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I've been sick for a week and my Friday options are:

1. Watch the epic 3-plus-hour "Seven Samurai" on DVD, which UPS just dropped off on my doorstep.

2. Do my taxes.

3. Watch more "Lost" DVDs.

4. Twiddle my thumbs for 9 hours until the new episode "Battlestar Galactica" begins.

5. Do more laundry.

6. Quick-blog some random shit from the Internets.

Let's go with No. 6, in honor of BSG's Tricia Helfer!

In an exclusive Billboard interview, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose speaks! Actually, he e-mails.

In the newest episode "Bizarre Foods," Andrew Zimmern eats a lot of testicles -- and sushi off a nude lady.

Former Vice President Cheney reminds us once again that even if he's no longer No. 2, he'll always be a Dick.

Speaking of public embarrassment, singer Jessica Simpson had a meltdown.

Speaking of meltdowns, actor Christian Bale issued a %#*@ apology, you amateur $@#&^*-sucker.

Morrissey popped up on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to perform "Something is Squeezing My Skull." He did NOT have a meltdown.

 

This is a new diagram explaining the baseball metphors for making out. This is Abbott and Costello's classic "Who'sOn First?" skit. Got that?

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Top 21 "Numbers"

Random Thoughts 

Here's my list of the coolest 21 "numbered" characters, groups, movies, TV shows, musicians, songs, whatever. This is the kinda shit I dream up when I'm sick, stuck at home and don't feel like doing my taxes.

Powerpuff Monday!

This Tuesday, we celebrate the end of the Bush 2.0 Era and the inauguration of Barack Obama. But before that, on Monday, we mark the tenth anniversary of the Cartoon Network debut of ... THE POWERPUFF GIRLS!

Yes, it's been a whole decade since the wonderful, little super-powered trio from the city of Townsville entered our collective pop-culture consciousness. Cartoon Network is celebrating with a broadcast marathon. Praise be unto Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup...

The Final Cylon revealed

"Battlestar Galactica" fans, here is the 12th and final Cylon...

JUST FRAKKIN' TELL US ALREADY!

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"Battlestar Galactica," Season 4.5, Episode 1

Finally, the new episodes are here! I feel like Steven Martin in the gas station scene in "The Jerk." The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!

OK, T-minus 3 hours 'til Sci Fi Channels broadcasts the season opener. I baked my special lasagna -- or in honor of tonight -- Cy-sagna or La-Cylon-gna. I got my bottle of Smoking Loon chardonnay. Fire up the FTL, prepare to jump...

Meanwhile, enjoy a few awesome BSG fan theories for appetizers. I especially like" The Earth Is The First Colony" theory.

Holy crap! Random BSG Theory #1: The Final Cylon is ... BOXEY! Think about it. He shows up at the end of the 2003 mini-series, pops up in the 3rd episode of Season 1 -- then nothing. He's gone. As Rorschach would say, "Hurm." (Note: Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks this, except, hee hee, I was joking.)

But seriously, folks... I got friends in time zones east of me who already are warning me to prepare to be blown away. One pal simply text-messaged "FRACK!" (I'll forgive the misspelling.)

The Great 'Galactica'/'Lost' Marathon

Got in the mail this week the DVD sets for "Lost: Season 4" AND "Battlestar Galactica: Season 4." So you know what that means? Live-blogging of a loooooooooooong, sore-ass, couch-potato weekend view-a-thon while alternating episodes of both series. What fun! 

BSG Episode 1: "He That Believeth In Me"

Starbuck's back from the dead. Galen Tyrol, Sol Tigh, Sam Anders and what's-her-name, Roslin's assistant -- the Final Four-Fifths -- are still reeling from finding out they're Cylons. Baltar finds himself worshiped by a cult of, as he calls them, "loonies." 

So Starbuck doesn't know what she is: a Cylon, a human, some weird clone. Baltar prays for some sick boy to not die of a brain infection, the kid gets well, and, BAM, Baltar suddenly convinces his worshipers that he IS the Messiah. And the Final Four can't quite fathom that they're skin-jobs. It's all ID crises all around. I just realized this show is about a bunch of people not knowing who they are, while "Lost" is a show with a bunch of people not knowing where they are, or what the frak is going on around them. Interesting.