{"id":104,"date":"2011-03-08T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-03-07T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:17:14","slug":"twangy-wacky-country-music-presents-oddly-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Twangy Wacky Country Music Presents: ODDLY ENOUGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been updating the site every Tuesday and Friday! Yes, congratulate me, thanks so much. And the site is picking up steam! All without mentioning &#8220;Charlie Sheen tiger blood winning breakdowns #teamsheen,&#8221; &#8220;hot lolita springbreak fuck adventures&#8221; or &#8220;iPad 2 specs unboxing Steve Jobs death grip.&#8221; None of those hit-generating phrases were mentioned, and they never will. This week, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take a look at some of the stories that haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been getting as much play &#8211;  let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/oddlyEnough\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Oddly Enough<\/a> for content and feel great about ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>If this was a news magazine show, this first story would come fully equipped with twangy &#8220;this is wacky&#8221; country music. The kind of music that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/LIVING\/03\/06\/judgment.day.caravan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">associated with crazy Christians handing out doomsday tracts to cosplaying pirates<\/a>, or an expos\u00c3\u00a9 of an old tyme general store that sells nothing but antique whoopie cushions. Oh ho ho, people sure are dumb and this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aw shucks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d diddy should really drive that point home.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this headline asking a question when it clearly has all of its facts straight? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/03\/us-wife-ride-idUSTRE7224XE20110303\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Man Speeds With Wife on Hood of Minivan?<\/strong><\/a> Yes. Fact. Man speeds with wife on hood of minivan. Have some confidence in your reporting Reuters Oddly Enough, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing great. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all been here &#8211; living in Manteca, smoking some meth on a Saturday morning, wife is bitching about something or other (ooh, go pick up some sea salt from Trader Joe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even though we have a full canister of regular salt just sitting in the pantry, ah duh duh duh). You know what? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Christopher Carroll, 36, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got things to do, and none of those things involves purchasing exorbitant salts for my wife. And now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re fighting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Oddly_Enough.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105\" title=\"Oddly_Enough\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Oddly_Enough-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Oddly_Enough-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Oddly_Enough-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Oddly_Enough.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oddly enough, this horse owns 90% of the tri-state area. CRAZY RIGHT?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now again, if this was a news magazine show (a classy one like Hard Copy or A Current Affair), the twangy country music would kick into high gear once the reenactress playing Christopher Carroll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife climbed onto the hood of the minivan. Like, overalls with no shirt underneath, blowing into a brown jug marked XXX, spitting chewing tobaccee into a rusty Folgers can levels of twang. Yee-hawwwww, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re goin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for a ride darlin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122! A 40 mile ride at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour with your wife clinging to the hood of a minivan, Death Proof style, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve smoked as much meth as Tarantino has snorted coke this morning. I did some detective work of my own and verified that Manteca, CA really is 40 miles from Pleasanton, CA, where Christopher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife finally rolled off the hood. Thankfully no one was hurt becau- twang-a-lang doopity-doot-doot-twang faaaaaart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/02\/us-banana-peel-idUSTRE7215GR20110302\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>California Woman Sues After Slipping on a Banana Pee<\/strong>l<\/a>. This happens every few years, right? Some old Looney Toons comedic staple happens in real life, like an Acme safe falls 100 stories and liquefies a pedestrian, or a man sees an attractive woman and his heart literally pounds itself out of his rib cage, grows angel wings and flies up to heaven. Banana peels can be just as deadly. Just ask Ida Valentine, 58, who was minding her own business at her local 99 cent store when all of a sudden whoooa-whoooa-whoooa, arms flailing backwards CRASH into a shelf of leaking Duracille batteries and expired baby food.<\/p>\n<p>Now she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to sue the everloving shit out of the 99 cent store, Chiquita, and gravity to the tune of $ALLTHEMONEYINTHEWORLD.99. And she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably win because, your honor, if it pleases the court, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to play a few rounds of Mario Kart. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to PROVE, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experience at the 99 Cents Only store is not an isolated incident, as seen here at the Coconut Mall, Rainbow Road and even the lowly Luigi Circuit. Bananas littering the roads; karts (sic), motorcycles and adorable dinosaurs spinning out of control and sometimes into oncoming traffic. When asked for comment, Ida Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyer replied, &#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bullshit that whoever\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in first place gets stuck with bananas and green shells while the rest of the losers tied for 12th place get blue shells and lightning bolts. Nevertheless, despite these unlawful circumstances, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ma gonna weeeeeen!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/02\/25\/us-israel-kafka-idUSTRE71O35Z20110225\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Kafka Papers Revealed to Israeli Court<\/a><\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0According to the giant byline, &#8220;Writings by Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod which have been hidden away for decades have been brought to light at an Israeli court and could reveal more on the life of one of the 20th century&#8217;s greatest authors.&#8221; After visiting the Franz Kafka Museum in Prague last year, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m totally okay with knowing less about the life of one of the 20th century\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest authors. The first few rooms of the museum were pretty typical &#8211; newspaper clippings and photos documenting Kafka\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life in Prague. A few rooms later you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re walking down a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzk3LjIM1ys\" target=\"_blank\">stairway into hell<\/a>, featuring rooms filled with oversized filing cabinets and telephones that never stop ringing (Kafka didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t love his office job). There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a circular room in the middle of the basement that you can peer into through small slits and watch a film of skin being slit over and over. Oh, and a tiny model of a man being crushed in a vice. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like walking through Eraserhead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apartment. When you finally reach daylight, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/koalie\/1367475441\/\" target=\"_blank\">two statues standing in front of the museum<\/a> &#8211; men facing each other, peeing into a pool with rotating hips. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-hMRS7QAzak\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a video walkthrough<\/a> (not mine).<\/p>\n<p>Will these hidden papers add another wing to the museum? Maybe there can be a dark room where a gun is held to your head while you watch 8mm abortion documentaries. Or they could build a planetarium where the night sky is ripped in half by a half man half insect that descends from the roof and flicks your ear for an hour, vomits on you and then eats your skin. Way to go Kafka! Your museum is batshit fucking crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this was a news magazine show, this first story would come fully equipped with twangy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this is wacky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d country music. The kind of music that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually associated with crazy Christians handing out doomsday tracts to cosplaying pirates, or an expos\u00c3\u00a9 of an old tyme general store that sells nothing but antique whoopie cushions. Oh ho ho, people sure are dumb and this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aw shucks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d diddy should really drive that point home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/?p=104\">More at supertmh2.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[41,22,43,38],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pO5V2-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}