So this is a TV show or something

Ton of Cash (how is that not a weight loss show?) contestant Jonny Sarhanis was eliminated the other day. Did he walk quietly into the night? No, he gave the worst motivational speech since Dodgeball, beat his chest like a gorilla and then passed out from hyperventilating. I can only assume it's the most interesting thing to happen on VH1 since mini-me peed in a corner while sitting on his hover round.

I know I'm getting old, but when did VH1 get this crappy? I know while growing up it was the old persons MTV full of Kenny G and Michael Bolton videos but then sometime in the late 90s early 2000s they had this cool retro thing going for them. Did they run out of decades to love? Did Mo Rocca die?

..The Blurst of Times

"yeah, you're all pretty much screwed... oh sorry, poor choice of words"
Having a newborn has provided me with ample opportunities to watch absolute garbage TV shows at 2 in the morning. With "..the Blurst of Times" I'll tell you all about whatever horrible abortion of a TV show I watched the night before.

Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew is quite possibly the most mind bottling tv show I've seen all year. I mean this is VH1 right? Where on earth does this show fit in with VH1's line-up of sluts? After Rock of Love 5 but before Frank the Entertainer ..in a Basement Affair? I mean there's no way you'd expect the same people that brought you Love of Ray Jay 2 to bring you a serious show about people battling sex addiction. That would be like your drug dealer trying to convince you to go into rehab (which I swear happened to one of the girls on the show).

So when I start watching Sex Rehab I'm not expecting much but I'll be dipped if it wasn't completely fascinating and compelling. The show is a pretty straight forward docu-drama. Dr. Drew and VH1 have gathered together a half dozen celebrities who are all battling sex addiction of some sort for a 21 day stay in a rehabilitation center. Of course this is VH1 so their definition of celebrity is loose at best. I mean I'm sure that if you're a Skid Row fan their drummer is a really big deal to you, but I still don't think I would call them a celebrity.

The show still has a tinge of exploitation to it, there's at least one patient who is clearly not there to get healthy. But it's hard not to be drawn in by the honesty and openness of the majority of the patients. Overall it's a really fascinating look into the lives of people facing addiction, what got them there and the steps it takes for them to find help.

On a scale of 1 to when I fell asleep, I give this show about 45 minutes. I started drifting off near the end, but lucked out when I found the episode on On Demand.

That guy killed himself

yeah he's not creepy looking at all.
Here's one for the follow up file. Ryan Jenkins who was accused of killing his ex-wife, after he chopped her up and stuffed her in a suitcase was found dead in a motel over the weekend. Take it away associated press;

The dramatic end came at an isolated motel at the edge of British Columbia's mountainous interior, on the outskirts of Hope, a town with limited claims to fame as the place where the first Rambo movie was filmed and where residents make giant wooden carvings with chainsaws.

I'm sure the residents of Hope are happy that their towns claim to fame is Rambo, Chainsaw carving and D-Bags offing themselves in motel rooms.

On Sunday evening, police responded to a call from motel staff about a dead person, and then called investigators who were part of the manhunt for Jenkins, said Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit.

The manager of The Thunderbird Motel and his nephew said they found Jenkins hanging from the bar of a coat rack by a belt. They said a young woman had checked him in to the two-story inn surrounded by trees.

Could the Mystery woman be Megan from Megan wants a millionaire?

Kevin Walker, who manages the Thunderbird Motel, said Jenkins and the mystery woman arrived Thursday.. She was blonde, in her early 20s and "naturally pretty, one of those wholesome little ladies," he said.

Never mind that's definitely not Megan.

Fake dating show < Real murderer

finally, someone that truly is worse than hitler

So if you haven't heard about this story yet, don't worry you will. Basically one of VH1's reality show nutjobs killed someone.

VH1 officially pulled Megan Wants a Millionaire off the air today after reports surfaced that one of the contestants, Ryan Alexander Jenkins, is the target of an international manhunt regarding the murder of former Playboy model and Vegas stripper Jasmine Fiore. Jenkins also is rumored to have won I Love Money 3 which most likely puts that show in jeopardy.
~the ~superficial

That was this morning, this afternoon the police made it official.

TMZ has learned the Orange County D.A. has charged Ryan Jenkins for the murder of his wife Jasmine Fiore. Fiore's body was found Saturday morning stuffed in a suitcase which was thrown in a dumpster in Buena Park, CA. It appears Jenkins has fled to Canada. A warrant has been issued for his arrest
~tmz

Anyone that's had the misfortune of watching any show on VH1 with the word "Love" in the title (but wasn't about the 1980s) knew that something like this was bound to happen. However, I'm a little surprised we went straight to murder. I figured we would've had some tax evasion charges, maybe a vehicular manslaughter charge or two before we went straight to murder.
The people that go on these shows are all freaks, VH1 pays them to act like psychos and when you pay people to act like psychos you're eventually going to attract real psychos. Hopefully after all is said and done VH1 will cancel all their "I love..." shows and will bring back Pop up Video. That show was the bomb.