Now that Heath Ledger has passed on, who should play the Joker in any future Batman projects? Maybe I’m crazy, but I say Mr. Burt Bacharach. Look at him!

Come on, who’s got the necessary PhotoShop skills? I want to see a gun in that right hand as well.

Wordplay Wednesday! I got nothing this week. For a brief moment last Friday morning I thought VIGGO MORTENSEN might be an anagram of VIRGIN MEGASTORE, but a few hours of research convinced me that this wasn’t the case.

How about this? Each of these two-word phrases can be rescrambled into the names of two adjacent world nations. For example, REASONABLY IN is an anagram of LEBANON SYRIA. Can you figure out the rest?

1. LAZIER BURP
2. POPGUN LARIATS
3. ANIMALS VOTE
4. GUYS PANTED
5. MY ANEMONE
6. INHERITANCE GAL
7. EAT SALIVATION
8. MANIC HOOLIGAN
9. CORNIER EGOMANIA
10. AILING HEADBANDS

By the way, in addition to being anagrams, I think these are all also Guided by Voices song titles.

Updated to add: Anagrams unscrambled here, Burt Bacharach dolled up here.