This Week in This Week in Posters: The Rum Diary, the most prolific of all poster clichés, and of course, some cannon-fighting pirate ships carried by zeppelins. Something for everyone, really. Click to enlarge, and enjoy!

The Rum Diary is one of my favorite books, so obviously I’m a little sensitive about the possibility of the movie not being good, because that would make me cry. That said, is it just me, or does the poster seem a tad… zany? There isn’t much going on and it just reads “JOHNNY DEPP ACTING WRY!” to me. Though to be fair, people do love Johnny Depp acting wry. Especially foreigners.

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I hope you’ll excuse my non-film-related tangent while I bring you a breaking update on JESUS CHRIST ON A CHRYSLER!  So the internets tell me this is Mandy Sellars, who suffers from a medical condition known as GIANT F-CKING LEGS.

“And people can be very cruel. I was in a park a few months ago when a group of teens started pointing at me, they were saying to each other, ‘Look at the size of her legs.’  I wish they could experience how it feels to have strangers laugh at you. I don’t mind curiosity – it’s the laughing and nudging that gets to me. ”

She has never had a firm diagnosis, but it could be linked to Proteus syndrome, which causes abnormal skin and limb growth. John Merrick, the Elephant Man, is believed to have had it. [Mirror]

Wow, this really makes my dangly scrotum problem seem trivial by comparison.  I wish her nothing but the best, and I don’t see any reason she can’t lead a reasonably happy, productive life.  I mean, look at JLo.

[Thanks to Burnsy for the tip]