L.A. Boondoggle

I think FOX has outdone itself with Moment of Truth. I tuned in last night and caught the last 15 minutes and was thoroughly entertained, you just can’t make shit like this up. Anyway, the point of the show is to have a contestant answer questions about their life, if they answer truthfuly they can make more money and progress, if they lie, they’ll lose it all. When I was watching last night some lady was on and for about 100k, they got her to admit that she would rather be married to her ex boyfriend than her current husband. Her family and husband didn’t seem to thrilled at her response but the crowd was eating it up. The host, Mark Whalberg(not the actor), does a great job of pretending that he thinks the questions are over the line, all the while poking and prodding to have this gal keep digging herself a deeper hole. So after she drops the initial bomb on her husband about wanting to be with her ex, she then gets asked if she’s ever cheated on her husband, to which she answers “yes”. I’m not sure whether FOX doesn’t like giving away more than 100k or if they ran out of fucked up questions to ask, for whatever the reason they asked her if she thought that she was a good person. She answered “yes”, the lie detector said it was false and she lost all the money. Only on FOX could a show this messed up get air time. At any rate, if you guys wants some daytime talkshow style drama with the added disappointment of nearly winning hundreds of thousands of dollars, I totally recommend it.

Anyone remember the Megan Meier story? Sometime in October of 2006 a particularly vindictive set of parents created a fake myspace profile to mess with the head of Megan Meier, who was only 13 years old at the time. Apparently they did their job so well that little Megan went and hung herself in her closet. To my knowledge, there still hasn’t been any significant legal action taken against the purpetrators of the harrassment even though the story gained loads of media attention. At any rate, I was thinking about MyDeathSpace.com, which is probably one of the creepiest sites on the internet, got an odd idea. Sure enough you can search for Megan Meier’s name and find her old myspace profile, along with profiles of many other dead people, in MyDeathSpace. Not that there’s a point to all this, I just figured it my be interesting to check out.