• I can think of a few girls who cost a bit more than $2,000 a year. (itn.co.uk)

• Cat starts fire, dog saves the day. (Yahoo!)

• 95 year old woman grows a horn…literally. Click on the link if you don’t mind throwing up a little. (metro.co.uk)

• Don’t drink and drive…or skateboard… (earthtimes.org)

• Vermont wants to get out while they still can! (The Independent)

Who doesn’t enjoy rerun episodes of MADE on MTV? Sure, the show got annoyingly repetitive and started selling out near the end of the series, (what MTV shows don’t? Believe it or not the Real World used to have something to do with its title. And MTV stands for music television…ironic I know.) but overall it was highly enjoyable to watch an angry gothic chick try and make the cheerleading squad or a socially awkward Bible-thumper audition for the step team.

Anyone who ever watched the show undoubtedly considered, if ever given the opportunity, what they themselves would ask to be made into. My sister, (a highly uncoordinated 24-year old with no athletic experience) claims she would want to be made into a dancer. I’m not sure what I’d request. Maybe to learn how to surf. (In accordance to my unconstrained high-pitched glee, the roommates thought I’d either won the lottery or spotted one enormous cockroach. In fact, I’d just seen that Blue Crush was airing on HBO.) Plus, I’d probably get a free trip to California or somewhere nice out of it. Read More »

We’ve talked about this before. My rabid hate for most things on MTV. That channel is full of wastes of space. And apparently, knife lovers.

There is one show, however, that I will watch anytime, anywhere. One show that, whenever anyone switches it on at the gym, temps me to burst out laughing in front of rows and rows of sweating, ill-humored people. What show is it?

Rob and Big. The strange, hysterical, heartwarming “odd couple” of reality TV. Rob Dyrdek is a professional skateboarder who’s made a killing working with companies like DC Shoes and Red Bull. Big Black (known to his family as Christopher Boykin) is his 6’6, 375 pound bodyguard. Big doesn’t really act like a bodyguard, and Rob doesn’t really ever work, but the activities they do participate in are hilarious. The first episode of the second season has the two buying a “mini horse” for their lonely bulldog, and then hauling the thing back to Hollywood in the back of their car.

If that sort of thing doesn’t make you laugh, check your pulse. You might be dead.

Rob and Big is on all the time on the repeat hungry channel, but new episodes air Tuesdays at 10:30 PM ET/ST.