Comments on: Balls

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:09:32 +0000

Hello everyone. Thanks for watching!

So, I hate to tell you guys, but Bjerkness was relocated to Aitkin Prison due to overcrowding, and they pushed back his trial date, again! I sent him a couple letters but haven’t heard back, so a re-cut of the doc with an interview is seeming less likely.

I talked to him for almost two hours at the St. Louis County Jail though, and he would be great on camera. He told me all about how he developed a thing for ball slashing and what his “first time” was like. He also let me in on some specialized techniques for slashing: “The air went out too fast? That’s why you have to use push-pins!”

By: Paul Lundgren

Paul Lundgren — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:07:11 +0000

Eric Meyer has informed me that the Ball Slasher has agreed to an interview, so there will likely be a re-cut of this documentary.

By: Bad Cat!

Bad Cat! — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:04:12 +0000

Ha! Good eye Tom, I never would have noticed myself in there. (Though I was worried when someone said I appeared in the ball-slasher documentary.)

Loved the ball-slashing ballet scene!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:37:12 +0000

Well, that video was … interesting … to say the least.

BTW, Bad Cat! also has a cameo at the 2:17 mark, although it’s not quite as prominent as Paul’s role.

By: Paul Lundgren

Paul Lundgren — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:46:48 +0000

This is a documentary about the ball slasher put together by Eric Meyer and Johnny Watkins in May for their documentary film-making class at the University of Minnesota Duluth. It's a weird video, but considering the subject matter that probably goes without saying. According to the description on Vimeo, "the concept of this video was to make the first half highly sensationalized (a la videos about serial killers, etc...), then do a complete 180 and emphasize Bjerkness's struggles with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and paint him as a victim of his environment." By the way, yours truly appears briefly in this video, at the 2:40 mark. Enjoy.

By: bluenewt

bluenewt — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:07:48 +0000

Maybe we could pool our pennies and buy him a patch kit.

By: dbb

dbb — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:21:06 +0000

For all we know he manages his $500/day exercise ball habit just fine *most* of the time. Only slips up when he’s short and needs a fix.

By: bluenewt

bluenewt — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:16:11 +0000

Here’s my question. Why not just buy some exercise balls? Why break into places to stab them? You’d think a person could order them in bulk and have a field day. No harm, no foul, no police asking embarrassing personal questions.

By: Danny G

Danny G — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:54 +0000

Dude looks exactly like Dr. Venture from The Venture Brothers.

By: chadp

chadp — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:16:06 +0000

He's baaack! Exercise ball fetishist strikes Duluth therapy room Secure your balls!