I often forget that CNN is still a part of my cable lineup, but this weekend, I tuned in to see if they were covering the protests in Wisconsin, but instead they were extensively discussing what they thought celebrities might wear to the Academy Awards. Good times.

Rarely would I feel compelled to watch a 12 minute celebrity interview video, but Charlie Sheen's just a comedy goldmine right now. My favorite part (other than the multiple times he points at himself and says "WINNING"): the extended quoting of Allen Iverson's "Practice" press conference monologue.

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I'm not one for awards shows. They're long and self-important and they almost always fail to live up to hype. So, basically, they're like sports, which I do love. But with sports, you get people running around.

This year's Academy Awards seem bland on paper. The hosts are ubiquitous renaissance man James Franco and the perky breasts of Anne Hathaway. Everyone knows the Oscars are still the awards show, but how can those two possibly out-do Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes? Will Franco read one of his short stories? Please no. Will Anne Hathaway flash the camera? Not in a post-Janet Jackson world. As I see it, there are exactly two reasons to watch:

R.I.P., Jason McCann (as played by Justin Bieber):

[Popdust]

I was at a conference last week, and I missed my deadline, for which I am deeply sorry. Here's what you missed because I wasn't here to tell you about it.

- The Grammys. Nothing very interesting happened. Apparently the Avett Brothers shared the stage with Mumford & Sons and an obscure songwriter known as Bob Dylan, and that was supposedly great. Then Arcade Fire won Album of the Year, and a lot of people got really angry because they'd never heard of Arcade Fire.

While I'm for the return of Beavis & Butthead on MTV, I get the feeling the network that recently is better known for promoting teen momness across America is trying to figure out a way to screw the show up:

The new show, which debuts later this year, will be very familiar to fans of the Nineties original. "They'll be self-contained segments with the boys in different situations like they used to be," Toffler says. "But this time around, they'll watch Jersey Shore, UFC matches and user-generated videos from YouTube, in addition to music videos." All of the programming will be displayed on the duo's TV, even if it comes from YouTube — "like silly videos of cats playing music."

For me, I think Jersey Shore does a decent job of mocking itself, but I imagine MTV is a bit of a bind. Since they haven't shown videos in a decade or so, they don't probably have any sitting around to use. This is disappointing, mostly because the two animated morons were the best music critics around for awhile.

[Rolling Stone]

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Tonight on Wheel of Fortune, you can take a night off from loudly cursing at the television about the inferior intellect of the contestants and cheer on two local teens. As part of "Teen Best Friends" week, Victoria Adamson and Melissa Tvedt, seniors at Catalina Foothills high school, will try to make some money for college. The two traveled on a Greyhound bus to Los Angeles to try out for the show, which says something about their dedication. I can't think of anything I'd be willing to ride Greyhound to do, but that might say more about me than the bus line.

Wheel of Fortune airs on KGUN-9 at 6:30 p.m.

This afternoon, the challenge between IBM's Watson supercomputer and Jeopardy! legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter wraps up, and based on the results so far, it appears we should begin accepting that Watson will soon be our new king/lord. Still, the process is sort of amusing, if only for Jennings looks of annoyance and general irritation that a box of wires is destroying him at the only thing he's famous for.

However, Greg Wyshynski, a hockey blogger for Yahoo, offered an interesting, yet highly unlikely twist:

Again, not likely, but I would like to see the look on the smug bastard Trebek's face.

May I recommend if you're doing your own homework, don't do a Google search. It seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government. Remember, maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries. Are they just a shill now for the United States government?

Give him this much: Glenn Beck is on some next-level paranoia game these days.

Oh, Misery Bear...so adorable, but so miserable.