The Guide 

Populist: items of interest this week

From Vin Diesel being Marvellous to Steve Aoki chucking baked goods
  
  

Vin Diesel.
Vin Diesel. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters/REUTERS Photograph: Mario Anzuoni / Reuters/REUTERS

What the fork?

Vin Diesel has written “Marvel thinks I’m Inhuman” on his Facebook page, hinting at a movie based on the comic’s characters, which include a guy with a tuning fork on his head.

Nice to Sulu, to Sulu nice

After some heartfelt promotion from George Takei – AKA king of the internet – a web series about gay Scouts has been crowdfunded on IndieGoGo.

Bump and grand

GTA V fans have modified the game so you can now play as a giraffe or nude man who grabs online players and dry humps them. Who said gamers were juvenile?

From belfie to bookshelf

Publishing’s latest saviour? Kim Kardashian, who is to release a 352-page hardback book. Of her selfies.

Trapper’s delight

In “let’s reminisce about how rubbish the 90s actually were” news, there’s now a Kickstarter campaign to get voyeuristic (and rubbish) home-invasion game Night Trap an HD remake.

A touch of frosting

“My choice is to cake”; EDM man Steve Aoki defends his habit of throwing baked goods at his audience, describing the act as “a tool of expression”.

...And vinylly

Trumping even the oddball who’s collecting every VHS of the film Speed, a Brazilian businessman has announced his intention to buy all the world’s vinyl. He’s currently up to 3m records.

 

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