I want the truth to be t---WHU--!?!

[Tripp]

I see a very surprised BArney Fife..

( I erased my answer, pat)

[bebopbalogna]

I see a very surprised BArney Fife..

( I erased my answer, pat)

wow!  we need to put this one in a special school for GENIUSES!!

[Tripp]

Kim's here!

[Moetown]

hop in the car, moe! let's just make crappitystock 2 happen tomorrow!

Yeah, that's gonna happen.

[Jeff]

Just started watching the new season of Dansez Pentru Tine ("I'm dancing for you") on Romanian tv and it is EPIC. This is the one I always talk about that's like what Dancing with the Stars would be like if, instead of a star who can't dance dancing with a pro, it's a star who can't dance dancing with a regular person who can't dance and has an insanely sad life story and needs the meager prize money REAL BAD. I mean, like Jerry Lewis telethon bad.

This year's contestants:

-teen dance crew gal who realized her impoverished mom's costumes for her crew were the best thing about them; trying to dance to win mom money to start a seamstress business (the least sad one, by a wide margin)
-hot 35 y/o MILF who got caught having sex with her b/f when 14, forced into marrying him, had a kid at 17, divorced at 18 because he beat her up, married again to a man from Yemen, moved there only to have him start abusing her as soon as she moved there, moved back to Romania, no skills to support her kid, gorgeous but with an odd mole/birthmark/deformity; also, she is dancing with a broken leg
-scorching hot 17 year old whose mom and grandma moved to Italy to work when she was 14, leaving her to live alone and support herself, wants money to reunite her family; also, she has breast cancer
-cute redhead whose epileptic retarded brother's heart surgery went awry, causing him to have a circulation problem that cost him a leg (no really, this is not an exaggeration); also her entire family has been laid off and this prize money would be their only income
-nice guy whose deaf grandparents were denied the chance to raise his dad because of their handicap, later they raised him (their grandson) anyway; now a new treatment can restore their hearing after decades
-nice guy whose mother left him and his dad, remarried and had a new son; now his mom and his half-brother are on the verge of being homeless and he has forgiven her for bailing on him and wants to raise money to help her and her son; his partner is the identical twin Romanian-born UK pop singer of the previous nice guy's Romanian-born UK pop singer partner

To all of this you can add insanely over the top, occasionally racially insensitive dance routines by the house dancers--in blackface, mock Native American garb, you name it. My favorite this year was "Roll Over, Beethoven" done in a combination of powdery Beethoven wigs and slutty sock hop clothes. And don't forget the host Stefan Banica, who I would describe as what Frank Sinatra Jr. might have been like if he'd been as handsome as George Clooney.

Each episode is 4-7 hours long. This shit is exhausting and exploitative and amazing.

"I hope you like my Samba. My retarded crippled epileptic amputee brother needs heart surgery. Thank you."

Think that's warped? Try to imagine a judge saying "Sure, your Maori tribal dance was good, and I hope you get treatment for cancer, but the rapper you're paired with missed some steps, so I'm giving you a bad score."

[Doctor Rock]

Man, I don't think I would be able to stomach that kind of crap.  I can't even stand shitty north-american reality TV, which is tame by comparison! 

[Doctor Rock]

There's an undersea volcano erupting off the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific.

Here's a video of it

Cool stuff. 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

so really? is there no image there? in the rorschach thing?

what about now?

I see a tranny (titties and a dick hanging out) and the word "hard".  

Looks like it says "randy" to me.

[Moetown]

We haven't been able to take a shower here in a week, but the tilers have finished and now the painter is almost finished. We sshould be able to use our shower again tomorrow. The upstairs bathroom is going to be the nicest room in the house. Next comes a new roof. I'm not gonna be able to afford to do anything else for quite a while.

[Moetown]

But it's pretty exciting. I guess we'll try to get it painted this summer. Then maybe we can try to sell this place and buy a smaller home.

[bebopbalogna]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5_JmXCNPs6Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5_JmXCNPs6Y</a>

the related videos are pretty sweet too.

[matthew]

I just watched Human Highway again last night.

That movie is just gold.

Someone should put that Neil Young/Devo perfomance online.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/WpkS-LJel7E" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/WpkS-LJel7E</a>

[Doctor Rock]

This is the story of Johnny Spud

Guffaw!

[Moetown]

Interesting interview.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5ujIAtrmM[/youtube]

[Moetown]

Jarvis Cocker Completes Album With Steve Albini
Jarvis Cocker has finished a new solo full-length called Further Complications. Due out May 19 through Rough Trade, the Steve Albini-produced effort features such live show favorites as "I Told You Twice (Leftovers)," "Angela" and the LP's title track. While Cocker has released notes on many of his new songs ("Homewrecker!," for one, features the sax stabs of Steve Mackey, who played on a little album called Funhouse), the former Pulp frontman hasn't finalized Further Complications' tracklisting.