holy god, he's damn attractive.

It's hot Hamm water! No? Ah, I kill me.

RIP, Ed McCarthy

CNN Radio’s Ed McCarthy passed away July 9th at Emory Hospital in Snellville, Georgia. Services are pending.

Ed joined CNN Radio in 1986 working as a news and business anchor. He most recently served as a National Correspondent based in Atlanta. Ed traveled the country covering all kinds of stories for CNN from wildfires and celebrity trials, to tornadoes and hurricanes. One of Ed’s biggest joys was covering The Masters in Augusta Georgia.

Before joining CNN Radio, Ed was news director and co-host of a morning show at WIRA/WOVV Radio in Fort Pierce, Fla. From 1985-1986, McCarthy served as a weather anchor at WTVX-TV in Fort Pierce. From 1982-1985, McCarthy was news director at WSTU/WHLG Radio in Stuart, Fla. He has also served as news director at WIRK Radio in West Palm Beach, Fla.

I'll miss you, Ed. Your fantastical laugh and joyful presence was such a great asset to the show; I'm so bummed that we never got to share a cocktail, although I did have the pleasure of hearding you consume quite a few :)

Rest in peace, friend.

God DAMN.

Sweet baby Jesus, Ryan Reynolds is hot as balls. Wow.

This fucking freaks me out...

...yet I'm simultaneously fascinated by it. Here are some images from a new underwater hotel that's set to open soon in Dubai - that was designed to look like a GIANT SEA MONSTER. Holy god. This is going to give me nightmares... yet I don't really understand why. Nightmares of AWESOMENESS! I need coffee.

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This is downright genius!

Well, at least for me, being a child of the 80s and all. I remember waking up every Saturday morning to watch Saved by the Bell... and actually, come to think of it, I still do that.

Um, nevermind.

this made me 'laugh out loud'

I love me some Bonnie Tyler, but this video is fucking ridiculous. I give you: a literal interpretation of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

Thanks, Nick!

Um, yeah...

So, here's the, um, boy person that's 17 that someone legally distinct from me (it's totally me) thinks is hot. Thoughts? I feel dirty.

The clown lady.

Ladies and Gentlemen! I give you... Patricia Engalls! Holy god.

Ingalls, a clown for 17 years, was in full clown costume and on her way to work a gig at the Ogden 20K Race. Anxious to get to work blowing up balloons and whatever other things creepy clowns do, she got in an accident with another vehicle and decided to haul ass. Imagine the horror as police arrived and arrested her in front of the kiddies. They kids clung to her and begged them not to take the clown away. Actually the true horror is her clown makeup. Down at the station, the drunken clown blew a .252, more than three times the legal limit.

Ingalls spoke out after her arrest to say she was sorry the kids witnessed her being taken into custody. “I’m not allowed to drink in costume and I should have never went because I was too upset,” said Ingalls. However, she denies she was drunk at the time of the accident.

Holy mother of god.

That is just WRONG. Wrong wrong. Wow. She looks like the chick in "There's something about Mary" - not so much the Cameron Diaz one as the wrinkly old lady.. man oh man, looking at how her skin is straining to hold them in is kind of making me want to throw up.

Thanks, Tim!

Zombie Prom!

How rad is that?? Happy Thursday!

Peter Carlin's interpretive dancing video

(p.s. He's the one in the blue hat on the far right)

Thanks, Seumas!

Picture of Cheesus

Oh good lord... literally!!
I kill me.

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Here's the pic of the girl who didn't wear underwear for her high school pictures

Seriously... I have empathy for any teenager who's going through the perils of high school livin', but COME ON. You show up for picture day sans-underwear and sit on a bleacher with your legs uncrossed full-on KNOWING that you're freeballing it, and then cry to the media that your vagina is exposed in 100s of yearbooks? Shoulda thought of that before you went spread eagle in front of the camera... geez, girly. You are the reason that thongs were invented.

Peter Carlin's facebook picture...

...okay, am I perverted or is this picture highlighting Peter's, um, peter? Oh, jokes! My god, I'm lame.

But seriously, this picture is pretty crotch-centric... or am I wrong? Please to be discussing.

holy fuck, this is hilarious!

http://www.awkwardboners.com

Thanks to Peter Carlin for the, um, link.

This website is genius... and pretty gross.

How crazy is this?

Bette's got herself some strong genes.

I'm stealing this headline from Rick: "What rhymes with no comment?"

As he said, it would be weird to not post this since it's on the internets and in a prominent Portland paper:



Stop the Music: Rick Emerson Show Fans Fight for More Talk.

4:57 PM May 11th, 2009 by Kelly Clarke
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Die hard fans of the Rick Emerson Show, the geekcentric local radio program that recently emigrated to KUFO Rock 101.1 from sister CBS Radio station AM 970 have started a campaign for more talk, less music during the show’s new, prime 5 am-9am time slot.

The sonic kerfuffle started last Monday, May 4, when fans like Seuman Froemke noticed that there was a whole lot more King of Leon and Green Day playing than usual during RES than Emerson’s trademark offbeat rants about obscure rock lore, Portland politics and the unifying power of bacon.

It turns out that the show’s daily mix of talk with a little music in between had been upended by CBS Radio. The new schedule, as of last week, slashed the amount of time Emerson and longtime co-hosts Tim Riley and Sarah X. Dylan spend dissecting the minutiae of the day down to a mere 90 minutes over the course of four hours. That’s down from 140 minutes when the show moved to KUFO in early March. When RES aired on 970 AM, the trio had 190 minutes to jaw. (Note: I appear on RES most Thursdays to talk about WW’s top stories, but was not exactly aware what changes had taken place when I was at the studio last week. I can confirm the existence of a piece of paper printed with a pie chart taped to the wall in the set, noting that the breakdown for each hour of the show is now 24 minutes of music an hour, 22 minutes talk and 14 minutes ads.)

Froemke, a 31 year old former Portlander who now obsessively listens to the show via podcast in Denver, Colorado, noticed the change immediately. And he was not pleased. Here’s a bit from Froemke himself:

Rick, Sarah and Tim have always been the kind of fantastic [show] that brings the geeks and freaks and artists and the creative together in the Portland area… That’s why the show always worked before someone mucked with their formula….The Rick Emerson Show traditionally wasn’t something you listened to. It was something you participated in with your fellow audience members. You contributed content to it. You gave feedback directly to it… It is that sense of belonging and community and appreciation that has always kept the audience not just dedicated to Rick, Tim and Sarah, but to their advertisers. Companies like Viso and Everybody’s Garden Center and Secret Aardvark among many others…. How do you develop that loyalty if you strip a show of everything that makes it great and you reduce it to a bunch of rock records?

So he created “Save the Rick Emerson Show,” a new blog devoted to mobilizing the show’s legion of hardcore fans with the ultimate goal of cajoling CBS to changing RES back to the way it used to be. The blog lists public contact info CBS Radio and KUFO honchos as well as advertiser names and emails for local reporters (RES fans have sent me nearly a dozen heated and/or passionate missives so far).

Why the devotion? Froemke says it’s important to fight for quality, local programming: “I’m a 31 year old successful professional with disposable income that I’m willing to spend. I’m a marketer and program director’s wet dream,” he wrote WW last week. “But after so much noise and a lack of unique content out there, I’ve grown very particular about what I consume. I consider my time and my ears and my mind to be very valuable, so what I stick in them has to be good.” (Apparently that doesn’t include songs like this in KUFO’s current morning rotation.)

It’s not the first time the “Emerson Army” has gone to battle to save what they see as one of the only truly unique, local radio programs out there in a sea of sports commentary, on-air fart jokes and robotic music programming. When Entercom canceled the Rick Emerson Show on Portland’s now defunct MAX 910 in 2005, his fans sent hundreds of coffee cups to the corporate media behemoth’s Portland office with notes that said “I need my daily fix.” Rallies, parties and other RES devotionals also took place around town—more than 1,500 fans showed up one event. The fierce loyalty of the show’s listeners ended up helping RES find a new home with CBS Radio in 2006.

It turns out at least some of the show’s advertisers are fans too: “We’re not thrilled with it either,” says Scott Moritz of Secret Aardvark when asked about RES‘ new more rock, less talk format change. The local hot sauce company has been a longtime RES advertiser. They hadn’t heard of the “Save the Rick Emerson Show” campaign yet. “I like Rick, I’d rather hear him more,” Moritz says. “It’s a talk show. That’s what I signed on to advertise with.”

I couldn’t reach Rick Emerson for comment, but I’ll update the post once I hear back from him. He’s probably busy watching reruns of Mystery Science Theater 3000. At least, that’s what I always assume he’s doing when he’s not on the air…

I also left a messages for Dave McDonald, CBS Radio’s General Manager for Portland and KUFO programming director Chris Patyk. Again, I’ll update once I hear back.

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This website is genius! And creepy!

www.thehairtrader.com

...here's the picture from my favorite one:...and here is the weird description to go along with it:

I have 10 ponytails from Vietnamese women's head from 18" long and up to 25". Hairs 100% virgin natural color. Healthy soft and shinny, guarantee never dyed or used chemilcal. I can supply about 10 ponytails each months if you can pay a good price. For more information, please contact me at by using contact this user feature on my ad or make an offer. If you are finding the best hairs for your business, you found already.


Um, really? That is the creepiest fucking thing I've read in awhile. I have 10 Vietnamese women's ponytails? Are they still attached to the heads?

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Hmm.

Britney Spears dancing around with her TAMPON STRING HANGING OUT. Oh boy. Isn't she wearing tights?? That just doesn't even seem possible...

Holy god. This is wrong.

Here's a video of the now-unavailable Apple application where you can SHAKE A BABY UNTIL IT GETS RED X's FOR EYES. Fucking wrong wrong. Check out the video!



Thanks, Seumas!!