Remember the mystery message with the Man Ray quote?

Not so mysterious anymore. A trip to the official Stripes website revealed that our favorite rocking duo is…

…selling cameras?

LOMOs, specifically, perfect for lomography, an Austrian commercial trademark/photographing style that emphasizes spontaneous snapshots and optical tomfoolery.

Two different LOMOs are available, the Jack and Meg models respectively, and they go on sale…take a guess, Yorbites. Yes, X XV. October 15.

For those of you with formerly rich and currently dead uncles, you should know that the first 333 customers to purchase both cameras will get a mystery gift. “Golly gee!” I say with utter sincerity.

Seriously, Jack, Meg. Cameras? I’m all for Stripes paraphernalia, but why play the enigma card? Why not just come out with it? Cameras aren’t mystifying, rare or illegal.

Is the Riddler out of work again? Is that it?

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“The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.” – Man Ray

X XV MMVII

Yorbites, judging from the Roman numerals, I do believe we’ll see something spectacular in the Stripes universe on October 15. Well, Jack, we await with bated breath!

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It’s official, ladies and gentlemen. The world is on a Tokyo commuter train blazing toward the End of Times.

Let me just start by saying that all of the following is speculation and rumor. There isn’t a shred of truth to be had here today, if at all.

As we all know, the Stripes recently canceled the remaining dates on their 2007 tour (both U.S. and across the pond), citing Meg’s “acute anxiety,” which is certainly a legitimate reason for taking a break, what with the pressures of a national performance schedule and all.

But many of us are wondering whether Meg’s anxiety was a natural occurrence or the result of some earth-shattering event.

Enter the rabid ravings of the Internet. A certain sex tape has surfaced – no, I will not directly link to it, you heathens – that supposedly stars…well…the Stripe in question.

I don’t believe a bit of it and you shouldn’t either. As Idolator astutely mentions, the image is incredibly blurry, the setting seems to be a college dorm room, and Meg’s publicist made it clear that it is absolutely a “prank” with a “twisted sense of humor” and “bad taste.”

Normally, I wouldn’t pander to such crude and vapid hoopla, but I felt it necessary this time. I had a duty to you Yorbites, a duty to inform you about this utter nonsense and then dispel you of any fanciful conjecture.

Madness, I say! A canceled tour, a pseudo-sex-tape. What’s next? I suppose Jack’s really a three-toed sloth!?

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A John C. Reilly vehicle co-written by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin), Walk Hard will feature Jack as the King himself, Elvis Presley.

But we Yorbites know this isn’t his first foray into the acting world. He appeared as Georgia in Cold Mountain and did a vignette with Meg about a Tesla coil in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes.

Here’s how the role came about, in Jack’s own words:

John C. Reilly called me up and asked if I would do it. They were filming in a couple of days. I said, ‘OK, but what year is it supposed to be?’ He said 1957, so that was OK. I thought it was just going to be for cable or something but he said, ‘Oh no, this is one of the biggest films this company is going to put out this year.’ He sent the script over and it was really funny.

Well, I think this is only the beginning. More Stripes on the silver screen!

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