We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. (Mary Antin)

6.09.2008

lmao

I have mixed feelings toward The Soup. Joel McHale is freakin' hilarious, but a lot of the clips are simply painful to watch. My husband loves it, so it's high in our Tivo season pass list.

Every once in a while, though, a clip comes along that sends me into fits--of laughter, that is. While we had previously chuckled at Yo Gabba Gabba's Nathaniel and Seth and what the Soup editors did with the video, that response seems sedate compared to the raging laughter inspired by this. Now laughing at a chubby girl named Julia gave me a couple of personal pangs in addition to the same sense of schadenfruede that I frequently get when watching The Soup, but I'll deal.

Note that neither of these links go directly to the E! website. While they're available there, they make you watch a commercial to see the video. While watching the commercial to get to this video is totally worth it, I thought I'd save you the trouble. Plus, my husband first found the Julia clip online at Hulu. This site is probably well-known, and I'm just telling you stuff you already know, but it's a pretty cool site with lots of TV shows and movies that are offered for "free" with "limited commercial interruption." They've got a lot of recent shows, but they've also got some older, more obscure stuff--like Airwolf, Doogie Howser, and the Sam Raimi late night pair Jack of All Trades and Cleopatra 2525. We've watched episodes of Firefly, Sliders and a bunch of Cleopatra. The video is streaming, so it's not the best, and the audio is kinda quiet, but as Tivo spends the summer capturing reruns of shows we've already seen, we've got stuff to watch.

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