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today in “experiencing technical difficulty” news

Just because I don’t post anything for 72 hours, is that any reason to abandon me??? Have you no idea what this does to my self-esteem? It’s like the Tink death scene in Peter Pan; every time I get a hit that isn’t looking for mango porn I perk up a bit. Anything less than 300 and I am prone to sudden fainting spells.

On that note I would like to welcome the person who came via a search for “why is everyone looking for charo,” because we are, indeed, all about the Charo here on the raincoaster blog.

how not to JDate, the soundtrack

David Kraut, soundtracker to How Not to JDate, the soon-to-be-movie-of-the-weekIt seems I win my bet. The How Not to JDate story lives on in music. “What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”

From PR Differently:

>Check this out…
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>http://www.myspace.com/dkraut
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>Click on “Do the right thing.”
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>I nearly lost my shit, it was so funny.

Let no man say the grass grows under songwriter David Kraut‘s feet.

Borat attacked!

Looking for the story of the recent NYC beatdown? Go here.

 

It’s true: Borat, the Andrew Dice Clay of Khazakstan, has gotten the smackdown from the clueless, sharpie-wielding village idiots in NYC. Guess they ran outta pitchforks.

 

Borat, Bigot?

 

From Thighs Wide Shut, via Gawker. And if you’re thinking “Gee, she musta only had time to go to one website today” you’d be right. There’s a Guide to Muslim Humour on WordPress somewhere, but I’ll hafta find it for you tomorrow. L8r!

T.V. star no tv star nomore!

TV!It’s hard enough to get a job nowadays, let alone keep it, particularly when you work as the host of a children’s program on PBS and have a past as the public face of Technical Virginity.

From the AP:

The PBS Kids Sprout network has fired the host of “The Good Night Show” after learning she had appeared in videos called “Technical Virgin.”

The host, Melanie Martinez, had alerted network officials about one of the videos late last week and she was immediately taken off the air.

PBS Kids Sprout airs children’s programming 24 hours a day and is seen in about 20 million of the nation’s 110 million television homes. “The Good Night Show” has been temporarily replaced by cartoons while a search is conducted for a new host.

But can you really replace this earnest, informative PSA:

or this: