Why are flat buns better?

Yes, I'm afraid it's all Britney, all the time this week.

A slight change of pace today - take a look at DotComedy partner, Gallery of the Absurd, a fantastic blog that turns pop culture into the freak show that it truly is. Artist 14 (yes, fourteen) creates incisive caricatures of the story du jour (as you can see from the image here) and has been lauded in the New York Times.

So I'm reading today that MTV has been forced (presumably by Brit's "people" to remove her performance from all future airings of the MTV awards. I suspect it won't be long before YouTube gets a number of DCMA takedown notices too. But in the meantime, here's play by play analysis of what may become known as the "Heel Theory". Zapruder would be proud. Notice it goes BACK, and to the LEFT. BACK and to the LEFT

First Santa and the Easter Bunny and now this. How the hell am I supposed to believe anything anymore? Next you're going to tell me that dogs can't drive cars and Paris Hilton isn't in the running for a Fields Medal. iWanex Studio specializes in airbrushing photos of celebrities. Too many zits? Not enough ass? These are the people that take care of it for you. And they've done it with plenty of familiar faces. (Click here to access their site, then click on "portfolio")

A Justice League wedding.
The rise of Fascism in Italy.
The nameless dead of New York City.
Barbarians and cheese dip.
A stranger in a strange and alien land.

Each week we run down the 5 most interesting comics that come out on Wednesday. Here's what to look for today.

"Into The Wild" ***1/2 (out of four): The stranger-than-fiction tale of Christopher McCandless springs to life in Sean Penn's meditative film "Into The Wild," a fantastic voyage you won't soon forget.

We've all thought about it at one time or another - skipping town, abandoning our mindless jobs, going to a place where nobody knows us, throwing caution to the wind and heading on a spontaneous adventure through the great outdoors. For many of us, this journey into the wild will never amount to more than a passing fantasy, in the same realm as bonking a celebrity or winning big in the lottery. But for Christopher McCandless, this idea just couldn't be shaken - and so, in the early 1990s, the well-off Emory University grad left home without a peep, changed his name (to Alexander Supertramp, of all things), gave his $24,000 life savings to charity, and spent the next two years on a quest for the Alaskan wilderness.

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And congratulations go out to me for probably being the 10 millionth blogger to use that joke.

Coming soon, I'll report on 5,000 lawyers just found at the bottom of the ocean, and a priest, a minister and a rabbi who recently went skydiving.

PS: Think you can write a better headline? Prove it.

- Back from vacation, and the Daily Show hops on board the bathroom sex train.
- Gotta be the Hollywood sequel news of the year... Get ready for a Tron sequel.
- Let's see...burning 100 degree sun, miles of sand, oh, and the Astor Place cube.
- The ten biggest wastes of talent includes the Titanic, John McCain and the Knicks.
- And miracles can happen...Buffalo's Kevin Everett is moving his arms and legs.