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Adam Duritz Owes Every Dime He’s Ever Made To Shitty, Early Bruce Spingsteen

Recently my giant younger brother and I joined a couple of broads at a karaoke night for an atrocious version of “Mr. Jones” by Counting Crows. I used to really like the song as a kid, and I still see it’s appeal, but ultimately I have ultimately come to realize the Counting Crows are total shit. Not only that, but their stupid looking, trying-too-hard lead singer owes his entire career to one, incredibly shitty Bruce Springsteen song.


The same shitty Bruce song that made Manfred Mann a hit.

Originally I was going to go through both songs, but that seems incredibly time consuming. Just listen to both these hacks mumble there way through meaningless songs.

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Four Things I Can’t Take Seriously

As a humorist I take almost nothing that seriously. It’s not only part of my job, it’s part of my personality and lifestyle. For example, I don’t take the word “tendercrisp” very seriously. I’m sorry, but I can’t. This leads to more problems. For example, I can’t take the Wikipedia page for the Tendercrisp seriously. What’s worse, I can no longer take the words “Tender” or “Crisp” seriously. It’s an awful downward spiral of lacking seriousness, all because I can’t take the word “tendercrisp” seriously. Some other words I no longer take seriously are: change, penis, vagina, awesome, tubular, black ops and any adverb.

Other languages are funny.

But those are just words. This blog post is about things I don’t take seriously. I want to be as clear as can be with this. Maybe the word Tendercrisp or the word Tubular or the word Penis lend themselves to comedy. They don’t really have a serious connotation to begin with. The things on this list are things that (I’m pretty sure) are meant to be taken seriously. Still, from first glance I could not take them seriously. Let me tell you what the four things are and why I, ultimately,  find them so funny.

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Shit Man, The Arthur Theme Song Is Inspirational

At the start of a new year everyone likes to make resolutions. It is very easy to say you are going to accomplish something when you know you still have 365 days left to put it off. I don’t know what kind of time you put into the whole resolution process. Some people take it pretty seriously; they really want to buckle down and get some shit down, which is fine. Other people make up some bull-shit thing and then don’t follow through on it. Actually, pretty much everyone gives up. Anyone remember your resolution from last year? Well, I do. It was to keep rocking constantly. I failed for about 45 minutes overall, but the other 525,555 minutes were no problem. Yeah, I know, what about the 175,184 minutes I spent sleeping? Well, I had rocking dreams and nightmares. But, anyway, it’s still a bull-shit resolution no matter how you slice or dice it.

You want some actual advice? You want to really be inspired? You want to truly change your life? Look no further than the theme song to American educational television program Arthur on PBS.

Prepare to cry your eyes out because you’re about to witness something spectacular:

Let’s break it down in a SmartassRadio lyrical breakdown.

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Guy Fieri: The Prototypical Guitar Center Store Manager

Frequently, I find myself envying the relatively talentless people talking to me on TV. Instead of coming to grips with the fact that the bullshit I mindlessly peruse during timeouts passes as legitimate entertainment, I usually just assume the clown spewing pure garbage and nonentertainment into my brain lucked into the gig, held the producer’s family hostage in exchange for the gig, or must have been a bona fide celebrity in a no longer relevant distant past. One person who actually doesn’t bother me so much is Guy Fieri. His show is pretty decent and he seems like a good enough dude. All in all, Guy Fieri probably doesn’t deserve the mockery I’m about to make of his appearance and personality.

Guy Fieri: Trying wayyy too hard
Maybe he does.

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Mario Armando Lavandeira, My Heart Goes Out To You

Most readers are probably expecting me to bash Perez Hilton over the upsetting video he posted in regard to the savage beating he apparently suffered the other night. Well, expect no more! Here it is.

For those who aren’t aware of what happened, here’s the brave little man explaining the situation in his own words. For those who rightfully don’t give a rat’s ass about what this pansy does or says, please bear with me on this one. I guess at some point over the weekend some music thing happened and at an after-party, poorly named rapper Will.I.Am of the Black Eye Peas approached Mz. Hilton and politely requested “in the future, can you please be a pal and not post anything at all about my band?” to which Mario Armando Lavandeira replied (and this is somewhat accurate): “Not if my life depended on it. Fuck you in your gay ass, you faggot scum.” Shortly thereafter an event occured that was a surprise to no one except Mr. Lavandeira – he got repeatedly punched in the face by someone associated with Will.I.Am.

I have no problem with Perez Hilton – if you can make a living off adding poorly drawn dicks to pictures, I’m all for it. In fact, I used to read his blod fairly often, when I was a younger, dumber asshole than I am today. But for him to be shocked that someone finally decided to take a swing at him is absolutely fucking insane. And to twitter people to call the police for him is more outrageous than him parading around like some sort of gay activist. This jackass could very well be the poster boy for why gay marriage is not legal throughout the United States.

So anyway, in tribute to the site that will one day be featured on “I Love June through October 2007″ on VH1, I decided to make some pictures myself, and instead of just attaching some lame attempt at sounding in-the-know like Perez so often does, I’ll elaborate on my art for my faithful readers. Here goes nothing…

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When did looking like the Dutch Boy Paint mascot become fashionable?

A nice easy one down the middle for ya. It’s simple and very direct. In my opinion (and the opinion of roughly 100% of the rest of the American population), anyone who wears a shower cap and a faux-fur coat anywhere outside of his own panic room should have the word “ASS” tattooed on their awful forehead. An earlier draft of this picture has the showercap providing him shelter from a cum-storm. Ultimately, I felt that if I wanted the word “ASS” to have the biggest possible impact I should just give it the spotlight.

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I know he’s under the impression that he’s a skinny gay guy now, but Mario, or Mary as I like to call him around the pool house, used to be a big fat bitch. My girlfriend and I recently took a trip to the desolate wasteland of the American Mid-West and made a stop at the Columbus Zoo, which was actually pretty cool. The best part? The freakishly giant nipples on the nursing gorillas. The worst part? Waking up from our mescaline-induced coma to realize we weren’t anywhere near Columbus and in reality we had been ogling Perez Hilton shirtless on Fire Island.

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I made this one in case you couldn’t put together the last joke on your own.

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Both taken at Wal-Mart while the creepy photographer pulled a wrinkled coin purse out of the secret pocket in the front of his trousers and offered Perez a giant sucker if he would take pictures like a nice boy.

One of my favorite things to do in my own posts is to take pictures of things that are similiar and just mush ‘em together. I think it’s a more effective way of getting my point across than trying to actually explain it to the jobless retards intelligent, contributing-to-society socialites who read this blog. This one may be a first though. I’ve compared Barack Obama to Andy Dufresne, a shitbag D.A. to Louie Anderson, etc., but I’ve never encountered a douche so awful it would be an insult to compare him to himself.

This really needed to happen though. I have a friend who always flashes the same half-hearted smile when someone takes a picture of her and I give her endless amounts of shit for it. Luck for Perez, I’m feeling a bit under the weather today (homophobia::SNIFF:: ) and I’m afraid if I give him any sort of access to my asshole, I won’t be able to sit for a week or so…

Also, I think the “(ANALLY)” added to “Tame Me” is fucking hysterical. If you don’t agree, close your browser and remove your sex organs with a bicycle chain.

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This one’s a bit more on track. After I showed mind boggling amount of restraint I displayed in the “ASS” photo, I decided to let it all hang out on this one. And by “all” I mean a half a dozen dicks either entering or sprouting from a particularly close-up bust of Lavandeira. For some reason, this picture reminds me of the only time my mother caught me masturbating. Weird.

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One thing I have a huge problem with in Perez Hilton’s pictures is his lack of wit when it comes to the text. “EW” “ACK” and “YUMMY” are not good enough indicator of how he feels about a particular celebrity or how other people might imagine that celebrity views him or herself. I took the opportunity to spell out to Perez what his (hopefully dead and therefore no longer able to reproduce) parents probably think of him. Nothing.

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Finally, I think this is truly my pinnacle as a fuckstick celebrity blogger. I mean, comparing Perez Hilton in the previous pictures to the Dutch Boy Paint mascot, a gorilla, and himself were all pretty genius, but to come up with John “who?” Daly was a stroke of genius. Then, to take those two similar pictures and pit them against one another just took everything to the next level.

For those of you who don’t know, John Daly is a pathetic shell of a professional golfer who actually has an alcoholic drink named after him (it’s also known as a Dirty Arnold Palmer, but that’s for another obviously hilarious post). In my opinion, in his never ending quest to get fucked up, John Daly has displayed more backbone and a more winning attitude than Mario Armando Lavandeira ever has or ever will.

Perez Hilton, I sincerely hope you die. Soon.

Here’s a gallery of all the previous pictures plus 13 that Roy added:

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I’m Calling You Out, Toronto

I understand some of the people who visit this site don’t necessarily listen to  the live show, download the podcast, follow us on twitter or know us personally. So, I’m taking the time to get those people caught up on my latest antagonist act. While using stumbleupon the other day, I came across this obnoxious piece of P.O.O.P – People Offended by Offensive People. Naturally, I tweated to my many many followers. Someone happened across said tweat and we were off to the races:

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Here’s a clip from the most recent show (4/16/09) explaining my problems with Toronto, issuing some serious threats, making some observations about the city and  telling jokes specific only to the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club being fed to me by Uncle Pete.

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Uggh! Fuck Pitchfork! What Are Those Morons Doing Now!

The Beastie Boys have again come up in the headlights of the SmartassRadio locomotive. We just recently posted a live show from long ago where we mocked Pitchforkmedia.com‘s “review” of Paul’s Boutique, an album that came out many moons ago and one which everyone has already agreed is a classic. Still, Pitchfork felt it necessary to add their two cents. As it turns out, the elitists pricks at Pitchfork agreed with everyone else in the world and they gave Paul’s Boutique a 10 out of 10. Woopie! Thanks for that, idiots.

Well, the Beasties have reissued another classic album: “Check Your Head” and, thank goodness, Pitchfork has felt the need to review it. And low and behold they gave the album another 10 out of 10, because it is, of course, a classic. Wait…oh wait…no. THEY GAVE IT A 6.7?!? The first Beastie album I heard, a classic album that I kept in heavy rotation throughout high school, an album that returned the Beasties to Billboard Top 10 status and revolutionized what rap music could do! A 6.7? Really? REALLY?

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Pitchfork when we said your idea of reviewing ancient albums was retarded, we meant the entire process. We didn’t mean that giving old albums perfect 10′s is bad. These are obviously perfect 10 albums. Why do you have to ruin everything? I will now review Pitchfork’s review of “Check Your Head.”

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