Amanda Brumfield, the eldest daughter of “Sideshow” Billy Bob Thornton, has been charged with child neglect causing harm or disability in relation to the death of a 1 year old girl whom she was babysitting.

Brumfield told detectives that a girl she was babysitting hit her head in a fall in an Ocoee home on Oct. 3, Detective James Berish said in a news release. Brumfield called for help more than two hours later when she couldn’t revive the girl, police in the city near Orlando said.

An autopsy determined the girl had a fractured skull and brain injury. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide and said the explanation Brumfield gave was inconsistent with the child’s injuries, police said.

When informed of the incident, Thornton’s publicist commented that “Sideshow” Billy Bob had not been in contact with Brumfield for “quite some time.” That’s some good parenting there.

Billy Bob Thornton appeared last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to clear up any misuderstandings about his bitchy exchange earlier this month with a Canadian broadcaster.  Turns out, he’s not insane-he just “gave humpbacked geeks all over the world something to do.”  Humpbacked geeks?  What does that mean?  Is he talking about…bloggers?  Because I am not humpbacked!

The good news is that you don’t have to suffer through eight plus minutes of BBT footage to get to the part where he explains what he was thinking.  It’s all in the beginning, before he goes on to talk about a bunch of crap that no one cares about.

I’m off to a bit of a late start today. You can attribute that to a) a heinous cold, b) spending several hours yesterday wedged under a toilet in the downstairs bathroom trying to avoid being carried off to Oz, and c) Flight of the Conchords Show at the Ryman last night. I’ll have more to write about b and c some time later on this weekend.

As for now however, I’ve made my morning run to Bojangles for a Cajun Fillet with cheese and a coffee so large I swear I saw Michael Phelps doing laps in it. That just might be enough to prepare me to write about Billy Bob Thornton.

On the heels of this debacle, Billy Bob Thornton’s self-described “hillbilly British Invasion” band, The Boxcutters, have cancelled their invasion of Canada.

Billy Bob Thornton’s band has canceled the rest of its Canadian tour after the actor compared the country’s fans to mashed potatoes with no gravy in a testy interview that caused a sensation online.

The Boxmasters opened for Willie Nelson on Thursday in Toronto, where they reportedly were booed and met with catcalls of “Here comes the gravy.”

A note posted on Nelson’s Web site Friday said the Boxmasters were canceling the rest of their Canadian dates “due to one band member and several of the crew having the flu.”

The flu? Come on Willie! I give you way more credit than that. Although he certainly appeared delirious and vomited up nonsensical bullshit like so much watery chicken soup, I think it’s a little disingenuous to call a major case of “being an arrogant asshole” the flu.

There is rarely a day that I would ask anyone to watch thirteen minutes and forty seconds worth of any YouTube video.  But today is one of those days.  And I’m sorry to tell you of the content:  It’s a radio interview with Bill Bob Thornton and his new-ish band The Boxmasters.

Normally I’d tell you all the good times to fast forward to but truly, this must be watched from beginning to end.  The finer nuances, such as the totally pained look on the faces of Billy Bob Thornton’s band mates and the incredulity of the interviewer, cannot be overlooked.  I don’t know if BBT was on drugs or just encountered a circa 1780 wagon-wheel table in the green room, but his reactions to this interview are riveting-I can’t look away.

Also, I need a Canadian to tell me this:  What is the broadcasting equivalent of a Genie and how can I get one awarded to Jian Ghomeshi?  This dude was absolutely amazing in keeping his composure and sticking with interviewing this fuckwit, even after discovering that he didn’t bring his drums.

“I’d like to do another movie with Angie [ex-wife Angelina Jolie], too, one of these days. We talk all the time. She and I keep looking for something to do together; we just have to find the right thing.”

Billy Bob Thornton, when asked which actress he’d like to work with.

Do you believe him that he still talks to Angie?

I don’t.

Billy Bob Thornton is looking sooooo good these days.

I call this look “AIDS-patient chic.”

I can’t decide which is classier: the single pants-suit leg tucked into the cowboy boot, or the cigarette on the red carpet.

Here’s BBT at a Sundance event.

Billy Bob Thornton issued a denial to Extra, claiming he and Tea Leoni are just friends, and there’s no truth to the rumors that Tea’s marriage to David Duchovny disintegrated because of an affair with him.

Whatever.

I hate everything about Extra now that Mario Lopez is on it. He’s so gross to me. He’s probably sleeping with Billy Bob Thornton, too.