My comments on lazytown:

1) it's icelandic. Of course it's ****ed up. Cf: bjork explains how TV works

2) I've only seen one episode, but as far as kids TV goes, it seems pretty decent. Crazy, but decent. The message it tries to get across is basically "being active is better than being lazy (lol ironyaments, you're WATCHING ****ING TV), eating healty is a good thing, etc. The cake song episode (the only one I've seen in it's entirety) actually makes a big deal out of eating too much sugar.

3) my kids (4 and 2) were kind of ambivalent about the show. The four-year-old knows about the show because he's doinked around with the lazytown flash games on nickjr.com, and they both said they liked the show after seeing it, but neither has since asked to see it again. FWIW, they watch approximately 30-60 minutes of TV per day.

4) disclosure: the kids shows I'm personally most impressed with are Blue's Clues (I prefer steve to joe) and Thomas and Friends (the Alec Baldwin episodes are the best imo, but I have a soft spot for Baldwin). I pulled down a few of the Thomas episodes narrated by ringo (in the US these were re-done by george carlin) and my kids were totally bamboozled. I don't think they could make out a single thing he said. lol.

Also, in content-free poastings, saturday I was at a restaurant that has one of the galaga/ms. pac man combo machines. the four-year-old watched the demo for a couple of minutes, then explained it to me. "there are two games. EAT, and SPACE." He's seen pac-man before, so he skipped that and gave me the executive summary of galaga. "the bugs with the claws are BAD. They try to SPRAY YOU WITH COLOR."

I got an 88 on my essay. I'm pretty happy with that considering how much I procrastinated and screwed my self over.

Wife just told me that the Icelandic central bank was protested today, several hundred people at least.

Bill O'Reilly claims to not feel safe anymore.

Gold!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHYzEtR_mY4 <-- Never gets old!

God just put all His money in GE. He takes advice from me.

-Zeno

Ugh I can't believe I have to defend him, but he never said he's fine with it or thinks it's ok, just that it doesn't fit his definition of murder.

That doesn't freak you out?

Why would it freak me out that he defines murder differently than I do? It's just a word.

Anyway that's too much content for this thread. I'd be happy to discuss this with you in that thread.

I don't want to go back there.

I'm watching the Untouchables with a whole new perspective. Its amazing.

I spent a month getting drunk at 11 am and watching blues clues during college. There's not much to add to that.

Start at 4:30 if you have a short attention span

does this mean, in some weird, double reverse way, that he thinks his own murder would be legal? or would the fact that we accept his logic here mean that he is a moral agent?

Eddie Murphy is a ****ing genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvuF1...eature=related

EDIIIIIII U TREAT ME LIKE ANIMOOOL!

freakin Icelandic AC pirates IMO

Richard Pryor is just as good if not better: PRISON -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txp8B4ek_kk&NR=1


-Zeno

pvn,

I now have "Cooking by the Book" stuck in my head. "Never use a messy recipe. The cake will end up crazy!"

A passing remark in a Vin Suprynowicz column got me wondering, how many US Presidents can you name? I can only name 30 for certain, with two more that I'm almost certain of. I'm sure I would be embarrassed by some of the ones I'm forgetting.

Jesus the comments on that video have been taken over by pedophiles.

I doubt I could even name 20.

Bookstore in Taiwan

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8...ntaiwanel4.jpg

1.4MB photocollage for your comic relief.

I got 33. Missed mostly guys from after Reconstruction.