Until a man is 25, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts monastery in China and studied real hard for 10 years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a…

raindog, a few months ago, I had exactly this same discussion on a Videocracy entry. I was arguing the same case you are; at its best, Man vs Wild is an entertaining demonstration of the last-ditch survival tactics that give you a small chance of survival as an alternative to certain death. Survivorman, by contrast,…

Animal stabbing? Bear Grylls is a scavenger, except one time he threw a stick at a domestic rabbit that was duct taped to a log. And yes, like surprisingly few people have mentioned on this board, calling Man vs Wild a "reality" show is the biggest stretch of the definition yet.

Cool. Sounds like it got the treatment it deserves, all except for a better title. I may have to check this out.

Wow
I'm mildly ashamed to say I actually read this online. If the AVC gives it a B+, I guess I'm less ashamed now.

Fuck you, AVC, I wasn't finished. As I was saying…

Fuck the stupid indeed, or euthanize them. But don't piss them off. They have an unpleasant tendency to vote when pissed off.

When the hell are you gonna get an avatar, Mr. Phreaque? Your shtick demands an avatar.

Mary: because Ron Reagan is sacred and anyone who says he isn't a god deserves to be slowly disemboweled with a rusty butter knife. Ergo, the series ended at 1980. Ken Burns is trying to be the thinking person's John Cougar Mellencamp, so he avoids saying things that people will disagree with. I'm not saying I…

Leonard Pierce Is Always Wrong (upon whose name my comments have no bearing…just getting that out of the way) is right. It ain't a road trip without the Boss. Highway Star? Little Deuce Coupe? Feh. No one does engine fetishism like Springsteen. I don't give a rat's ass if it's overplayed; blaring Born to Run is…

dronkmonk is bloody well right. After such an anemic taste test, I'm starting to think this formerly solid web site has gone limp. Making it a limp site. I mean compared with other sites, so, um, it's limp FOR a site. Limp fo' site.

Two musings
1. By Walmart-izing the genre, Garth made Merle Haggard and George Jones cool by comparison. I would argue that, if not for Garth, real country would still have its hillbilly stigma. Waylon Jennings would be off limits to HDB's.

A-fucking-men, Raymond. There was a lot to hate about my freshman year, but incessantly hearing "crazy game of poker" made me want to stab the guy across the hall.

Just let me go on the record…
…and say that I would drink Sprite Green, if I liked Sprite more and they sold it in 24-can cases next to the Coke. I don't want a pound of sugar in every can. If they do the same thing with Coke, and put it in regular cheap cans and 20-ounce bottles, I'll buy it.

Firefight is the main reason to buy ODST. It's crack. Granted, Bungie dropped the freaking ball by leaving out matchmaking. It at least needs to let you search for open games. Still, if you've got friends with it, it'll never get old.

You beat me to it, Inertia. He did proclaim the un-rinsed, "al dente" (his words) warthog bunghole to be the worst thing he'd ever eaten.

The scary thing about electrolyte deficiency (usually hyponatremia, i.e. "low sodium") is that it has roughly the same symptoms as dehydration, so people and their Authority Figures (drill sergeants, Scoutmasters) treat it the same way; water and more water. This, of course, only causes you to lose electrolytes…

Stupid Hulu. It's spelled "snu-snu!" Snoo-snoo probably means something else entirely. I sentence Hulu's bad speller to death…by snoo-snoo!

I dunno. Honestly, I'm going off a secondhand report of a radio interview I didn't hear. It all sounded plausible, and fits nicely into my Disney-bashing, so I repeated it. It's called "journalistic integrity."

Give him a copy of Fallout 3. Nothing like exploding the heads off of mutant grizzly bears to learn about the circle of life.