Pickup Artist Season 2

It only took em a year, but The Pickup Artist is back for another nerdily awesome season. I've already spotted an actor in the promos I've seen so far. There's this one kid with long dirty-blonde hair and wide rimmed glasses, a flannel shirt, and khaki pants. Switch the khaki with jeans and give the dude a shaggy haircut, and BAM! Williamsburg. I'm not fooled for a second.

I know a lot of guys are pissed off that producers have decided to ditch J-Dawg for Tara, the female wingman, but I'm ecstatic about this prospect. I loved Tara last year, but I just hope she has enough personality to provide balance to Matador's melodramatics. (Anyways, what the hell are guys doing watching VH1 in the first place?)

And I don't know what happened, but judging from the short promos I've seen, Matador is extremely hot this season. Maybe it's the hair, maybe he lost some weight, maybe got some work done... or maybe he was competing with Tara. Cat fight!

SNL Weekend Update with Bill Clinton

Best skit since the Farley era!

John Kerry Butts Heads with Bill O'Reilly Tonight on The Factor

I bet this shit was scripted.

The Bailout Fiasco: Conspiracy Theory

Call me paranoid, but I have a theory that these bailout talks, the debate controversy, and possibly the entire election amount to nothing more than an elaborate ploy by the media to divert our attention from the OJ Simpson trial... I refuse to be distracted. Here's the latest.

Cool Right-wing Music: Possible or Not?

Ugh, it's been forev since I updated this thing; but I've decided to finally do so. I sort of got inspired again to do this because I've been going buckwild with my Google Reader Shared Items page. That thing is amazing. I am constantly forwarding articles to people, so now I can centralize everything, giving me extra time to.... look for more articles.

In any case, I thought I'd re-open my E.I. blog with some food for thought stemming from a couple articles I've seen recently about music artists sending all these cease and desist letters to the RNC and the McCain campaign for using their songs at events. Are there ANY music artists out there besides Trace Atkins who actually support the Republican Party? Actually, are there any who don't hate the Repubs? Doubtful.

Even so, I had a brief exchange on this topic with Laura, who reminded me that there were a couple artists from generations past who celebrated certain right-leaning ideals:

me: I'm listening to my favorite leftist music: late Marvin Gaye
"Mercy Mercy Me (the Ecology)"
i wonder if there is a way to make cool right-wing music; somehow i think that's really difficult

Laura: uh johnny cash maybe?
taxes-death-trouble? trouble man?

me: gosh, that's true. I suppose George Harrison's "Tax Man" was pretty right-leaning

Laura: indeed

me: the only cool right-leaning music I can think of is about taxes tho
then again
hating to pay taxes is probably the coolest part about being a conservative