:30 Seconds To Mars cover Lady Gaga

Jared and the guys stopped by the BBC studios and laid down this little number. It's a cover of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". I'm putting it up on the site so I don't have to play it on the air.

Would you pay $1,625 for this shirt?

French designer Christophe Decarnin is offering this shirt for $1,625. I have 8 of these in my closet if someone wants one... I'll even give you 20% off. Link

Lost: Yes, we know "V" is on next!

Hey, did you know V is coming on in six minutes? Way to go, ABC... as if the endless promos and internet banners weren't enough, they had to shove that giant V in our faces during the ENTIRE SHOW last night... it even covered up some of Sun's notes to Jack at the end of the show. That really made me want to stay tuned to ABC.

Anyway, let's talk about the other 90% of my TV screen last night. I wasn't looking forward to a Jin and Sun storyline. I think they're the two weakest characters... and I don't really care if they wind up being good or bad. As I said a few weeks ago, it's been kind of annoying with them running around complaining about how they want to find each other all the time... so I hoped that finally that storyline would be put to rest and they would be reunited. I was not so lucky.

Instead, we got a pretty cool sideways story. I actually like the two of them better when they're not married to each other. We got to see some Sun boobies, and Jin wasn't acting like an a-hole. Jin is working for Sun's father as a bodyguard for Sun. They're doin' it, which we all know is gonna get Sun's father pissed off. Sun's plan is still to run away, but with Jin. Of course, daddy already knows and is 3 steps ahead of them, walking Jin into a trap and closing Sun's secret runaway money account...

--DAMN!-- I wrote another 5 paragraphs recapping last night's show, and then they were lost when my computer decided to crap out this morning. Was it an accident, or the island telling me to get to the point?

I guess we don't really need to recap... You obviously saw the show or else you wouldn't be reading this. So here are the highlights:

- Good to see Mickhael again... I missed that one-eyed sonovabitch. This time he wasn't as hard to kill, however, an ironic gunshot to the eye did the trick... or did it?!??! OK, it probably did.

- Charles Widmore is a good guy! My theory was wrong about he and the Smoke Monster being on the same team. Widmore wants to keep the Smoke Monster bottled up on the island too. It will be interesting when Richard and the team on the beach meet up with him. They both have the same agenda, but Charles and Ben have an angry and violent past. Did Ben truly come to terms with the fact the he killed Alex by choosing the island over her? Or will he still hold a grudge against Charles for sending Keemy and his army to the island? And will Charles be pissed at Ben for banishing him from the island? I can picture an "I told you so" moment when Widmore tells Ben that none of this crap would have happened if he was allowed to stay.

- Sun loses her ability to speak English when she bumps her head? Lame and unnecessary.

- Time to gloat: The package on the sub wasn't a "what" but a "who", and that "who" was Desmond, as I predicted. How is Desmond important to keeping the Smoke Monster on the island? Is it Desmond's connection with time and the properties on the island? I guess we'll find out.

- I will now forever have nightmares about creepy Sayid staring at me in the dark while treading water.

- The most important thing I learned is that when your computer says that it wants to restart, do it before writing a long recap on Lost otherwise you'll probably lose most of it.

We're getting to a point where Lost is actually giving us more answers than questions. It's exciting and kind of sad at the same time. The end is almost here!

I'm sure I forgot some of what I wrote earlier this morning... Your thoughts?

Smooth Jazz Metallica

If Metallica appeared at Tanglewood... Is it wrong that I really like this version?

*Warning: NSFW (S-bomb at 1:02 if you're at work)


If you like this, you have to check out Metal Taylor Swift.

Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston butt poke

OK, guys... pose for the camera. Jennifer, let's try it again without making that weird face.

Grammar school production of "Scarface"

Some may think that it's too early to have kids acting out scenes from Scarface. But these kids need to learn early on that in this country you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Chineese man has world's largest man-boobs!

Doctors are baffled by this Chinese dairy farmer who has the biggest man-boobs ever recorded. Check out the full article at The Sun.

Secret agent squirrel

This is top secret video from an Al Queda-type training camp for squirrels. Looks like they're never going to stop trying to get into my birdfeeder.

Kid uses school as a musical instrument

My High School administration would NEVER have let me do this. Luckily, this kid goes to a pretty cool school; Or he's good at picking locks.

Hey look, it's Jesus!

Some computer geeks took data from the Shroud of Turin and came up with a photographic representation of what Jesus really looked like. That is, if you believe that Shroud of Turin isn't a hoax... or in Jesus... or that computers can actually do such things. If you're interested, more photos will be revealed on an upcoming TV special.

Here's the full article

Dragon made from plastic cutlery

Awesome... now too bad this guy wouldn't be able to chew through an Outback steak without losing a "tooth".

WHY?!?!?!?!

Clowns, a parody of an outdated song, bad singing...
This video has it all!

I bet you can't sit through the whole thing. At least without having night terrors.

Fatty-Fat Friday!

A tribute to my favorite breakdancer of all time:

Awesome paint job!

George W. uses Clinton as a hand towel!

Watch this raw footage of George Bush and Bill Clinton in Haiti. About half way through the video George W. wipes his hand on Bill Clinton's shirt!

Money saving tip of the week

A college in Wisconsin says it will save money by changing its default font on its e-mail system. The old font was Arial and they say changing it to Century Gothic will use 30% less ink. They say the cost of printer ink works out to about $10,000 per gallon. The change sounds minor, but it will save money on printer ink when students print out e-mails in the new font, which could add up to real savings. The decision is part of the school’s five-year plan to go green. School officials say it’s great that a change that’s eco-friendly also saves money.

If you print out a ton of emails, this may be a good idea...

News anchor falls on live TV

I love TV news bloopers... Here's a good one.

Seth Meyers tells the Boner Ghost story

At a panel discussion for the MacGruber movie at SXSW this week, Seth Meyers tells the crowd this funny story about the "Boner Ghost". It's worth a view just for Seth Meyers' Will Forte impression. Too bad most of the SNL sketches aren't this funny.

Kid with 31 fingers and toes!

That's a lot of little piggies! It's gonna take more than wee wee wee to get all the way home... look at those feet!

A Chinese boy with 31 fingers and toes is set to undergo an operation to remove the extra digits. The six-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, has 16 toes and 15 fingers. One of the fingers is incomplete and appears on X-ray photographs as a "fork" sticking out from the right thumb.

The boy, from Shenyang in China's north-eastern Liaoning province, beats the current world record of 12 fingers and 13 toes. The condition is known as polydactyly.

Joe Biden's F-Bomb

If you missed seeing this on the news... Joe Biden drops the F-Bomb as he greets Obama to the podium to talk about signing of the Healtcare Bill. You can hear the microphone pick up Biden saying "This is a big F-ing deal!"

Lost: Cork it up!

Answers! Thank you... Richard's back story was something we've all been waiting for. Seeing how he came to the island, and how he got the job as Jacob's "assistant" was a key piece to the puzzle that is Lost. Could his story been summed up in five minutes? Absolutely:

Richard's wife was sick, he tried to save her and in the process accidentally killed a mean old doctor. He went to prison, got some bad religious counseling and was sold into slavery before he could be put to death. The slave ship he was on hit a bad storm, got carried to the island on a huge wave, crashed into the 4-toed statue and landed in the middle of the jungle.

But eye-liner actor dude was probably like "Hey, I've been standing around while everyone else has been acting their pants off. Give me a freakin' episode to try out this Spanish accent I've been working on!" So we got a full-on flashback that was actually pretty compelling, but lasted for over half of the episode... our patience paid off big time, however, with some huge reveals at the end of the show!

I know I'm going to have to watch the last 15 minutes a few more times to fully appreciate what's going on... but here's what we now know in a nutshell:

The Smoke Monster kills everyone on The Black Rock except Richard. The reason is because he can't kill the people Jacob specifically brings to the island. Instead, Mr. Smoke Monster gives Richard the 'ole brain scan, finds out his weaknesses and disappears only to return in the form of someone who can influence Richard: his dead wife (This is the same trick he used on Ben, by coming back in the form of Alex to convince him to follow "Locke"). Smokey then tempts Richard with the possibility of seeing his wife again if he does him a favor (similar to the deal he made with Sayid). The favor? To kill Jacob. Smokey lies to Richard, tells him he's dead and in hell, playing on his deep belief in religious fairy tales. He also tells him that Jacob is the devil and that he somehow stole his body. It's not clear if this is part of the lie or if there is some truth to the fact that Jacob is responsible for The Man In Black being able to take the form of other people. This scene is important because it's the first time Smokey finds the "loophole": He can get someone else to kill Jacob, freeing himself from the island.

Richard hunts down Jacob, gets his ass kicked, and realizes that he is not really dead after being repeatedly dunked in the ocean (Talk about religious symbolism... baptism anyone?). So, if he's not dead... what is going on?

By using a bottle of wine as a metaphor for evil, Jacob explains that the cork on the bottle is the island, the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs. The Man In Black believes that everyone is corruptible because they sin by nature. Jacob brings people to the island to prove him wrong. Jacob doesn't want to interfere with these people once they're on the island because that would defeat the purpose of his argument. Richard points out that if he doesn't, the Man In Black will. Impressed by his insight, Jacob "hires" Richard as his intermediary, to advise the people he brings to the island. In return, Richard will never die.

At this point, Jacob realizes that the Man In Black won't stop until he's dead... and if Jacob dies, evil will be spread all over the world. So he comes up with the idea of auditioning the people he brings to the island as "candidates" to take over his job of keeping the island safe, and keeping the cork on the Smoke Monster.

Richard is now on Team Jacob and is instructed to hand the Man In Black the white rock... as a way to show the balance of power is now on Jacob's side (also a pretty douchey way to rub it in!).

At the end of the show Jacob approaches the Man In Black and wants to know why he tried to kill him. It's because he wants to leave the island. Jacob tells The Man In Black that he will never leave the island as long as Jacob is alive; and if he dies, someone else will replace him. The Man in Black says that he’ll just kill the replacement, too. Looks like this is what is happening back in the present day - Jacob died, Dogan was his closest replacement and The Man In Black had him killed too. Looks like one of the gang on the beach needs to replace Dogan if they want to keep the Smoke Monster on the island... who will it be?

Phew... your thoughts?

If the "Weird Al Story" was made into a movie

This movie trailer actually looks AWESOME! Someone has to actually make this movie...

Presidente? Presidente? Presidente?

Star Wars Incest

If Star Wars was re-edited to highlight what was going through Han Solo's mind...

Baby music critic

Watch how this kid gives her reviews of music by Miley Cyrus and Bon Jovi.

Whoops!

"Hey, I think I'll go into the kitchen and get myself some ice crea.... WHOOOPSIE!"

Ben Affleck has roid rage

Ben Affleck starred as a kid on steroids in this horrible old HBO show called "Lifestories: Families in Crisis". This demonstrates just how lucky Ben was that his friend, Matt Damon, let him put his name on that Good Will Hunting script... otherwise he'd probably be starring in Sham Wow commercials right now.

My mom's on Facebook

Sure, this would have been funnier a year ago... but it still made me laugh.

The surfing alpaca

I've been waiting for this typo for years now...

Fat models make fat chicks sad too...

You know how magazines and commercials are now using plus sized models to make fat people feel better about themselves? Well, it's not working. According to a new study by the University of Arizona, ads featuring bigger models don’t actually make most women feel very good about themselves. Apparently, pretty much everything makes women feel like crap about how they look.

According to the researchers, larger women feel better about themselves when ads don’t include any models at all, average-sized ladies actually have lower self-esteem after looking at ads with plus-sized models rather than uber-skinny ones, and thin folk prefer the traditional tiny models. The study did, however, come up with one way fat models can help sales: “If a normal-size woman sees moderately heavy images in ads for weight-loss products, she might feel overweight and be more inclined to buy a diet plan or gym membership.” Basically, use plus-sized models to make women feel bad enough about themselves that they spend more money on gym memberships and diet products. Brlliant!

Full article is here

Fatty-Fat Friday!

Let's give this week's Fatty-Fat a round of applause:

Driving tip: Don't drive into a rock slide

Idiot doesn't even see the huge boulders on the road... what DID he think the news crew was filming?

Model double fail on the runway

I never had the urge to watch America's Next Top Model... but after seeing this footage, I think it may be even more challenging than Survivor! Walking down stairs in heels? Navigating two swinging pendulums on the catwalk? DVR now set!

Tiger's text messages revealed

Porn Star, Joslyn James, released all of the text messages sent to her from Tiger Woods during their affair. The almost 100 messages are extremely graphic; discussing three ways, golden showers and violent acts. In one message Tiger says "(I'm gonna)hold you down while i choke you... Then im going to tell you to shut the F--- up while i slap your face and pull your hair for making noise".

Now, whenever we bring up Tiger Woods I get a flood of messages from "holier-than-thou" people saying that they don't care about this story... So if you aren't the least bit interested in seeing all of the texts, and reading the disgusting things Tiger Woods is into, don't make this link to all of Tiger's texts the most visited link on the website today.

Update: 2:51pm - Too late, almost 1,000 hits in the first half hour... nice try, though.

The Music All Morning St. Pat's Party

Thanks to everyone we met yesterday at Mahoney's for coming out to our annual St. Patrick's Day party. Hope you had as much fun as we did!

The latest "Between Two Ferns"

If you loved Zach Galifianakis on SNL a couple of weeks ago, you'll enjoy the latest interview in his "Between Two Ferns" series. This time he stumbles through an awkward interview with Ben Stiller.

*NSFW - some strong language*

Jesse James is the Tiger Woods of whatever Jesse James does

Did Sandra Bullock's husband cheat on her with this woman?
Tattoo Model, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, is claiming to In Touch magazine that she slept with Jesse James for about eleven months. She includes some very intimate details about their relationship including the fact that they had sex three times a day in his garage. Michelle also claims that she entered the relationship because Jesse led her to believe he was single. “I would never have hooked up with him if I thought he was a married man,” she said. Michelle does admit to having unprotected sex with Jesse, who she refers to as Vanilla Gorilla because he was so "well-endowed." Yikes! You can read the whole interview here.

Awkward Office St. Patrick's Day Bingo

Do you work with a bunch of lame idiots? Do you dread holidays like St. Patrick's Day because of the inevitable stupid jokes and obnoxious green ties? Why not pass the time by playing "Awkward Office St. Patrick's Day Bingo". Click the photo to enlarge, print out and kill 8 hours before you can hit the bar.

Don't ask her to make you an omlette

That's a big weiner

Here's another submission from our pal, Obsessive Rob: BigHotDog.com. They produce, what else: big hot dogs. These suckers are 16 incles long and weigh 7 pounds!

You can slice them up and cook them like hamburgers on the grill. The creepy guy in the video kind of makes me not want to buy one... but it actually does sound like a good idea for a big barbecue.

To order, visit their website.

Lost: James sure does have a lot of sex

I was excited for this episode because I thought we would finally find out what team Sawyer is playing for. Of course, in the world of Lost, just when you realize how things are playing out they pull the rug right out from under you. The flash-sideways stories have been revealing the true nature of the characters over the past few weeks. Sayid: bad, Jack: good, Ben: good... Sawyer: still a question mark. In fact, just as it seems like he's getting redemption and putting himself on the path of good by begging Miles to talk him out of killing the real Sawyer... BAM! Kate literally smacks him out of it. This seems like a parallel to what's going to be happening on the island. Sawyer is a wild card, and the variable of Kate in his life could possibly push him in either direction.

It's interesting that Sawyer is a cop in the flash-sideways... especially since we know he saw Kate's handcuffs on the plane and helped her escape security. Why would a cop do that? Again, there seems to be something about the combination of Sawyer and Kate that creates an unpredictable outcome. Can't wait to see what happens after Sawyer "catches" her running from the authorities.

Back on Team Smoke Monster, we finally get to see where Jin has been hiding - he's been sleeping next to Claire's creepy fake baby. Clearly, Jin doesn't want to be a part of this team. He doesn't really want to do anything but find Sun. Honestly, I could care less about either of them at this point. I hope their story becomes a little more interesting because both of these characters are getting a little annoying just complaining about how they want to find the other to anyone who will listen.

Mr. Smoke Monster has ultimate control over his group. When Claire attacks Kate, Smoke gives her a good smack and sends her to her room crying, later to return with a disturbingly weird and creepy apology to Kate. Sayid is powerless at this point, not able to react or care when Kate's throat is almost slashed by Crazy Claire. Again, will Kate and Sawyer join their ranks, or will they overcome evil? Either way, they better come up with a better plan than "taking the sub off this rock". Have they been watching the same show as we have?

Some random observations:

Yep, that was Charlie's brother in the police station looking for Charlie.

Nice to see Charlotte, and interesting how she's working in a museum with Mile's dad (The star of the Dharma instructional films, Dr. Chang). Maybe her bad one night stand with James Ford will somehow push her towards Faraday in the flash sideways world?

They sure did make a big deal about that locked room on the sub. Wonder what's in there? If I had to make a guess it starts with a "D" and ends with an "esmond". How else is he going to get to the island at this point?

I'm not sold on the fact that Widmore wants to kill the Smoke Monster. In fact, his body language kind of led me to believe that he was playing Sawyer. I think Smokey sent Sawyer over to the island to test his loyalty and make sure that Widmore had arrived. Charles Widmore was instrumental in getting Locke to rally everyone to get back to the island... he must have known that Locke would be the perfect vessel for the Smoke Monster to work his master plan. I think Sawyer is going to freak when Widmore and Locke meet on Hydra Island and shake hands.

So, Anthony Cooper is still a con man in the flash sideways? He must have somehow rehabilitated himself after causing the death of James' parents. Locke's flash-sideways life was great... his father was still on the wedding guest list and obviously didn't ruin his life by conning him out of a kidney and abandoning him.

Does anyone buy the fact that Smoke Monster's mother was crazy and that his path would have been different if she raised him differently? I'm not sure if this was important information or if he was just making something up to manipulate Kate. Time will tell on that one.

OK, that's enough for this morning... your thoughts?

Fail: Lion King toy

The circle of life?

Woman trying to be fattest in world

This woman from New Jersey (where else!?!) dreams of being the fattest woman in the world. She says her "fantasy" is to reach 1,000 pounds. You may wonder how she can afford her $750 a week (!) eating habit... she does it by eating on a webcam. Apparently, there are people who are into watching fat people eat. "I love eating and people love watching me eat," she told the paper. "It makes people happy, and I’m not harming anyone." Uh... ever hear of heart disease?

Here's the full story and photos from the NY Post

Uh, wrong photo?

Looks like someone used the wrong stock photo for this story:

Amateurs are better at We Are The World

If you were disappointed, or offended, at how terrible the 25th anniversary of We Are The World came out (auto tune... really?) you'll love this video. It's a collection of amateur singers found on YouTube. These people aren't celebrities and don't have record contracts, but they sing the pants off of the "professionals":



For comparison's sake, here's the official version complete with that stupid rap breakdown in the middle:

Even I'm getting sick of seeing myself in print

If you missed the Poughkeepsie Journal's cover story on me in this Sunday's Lifestyles section click here for the full story.

Fastest iPhone typist

This guy can type 81 words per minute on his iPhone. I can't type any words with the letter M in them without hitting return by mistake.

Pearl Jam performs on SNL

If you missed the show this weekend, here's Pearl Jam performing "Just Breathe":

Leno is owned by a Conan fan

His hand says "Co-Co FTW" (For The Win)

He's hung like a first baseman

Music All Morning in the Record

**New posts for Friday are below this one - come on, do you think we'd bury this on the 2nd page after just one day?**

The Times Herald Record put together an amazing shrine to the Hudson Valley Radio Legend that is now up on their website and in today's paper. See photos from the past 15 years, read Boris' top 10 memories, share your own photos and memories, hear stories from Simon, Shmonty, Brandi and others...

Oh yeah, and there's video too:

Check out the full story at recordonline.com

The Lady Gaga video we were talking about...

This is the new video from Lady Gaga that a listener sent me this morning. It's for her song "Telephone" and features Beyonce.

Tell me that this isn't the greatest music video since Thriller:

*NSFW - Almost nudity and some bad language*


Some of the weirdest parts of the video -
1:00 Gaga gets her clothes ripped off by the prison guards
1:50 Gaga makes out with a chick wearing glasses made of cigarettes
2:27 Gaga is wearing Diet Coke cans in her hair
4:33 Gaga does some weird dance move as she escapes the prison
5:02 Beyonce feeds Gaga a hot pocket
And it just gets stranger from there!

Plus, don't miss the blatant product placement, here are the ones we counted:
- Virgin Mobile cell phone
- Diet Coke can hair curlers
- Polaroid camera
- Wonderbread
- Miracle Whip
- Honey Bun pastry
- PlentyofFish.com dating website
- The Pussywagon truck from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies.

I'm not a Gaga fan... but this video is the greatest thing ever produced!

Fatty-Fat Friday!

Flexible Fatty:

Reporter throws a hissy fit on the air

What's worse than getting carjacked, raped and murdered? Apparently technical difficulties that make you have to look at your note pad while doing a live shot. Wait through the video to see the reporter throw a hissy fit:

Biggest house of cards ever!

This is archetect Bryan Berg next to his world-record-breaking house of cards: a replica of The Venetian Macau. It took him 44 days and 218,792 individual playing cards to complete. How awesome would it be if Tiger came running into the room and knocked the whole thing down?

If Lost were Baywatch

Unfortunate ad placement #76:

From Denise in Vernon, NJ

Chaz Bono and Jennifer Aniston in High School

Chaz Bono and Jennifer Aniston were good friends in High School. If their gym lockers were right next to each other it may very well explain why Chaz wanted to eventually become a dude...

Andy Richter talks about hating NBC, Leno

As you know, Conan O'Brien has a gag order and can't say anything about the whole NBC debacle for another few months... but his sidekick, Andy Richter doesn't, and he's finally ready to tell people how pissed off he is!

Boris and Brandi featured on Metromix

We have to wait until tomorrow to see the feature about WRRV's 15th anniversary in the Times Herald Record. Until then, here's a short interview Boris and Brandi did for Metromix:

Q&A With Boris and Brandi of WRRV

Woman in China grows horns!

This 101-year-old woman is causing a stir in China, because she has begun to sprout horns on her head! A horn started growing on her head a year ago and just continued to get bigger and bigger. Now it looks like another one is sprouting up on the other side of her head. Not to worry, this woman isn't the offspring of a forbidden human / goat relationship... it looks like she just has an abnormally large "cutaneous horn" which is a raised growth that can be commonly found on elderly people who have been exposed to radiation.

Lost: Doin' it with the school nurse

Last night we finally got to see which side Ben lands on. Throughout the series, Ben has bounced back and forth from being a hero and a villain... I was rooting for him all along, and am glad he's finally been revealed one of the good ones. As for the rumors of his demise from the previews last week; they were greatly exaggerated.

In the flash sideways, where Jacob has no control over any one's lives, Ben is leading a very similar existence to the one he has in the real "touched by Jacob" world. He's a powerless man who cares deeply for his surroundings (school / island) and wants to do anything he can to protect it. He eventually gets the opportunity to seize power (blackmailing the principal / killing off Dharma), but at the cost of destroying his daughter-figure's life (keeping Alex out of Yale / Killing Alex). In the world untouched by Jacob, Ben makes the right decision and puts Alex's future over his own Napoleon-like desire for power (Catch the not-so-subtle parallel that Ben was teaching the class about Napoleon?). In the end, Ilana forgives Ben and welcomes him to "team Jacob", otherwise known as "the team that was screwed over by Jacob".

Back on the island, we finally catch up with Richard. He's distraught over Jacob's death and feels cheated and alone. We find out he never ages because of a "gift" of eternal life that Jacob bestowed upon him. The gift comes with a crappy loophole, however - you can die if someone else kills you. I'm assuming this is the same eternal life dilly-o that Jacob had before Ben killed him. This eternal life deal shouldn't be confused with what Michael went through before returning to the island and blowing up the freighter. He couldn't die because the island wasn't "finished" with him yet... That's why Jack believes the dynamite didn't kill him and Richard. After his field trip to the lighthouse, he knows the island needs him, and that he's there for a reason.

I was so happy to see everyone together on their respective teams at the end of this episode. If I had to wait a whole other episode to see Jack and Hurley arrive at the beach I would rip my hair out. The "war" that Widmore told Locke was coming to the island is finally starting to begin. Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Crazy Claire and the remaining others are all on team Smoke Monster. The fightin' Jacobs now include Ilana, Miles, Lapedis, Ben, Sun, Jack, Hurley and Richard... Damn, where's Jin? Last we saw, he was with Claire heading to the temple. Since then, he's been MIA. From what I hear, we've got a few more weeks until this is cleared up.

Some things I took notice of this week:

Big news - the island did exist in the flash sideways. Ben and his father did go there, and somehow left. What happened to the island that sent it miles underwater? Hopefully we'll find out in a couple of weeks with the rumored Richard flashback episode.

The Ben parallels between his life and the flash sideways were great. I especially liked the irony that he killed his father with a gas canister in the real world, but in the flash sideways he's using a gas canister to keep him alive.

Nikki and Paulo were actually on the island for a reason? So Miles could read their thoughts and get their diamonds? It's a stretch, and an obvious attempt to say "see, that storyline wasn't stupid after all". Out of respect for an awesomely written Ben episode last night I'm going to just shut up and give the writers this one.

This really bugged me - so why didn't Ben just tell the principal I want you to resign AND give Alex a great recommendation or else I'm telling everyone you slept with the Nurse. Ben had all the cards in his hand and blew it. I know it was necessary for the story to have Ben choose between Alex and seizing power, but that really bugged me.

Here comes Mr. Widmore on his private submarine (what?). Looks like he's headed to the Hydra to catch up with team smoke monster. How did he find his way to the island? What is his plan? Is he the smoke monster's ticket off the island?

I'm sure I missed a bunch... what do you have?

Holy $#!* look at this

Take a look at this 3D game from Japan:



It’s titled “Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda (Hidden 3D Image: There It Is!)” Basically, it’s a puzzle adventure and the goal is to find hidden letters and silhouettes. It just went on sale in Japan; I'm not sure if it's available in the US yet. You can’t play it on the regular Nintendo DS or DS Lite.

Filet O Fish guys on Rachael Ray

Don't know how I missed this, but the guys behind the McDonald's Filet O Fish commercial were actually on the Rachael Ray show last year. Thanks to everyone who sent me the video!

Kimmel's Handsome Men's Club

Jimmy Kimmel assembled a huge group of famously handsome actors to star in this sketch, which is quickly becoming a viral hit on the web. It starts out slow, but get's a little funnier towards the end. Just watch it so you can delete it from your Facebook wall when you friend from high school posts it there next month.

Iron Man 2 Trailer

The newest trailer just hit the web:

What happened to Zach's beard?

If you were watching SNL this weekend and wondered what happened to Zach Galifianakis' beard during the last sketch, this may clear things up:

The cast of Community finds out they're renewed

Here's something you don't really get to see every day... It's video of the entire cast of Community when they found out the good news that they were renewed for a second season (and the bad news that they'd all have to work with Chevy Chase for another year).

Zach Galifianakis drops by the set

If you missed Zach Galifianakis on SNL this weekend, you probably missed the best episode in years. Here he is in this week's Digital Short:

Blueprints of your favorite TV homes

Artist, Mark Moore, has created super-detailed blueprints of TV show homes. Click through to see apartments from I Love Lucy and The Jeffersons'. He's even got a whole layout of Mayberry and home blueprints for Fred Flintstone and Batman. I just wish the resolution was a little better, because I really want to see that sick layout of Wayne Manor.

Jimmy Fallon reunites the "California Dreams"

After a year of trying, Jimmy Fallon finally gave up on his dream of reuniting the cast of Saved By The Bell. Now, his new goal is to reunite the awesome show that ran right after SBTB called California Dreams. You gotta remember this show about a musical band that all lived in a bungalow by the beach! If not, the theme song will bring it all back... Surf dudes with attitudes, indeed.

Trolololololo!

Little known fact: Boris' grandfather was a semi-popular singer on Russian TV back in the 70's!

Fatty-Fat Friday!

Want to be as happy as this week's Fatty-Fat? Check out this lengthy list of secret items you can order at your favorite fast food restaurants. In-N-Out Burger isn't the only place that has secret items... Gotta get me a McDonald's Monster Burger, stat!

Zoo Books!

I gotta get me some Zoo Books!

*NSFW warning: the s-word appears in this video*

Fun with power outtages!

As we learned last week, power outtages can be fun! Not only can you play with the little pieces of dry ice you're not using to keep your food fresh, but look: free fireworks!

Wesley Snipes has seen better days...

Aircheck: Boris' interview with the Record

In honor of WRRV's 15th anniversary, The Times Herald Record will be printing a story along with photos and other memories from our first 15 years on the air. For those of you who missed it this morning, here is just a piece of my in-depth interview with Sandy Tomcho from The Record. The full article will run next Thursday morning.

All of the ex-SNL presidents team up for one video

Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph and Dana Carvey all team up for this Funny Or Die video:

Ben from Lost in a prision training film

Michael Emerson, who plays Ben on Lost, is one creepy guy. This is a prison training film from the early 90's where he played a prison counselor. Damn if he still doesn't give me the chills! I just know at the end he's going to release the smoke monster on this unruly prisoner.

You have a dirty mind...

There's nothing wrong with a couple of TV hosts curling on their Wii!

Dancing chicken interrupts class

Wait for the surprise ending...

Whoopie Goldberg pees her pants

What is going on with Whoopie Goldberg? Seems like she's been using her time away from The View to film some awkward public service announcements about women peeing in their pants. Really! The videos aren't very funny and poorly acted with some strange accents. Apparently she's trying to sell some sort of pee pad for women to wear so they don't wet themselves when they sneeze. According to her, 1 in 3 women pee themselves all the time. Is this actually true? Can any women clear this up for me? And would you buy a pad like this?

Here's one of the weird videos. The rest are available on 1in3likeme.com.

Roger Ebert's new computer voice

We talked about this on the air yesterday... Roger Ebert lost his jaw to cancer, so he's been using a computer to speak to people much like Stephen Hawking. However, computer programmers were able to lift Ebert's actual voice off of hours of his show and commentary on DVDs. The result was debuted on Oprah yesterday. Pretty cool!

Jon Gosselin's teeny weenie

Yesterday, Hailey Glassman posted a photo of what she seems to be claiming is Jon Gosselin's Penis.

In addition to the photo, Hailey continued her tirade against her former lover with these gems:

•This man has Hurt,Cheated,Lied and stole from EVERYONE including HIS OWN FAMILY! He's single-handedly ruined+hurt so many women/lives

•This is Karma. FYI don't F*ck with fire if you don't want to get Burned, and don't mess with the bull if you don't want the horns

•Question to everyone-If you lent ur ex 200,000 due to him manipulating u and using his children to get it from u as ur soft spot

•Promising to pay it back. Would u walk away from it and let him get away with all your money? I DON"T THINK SO twitterworld!

Here's a warning. DON'T put that Twitpic URL into your browser! You can't unsee that teeny little weenie no matter how hard you try. Use the censored photo below to see just how teeny Jon allegedly is:

Lost: Don't wanna know what Sayid was doing with that photo

With only 10 hours of Lost left, I've decided to take everything at face value. This may be naive, I know. But if they're setting up for a "Smoke Monster is good, Jacob is bad" switcheroo and can pull that off along side with everything else that needs to be resolved, I'll be impressed. For now, I would like to think that we are actually getting answers instead of more misdirection, so I'm going with the obvious: Jacob is good, Smoke Monster is bad. Does that mean I'm on "team Jacob?"

So which side is Sayid truly on: good or evil? This week we got the answer. According to Dogan, everyone has good and evil inside of them, but one side will always tip the scale. In the real timeline, Sayid has always struggled with his evil side. Torturing Sawyer on the beach, torturing Ben in the hatch, killing for Ben back home... He's a killing machine, and even though his good side struggles to keep it at bay, evil tends to win out every time. As we know, in the real timeline Jacob "pushed" Sayid. Did Sayid truly make these decisions to be evil on his own, or was it part of Jacob's plan to get him to do what he needed to do?

The answer, sadly, comes in the alternate reality. Sayid is trying to be a good man; he gives up the love of his life (to his brother!) because he doesn't believe he is worthy of her. He is trying to let good win out by following a straight and narrow path. He's in a boring, but responsible job; He's a caring uncle and he tries to resist using violence to solve his brother's problems with the mob. That evil is bubbling under the surface, however... and even without Jacob's "push" Sayid finds himself in a situation where, when given the option, he kills a man (Keamy!) even after getting what he wanted.

Back to the real life timeline... Sayid declares to Dogan that he is not evil, regardless of what the evil-o-meter shock machine says. Dogan knows the truth, so sends him out for a final "test" to kill the Smoke Monster. This test is similar to the tests given to suspected witches in Salem: Dunk 'em in a tank, if they drown they're not a witch. If Sayid is truly good, the Smoke Monster will kill him. If he is evil, he will live and do the Monster's bidding. Bad gamble by Dogan: Surprise! He was right, Sayid is evil and now recruited by the Smoke Monster's team. Bye bye Dogan and your weird John Lennon friend.

Who else is on the Fightin' Smokeys? Claire and Sawyer made the choice to follow him. Sayid's evil grin pretty much makes him the MVP at this point... but what about Kate? What happened down at the pit? Did Claire have time to recruit her to the team, or did they just high tail it out of there? I'm thinking Kate is still on the fence, and is following behind because she has nowhere else to go. Can't wait until Crazy Claire has time to confront her about Aaron! And what about Jin? He's there somewhere... looks like we will find out more about his path (and why he was in the freezer - can't stay out of the mob even in the Jacob-free world?) in the coming weeks.

Theory time: What if the alternate reality flashes are showing us who is truly good and who is truly evil. We are seeing what their lives are like without Jacob's influence. Those who are making good decisions without being "pushed" are truly good. Those who are evil, are truly evil. Kate looks like a good-guy at this point... looking at herself in the mirror at the mechanic's she saw the good person inside and decided she couldn't take Claire's bag and abandon her in LA.

Observations and questions:

Keamy is an a-hole even without Jacob's push. In the alternate reality, he's a loan shark mob boss. In the real reality, he was a soldier of fortune working for Widmore that eventually killed Alex.

Yep, that was Jack walking down the hall in the hospital.

Where is Richard during all of this?

Jin doesn't speak English and is still involved with the mob in the alternate reality. Doesn't look good for him not being on Team Smokey at this point.

The preview makes you think that Ben is a goner... but come on, this is Lost! "The man who has caused so many deaths will meet his demise" can mean many things. Don't you think if they were going to kill off Ben they would make it a surprise? Guess we'll have to wait until next week to find out.


Your thoughts?

What do you think about this?

I ordered a part for my car online and this page of bible verses was put in the box along with the receipt. The other side has a coupon for the store. What do you think? Should people be allowed to send religious propaganda along with items you buy?

Leno returns to 11:30 with a wimper

If you missed Leno's triumphant(?) return to The Tonight Show, you missed more of the same lame skits and jokes that made him fail at 10pm. I can't wait for Conan to be done with his NBC-imposed silence. Until then, the only Coco we get are his Twitter updates.

A proof reader just got fired...

Hey, Boris! Check out this store window. Do you notice anything wrong?
-Peter from Vernon

Ice dancing to Nirvana

You could ice dance to Motorhead, it's still really gay.

Group throws birthday party for complete stranger

Imagine going out for a beer with your friend, and then being "mistaken" for some guy named Ted who's being thrown a birthday party at the same bar:

Are you still without power?

So am I... They better get the electricity on soon, my pantry is getting pretty thin!

Lara Croft and Slave Leia snowball fight

For those of you who are still pissed at the snow... My inner-geek needs his inhaler.

Chatroulette: The Musical

For those of you unfamiliar with chatroulette, it's become all the rage with lonely guys all over the world. Just hook up a cam and go... you'll be connected with a random stranger to chat with. At any time, either of you can click "next" and then you'll both be randomly paired with someone different. Sounds like a great idea, but in reality it's a bunch of dudes who want to show you their penis.

This guy below, however, has decided to serenade the lonely people on chatroulette:

Here comes the train!