Pulp fiction

Published 12:05 am Friday, August 19, 2011

Pulp fiction

“Conan the Barbarian,” the movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star in 1982, has been remade with a guy named Jason Momoa in the title role.

The Buzz finds it hard to believe that audiences will for one moment accept a comic book superhero who doesn’t speak with a thick Austrian accent.

Wild in the streets: The London riots raise a troubling question for Americans: Could the same thing happen here?

We see a couple of possible answers:

n Maybe, if unemployment remains persistently high, the nation careers into a double-dip recession and the government adopts harsh austerity measures.

n Definitely, if the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.

I’m on the phone: Thirteen percent of wireless users have faked a phone conversation to avoid a real-life interaction with another human being, a survey has found.

Even more people have engaged random strangers in conversation to avoid incoming phone calls from their mothers-in-law.

Correction Dept.: On Thursday, The Buzz erroneously identified MTV’s “Jersey Shore” as an HBO show.

What should we do as penance? That’s easy: We’ll watch “Jersey Shore.”

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff