Written by THRILLHO | 03 August 2009

What I consider to be perhaps one the the best and most under-appreciated animated shows is back for at least 26 episodes airing on Comedy Central in the next couple years.  Following the success of four straight to DVD movies turned episodes, Futurama followed Family Guy with a rebirth thanks to the popularity of its syndication.  Most people (myself included) did not really appreciate the show until it appeared in syndication on Cartoon Network and Comedy Central.  It is my opinion that Fox really mishandled the show when it originally aired.  They were bumped around too much and were too often set in terrible time slots (7pm on Sunday).  Seriously, who watches anything at 7pm on a Sunday?

Written by EdHopper | 06 June 2009

Since I was 12-years-old I have had some sort of mental tic or anxiety that cries out for the soothing relief of a compulsive thought, repeated phrase or outright ritual. It all began with an irrational fear of becoming homosexual in the sixth grade. From there it transformed into worries about turning into a serial killer or some other vile character. By the time high school came around the thoughts were fixated on misfortune caused by my failure to tap a table or surface or cut through the kitchen at a 90 degree angle right in front of my family's dishwasher. In college the thoughts became even more strange, absorbed with religious, philosophical and scientific questions.

It wasn't until a decade after the symptoms began in which I even knew for sure that what I was dealing with was not about the importance of particular distressing thoughts. Rather, it was with a quirk of brain chemistry and electric wiring that at least three percent of the world has: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Up to this point OCD has probably been the only particularly debilitating thing in my life. Combined with it's cousin Panic disorder, it's wreaked a bit of havoc during my early and mid-20's. I have no doubt that I will always have this disorder, as it is hardwired into the brain. It has taken years to realize how bizarre I've behaved with it in the past and how draining and alienating it can become. Nevertheless, I still can have a sense of humor about the strange brain tic that has bothered me since the early 90s.

I was very pleased last week with the premiere of A&E's Obsessed, a reality show that details the treatment plans of people suffering from severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the type that doubtless alienates many people. Obsessed dealt with the disorder in a decent, humane and unexploitive way that may possibly help some people out there suffering from far worse OCD than I could ever imagine get some help with it.

Written by Smokey McTrees | 28 April 2009

Susan Boyle.  Bet you are fucking sick of that bitch!  Why, even Nagel has written about this withered old hag with the voice of an angel.  Barf.  Do you idiots really think her stunning appearance on that faggy British show was anything other then staged?  Let me lay out some facts for you dumb-asses:

1.  The show is, as LWN mentioned, a "reality" show.  That means clever editing is used to give a faux sense of realistic events unfolding as we watch them.  This is bullshit...

2. Because these type of shows hold auditions before they get anyone on TV.  I know a couple of chicks that tried out for American Idol.  They never made it to see Randy or Paula.  Because before they get their chance to ham it up for TV, they have to line up in a big tent and sing for a bunch of minor-league talent scouts.  This weeds out the truly mediocre from the truly awful and great singers.  Because the awful freaks make good TV, they are fooled into thinking they can move on and perform in front of the "real" judges.  The decent singers also get a chance to do the same.

Written by Love Without Nagel | 21 April 2009

So the organizers at the Miss USA headquarters must be trying to really spice up the competition right?  Is that why they thought the guy who blogs about what celebrities do in their free time would be a judge who would not try to put his stamp on the pageant?  Who were the other judges- David Hasselhof and Brett Favre?  Actually, three of the judges were this Perez Hilton character, Kenan Thompson and Holly Madison.

Look, I don't particularly care for these pageants, but at least they used to have an Arie of sophistication.  Now they are starting to turn into reality television.  The question in question and the response is below:

Written by Love Without Nagel | 17 April 2009

So the other day I went on Facebook^TM because social networking is the wave of the future.

On my landing page which I use to stalk people, two friends had this clip below:

2000 LWN would have invested his time in something that was seven minutes long on the Internet. 2009 LWN doesn't have the attention span, but I figured something amazingly hilarious was about to happen to this woman, so I figured I'd invest the seven minutes.  Here's a brief list of what I thought might happen: