[bquote]Police to man: stop wearing a bunny suit in public, you’re frightening the children. Man to police: But I enjoy wearing the suit.[/bquote]

Police in Idaho Falls have taken the next step in what residents are calling an age old case of “is that a man in a bunny suit hiding behind a tree, pointing his finger like a gun at my kid?” by telling William Falkingham, 34, to stop wearing the controversial cottontail habiliments.

In a statement Tuesday, police said that Falkingham occasionally wears a tutu with the bunny suit. Reuters reports,

Police warned Falkingham after a woman said she saw him dressed in the costume, peeking at her young son from behind a tree and pointing his finger like a gun.

Most residents in the police report are “greatly disturbed” by his activities festivities, but one resident defended him as eccentric but otherwise harmless.

“He’s got the bunny outfit, a cowboy suit and a ballerina dress but you don’t see him except where he’s tripping through his backyard,” Deborah Colson told Reuters. “He’s got a strange lifestyle at home but we all do weird things at home.”

This raises an important debate over freedom of expression, and while I understand how Falkingham’s actions and attire could me misconstrued as “unsettling” or “upsetting” or “creepy” or “disturbing” or “alarming” or “frightening” or “fucking weird,” I just don’t think a world where I cannot dress as a bunny in a tutu and pretend to shoot little kids from the cover of vegetation is a world I want to live in.

If there’s any homeless person who deserves a moment in the spotlight, a huge royalty check, or even just a warm place to sleep, it’s Mustard, the homeless guy who came onto Opie and Anthony’s Sirius XM radio show to blow the minds of everyone in the building with a unique and extremely soulful rendition of Radiohead’s Creep.

I discovered this video on Reddit and a user who goes by ‘fingerrockets’ shed light on the backstory:

“I listen to the O&A show daily at work so I’ll give a little back story here. When they brought this guy on they had no idea he could sing. It was just going to be a radio bit promoting their upcoming “homeless shopping spree.” During the interview it came up that he has written some songs and could play guitar. So they went and got the man a guitar (he did not own one himself) and he proceeded to shock the hell out of everyone. No one expected him to be as good as he was. He played two other songs that he wrote that are kind of in the style of Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I would imagine that stuff will be online shortly.”

For the MP3 version of Radiohead’s Creep and for Mustard’s three other tracks, click here.

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Dilbert’s Only Love Is The Intertubes — Babelgum

Christmas Carolers Get a Bit Dirty — Babelgum

Don’t Drink Too Much This Holiday Season… — WhenIWasDrunk

Gemma Atkinson Is A 10 (nsfw) — Gorillamask

If Video Games Were Realistic… — Cracked

In the past week or so I’ve written quite a bit on Radiohead and how I appreciate their online release of In Rainbows, but am disappointed that they still use Ticketmaster to sell show tickets. But in light of all of this, Prince takes down six videos of himself performing a cover of someone else’s song? Come on Prince, It’s not costing you album sales, so the case better be that you illegally performed Radiohead’s Creep without their permission. Is it that now you don’t want it to get out? I doubt it.

I have a feeling it’s the same corporate cockblock I mentioned earlier. Anything with you in it is copyright “infringement.” I’m not going to continue on, it’s just stupid that the paying public’s videos must be deleted. If anyone gets a working link to a stream of the video, send it to bannedinhollywood@gmail.com.

And in case someone does, I’ll leave my previous post below -

Over the weekend thousands of Southern Californians flooded to Coachella, one of the premiere live music shows to date, to see Roger Waters, Chromeo, My Morning Jacket, Autolux, Aphex Twin, The Verve, The Raconteurs, SebastiAn and Prince (among others; go away Jack Johnson). Little did fans know, they were about to see a guest appearance by the one and only Radiohead.

Only, fans weren’t really that lucky, because Radiohead didn’t actually show. Instead, Prince acted as a surrogate, harboring Radiohead’s baby, “Creep,” deep inside his melodious womb – and birthed it in an explosion of Creepy reverb and gain; part Radiohead, but also part Prince – A little angry, a bit depressed, slightly physically handicapped, and completely flamboyant.

It was clean and pretty bad@ss – Not too much excrement. Check it out.