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Dick In A Box VS. Nipplegate

NBC’s no longer slinging injunctions against YouTube for hosting clips from Saturday Night Live. In fact, they’re getting in on the party and have posted a couple segments from Justin Timberlake’s host/musical guest one two punch this past Saturday. If you’ve somehow missed the water cooler  musical..parody? let’s just say bit of the season, it’s called ‘Dick in a Box’ and it features Andy Samberg and JT. During the broadcast the word ‘dick’ was censored but in what appears to be the first move of its kind SNL generously removed the bleep on the version they released to YouTube which you can see here.

I had some thoughts on the matter, reasonably serious thoughts, but not quite serious enough inspire a well-crafted diatribe. This e-mail exchange between D. and myself kind of covers it, and then there’s your compulsory trash talking.

ME: Janet shows a little tittie and it's the biggest scandal of the century so far. Justin sings a very sexplicit song about putting his dick in box, it winds up on YouTube which many, many more children watch than halftime at the fucking SuperBowl, and he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sliced WHITE bread. I'm calling racist double standard bullshit on that.

Thoughts?

Funny skit though. That Andy Shambaugh gets on my nerves, however

oh, and sexist. with a little jacksonphobia in there.

D: you're absolutely right.  like, right on point.  but at this point, i'm not about pitching the two against each other.  janet is as nasty as she wants to be too...  (her wardrobe malfunction is also on yourube) and i have a feeling that had youtube and xtube been as popular then as they are now, the "scandal" would have played out differently.  she just happened to show her tit when the nation needed something trite to focus on...  the world is so fucked up now that i don't think she would have gotten the same play...  three years into the war.  she would have been scoffed at...

Mirren Vs. Thompson

The astonishing subtlety of the great Mirren’s E2 is all well and good, but I’m still rather fond of Scott Thompson’s turn as the The Queen.

Gently Weeping Prince

“One of the first YouTube clips I ever saw was lost performance footage of a godhead ax solo Prince performed at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. If (this) performance were given to me as an MP3 file I wouldn’t have cared about (it). This illuminates one of those depressing paradoxes about rock ‘n’ roll: very often, profoundly exceptional guitar playing is boring to listen to.” Chuck Klosterman in Esquire. He goes on to describe how flawless, masterful guitar playing just sounds effortless, or studio-enhanced, unless you can actually see the sinewy, athletic and uninhibtedly sexual act of rocking that shit out. Case in point is said Prince performance.

Weatiez gets a tattoo

Weatiez, the YouTube flexing celebrity I wrote about in this piece in The Advocate, has gotten a tattoo since the article came out and seems eager to flaunt it. I guess he wasn’t as rattled by all the gay attention as I feared he would be. In fact, with his lower-slung-than-ever sweatpants and pretty unfocussed flexing moves that feel like merely a front to show some skin, I’d say he seems a couple significant steps closer to male stripper status. There's just something sluttier about this whole clip. I suppose my work of corrupting the morals of the nation’s youth is done—for now.

God Bless Robot Chicken and God Bless Adult Swim

On the Relative Sexual Availability of Patrick Dempsey to Lindsay Lohan

Jenna Fischer’s cast and crew mates on The Office perform dramatic reading of her contribution to Esquire's Ten Things.

A Different Sort of YouTube Newsflash

My story on straight guys who post work out videos of themselves on YouTube and the gay guys who follow and e-flirt with them--much to the straight guy's pleasure—is online at advocate.com. This strapping fellow showing off in his parent's basement is Weatiez, the first guy I spotted posting these videos.

I have to give a big shout out to Matt at DudeTube
who really helped me get my head around this whole phenomenon.

You'd be giddy too if you just made 1.65 billion dollars

Meanwhile, over at Google Video, a super-rare 1960 clip of John Coltrane and Stan Getz performing together has surfaced.