Leg Game

Although her gams have got the internuts goin' crazy right now, someone best remind McPheever that the reason that America fell in love with her in the first place was her killer Rack-N-Back combo. It's also important to remember that one of the lynchpins of her PR strategy to promote her upcoming jawn is that she's (allegedly) conquered her eating disorder -- while there's no doubt that she's lookin' healthy in these pics, she's definitely dropped some ellbees (and a cup size) since May. Developing...

Those of you out there starvin' for PHC, hope you enjoy some of these hittins. Bullet stizz. Bovs.

• Speaking of Idol, ABC wisely decided to avoid that juggernaut and moved the start time of "Lost" back from 9pm to 10pm when the show re-launches in Februrary.

• Zarf or Mary Cheney? [via BWE]

• Your Uncle Grambo has maintained a firm anti-XBox stance ever since the system launched. My bias mainly stems from the fact that I'm way too old at this point to learn how to use another type of controller. But man oh man, with each passing day it gets harder and harder to resist the appeal of XBox 360. Particularily after watching the trailers for "Halo 3" and "Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions" ... giggity!

• For those of you who enjoy reading about a nice bottle of vino almost as much as drinking one, I highly recommend checking out both Pitchfork Wine and WineDaddy. It is the holidays, after all, and damned if un bouteille de vin doesn't make for an excellent present. Not only will both of these sites provide you with some tasty choices, but they've both got a unique POV going for them. So be sure and give em a bookmark, stat. [first link via DataWhat?]

• Chuckles Klosterman on whether or not Muhammed Ali invented rap music.

• Your Uncle Grambo won't cop to even knowing who this Giada person is, but I know that Peabs is gonna enjoy this Giada pizza party. Extra bovs!

And, in closing, I'm glad that the Silversun Pickups decided to officially release "Lazy Eye" as the second (third?) single from their excellent album "Carnavas" ... this one has been on high rotaish ever since KEXP first debuted it earlier this year. Take a look at both the video (shot at The Shortstop, Silver Lake Echo Park steez) and their raucous performance on Letterman last Friday night. Buzzpatrol.

Guh Guh Guh Yaaayahh!

"His name is Dr. Rockso. He's the Rock and Roll Clown. He does cocaine. I'm afraid that's all we know."

Call your Uncle Grambo slow on the uptake if you must, but it's only been a few short weeks since I first discovered the altogetherly crazed cartoon "Metalocalypse" (Sunday nights @ midnight on The Cartoon Network). And by crazed, I mean CRAZED. Like, SO CRAZED that it makes "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" look like The Smurfs. Exaggerating I am not.

For the uninitiated, the plot of "Metalocalypse" revolves around the exploits of a part-American/part-Scandanavian death metal band called Dethklok, a band that just so happens to be the most popular band in the universe. So popular, in fact, that an Illuminati-esque group called The Tribunal has set a covert plot in motion to destroy them -- at least that's what I have garnered from the handful of eps I've made my way through on YouTube so far. Plot points aside, the most compelling thing about this show is the degree of Don't Give A Frak Fearlessness on display in each and every episode.

Take, for instance, the utterly insane music video for "I'm Just A Rock And Roll Clown" by Dr. Rockso (hit up the embedded video at the bottom of this post, go to 2:57 and let it run from there). I can only assume that the dudes who run Adult Swim have some compromising photos of the S&P folks over there at the Cartoon Network, because that's the ONLY explanation as to how this shazzers EVER got on air. In a word, SOBEST! Do yourself a favor and Season Pass this on yo DVR ASAP. Marzipan.

Urban Meyer Wiener

Don't know what's in your pantry at the moment, but your Uncle Grambo's mini-fridge is overflowing with sour grapes and spilt milk. Short of the top-heavy Nigella Lawson unexpectedly showing up topless at my apartment and turning these ingredients into some sort of Spanish Fly sexsmoothie, I'm not sure that I can make limoncellos out of the lemons that the BCS handed Wolverine Fan when they inexplicably awarded the Florida Gators with the #2 spot in the final regular season poll. My beef is not with the BCS system -- let's face it, everyone is disadvantaged equally by its flaws -- my beef is with the voters and the bogus rationale they used to justify a decision that was CLEARLY based on emotion, not facts.

Let's call a spade a spade for a second -- a bunch of Southern-fried SEC hicks let their absolute power corrupt them absolutely. Not surprising, considering that the biggest decision they usually get to make is whether they should prepare catfish or roadkill for the big family dinner on Sunday nights. Even Lloyd Carr, who has been positively Mother Theresa-esque in the wake of this epic ass-raping, agrees. "When you look at the voting on the Harris poll, there's four votes on there where people vote us fourth," Carr told Midget Al-Bomb last night. "So I think clearly there was an effort to manipulate the system and that is really, really disappointing. I can understand if somebody wants to vote Florida 2 and us 3. But I think the Harris poll clearly they have some credibility issues." Uh, ya think?!?

But hey, what's done is done. Here's the deal, Michigan fan. Sure, we got hosed. And sure, it's gonna sting like a bitch when Ohio State murders Florida's face on January 8 for the national championship. And sure, Shawn Crable sealed our fate when he unnecessarily roughed up Troy Smith in the fourth quarter of The Game That Shall Not Be Named back on November 18th. But come January 1 when we take the field in Pasadena, you can bet that Lloyd will have his team focused like a muthafucka, ready to exact revenge for the jolting loss to the Trojans back in 2K4. With any luck, the dulcet tones of Keith Jackson will be accompaning Michigan's first Rose Bowl victory since 1998. Whoa nellie, INDEED!