I originally found Lonelygirl15 in July when I was looking for a popular video on Youtube to explain how silly it is to be impressed by a few hundred thousand views of "Nobody's Watching." Since then I've become a fan of Lonelygirl15, and I honestly believed in her and Daniel. Well, we all know by now that it was fake. But really, whether it's fake or not is not nearly as important as whether it's good or not, and frankly it got less and less interesting right around the time that it was revealed as a fake. Bree is going to be involved in some sort of ritual that her religious cult performs every few years, and her dad is making her take diet pills. She's started sneaking out of the house, which is a good idea, but give me "Proving Science Wrong" or Daniel's crush on Bree any day. Injecting drama and a serialized cult sacrifice plotline isn't helping the show at all. The everyday problems of a young girl are interesting enough.

But what's really annoying me is that the creators are claiming to be inventing a new art form. And it's that claim that I have to call bullshit on. Fiction that claims to be documentary is nothing new. In films it goes back at least to the 1960s with the fictional personal documentary David Holzman's Diary practically pre-dating the real personal documentary. And if they're talking about fake video blogs in particular, I'm going to have to stake a claim to creating one before Loneygirl came on the scene. Granted, hardly anyone watched (23,000 total views on YouTube vs millions for Lonelygirl15) but I started a fake video blog called "Truth @ 15 Frames Per Second" in January. I'm not going to claim I invented anything. I'm sure there were others before me. But I did it before the Lonelygirl15 team, so screw you guys.

News nuggets to get you through your mid-afternoon slump.

• What do you call three aging rock stars and their reality show-selected lead singer?  Well, apparently not Supernova.  Tommy Lee and company are going to have to rename their group before they've even finished their album because a California-based punk trio of the same name won a recent legal battle.  The Tommy Lee Supernova has been banned from "performing rock and roll music, or recording, or selling rock and roll music recordings under the same (name), pending a trial of this action on its merits, or until otherwise ordered by the court."
• What was it?  Did giving Dave Coulier a blow job turn her off from men entirely? Or was parting ways with Ryan Reynolds and his abs just too much?  Because Alanis Morissette's gone gay.  She's actually just playing a lesbian love interest on Nip/Tuck — a show I guess I should be watching. 
• Jinkies!  On the set of CSI: New York, Melina Kanakaredes and Lt. Dan made a shocking discovery. While filming an episode about the discovery of a mummified body, the crew actually found a mummified body.  Actually, it was day workers and crew that found the body in the building and they don't know anything about who the person was or how they died yet.
• The dream is over.  After a single performance on the show, Tucker Carlson has been dismissed from Dancing With the Stars.  Poor fella.

Former "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills" star Jason Wahler arrested the morning after the VMAs for disorderly conduct, possession, resisting arrest and bribery. What a line up! He blocks traffic, gets arrested, tries to run away, has his cocaine taken, then tries to buy his way out of it.

For the record: I told you so!

While not-so-patiently waiting for the season premiere of How I Met Your Mother (Monday the 18th, 8:30, CBS! What happened between ted and robin? Will lilly call off her wedding to follow her artistic dreams? Is this the best show to ever star Bob Saget, ever? All these questions answered, and more! I hope!) I am continually assaulted by promos for ABC's new show, Six Degrees. Even on the subway–usually such a fortress of solitude and relaxation– I found no reprieve, as I looked up yesterday to see a banner for the show telling me "The man by the door will be your boss." Really? That guy? The one trying to sell me AA batteries and a $5 copy of John Tucker Must Die? Shit, man. If that's the case, I have much bigger issues than poorly written ad copy on my hands here.

From the network: It's a mysterious web of seeming coincidence and happenstance that draws these people closer to those who will change their lives forever. Even decisions made freely will seem part of a larger design begging the question if there is a greater force at work in our world, guiding us along and connecting our lives.

Oh. Alright.

I'm sure (in)famous psychologist Stanley Milgram would be thrilled to know that his enduringly-famous-despite-having-been-found-extremely-fallible 6 Degrees of Separation experiment is being used for the greater good. Just in case the rest of you didn't also waste four years of your life on a psychology BA, Milgram is best known for his Obedience to Authority experiment where he asked his test subjects to administer (fake) electric shocks to another (fake) test subject when they gave incorrect answers to test questions, as the (fake) test subject showed increasing and disturbing levels of pain from the shock treatment. This was back before they had "ethics" and stuff in psychological testing, and Milgram effectively proved that people will pretty much do whatever authority figures tell them to, even if it means hurting an innocent. (Hello, Nazi-era Europe). Where's the show on THAT, abc? Sadly, they're instead playing off of the 6 Degrees experiment, where Milgram picked two target individuals and asked a pool of randomly picked people to mail a letter on to a friend, who would then mail it to another friend, etc, to try to get to the target within six steps (Hello, annoying email chain letters). Thank you for sticking with me on that 5 sentence justification of my liberal arts education.

 Milgram: One step closer to Jessica Simpson.

Unlike the 1993 movie of a similar title starring Donald Sutherland (who lives next door to my office building, FYI. Say it with me: One step closer to Keifer. One step closer to Keifer), ABC cast The Dude Who Was In Crazy/ Beautiful, The Chick Who Was Mr Big's Wife, and The Poor Man's Julia Stiles. Then they scripted commercials that started with "They say in New Your City, you walk past the person you're going to marry three times before meeting them," causing everyone in the 212 to sit up and ask "Who? WHO says that?" Two strikes, ABC.