SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER? SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT BRITNEY?

ITEM: It’s about that time of year for everyone’s official Top 10s of 2007 (despite the fact that 2007 isn’t actually over yet, but time is arbitrary anyway, so why not?). First to hit the Team Def inbox – AOL’s Top Search Items of 2007.

Here’s the top things America wanted to find on the InterTubes this year (in random order):

1. The weather
2. Britney Spears
3. Chris Benoit
4. American Idol
5. Hillary Clinton
6. Kim Kardashian
7. Harry Potter (the film)
8. John Cena
9. The iPhone
10. Chris Brown
11. The Secret (the book)
12. Coldplay
13. Pottery Barn
14. The Sopranos Finale
15. Soulja Boy’s "Crank Dat”
16. Miss Teen South Carolina’s “Maps” speech

Any conclusions on the death of American culture should be tempered with the fact that AOL accounts for something like 4% of the search engine market, or even less than that if you believe Hitwise over comScore. (For perspective, Google owns somewhere between 55% and 65%.) So the results may say more about AOL users than it does about America. Still, I wouldn’t expect Google’s stats to deviate too far from this.

In which case ... damn.

For the record, until I saw this list, I had never, ever heard of Kim Kardashian, Soulja Boy, or the Pottery Barn.

Search me,

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THE HOMOS ARE COMING! THE HOMOS ARE COMING! YES, AGAIN!

Meanwhile, WorldNetDaily continues to track the evil plan by gay people to turn everyone’s children gay – which I wouldn’t even bother to call to yr attention except that it’s an excuse to post a screenshot that puts a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger in proximity to the headline “Gay school plot” and the word “Homosexodus!”.



Classic. They crack me up at the WND. Osama bin Laden's smile just broadens a little wider every time they post something.

FUN FACT: “Homosexodus” apparently refers to straight families in California being forced to flee schools where the gays have taken over so that they can save their kids from being turned queer. Or something.

Quite an experience to live in fear,

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DEF XMAS PLAYLIST #6: I’M DREAMING OF A WHITE SABBATH

Back when I was in the college radio industry, I fielded a lot of requests and queries around the holidays. The Def Xmas Playlist series has generated similar discussion, and it’s interesting that a common thread, then and now, is: “Got any Christmas songs by Mercyful Fate?”

And my answer remains the same: “No, but would you settle for some King Diamond?”

( Try out yr falsetto! )

King Diamond was the Bing Crosby of his time, you know. Ask anyone who remembers the 80s.

Available on the remastered Fatal Portrait album.

You’ve got coal,

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DEF XMAS SHOPPING TIPS #10: GIMME A HEAD WITH HAIR

For cat owners running out of ideas for Stuffonmycat.com – wigs for cats.



The pitch is simple: "If you have any creature in the house with a head bigger than a walnut (including boyfriends), you need a Kitty Wig™."

But of course you do.

WARNING: Yr cat may hate you for it.

Hell toupee,

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