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IN ODDER NEWS: This Post Is Called “For Michelle: How Can There Not Be More Pictures?”
Published 5/1/2008 by Alex Blagg at Best Week Ever
This is Ricky, who is a "Special Needs Monkey", celebrating his 15th birthday at Natureland in New Zealand, which is scheduled to close soon. So laugh through your tears over the hilariousaddest thing you'll see all day: (via ...

Blowin' In The End: Jason Castro's Craptastic 'Idol' Final-Stretch Performance [Choooooooooke 2: Acoustic Boogaloo]
Published 5/7/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... If we can rely on American Idol for one thing, it's to witness some of our favorite pop and rock standards get mutilated in increasingly graphic and elaborate ways, like some nubile brunette exchange student wandering unwittingly into an Eli Roth movie. It was Jason Castro who delivered last night's purest moment of armrest-clutching terror, an aural torture in two acts that first required him to channel Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff," apparently as interpreted by a special-needs monkey. Predictably, the performance inspired some extra-vicious critiques from ...