Dr Phil On Bum Fights

So some of you may or may not know what bum fights is. Basically, its some guy who goes around LA, searching for bums. He pays them to fight each other. He does other stupid things like pay them to eat disgusting things, or to rip a tooth out of their mouth for a $40. What he does is absolutely digusting, so what does Dr. Phil do.... he puts him on his show:



The thing that kills me about this whole thing, is that Dr. Phil pretends that he didn't know what footage was going to roll. He didn't know that this guy's videos would be so gross and offensive. One of his own producers put that film together. Tons of people saw this at Dr. Phil, and nobody said anything to stop it from being on the air. Dr. Phil likes to claim that this guy exploits people and that it is wrong from him to do what he does, well guess what... Dr. Phil just used his footage to do the same thing. Dr Phil got ratings, got advertising revenue, and got a salary for doing it.

It infuriates me even more that his audience doesn't see what I see. How can they sit there and just take that. Can't any of them think for themself? Seriously Dr Phil. WTF?

Its a Mad World

My wife sent me this video last week. I love it. She says that it was in her head because it was recently in a Lost episode, but I don't think thats the case. I think it was in her head because it was in the Call to Arms video game commmerical during Lost, but I have been, and may be wrong again.

The video is great. I love watching it. Watching all the kids make cool pictures with their bodies. Its a really cool idea. But what caught my eye even more, was the fact that the song is a cover. Add this to my increasingly long list of song that I like the cover more than the original. Maybe I'm not as much of a purist that I thought. Chelsea would kill me for saying this, but I like the Tatu version of "How Soon is Now?" more than I like the Smiths version.

Also. For those of you still reading. The video above is a vSocial video, and I edited the layout, etc, by using out new MyBrand feature. Our side is doing a promotion for the month of Decemeber. For every video you upload and configure (super easy to do), you get entered into a drawing to win a digital video camera. Our work bought a ton of them, and we each get one to help to contribute to the content of the site. I love mine. Takes great digital pictures too. 8.0 MegaPixels. My only complaint is that you have to remove the battery to charge it, and the flash doesn't work that well. But other than that, it works great. It even has an mp3 player built in. I've never put music on it, but I might now that I think about it.

Cheers,

T

Kramergate

For those of you living in a closet, Michael Richards went off last week. He spouted off a bunch of racial words (mostly the 'N' word) to some black guys that were being load or something at the Laugh Factory in LA when he was doing a show. They started in on each other, and he started yelling a bunch of crap to them. I have no idea what he was talking about the fork up their @$$, but whatever... anyways, someone made this and we featured it on our site:

It's pretty funny, when you throw it all together. I'm still trying to wrap my head around what to think about the whole thing. Gloria Alred, this "Civil Rights" Attorney in LA is representing one of the "victims" in this whole thing. They haven't said whether or not they are going to sue or not, but if you ask me... if her choices are to have Michael Richards apologize or do some other kind of gesture to say he is sorry, or take it to court and try to make millions of dollars for nothing... I think the lawyer is going to op for the 2nd option.

What I don't understand is how making someone fork over a bunch of cash makes everything ok. Who decided that that penalty is justified and correct, for every mistake anyone ever made. Why don't they do strange things, like they did in the fake Seinfeld pilot. Make Michael Richards be those guys butler for week. That sounds like a sweet punishment. Totally degrading to Richards. His career is really going nowhere, so thats already punishment.

I don't really understand what basis they have to sue on. People make fun of people in the audience all the time, especially hecklers. Comediens shoot back at them all the time. He's guy on stage telling jokes, i don't think anyone there really thought he was threatening to shove a fork up anyone's caboose. But I'm neither black, nor was I there, so I guess my opinion doesn't really matter.

Anyways, I got a chuckle out of those, so maybe you will too...