wiped out.

are you tired?

has life got you down?

have you lost your reason for living?

if you answered yes to more than one of these questions it's probably because your priorities are not in order and your television is not tuned into abc on wednesday nights at 8pm.

the concept for wipeout may not be the most creative or complex one but it probably is the most hilarious show on tv right now.

you can tune in at any time and you never have to worry about what you missed last week because the jist of the show is easy and simple to follow: the producers of the show go down to the nearest crazy house and pick out a handful of contestants they feel suitable for primetime television.

the contestants are then to complete in the most impossible obstacles that involve a combination of high altitudes and some form of water while commentators make fun of their futile attempts.

honestly, i don't see why you want to be doing anything else.

high fives.

remember the good old days when food ads would tell you how much you could get for a single dollar?

well those days are over and food companies are now competing against each other to show you how much they can actually overcharge you for a sandwhich.

and if you're not careful you'll let the loud shouting, bright colors, and skillful inflection make you believe that paying $5 for six inches of bread and meat is actually a good a deal.

when in all actually you probably could feed yourself sandwhiches for a week with what you pay for one sandwhich at quiznos.

did you miss me?

allow me to oblige you. here's a blink 182 video. take some time for sentiments and reflection.

wait, how do you say it again?

mahmoud ahmadinejad has been guilty of:

a. demanding that the occupying regime be wiped off the map.
b. asserting that the holocaust was a myth.
c. claiming that iran's nuclear program is for electricity generation and not for nuclear weapon development.
d. launching a gas rationing program to decrease iran's energy consumption.
correct answer: e. all of the above.

do you think that someone like this would have won with 63% of the votes?
correct answer: nah. me neither.

my hats off to the iranians...
the voter turnout in the 2009 elections was 10 million higher than any other election in the 30 years that iran has had elections despite the massive propaganda campaign to discourage people from even participating in the elections.

supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei said the record voter turnout in friday's election showed iranians value "resistance against oppressors," according to cnn.

what's even more interesting to consider is that there were 40 million votes cast and ahmadinejad was announced as the winner only two hours after the polls closed even though ballots in iran are hand counted.

so now can you understand the feeling of disappointment with the election results and the consequent feeling of frustration and the need for protests?
correct answer: yeah. me, too.

Everything (Album Version) - Murs

videotapez.

radiohead is awesome. no further explanation needed. i thought this rendition of videotapez was special. very rarely do music videos successfully display the theme of the song so needless to say when i saw this one i was impressed. this video gently rearranges the irrelevant nonsense in your life and places things in perspective. if you're not touched it's probably because you don't have a heart anyway.

so then it doesn't really matter now, does it?

delegation of authority.

i'm adorning this one with the disclosure that " i love jay-z as much as the next person but," jay-z's new single, "death of audio tune" sounds like that uncle at the family picnic who's older than everybody there but loves talking about how things were different in his day.

well of course.

i must admit that when i first heard "i'm sprung" i expected t-pain to be more attractive and i attribute this deception to the audio tune. so i understand jay-z's frustration however, 2009 is a much different place than 1996 when jay-z first entered the rap game and even if thirty is the new twenty, the unapologetic lyrics and complementary beats reflect nothing less than an old man's rigidity. audio tune is providing opportunities to those most deserving(i.e. justin timberlake, lil wayne, kanye west) and i'm all about affirmative action.

bada bing.

since i'm on the subject, microsoft revealed it's version of a better search engine [than googgle] entitled "bing" about three weeks ago.

but it's still a search engine and i didn't hear many complaints about how google just wasn't accurate enough. most people just internalized their internet search failures (as they should) and realized that it was not the search engine that was inefficient but rather the search terms that they were using.

so back off microsoft. the last thing we need is more technology making us lazier, more reliant, and less able to think critically for ourselves. do you know what the national act average score is? 21.1 for 2008 decreasing from 21.2 from 2007. not that the average from 2007 is anything to get excited about, but you get my point.

however...

the bing commercial is the realest commerical on tv right now and if your mind works at all like the storyline of the commercial you'll resent google for a moment. but only for a moment.

and i must admit...
i found this song faster with bing than google but i googled bing instead of binging bing.

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*if you don't recognize the guy in the picture, you should bing it...or google it. whatever.