Hot or Not
 

Yes the lesbian admin believes that two women kissing is racy.

If it were two men, or a man and a woman, I wouldn't believe it so, but because it is two women, it is wrong.

WRONG.

Confidential to Thrasher
 

Though we have accepted your money, pliffier is your greatest contribution.

VMA Observations
 

I watched MTVs Video Music Awards because, well, I'll drop the charade here and advise you as to my pathetic, miserable existence. I have no life.


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Chris Rock - made the event watchable. My personal fave was when he said Good Charlotte sounded like mediocre Green Day.

Good Charlotte - who gave these Hot Topic shoppers a record deal?

Madonna, et al. - the only thing sexy about the Madonna/Britney kiss is that is was Madonna & Britney. Otherwise, it was wooden and creepy, like the Gores. I missed the Madonna/Christina smooch because I excused myself to go the bathroom and let my imagination do for me what reality could not.

50 cent - for a bullet-riddled crotch grabber, he's an engaging performer. He needs acceptance speech lessons.

Eminem - should have known better than to do the tard puppet bit.

Metallica - shitty cover band.

Justin Timberlake - amiable doofus.

Fab 5 - sharkjump. And how are six people supposed to present an award? Hurt some feelings, keep it down to 2 and leave the stage uncluttered. Isn't there a QE for stage direction?

Duran Duran - glad they got the surprize award. Such a surprize that no one seemed to realize they were getting an award. How embarrassing for them that Kelly Osbourne has to buy them a standing O. The sound failure was just gravy on the cake.

Missy E - "And, here to my right, I'd like to thank the caterer's assistant."

Coldplay - Chris Rock got it wrong. You can't commit suicide when your asleep. Yawn.

Olsen Twins - I myself can hardly wait the 288 days, nine hours and four minutes. But do they have to talk?

JLo - deliberate snub for which I can never forgive MTV. Aside from the many film commitments in the Niagara Falls area, you can't expect a legitimate talent and star like JLo to attend every pissant awards show. Give the woman an award already, if for nothing more than her transcendent beauty and captivating charm. Bull, cow. Gobble, gobble.

Overall - Were they using a special fat leg lens? Or is junk in the trunk in?

Hot or Not
 

I totally missed this. I was throwing back surfers on acid and kissing a fellow associate's wife. Yikes.

Hot or Not
 

Hey HEY! No need to get your panties in a bunch. I know in the past that some posters have been upset with graphic pictures appearing on their screens at work. I thought this one, while hot, did not go too far. THus, the post.

I LIKE hot wimmin' kissing! I would enjoy seeing you kiss another woman! Mmmm, mmmm lesbians!

aV

Slang 101
 

Good question, why didn't you?

Hot or Not
 

Maybe after Breasticle Day, we could have Hot Wimmin' Kissing Day. It would be better than the Madonna/Britney facelick.

VMA Observations
 

Good run-down. I saw a lot of this while commercial-jumping during the US Open and some show about bridges on Discovery.

It appeard that everyone was a bit wooden.
And why where the mics so low?
It must have been a pretty slow year for bad music b/c the only new faces where the QE chaps. It was like a two-year old rerun.
The Olson Twins are THE vertical portal of the future.
All in all, the documentary about the history of bridges was more interesting.

VMA Observations
 

Junk in the trunk is in.

I didn't see many fat legs, other than Britney's, but I think that was camera angles shooting up her thighs.

Breasticle Day
 

Hey it's a penis joke! Some lame comic from the '80s called and said he wants his material back.

Documentaries
 

Isn't that always the case though? Dams, bridges, tall buildings, natural wonders, animals, freakin' a PBS, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel are cool.

Do any of the FBers own that 16 part history of NYC that PBS has been schilling? I'm seriously tempted to pony up the cash for it. So far I've seen the one with the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the one with the Manhattan road system development, one about corrupt politicians in the early 1900s and the one with Central Park's history. Love it.

Hot or Not
 

Breasticle Day
 

Okay, I aplogize.

But only because you are so obviously desperate, and therefore, dangerous as well.

VMA Observations
 

Christina, Beyonce, the random fly girls on stage . . . thank God Madonna was panted. I don't even wanna think about Kelly Osbourne. I would've had to change the zoom on the wide screen.

Maybe it was just bad lighting casting unflattering shadows.

Documentaries
 

They're not selling well here in Minnesota, for some reason.

VMA Observations
 

The last time I saw my favorite local punk rockers, Dillinger 4, play, it was an all ages show, and the bass player repeatedly urged the high school kids in the audience to beat up any of their fellow high school kids who wore Good Charlotte shirts. I had never even heard of Good Charlotte, but to this day I am ready to beat up anyone who wanders through my law firm with a Good Charlotte shirt. By "beat up," I mean "think derisive thoughts about."

Actually, the last time I saw them play was two Fridays ago, but that does not really count because the bass player came out for the sound check drunk out of his mind and completely naked except for a duct tape "X" across his very large ass. Someone tuned his bass for him, and the band managed to stumble through about three songs (after one of which, the lead singer noted that the bass player had apparently joined a different band that evening), before the bass player fell down and (I think) passed out for a bit on stage. The band said "Thank you, good night" and (because some of them own the club), discounted Budweisers to $1 a bottle for the rest of the evening. The opening act was good, though.

VMA Observations
 

Oh no it is not.

Breasticle Day
 

I hardly think the proper response to a joke you find objectionable is to turn around and make fun of crippled people.

Breasticle Day
 

Fair enough. Your intial response reminded me of this classic Seinfeld line:

Preist: "And this offends you as a Jewish person?"
Jerry: "No, it offends me as a comedian."

VMA Observations
 

We're talking about fashion, not the desires of random whiteboys.

Women are actually getting ass injections and implants. Not to roll JHo style but to add some ass.

VMA Observations
 

Don't be such a pussy.

This would have been more entertaining than the entertainment product I witnessed last night.

VMA Observations
 

That's what I keep telling myself.

VMA Observations
 

Another type of plastic surgery I'll never have to get.

VMA Observations
 

Random whiteboys like junk in the trunk.

And while buttocks sculpting is being used to plump out an otherwise narrow-waisted women's ass to fill her low-rise jeans -- only to the point of being taut and reasonably well-rounded (much like myself).

That said, cottage cheese is not a fashion.

VMA Observations
 

Unfortunately (fortunately), it will be only a quick fad. As long as this country is fat, our beauty standards will remain thin. The more rare the trait (non-mutant trait), the more desirable and beautiful it is. It's a genetic attraction to diversifying our gene pool. Plus, we're naturally attracted to healthy-looking people. Hollywood didn't get uber-skinny until this country got uber-obese. Cause and effect. And X-tina, Britney, et al are not Hollywood, but likely a 5 year fad. Granted, I'd still do both of them. But they both were hotter when they were thinner.

VMA Observations
 

The product you saw in the bathroom? That's your imagination's fault.

Documentaries
 

I think they sell waterproof ones in MN for KOGs*.

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*Kayakers On the Go.

Documentaries
 

I love the bridges things. Not so big on the war things sometimes.

Have you read "The Power Broker"? It's about Robert Moses who was a major force behind much of the bridge/highway/tunnel/park development in NY in the 30s 40s and 50s. Other people who know way more about NY can probably expand on that. I read it quite a while ago, but remember it being good. I think he's pretty controversial; not sure if the book was slanted one way or the other, or was attempting to be even-handed. It's from back in 1975 but it's history . . .

Thought you might be interested. Perhaps you could use the lawtalkers amazon link to purchase!

Documentaries
 

To the extent that I'd be forced to decide, because of the obvious space limitations, between that one and the ever-popular and equally-compelling nine-disc set of "Retrospective on Faucets", I would just rather forgo the dilemma. Too many choices just complicate things.

VMA Observations
 

I was noticing that Duran Duran has not aged particularly well at all. Some men seem to just get better and better looking as they age (until they hit about 55, then it's over), but these guys look just kind of plasticky and bad.

I think Madonna looks pretty good for her age. When my husband first saw her Gap ad, said "God she looks old", but I disagree.

Hot or Not
 

All I can say is thank god for Tivo. I was able to watch that thing in about 30 minutes. The face lick would have been hot if it had not looked so forced. No emotion, no hotness. And Christina can definitely out-sing Britney any day of the week. That baby voice of hers grates on my nerves.

It would almost have been watchable had the same 5 bands not been nominated for every freakin category. Let's see, Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Beyonce and 50 cent.

Great performance by Mary J. Blige, and it looks like she's lost a lot of weight. Mostly showed in her face.

And Kelly Clarkson? REally? That was a good video? Hmm.

VMA Observations
 

My over-arching VMA observation is that whoever directed it should be fired and killed to prevent him/her from ever working again. WELL before the Duran Duran sound problem, the s/o and I were making comments every 10 minutes about how terrible the sound was, both during the speeches and the performances. At the Duran Duran point, I said "this show doesn't deserve my audience," and I went to bed. You couldn't hear Redman during Dirrrty. Hell, you could barely hear Xtina.

BUT

The opening number was hot. Chris Rock was very funny, as usual. I particularly liked his: "we have to be real careful on the seating arrangements. Can't sit 50 cent anywhere near Ja Rule, can't sit Jay-Z and Nas together, and since the Olsen twins are down here, R. Kelly's gotta be way way up there." Even if he did double clutch on the joke, like he was considering not doing it.

Good Charlotte is a fraud, but from what I hear, the 12-14 y.o. girls love em. Personally, I think they're a poor man's Sum 41.

50 was good, but I'd rather have seen him do "If I Can't Do It" or "21 Questions," but then we wouldn't have gotten to see Snoop all decked out in his P.I.M.P. gear. And was that Don Bishop Magic Juan with him? Sweet.

WIthout the sound problems, I'd have given it an 8. As it was, a 2.

Ben Affleck Schadenfreude
 

I happened to catch Ben Affleck on the Late Show last night. Not sure if it was a repeat but it was recent since he was reading off a list of his "favorite" mean reviews of Gigli and talking about the stripper incident. Did anyone else see this? He was trying to laugh it off but he came off sounding incredibly defensive. He also made some really weak jokes about how Jenny won't let his friends in Bastahn throw him a real bachelor party as punishment for the strippers.

Also, I saw him throw out a pitch at a Red Sox game last Friday and there was a lot of grumbling in the crowd around me. Not exactly a warm reception from the "home town" crowd.

Pathetic-ist man alive.

Hot or Not
 

Which is why I kept saying to myself last night "VIDEO music awards or video MUSIC awards? hmmmm." What is the fucking point? Obviously there is zero separation between the video and the song in terms of awards. Is it really possible or just a weird coincidence that the "best" videos always match up with top-10 songs? Come on already, there wasn't one nomination-worthy video with a crap (and by crap I mean not top-10 because we all know that there is a lot of actual crap at the top of the charts) song? And MTV doesn't even play videos anymore, right? At least they make them sing live so we can tell just how "produced" they really are.

VMA Observations
 

The pride of Ajax, Ontario!*


*This inane statement is accompanied with the usual blanket apology for being Canadian and not being able to suppress the urge to point out every other Canadian on the planet.

Ben Affleck Schadenfreude
 

Matt Damon would have received a standing O. When is J.Fleck going to realize he can't go back? It's over for him. He has no home.

Ben Affleck Schadenfreude
 

that was a repeat. He probably couldn't get out of that, since it first aired when Giggly first opened. I'm sure the studio booked him well in advance of the bad press and he did his best to try to laugh it off. A lot better than J-ho would have done last night at the VMA's had she shown up.

Sneak Preview for tonight
 

Tonight is Letterman's 10th Anniversary at CBS Show. Some of the entries for tonight's top 10 list of "Top Ten Things About Being On CBS For 10 Years"

8. No matter how many years you're at the network, you'll never be as old as the '60 Minutes' guys.

. . . .

1. CBS? I thought this was ABC.

VMA Observations
 

Don't feel bad. I do the exact same thing for every famous Minnesotan (which explains why I never do it.)

Hot or Not
 

I was saying the same thing. OK, Kelly, good singer - video - boring.

My first impression last night was - hey those songs are OLD. Nelly? Eminem? Those are almost 2 years old now.