.

[Quantess]

7. Who would follow a playboy model's twitter feed? I don't get it.

You're not going to see any boob photos on twitter. All you'll get is mediocre nonsense from a 21 year old nitwit who is probably not an intellectual heavyweight.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Maybe it was "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon"...

...maybe he knew someone who knew someone who knew someone...

Who knows?

[seabeyond]

9. " Too soon? " meaning she knows better and does not give a shit. nt

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Wonder if she's related

to the teevee reporter who opined, with Colorado's wildfires as background, that "someone should bring marshmallows and hershey bars."


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[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. A funny thing happened on the way to the morgue

Apparently, bad jokes and grieving are not an uncommon combination.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07481188508252518

Most funerals in my extended family are pppered with bad jokes, in addition to the tears.

I wouldn't read too much into the original tweet, deadmau5's outrage nothwithstanding.

[Journeyman]

12. Lenny Bruce defined satire as "tragedy plus time" . . .

Had Tricia Evans reflected before posting, she'd have realized it takes another element to make it work: it should be funny as well, or at the least make a poignant observation. Her "tweet" is more on level with elephants in the refrigerator and lame knock-knock jokes, the stuff third graders share on the playground.

[deutsey]

14. I always found it interesting that the day JFK was killed Bruce went on with his show

later that night or the next night.

When other comedians were canceling their shows, he went out on stage and, after pausing silently in front of the mic for a long pause, mused (depending on which source you use):

"Man, is Vaughn Meader fucked!"
"Poor Vaughn Meader!"
"Vaughn Meader is screwed."

During Kennedy's brief tenure in office, Vaughn Meader was a comedian who had made a fortune with his best-selling record (The First Family) impersonating/satirizing JFK and the Kennedy family.

Apparently, the audience roared with laughter.

[Journeyman]

16. I heard it as "Poor Vaugh Meader". . .

which seems to better fit Lenny's style.

Lenny also castigated the press in the weeks after the assassination for playing up how Mrs. Kennedy had reached back to help the Secret Service agent get on the car, when the reality as Lenny saw it was that the agent had climbed up in order to push her back into the car because she was "hauling ass to save her ass."

"What point of reference does she have for her behavior?" Lenny asked. (And I'm paraphrasing here, as I don't want to dig through the books to find the recorded quotes.)

"But what's her point of reference?" he asked. "'Oh yes, I heard the gunfire and I reached back to help the Agent onto the car.' And that's bullshit! She hauled ass to save her own ass, same as anyone would do. But that's not the way the press presented it. No, they painted her as the good good Mrs Kennedy who wanted only to help and who stayed in the face of such horror. And the truth is, people don't stay. But the press presented the fiction that she did, so now, if your daughter's husband gets killed and she hauls ass to save her ass, she'll be made to feel shitty and low because she didn't stay like that good good Mrs Kennedy. And fuck it, man! The people don't stay!"

For this comment, he was arrested in Chicago. Oh, they made it out it was for obscenity and being a 'sick comic,' but Lenny knew better. He'd told the truth, and as those who do so in America learn all too soon, the truth is rarely valued here.

This was why he knew he wasn't a comedian. And as he would tragically admit in the year before his death, he wasn't always funny because he wasn't a comedian. He was just Lenny Bruce.

[struggle4progress]

13. I must begin to wonder whether Playboy really chooses its centerfolds

based on their good moral character, emotional maturity, intelligence, and personal sensitivity, as I had always thought, or whether something else is behind the choice of centerfold

[deutsey]

15. Ain't she just the dickens?