Seventeen episodes here across five discs in this latest boxed set from Paramount TV of the franchise that ate Cleveland. Cool stuff too: not only an episode directed by William Friedkin and two commentaries, but the crossover with Without a Trace? The Trace episode is included! How thoughtful. We've got five--count em--five copies of this that you can win (one copy per winner, please). And we'll even let you enter once a day. What a deal.

Rules:

1) You have to fill out the form *properly* for the entry to be valid.

2) We are not going to give away or sell your address or e-mail address or anything without your permission.

3) You can only enter once a day. A day here means from midnight to midnight, Eastern Standard Time. For those of you who need it spelled out to you, that means one person per street address AND e-mail address. If we catch you trying to jive us on an entry, or if you enter more often than once during that day, we will throw out each and every one of your entries. And we will find you out. So.

4) Contest is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only who are 18 or over. Sorry.

5) Contest ends at 11:59PM EST, on Wednesday, November 12, 2008.

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Below the break, I've included another of his live performances--"Hobo Blues" from 1965--as a long distance dedication to John Hodgman.

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I joke on this site a lot about health, even though health is actually important to me. Since, you know, health is what's standing between me and the long, long dirt nap, I do have an appreciation for health. I do enjoy a lot of unhealthy things and I admittedly drink more energy drinks than I probably should. But I'm an adult, at least physically, and I know what I'm doing. Mostly.

Still, when you get an energy drink that is courting people who want to sleep less and still stay healthy--a tough demographic seeing as how many would consider the two items to be mostly mutually exclusive--I do pay attention. That's the case with Function Drinks. On the label it goes to great lengths to separate itself from its energy drink brethren. "All Natural," it says at the top. "Created by Physicians." The label also says "Get up and keep going with the first time-release formula for long-lasting energy. The all-natural combo of catuaba, muira pauma, epimedium, and yerba mate provides stamina for 6 to 8 hours." In addition to those neat things, the proprietary blend on back lists caffeine and guarana extract as well. And sure enough, the sugar we're dealing with here is natural evaporated cane sugar instead of, you know, crap. Yerba mate, guarana and caffeine--all good things. Catuaba? Is used for aphrodisiacs? Interesting...what about muira pauma? Used to increase sexual desire and libido? Um. Okay...epimedium? It's another name for Horny Goat Weed? What exactly were these physicians doing while creating this, I wonder...?

The flavor, for the record is "Tangerine-Yuzu." Which is not, also for the record, the demon from The Exorcist, although it has been mistaken for Pazuzu at parties.

The back of the label states "Are you as tired as we are of all those artificial, toxic-tasting energy drinks? Or are you just plain tired?" To which I say: if you're talking about drinks that contain sucralose or aspartame, then your description of "toxic" is quite apt.

"The doctors at Function worked around the clock to develop a 100% natural energy drink that will keep you going all day and all night long." To which I say: huh. If you were working around the clock to develop a drink that would keep people up around the clock, what did you use to go around the clock in the first place? Because I want to try that product as well. Although if you look at the ingredients list you might think they were staying awake through liberal doses of sex with a sprinkling of sex.

Anyway. Skipping ahead a bit, it says that ingredients within will give you a steady supply of energy. "This means no scary heart palpitations or dizzying crashes after your initial boost." Me, I find heart palpitations and crashes to be like a roller coaster where I never have to leave my house. But to each his own.

I don't mean to spend a lot of time on the label, but I wanted to put across the idea that the drink talks a good game. The only worrying bit is off to the side. It shows muira pauma/epimedium and yerba mate/guarana with a scale called "Relative functional units" that rates the ingredients for energy, stamina and alertness. Everything is at 100 except for muira pauma/epimedium, which lags behind just a little on energy. Why is this worrying? Because this is absolutely useless information. It's pointless data. These functional units are relative to what, exactly? How much is, exactly, a functional unit? I did Google "relative functional units" and the only mention of it I could find was with a homeopathy drink. So that doesn't help either. Just for the record, Function Drinks don't appear to have any relation to the drink in question, especially since Function actually contains caffeine rather than just, say, the vibration of it. There might be a perfectly good explanation for why this chart is important, but it comes off looking like bullshit.

So finally, let's drink the damn thing, shall we? It tastes a lot like Gatorade, frankly. I don't find the taste of Gatorade offensive so I'm good with that. I don't know that I tasted either tangerine or Pazuzu while drinking it but I don't consume either often so maybe the combination tastes like this. I cannot say. I can say that as far as energy boost, I got something that lasted for maybe two hours. I believe the mate had something to do with this. I also think it might be the horny goat weed. Not because I deal with a lot of horny goats, but because the Crunk energy drink claims to have horny goat weed as well, and that drink seems to get me buzzed fairly nicely. I don't know for certain because, unlike mate, I've not tried horny goat weed solo in a tea. I will say that for a drink that has three ingredients that so easily factor into sexual jokes, it didn't turn me into a raving horny lunatic. Probably because, being a male, I already am one.

The taste is good and it certainly is a different experience than most energy drinks, so that's an up-vote right there. A change of pace is always good, considering 90% of the drinks out there taste like Six Degrees of Red Bull. And the buzz is decent. Considering I have the tolerance of an adolescent Megatherium, that's an up-vote from me. I would say give it a try. As always, your mileage may vary.

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It was only released on VHS--and those aren't cheap, apparently.

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P.S. Last year at this time we were watching the Day of the Dead trailer in ZOMBIEING SOUND.

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What is Sex Drive? No, it's not ScottC's street address. It's the movie that opens next weekend starring Josh Zuckerman, Clark Duke, James Marsden, Seth Green, and Amanda Crew about driving cross-country in search of...companionship.

Clark Duke and Josh Zuckerman happen to have signed a poster for the film. And you can win it--all you have to do is enter. But because we like you, we'll let you enter once a day.

And if you want to know more about the film, check out the official site.

Rules:

1) You have to fill out the form *properly* for the entry to be valid.

2) We are not going to give away or sell your address or e-mail address or anything without your permission.

3) You can only enter once a day. A day here means from midnight to midnight, Eastern Standard Time. For those of you who need it spelled out to you, that means one person per street address AND e-mail address. If we catch you trying to jive us on an entry, or if you enter more often than once during that day, we will throw out each and every one of your entries. And we will find you out. So.

4) Contest is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only who are 18 or over. Sorry.

5) Contest ends at 11:59PM EST, on Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

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And just because I can, a cover of the song from the lost Parker/Stone classic, BASEketball, after the break. Thanks to my amigo Toby for the headsup.

You might not appreciate the film. But I certainly did. Maybe it's because I don't give a rodent's backside about sports. Anyway, here's Reel Big Fish.

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P.S. Last year at this time it was the stare of Bela in White Zombie!

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You can check them out at the Zombie Combat Club website. Between this and Siege's site Zombiegeddon, I think you'll be prepared. Stay vigilant, people.

Got the munchies? Gelatin brain!

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Instead...it's no secret we dig on Disney theme parks. The Haunted Mansion is particularly sweet. So how cool to find somebody's uploaded a souvenir reel from the 70s, complete with Paul Frees voiceover. Nice.

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Something else down below as a bit of a bonus....

And here's "Lonesome Ghosts," where Mickey, Donald and Goofy play the original Ghostbusters.

This cartoon is available on the Mickey Mouse in Living Color Walt Disney Treasures release, but that's out of print. Hope you got it when you had the chance, otherwise it's a tad expensive to grab used. Otherwise, it's also an extra on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

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Yes, it's true. Capital's new "From the Capitol Vaults" line is putting various and sundry releases onto limited edition 180 gram vinyl. Here's the Greatest Hits album from The Steve Miller Band. You know, "Take the Money and Run," "Fly Like an Eagle," "Jet Airliner" and so forth.

Some of you might not recognize this type of media--it's okay, ask your parents. And to check out the full array of vinyl they're putting out: here's the official site.

We've got a copy that you can win--so get to it. And remember, you can enter once a day.

Rules:

1) You have to fill out the form *properly* for the entry to be valid.

2) We are not going to give away or sell your address or e-mail address or anything without your permission.

3) You can only enter once a day. A day here means from midnight to midnight, Eastern Standard Time. For those of you who need it spelled out to you, that means one person per street address AND e-mail address. If we catch you trying to jive us on an entry, or if you enter more often than once during that day, we will throw out each and every one of your entries. And we will find you out. So.

4) Contest is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only who are 18 or over. Sorry.

5) Contest ends at 11:59PM EST, on Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

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We're back. The following podcast should be considered NSFW, not safe for children, and not safe for most forms of carbon-based life. It's definitely not for the easily offended. And it's really, really ridiculously long. Which is why I don't have an agenda for you. Because it took so damn long to get the thing processed. Suffice to say that our roster for this week's Weekend Justice League are Rox, Kim, Tuffley, Rob and Ken.

It's long, but don't worry: I've including an intermission halfway through so you can get up, stretch your legs, and order something from the concession stand. You're welcome.

I'll update this later with more stuff. Honest.

As always, special thanks go out to Clutch for letting us use their absolutely badass song, "Promoter (of earthbound causes)" as our theme music for this.

Buy Blast Tyrant, which is where you can find "Promoter". Buy their latest album, From Beale Street to Oblivion. Send them love and coin.

Thanks also to Wisconsin Drive-in Theaters and their sound archives for helping us with intermission.

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