Thank You, CBSC, For Making TV Just A Little Bit Worse

This,for lack of any better way to say it, is fuckin’ stupid. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council today released its decision concerning two episodes of South Park broadcast on the Comedy Network in March and April 2010.  Both episodes were broadcast at 5:30 pm Eastern Time.  The CBSC found that both episodes contained material that was intended …

My Painting of Paint Me On Velvet

So now that I’ve done album no. 1 of my Austin Lounge Lizards haul from yesterday, it’s time for album no. 2, “Paint Me On Velvet”. There are some gooders on here, but not quite as many. Let’s go. Boudreaux Was a NutcaseSomebody wanted to catch the biggest fish ever. Apparently, he was sorry that …

One CD Away From Owning All The Lizards Albums

I got a pretty cool late birthday present. Steve got me two more Austin Lounge Lizards albums! I own all the lizards CD’s but 1 now. What showed up in the mail yesterday were “Highway Cafe Of The Damned” and “Paint Me On Velvet”. Let’s look up when they came out. Highway Cafe of the …

Facebook Broke Up With The Breakup Notifier

Well it looks like, for now, the Breakup notifier has been broken by Facebook. The best part about this was it was not singled out to be blocked because of privacy concerns or because the idea is just inherently wrongwrongwrong. No no no. It was caught by an automatic spam detection system because it was …

I Wonder What The App Does If Someone’s Relationship Status Is "It’s Complicated".

Someone has given me yet another reason to not like Facebook. Dan Loewenherz has developed the Facebook breakup notifier app. So, you can punch in everybody on your friends list who you’ve had a thing for, and as soon as their relationship status changes to single, bingo! You’ll know about it and can start stalking/putting …

He Was Shit-Faced, Now The Officer Is Too.

Ug! Blech! Yuck eeewww icky. Ok I think I can tell the story now. Paul Andrew Kausalik, a well-known figure at the post office so they say, was out for some fun one night. I guess he had a little too much fun for him to be able to drive, and police pulled him over. …

In Your Facebook, Mr. Reporter Guy

It seems that social networking criminals are no longer content to get themselves arrested simply by staying logged in on a victim’s computer. Ifthe story of Rodney Knightis an indication of things to come, the job of the police just got a lot easier. Knight broke in to the Northwest home of Washington Post writer …

Being Poisoned By An Idiot? There’s A Visine For That

I’ve never seen the movie Wedding Crashers, but I do remember the commercials not making it look all that funny. That may explain, at least in very small part, whythis film-inspired prankisn’t all that funny either. Luciana Reichel, 22, thought it would be just haw haw hi-larious to put Visine into her roommate’s water bottle. …

His Defence Was Dead On Arrival

Here are two scary thoughts for anyone living in New York. There’s an ambulance company there that allows persistent violent felons to drive their ambulances, and one of them was dumb enough to use the ambulance as a getaway vehicle after a robbery. Kevin Cheeks had been driving the ambulance for a couple of months. …