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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Scanner : friday</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: friday</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: The Summer Days of Our Slutty Lives</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/05/08/sloppy-seconds-the-summer-days-of-our-slutty-lives.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 23:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:203031</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=203031</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/05/08/sloppy-seconds-the-summer-days-of-our-slutty-lives.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/05/01-07/sandra-bullock-picture-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/05/01-07/sandra-bullock-picture-4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Sandra Bullock is &amp;quot;not sure&amp;quot; she wants kids. Apparently this warrants a news story. [&lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/sandra-bullock-im-not-sure-i-want-kids-200985" target="_blank"&gt;Us&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We blame &lt;i&gt;South Park&lt;/i&gt; for making us laugh every time we see the word &amp;quot;probe&amp;quot; no matter the context. Today&amp;#39;s laughable headline: &amp;quot;Police, 50 Cent see house fire probe differently.&amp;quot; Sort-of sounds like something that could be cleared up with a little Preparation H, right? [&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_en_ce/us_people50_cent" target="_blank"&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;As long as we can remember Emily has been one of the top 10 baby names for girls. This year, we&amp;#39;re at number three. And we&amp;#39;re pretty sure we&amp;#39;ve dated at least one of each from the baby boy section. [&lt;a href="http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/pr/baby-names2008-pr.htm" target="_blank"&gt;SSA.gov&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Sorry for the late notice on Free Chocolate Day. [&lt;a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/23675/free-chocolate/" target="_blank"&gt;The Inquisitr&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Firtexting: apparently more than just a thing to do when you want some booty. A site? A book? A worldview? [&lt;a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/flirtexting" target="_blank"&gt;BuzzFeed&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Apparently all of those soap operas we watched with the summer between first and second grade (and second and third and third and fourth and fourth and fifth... well, you get the picture) turned us slutty. [&lt;a href="http://www.kidk.com/news/local/44614922.html" target="_blank"&gt;KIDK&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/sandra-bullock/pictures/sandra-bullock-picture-4.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=203031" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/headlines/default.aspx">headlines</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/chocolate/default.aspx">chocolate</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/kids/default.aspx">kids</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sloppy+seconds/default.aspx">sloppy seconds</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/south+park/default.aspx">south park</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/50+Cent/default.aspx">50 Cent</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex/default.aspx">sex</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+emily/default.aspx">scanner emily</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/texting/default.aspx">texting</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/soap+operas/default.aspx">soap operas</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/studies/default.aspx">studies</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/fake+news/default.aspx">fake news</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/baby+names/default.aspx">baby names</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/booty+calls/default.aspx">booty calls</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/drunk+texting/default.aspx">drunk texting</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/emily/default.aspx">emily</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/slutty/default.aspx">slutty</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/free+chocolate+day/default.aspx">free chocolate day</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/news+stories/default.aspx">news stories</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sandra+bullock/default.aspx">sandra bullock</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/anal+probe/default.aspx">anal probe</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/texts/default.aspx">texts</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/flirtexting/default.aspx">flirtexting</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/probe/default.aspx">probe</category></item><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: The Hipster Grifter Speaks (And She Wants Money)</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/05/01/sloppy-seconds-the-hipster-grifter-speaks-and-she-wants-money.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 23:16:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:201154</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=201154</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/05/01/sloppy-seconds-the-hipster-grifter-speaks-and-she-wants-money.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/23-End/crawford-panettiere-b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/23-End/crawford-panettiere-b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;ve heard all about Obama&amp;#39;s first 100 days, but what about Hillary Clinton&amp;#39;s? Turns out she hasn&amp;#39;t had time to read a single book or even see a movie. [&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/02clinton.html?_r=2&amp;amp;hp" target="_blank"&gt;NYT&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Watch William Shatner watch the trailer for the Star Trek movie he&amp;#39;s not in. [&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/05/william_shatner_star_trek.html" target="_blank"&gt;Vulture&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Miley Cyrus would like you to know she&amp;#39;s totally not having sex with her 20-year-old boyfriend, telling the Daily Mail, “I want to keep my virginity until I marry. I was brought up in a Christian family.” Yeah, Miley, so were were. [&lt;a href="http://www.fadedyouthblog.com/101742/miley-pledges-to-hold-on-to-her-virginity" target="_blank"&gt;FadedYouth&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Heroes&lt;/i&gt; star and Scanner Brian crush Hayden Panettiere is the latest young star to audition for the &lt;i&gt;Footloose&lt;/i&gt; remake. [&lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/report-hayden-panettiere-auditions-for-footloose-2009304" target="_blank"&gt;Us&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Kari Farrell, that f-ing nude, f-ing hipster grifter finally showed her face long enough to let the world know that &lt;i&gt;Vice&lt;/i&gt; still owes her $200. [&lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5235774/the-hipster-grifter-speaks?skyline=true&amp;amp;s=x" target="_blank"&gt;Gawker&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;object height="300" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4425947&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4425947&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="400"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/4425947"&gt;Meet the Hipster Grifter&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/animalmagazine"&gt;ANIMALmagazine&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a 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Man</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/24/sloppy-seconds-parker-posey-s-new-man.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:199123</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=199123</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/24/sloppy-seconds-parker-posey-s-new-man.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/23-End/Chace-Crawford.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/23-End/Chace-Crawford.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Did you catch Tracy Morgan shirtless in real life on &lt;i&gt;30 Rock&lt;/i&gt; last night? [&lt;a href="http://defamer.gawker.com/5226079/tracy-morgan-shirtless-fact-or-fiction" target="_blank"&gt;Defamer&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Britan&amp;#39;s Got Talent &lt;/i&gt;singing phenomenon Susan Boyle got a little makeover. [&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_en_mu/eu_britain_singing_sensation" target="_blank"&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;One
thing we would not like to find on our doorstep? A flaming bag of poo.
Another thing we would not like to find on our doorstep? A live shark. [&lt;a href="http://cbs13.com/watercooler/shark.australian.newspaper.2.993143.html" target="_blank"&gt;CBS13&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;A sequel to &lt;i&gt;Clueless&lt;/i&gt;!? Count us in! Well, as long as his you know what isn&amp;#39;t crooked. [&lt;a href="http://www.buzzsugar.com/3071018" target="_blank"&gt;BuzzSugar&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We hate to admit we&amp;#39;re also pretty excited about the prospect of
Chace Crawford taking on Kevin Bacon&amp;#39;s role in the remake of &lt;i&gt;Footloose&lt;/i&gt;.
[&lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/poll-should-chace-crawford-remake-footloose-2009244" target="_blank"&gt;Us&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If
Parker Posey was dating Keanu Reaves, that seems to be over, because
now she&amp;#39;s being spotted around town with graphic designer and sculptor
Scott Lenhardt. We endorse this because 1) Keanu Reeves doesn&amp;#39;t seem so
smart and 2) artist boys are totally hot. [&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/04/parker_posey_has_a_new_man.html" target="_blank"&gt;DailyIntel&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://thebosh.com/upload/2008/06/21/chace_crawford_wants_to_date_lauren_conrad/Chace-Crawford.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=199123" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/dating/default.aspx">dating</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/30+rock/default.aspx">30 rock</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sloppy+seconds/default.aspx">sloppy seconds</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/SNL/default.aspx">SNL</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/poo/default.aspx">poo</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Paul+Rudd/default.aspx">Paul Rudd</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/naked/default.aspx">naked</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Tracy+Morgan/default.aspx">Tracy Morgan</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/topless/default.aspx">topless</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/gossip+girl/default.aspx">gossip girl</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/clueless/default.aspx">clueless</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/actors/default.aspx">actors</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/kevin+bacon/default.aspx">kevin bacon</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sharks/default.aspx">sharks</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/parker+posey/default.aspx">parker posey</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/chace+crawford/default.aspx">chace crawford</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/susan+boyle/default.aspx">susan boyle</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/alicia+silverstone/default.aspx">alicia silverstone</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scott+lenhardt/default.aspx">scott lenhardt</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nate+archibald/default.aspx">nate archibald</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/doorsteps/default.aspx">doorsteps</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/keanu+reaves/default.aspx">keanu reaves</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/april+24/default.aspx">april 24</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/shirtless/default.aspx">shirtless</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/graphic+designers/default.aspx">graphic designers</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/footloose/default.aspx">footloose</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/britan_2700_s+got+talent/default.aspx">britan's got talent</category></item><item><title>From Scanner HQ</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/10/from-scanner-hq.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:194773</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=194773</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/10/from-scanner-hq.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/08-15/taking_care_of_business.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/08-15/taking_care_of_business.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="0" height="308" hspace="4" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Just a few friendly reminders from the Scanner business office:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Yesterday Colleen and I (Scanner Emily) were named among the &lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1916-Sex--Relationships-Examiner%7Ey2009m4d9-Introducing-the-Sexy-Twitterati-A-whos-who-of-sex--relationships-writers-on-Twitter" target="_blank"&gt;Sexy Twitterati&lt;/a&gt;. Are you following us yet? &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/scanneremily" target="_blank"&gt;@scanneremily&lt;/a&gt; and @&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/colleenkane" target="_blank"&gt;colleenkane&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Will you be &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Nervecom/33144753877?ref=nf" target="_blank"&gt;Nerve&amp;#39;s friend—er fan—on Facebook&lt;/a&gt;! Pretty please? With a cherry on top? Just think how cool you&amp;#39;ll look to all your other friends. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. I&amp;#39;m still in the lead to win $200 for my dog-humping-leg missed connection, but to lock it in I could really, really use your 10 stars. It&amp;#39;s just &lt;a href="http://www.missedtees.com/vote-dogleg1.php" target="_blank"&gt;two clicks&lt;/a&gt; (one to get &lt;a href="http://www.missedtees.com/vote-dogleg1.php" target="_blank"&gt;there&lt;/a&gt; and one to &lt;a href="http://www.missedtees.com/vote-dogleg1.php" target="_blank"&gt;vote&lt;/a&gt;) and you have no idea how much $200 is to a blogger (like $2,000 to a normal person with a real job). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. And just in case you&amp;#39;ve forgotten, you can now reach Scanner directly by typing &lt;a href="http://dailyscanner.com" target="_blank"&gt;dailyscanner.com&lt;/a&gt; into your address bar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is all. Happy Friday.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=194773" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/contests/default.aspx">contests</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve/default.aspx">nerve</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/facebook/default.aspx">facebook</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+emily/default.aspx">scanner emily</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/url/default.aspx">url</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/business/default.aspx">business</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/twitter/default.aspx">twitter</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+blog/default.aspx">scanner blog</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+colleen/default.aspx">scanner colleen</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve+blogs/default.aspx">nerve blogs</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/taking+care+of+business/default.aspx">taking care of business</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/missed+connections/default.aspx">missed connections</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/my+dog+humped+your+leg/default.aspx">my dog humped your leg</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/HQ/default.aspx">HQ</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/leg+humping/default.aspx">leg humping</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/twitterati/default.aspx">twitterati</category></item><item><title>Scanner Highs and Lows: That Was Then and This is Now</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/06/scanner-highs-and-lows-cloris-leachman-peta-ad.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:37:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:192565</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=192565</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/06/scanner-highs-and-lows-cloris-leachman-peta-ad.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/01-07/young_cloris_leachman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/01-07/young_cloris_leachman.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;But now that we&amp;#39;ve had some distance, we can finally look back on what you may have missed while you were busy jerking off to old pictures of Cloris Leachman. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned that &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/31/vintage-video-of-the-day-riot-grrrls-on-roseanne.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Roseanne was a Riot Grrrl&lt;/a&gt; (sort-of) and wished we would have been cool enough to appreciate it back then. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We celebrated National Cleavage Day by looking back at some of our &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/happy-national-cleavage-day.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;favorite boob stories&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We brought back our old friend &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/marry-fuck-kill-sexy-doctor-edition.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Marry, Fuck or Kill&lt;/a&gt;. This time it was a sexy doctor edition. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Iowa—IOWA!—&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/breaking-gay-marriage-now-legal-in-iowa.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;legalized gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/30/gay-bishop-to-fight-for-same-sex-marriage.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this gay bishop&lt;/a&gt; made us almost appreciate religion again. Almost.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Brian &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/02/shawn-johnson-and-her-partner-s-johnson-slip.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;gave into the goodness of TV&lt;/a&gt;. Sort of. (Boner!)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Colleen &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/02/update-on-plenty.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;told those mother fuckers what&amp;#39;s up&lt;/a&gt;. Sort of. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And we &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/31/today-in-shitty-emails-from-publicists-who-don-t-read-scanner-diet-cookies.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;told those dumb ass publicists what&amp;#39;s up&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And we &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/30/people-who-sit-in-the-disability-seats-when-i-m-standing-on-my-crutches.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;called out some other assholes&lt;/a&gt;, just for the hell of it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We decided we want to be &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/01/cloris-leachman-wears-only-cabbage-for-her-peta-ad.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;just like Cloris Leachman&lt;/a&gt; when we grow up (except we&amp;#39;ll eat meat). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;On the way to being like Cloris maybe we&amp;#39;ll make a little stop in &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/01/isabella-s-at-it-again.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Isabella Rossellini land&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/31/support-a-scanner-or-two.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;begged for your help&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/30/i-still-want-to-hump-your-leg.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;More than once&lt;/a&gt;. (P.S. We are still begging for your help.) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We watched &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/what-exactly-are-they-getting-at-in-this-schick-commercial.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;a very strange commercial, indeed&lt;/a&gt;. One that perpetuated the myth that Asians have very little pubic hair.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We figured out &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/because-we-are-classy.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;what we want for Christmas&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/why-marisa-tomei-finally-went-naked.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;felt a little bad&lt;/a&gt; for Marisa Tomei. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Ina &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/31/it-s-a-slow-news-day-because-everyone-s-busy-playing-with-omegle.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;tried out Omegle&lt;/a&gt;. We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/02/scanner-emily-omegle-chat.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;did not learn from her mistake&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Brian &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/31/thing-234-not-to-f-ck-a-pine-cone.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;made our vaginas hurt&lt;/a&gt;. No, not like that, you perverts! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/02/from-the-annals-of-quot-sassy-quot-kurt-cobain-wore-an-engagement-ring.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;felt really old&lt;/a&gt; when we were reminded it&amp;#39;s been 15 years since Kurt Cobain died.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/01/i-will-not-play-april-fool-s-jokes-on-you.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;refused to participate&lt;/a&gt; in April Fool&amp;#39;s Day. Apparently &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/01/the-best-of-the-april-fool-s-day-sex-news.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;we were the only ones&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We wondered why Girl Scout Cookies are &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/30/girl-scout-cookies.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;so damn inaccessible&lt;/a&gt;!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/30/sham-wow-guy-slap-chops-a-hooker.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; was probably our favorite story of the week. Sham! Wow!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/27/scanner-highs-and-lows-the-week-we-almost-found-jesus.aspx"&gt;Scanner Highs and Lows: The Week We Almost Found Jesus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/16/scanner-highs-and-lows-the-week-that-happened-before-this-one-that-we-know-is-now-over.aspx"&gt;Scanner Highs and Lows: The Week That Happened Before This One That We Know is Now Over&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/06/scanner-highs-and-lows-crazy-cat-lady.aspx"&gt;Scanner Highs and Lows: In Which We Say Goodbye to the Crazy Cat Lady&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/stinkylulu/CL-lastpictureshow-deerrifle.png" target="_blank"&gt;Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192565" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/pictures/default.aspx">pictures</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jerking+off/default.aspx">jerking off</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+highs+and+lows/default.aspx">scanner highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/cloris+leachman/default.aspx">cloris leachman</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/2009/default.aspx">2009</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/monday/default.aspx">monday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/april+3/default.aspx">april 3</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/april+6/default.aspx">april 6</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mondaze/default.aspx">mondaze</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mondays/default.aspx">mondays</category></item><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: Amy Winehouse is "Back in the Saddle"</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/sloppy-seconds-amy-winehouse-is-back-in-the-saddle.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:34:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:192548</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=192548</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/04/03/sloppy-seconds-amy-winehouse-is-back-in-the-saddle.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/01-07/cuomo_schwartzman_wilson.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/04/01-07/cuomo_schwartzman_wilson.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;That girl from &lt;i&gt;Twilight&lt;/i&gt; will play Joan Jett in a still unnamed film about The Runaways. [&lt;a href="http://www.afterellen.com/blog/trishbendix/kristen-stewart-learns-how-to-become-joan-jett" target="_blank"&gt;AfterEllen&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The saddest thing we&amp;#39;ve seen all day: 11 extinct animals that have been photographed alive. [&lt;a href="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/04/02/11-extinct-animals-that-have-been-photographed-alive/" target="_blank"&gt;EcoWorldly&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The most depressing thing we&amp;#39;ve seen all day: the unfolding story of the hostage situation in Binghamton, NY. [&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/03/binghamton.shooting/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We (read: Scanner Emily) still need your 10 stars. Real bad. Because we need $200. Real bad. Pretty please? [&lt;a href="http://www.missedtees.com/vote-dogleg1.php" target="_blank"&gt;MissedTees&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We (read: Scanner Collen) still need you to vote for our dream photography assignment. Because we also need $50,000. Real bad. Pretty please? [&lt;a href="http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/colleenkane/main-street-exiled-disappearing-downtowns/" target="_blank"&gt;Name Your Dream Assignment&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Now all three of your Scanners are on Twitter, even though only one of us stays true to the Scanner name. [&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/scanneremily" target="_blank"&gt;Scanner Emily&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/colleenkane" target="_blank"&gt;Scanner Colleen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/buddyobush" target="_blank"&gt;Scanner Brian&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Remember yesterday when Madonna threw a party to celebrate an adoption that hadn&amp;#39;t yet been approved? Um, yeah. Maybe not the best idea she ever had. [&lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/lawyer-madonna-files-adoption-appeal-200934" target="_blank"&gt;Us&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently there was a fractured penis scene in last night&amp;#39;s ER finale. Was it a swipe at Grey&amp;#39;s Anatomy? [&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/theremoteisland/archive/2009/04/03/did-quot-er-quot-take-a-final-swipe-at-quot-grey-s-anatomy-quot-with-that-fractured-penis-scene-video.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;The Remote Island&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;On April 11 Alternative Nation Countdown Takeover, a show on Sirius radio, will premiere new solo material from Rivers Cuomo that features Jason Schwartzman Rainn Wilson. Weird. Cool. [&lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/03/31/rivers-cuomo-readies-live-disc-collaborates-with-rainn-wilson-of-the-office/" target="_blank"&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;According to a post on her MySpace blog this morning (obviously not written by her) Amy Winehouse is hard at work on her third album. We&amp;#39;ll believe it when we hear it. Either way, we thought you&amp;#39;d enjoy seeing this picture again. [&lt;a href="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;amp;friendID=21621016&amp;amp;blogID=480868677" target="_blank"&gt;MySpace&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/amy_winehouse2.jpg" alt="" align="" border="" width="440" height="330" hspace="" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/04/sloppy-seconds-amy-winehouse-s-new-single-life.aspx"&gt;Sloppy Seconds: Amy Winehouse&amp;#39;s New Single Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/27/quot-my-dog-humped-your-leg-i-wanted-to-quot.aspx"&gt;&amp;quot;My dog humped your leg. 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isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:190214</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=190214</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/27/scanner-highs-and-lows-the-week-we-almost-found-jesus.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/23-End/christ_jesus_twitter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/23-End/christ_jesus_twitter.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;So maybe &amp;quot;almost&amp;quot; is stretching it... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/scanner-goes-to-art-school-does-not-get-laid.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;got all artsy&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/did-you-miss-the-sex-workers-art-show-tour.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Twice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were incredibly moved by &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/25/where-the-wild-things-are-trailer.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;the trailer&lt;/a&gt; for &amp;quot;Where the Wild Things Are.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We finally found &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/two-o-clock-titty.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;a church&lt;/a&gt; we might consider attending. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We decided we should be rewarded for not getting married.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/woman-handcuffs-husband-to-talk.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this lady&lt;/a&gt; reaffirmed our decision. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We tried (and are still trying) to win $200. &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/27/quot-my-dog-humped-your-leg-i-wanted-to-quot.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;You can help&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/27/consecutive-duis-three-times-a-lady.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;This woman&lt;/a&gt; made us feel a little better about ourselves, but mostly about our mom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We questioned &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/nerve-editors-pick-the-40-sexiest-frontwomen-in-rock-history.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;the choices of our editors&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We ate at Denny&amp;#39;s, and apparently missed out on some &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/teen-orgies-all-the-rage-in-oklahoma.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;hot teenage orgy action&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Our faith in humanity was restored, &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/the-alfie-dna-test-results-are-in.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;almost&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;re even &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/25/underwear-that-s-fun-to-wear-for-five-days.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;less motivated to do laundry&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned that &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/23/gay-affluence-myth.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;the gays are poor, too&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/26/purity-boot-camp.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Purity boot camp&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/23/the-saddest-thing-youll-see-all-day-horse-that-s-allergic-to-grass.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;This horse&lt;/a&gt; made us really sad. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Not everyone agrees with us that Justin Timberlake &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/27/zac-efron-s-sexual-awakening.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;brought sexy back&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=190214" width="1" 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xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=190213</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/27/sloppy-seconds-rihanna-s-new-tattoo.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/23-End/poor-willie-aames.3201287.36.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/23-End/poor-willie-aames.3201287.36.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Say it ain&amp;#39;t so: celebrities with ghost Twitterers? 50 Cent has one. So does Ron Paul and Barack Obama (we figured as much for Mr. President). [&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/technology/internet/27twitter.html?_r=2" target="_blank"&gt;NYT&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;But now that we think of it, Courtney Love might benefit from a ghost Twitterer. [&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/03/courtney_love_deciphered.html" target="_blank"&gt;Vulture&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Here&amp;#39;s a condom commercial that&amp;#39;s not even safe for YouTube, apparently. [&lt;a href="http://www.lifestyles.com/skyn.php" target="_blank"&gt;Lifestyles&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Rihanna got a sort-of awesome gun tattoo in a sort-of awesome place. [&lt;a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20268182,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines" target="_blank"&gt;People&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We are much less enthused about this pop-art rendering of the infamous Rihanna police photo. [&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090327/en_music_eo/106444" target="_blank"&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Willie Aames, of &amp;quot;Charles in Charge&amp;quot; is around the corner from
Scanner HQ selling, well, pretty much everything he owns after his
recent home foreclosure.[&lt;a href="http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/03/poor_willie_aames_part_2.php" target="_blank"&gt;Plog&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=186347</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/16/scanner-highs-and-lows-the-week-that-happened-before-this-one-that-we-know-is-now-over.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/08-15/smiths.jpg" alt="" align="" border="" width="640" height="480" hspace="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Pardon our tardiness wrapping up the highs and lows of last week, but we were living &lt;i&gt;Planes, Trains and Automobiles&lt;/i&gt; 2.0. After eleven hours each in two different airports, a four-hour Greyhound bus ride and an eleven-hour drive, we finally made it to Austin, where we&amp;#39;re blogging from South by Southwest Interactive. Today we&amp;#39;ll check out all the sexy panels, until then, here&amp;#39;s what happened last week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Brian (along with his buddies at FOXNews) made us feel a little better about our &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/13/fox-news-enjoys-your-big-butt.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;badonkadonks&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Because FOXNews is all about giving us &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/13/sex-is-the-new-airborne.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;more reasons to have sex&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And so does &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/09/abc-news-guess-what-sex-is-good-for-you.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;ABC News&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We love that Paul Rudd &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/12/paul-rudd-loves-being-naked.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;loves to get nekkid&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;What happens when our favorite show from childhood collides with one of our favorite shows from adulthood? &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/12/ricky-gervais-teaches-elmo-about-necrophilia.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Utter necrophiliac hilarity&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We became a little more open minded about &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/11/scanner-roundtable-dating-people-with-kids.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;dating people with kids&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/10/holidays-we-dig-national-abortion-provider-appreciation-day.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day&lt;/a&gt; made us happy. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We got a second chance at finding a mopey lover at &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/10/second-chance-smiths-speed-dating.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Smiths Speed Dating&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We made a lot of condom-hating men happy when we reported on a study that said a straight shot of semen can &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/09/semen-a-cure-for-female-depression.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;treat female depression&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/11/happy-abstinence-only-day.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Abstinence-Only Education Day&lt;/a&gt; did not.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Neither did &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/10/12-year-old-speaks-out-against-abortion.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this little girl&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We worried, momentarily, that Scanner Brian would &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/11/putting-an-end-to-teacher-sex.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;be out of a job&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;But as long as he can recognize that &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/10/the-tabloids-have-only-just-realized-jason-segel-is-a-sex-symbol.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Jason Segel is a sexy, sexy man&lt;/a&gt;, he&amp;#39;s safe here at Scanner. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;New Jersey is about to get &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/13/south-jersey-contemplates-ban-on-brazilian-wax.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;a lot more bush&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We considered &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/13/leave-bristol-palin-alone.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;leaving Bristol Palin alone&lt;/a&gt;. And then decided against it.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were reminded, yet again, how complicated all that &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/13/behold-the-feminist-bridezilla.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;getting married bullshit&lt;/a&gt; can be. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;But maybe if someone loved us &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/13/young-guy-waits-in-tree-for-his-girlfriend-to-come-along-and-accept-his-ring.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this much&lt;/a&gt;... &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We couldn&amp;#39;t get that &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/11/evil-commercial-jingles-stop-the-inanity.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;damn McDonald&amp;#39;s jingle&lt;/a&gt; out of our heads. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were a little disappointed with our first &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/13/found-on-the-road-four-flavored-condom.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;condom vending machine purchase&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;P Diddy &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/12/diddy-tweets-his-tantric-sex-sesh.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;TMI alert&lt;/a&gt;!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=186347" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/movies/default.aspx">movies</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex/default.aspx">sex</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/highs+and+lows/default.aspx">highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/airports/default.aspx">airports</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sexy/default.aspx">sexy</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+highs+and+lows/default.aspx">scanner highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/greyhound/default.aspx">greyhound</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/march/default.aspx">march</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/monday/default.aspx">monday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/traveling/default.aspx">traveling</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/planes+trains+and+automobiles/default.aspx">planes trains and automobiles</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/2.0/default.aspx">2.0</category></item><item><title>Scanner Highs and Lows: In Which We Say Goodbye to the Crazy Cat Lady</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/06/scanner-highs-and-lows-crazy-cat-lady.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:183138</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=183138</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/06/scanner-highs-and-lows-crazy-cat-lady.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/01-07/fat_cat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/01-07/fat_cat.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We can hardly believe it either (and don&amp;#39;t worry: our precious pussy is still alive and well). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We can only hope to age as well as &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/06/women-who-look-better-with-age.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;these women&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And that we&amp;#39;ll be as ballsy as &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/02/hot-or-not-41-year-old-cheerleader-hopeful.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; when we hit that age. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We saw Keith Richards whip it out. &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/05/keith-richards-shows-his-other-appendage-no-not-the-guitar-silly.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Sort of&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We had way too much fun with &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/05/fun-with-wikipedia-mammary-intercourse.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Wikipedia audio&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And with &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/03/do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Google image search&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found out newest &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/05/200-vadge-casts.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;volunteer project&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;This guy (or gal) &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/04/fingerbanged-for-skittles.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Twat the best&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned that human breast milk tastes just like or better than cow milk when &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/03/breast-milk-cupcakes-vice-magazine.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;put in delicious cupcakes&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;This was after we discussed whether or not one should &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/03/breast-milk-to-suckle-or-not-to-suckle.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;suckle it&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And quite possibly the most important high of all: we are &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/03/scanner-emily-is-no-longer-a-crazy-cat-lady.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;no longer on the road to becoming a crazy cat lady&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Our &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/05/18th-century-preverts.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;vaginas cringed&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned even more about &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/05/200-vadge-casts.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;why we&amp;#39;re so bad at dating&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/05/tonya-harding-alive-and-well-claiming-quot-you-ll-still-pay-money-to-come-see-me-quot.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Tonya Harding &lt;/a&gt;came back into our lives. (But did she ever really leave?)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Apparently not too many of us are &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/04/scanner-survey-how-often-do-you-have-sexy-time.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;having regular sex&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And if we keep reading &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/02/horrific-beetle-sex.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;shit like this&lt;/a&gt;, we&amp;#39;ll never want to have sex again. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Especially if &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/02/et-tu-porno.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;online porn is dying&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Since when was &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/02/news-article-uses-two-versions-of-quot-bobbit-quot-as-a-verb.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;quot;bobbit&amp;quot; a verb&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b62/cnasnflwrgrl/animals/cats/?action=view&amp;amp;current=fat_cat.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=183138" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/highs+and+lows/default.aspx">highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+highs+and+lows/default.aspx">scanner highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/crazy+cat+lady/default.aspx">crazy cat lady</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/2009/default.aspx">2009</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/march+6/default.aspx">march 6</category></item><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: What We Gave Up for Lent</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/06/sloppy-seconds-giving-up-sex-for-lent.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:183147</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=183147</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/06/sloppy-seconds-giving-up-sex-for-lent.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/01-07/Pope%20Benedict.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/01-07/Pope%20Benedict.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;I may have moved to the &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/12/hey-everybody-i-just-moved-to-the-1-worst-city-for-dating.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;worst city—ever!—for dating&lt;/a&gt;, but at least it&amp;#39;s the manliest based on &amp;quot;the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores as well as manly salty snacks consumption.&amp;quot; [&lt;a href="http://blogs.pitch.com/fatcity/2009/03/manly_kansas_city_manly_gets_i.php" target="_blank"&gt;FatCity&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one step closer to switching to an online-only publication. [&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090306/media_nm/us_hearst_pi" target="_blank"&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Michelle Obama will be the first person other than Oprah herself to ever appear on the cover of &lt;i&gt;O Magazine&lt;/i&gt;. [&lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/michelle-obama-appears-on-cover-of-oprah-200963" target="_blank"&gt;Us&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;What&amp;#39;s this about a giant blue wiener in &amp;quot;The Watchmen?&amp;quot; Now we&amp;#39;re totally seeing it. [&lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18926518/review/26479536/watchmen" target="_blank"&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Gossip Girl&amp;#39;s Matthew Settle (Rufus) is a daddy. [&lt;a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20263436,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines" target="_blank"&gt;People&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Believe it or not kids, Scanner Emily here, an athiest, gave up sex (or anything beyond kissing, hugging and a back rub if I can get it) for Lent. Some people are giving up texting. Both would probably be good for interpersonal relationships. What are you giving up, if anything? [&lt;a href="http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2009/03/thou-shalt-not-text-during-lent.html" target="_blank"&gt;Tech-Ex&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related:&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/12/hey-everybody-i-just-moved-to-the-1-worst-city-for-dating.aspx"&gt; Hey Everybody, I Just Moved to the #1 Worst City for Dating!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=183147" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/comics/default.aspx">comics</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sloppy+seconds/default.aspx">sloppy seconds</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/babies/default.aspx">babies</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/manly+men/default.aspx">manly 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xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=180603</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/27/scanner-highs-and-lows-we-ve-never-been-so-glad-it-s-friday.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/23-End/tgif.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/23-End/tgif.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;re closing down shop a little early today because we&amp;#39;ve reached that point in the week when we can no longer put words together. Well, we reached it a few hours ago and realized, &amp;#39;hey, we have a job that allows us to drink while we work,&amp;#39; so that helped us put these words together. A little. Also, this picture is the first thing that&amp;#39;s made us laugh all day, so shut up.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We made &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/26/the-latest-sexist-fad-coleslaw-wrestling.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;a promise&lt;/a&gt; that we will keep if you can provide the right conditions. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/26/barack-obama-s-gay-sex-scandal-is-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;This made us laugh&lt;/a&gt;. Out loud. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;So did &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/26/this-drummer-will-be-your-cabana-boy-if-the-price-is-right.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned that &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/the-future-of-dating.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;dating is not dead&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We considered &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/california-introduces-bill-to-legalize-marijuana.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;moving to California&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;While Scanner Brian considered &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/topless-coffee-shop-opens-in-maine.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;moving to Maine&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And Scanner Colleen decided she &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/23/jamaican-sexytime-music-ban.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;won&amp;#39;t be moving to Jamaica&lt;/a&gt; any time soon. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And he asked &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/23/let-s-settle-this-ridiculous-first-date-pay-debate-once-and-for-all.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;who should pay on a first date&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found out there was &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/beyonce-stuns-lone-oscar-viewer-with-nipple-slip.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;a nip slip at the Oscars&lt;/a&gt; after all (and we have the one picture to prove it).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;You were as confused and strangely pleased by &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/video-of-the-day-mac-hello-kitty-commercial.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt; as we were. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We discussed &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/the-rise-and-fall-of-lindsay-lohan.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Lindsay Lohan&amp;#39;s breasts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Brian made us realize, yet again, how lucky we are &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/27/thing-457-not-to-fuck-a-car-wash-vacuum-cleaner.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;not to have a penis&lt;/a&gt; of our own to play with. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/man-catches-his-meat-in-a-meat-grinder.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;So did Scanner Colleen&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We (hopefully only temporarily) &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/who-would-you-rather-seth-rogen-vs-seth-rogen.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;lost our boner for Seth Rogen&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found out we have &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/bearded-men-on-craig-s-list-or-how-we-ll-get-scanner-emily-to-move-back-to-nyc.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;some serious competition&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Brian &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/how-to-tell-if-she-s-faking-it-by-an-orgasm-faker.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;told us something&lt;/a&gt; we probably could have told us if he&amp;#39;d ever bothered to ask. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were forced to &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/26/rush-limbaugh-cares-what-women-think.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;think about Rush Limbaugh&lt;/a&gt; for the first time in a long time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We misspelled the name of a &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/default.aspx?PageIndex=2" target="_blank"&gt;prosthetic dog testicle company&lt;/a&gt;. Oops. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned that perhaps &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/sex-ed-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-texas.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;it&amp;#39;s time to mess with Texas&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We developed a &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/terrifying-fact-of-the-day-old-fridges-can-kill.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;healthy fear of household appliances&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Crazy Baby Lady got an &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/crazy-baby-lady-to-become-crazy-sex-lady.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;offer to do porn&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Then a &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/26/crazy-baby-lady-gets-counter-offer-to-not-do-porn.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;counter offer not to&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/scanner-roundtable-is-dating-dead.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;We wondered&lt;/a&gt; if we had a dating problem or a drinking problem. (We think we know the answer now, thanks). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And then we found &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/24/i-need-whiskey-flavored-condoms-like-i-need-a-hole-in-my-head.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;the last thing in the world we need&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/tgif.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=180603" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner/default.aspx">scanner</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve/default.aspx">nerve</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/highs+and+lows/default.aspx">highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+highs+and+lows/default.aspx">scanner highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/2009/default.aspx">2009</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve+blogs/default.aspx">nerve blogs</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/february+27/default.aspx">february 27</category></item><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: Bobby Jindal Is A Big, Fat Liar</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/27/sloppy-seconds-bobby-jindal-is-big-fat-liar.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:180581</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=180581</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/27/sloppy-seconds-bobby-jindal-is-big-fat-liar.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/23-End/jindal26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/23-End/jindal26.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Some whack job is in custody after mailing HIV-tainted blood to President Obama. [&lt;a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/27/man-held-after-mailing-hiv-tainted-blood-to-obama/" target="_blank"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;As if you needed more reasons to have sex. [&lt;a href="http://www.physorg.com/news154962704.html" target="_blank"&gt;Physorg&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Oh no! Ed McMahon is hospitalized with pneumonia, and he&amp;#39;s in serious condition. Can this poor guy not get a break? [&lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/ed-mcmahon-hospitalized-with-Pneumonia-2009272" target="_blank"&gt;Us&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;It appears Jessica Capshaw will remain on the cast of &amp;quot;Grey&amp;#39;s Anatomy&amp;quot; for at least the duration of the current season. And you know what that means: more hot, lesbian doctor action! [&lt;a href="http://www.afterellen.com/blog/sarahwarn/jessica-capshaw-stays-on-greys" target="_blank"&gt;AfterEllen&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Hey, remember that heartwarming story about Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal standing shoulder to shoulder with a sheriff who was trying to rescue people during Hurricane Katrina? Yeah, turns out it was a big, fat lie. [&lt;a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/jindal_admits_katrina_story_was_false.php" target="_blank"&gt;TPMMuckraker&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/jossip/%7E3/JTlIs-w0dnk/" target="_blank"&gt;Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=180581" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sloppy+seconds/default.aspx">sloppy seconds</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex/default.aspx">sex</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/lesbians/default.aspx">lesbians</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Liars/default.aspx">Liars</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/aids/default.aspx">aids</category><category 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/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=180488" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/cats/default.aspx">cats</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/pictures/default.aspx">pictures</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/crazy+cat+lady/default.aspx">crazy cat lady</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/lolcats/default.aspx">lolcats</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+emily+is+a+crazy+cat+lady/default.aspx">scanner emily is a crazy cat lady</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/icanhazcheeseburger/default.aspx">icanhazcheeseburger</category><category 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xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=177516</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/20/scanner-highs-and-lows-real-fake-vampires.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/08-15/SouthParkGothKids.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/08-15/SouthParkGothKids.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;You know it&amp;#39;s a good week when real vampires get pissed off at fake vampires... or is it real fake vampires getting pissed at fake fake vampires?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found our &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/telenovela-guy.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;new favorite man-boy band&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Our token Canadian &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/16/happy-presidents-day-from-the-token-canadian.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;helped us celebrate President&amp;#39;s Day&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;So did &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/16/scanner-colleen-s-mom-s-presidential-oh-no.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Scanner Colleen&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We laughed so hard at &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/17/sir-mix-a-lot-s-photoshop.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Sir Mix-a-Lot&amp;#39;s Photoshop&lt;/a&gt; we almost peed our pants (okay, maybe we did a little). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were validated, yet again, in our Crazy Cat Ladydom.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We also &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/18/woman-misses-flight-freaks-the-fuck-out.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;feel a lot better&lt;/a&gt; about that nervous breakdown we had at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We totally crushed on &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/seth-rogen-on-the-cover-of-playboy.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Playboy&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#39;s newest play &lt;i&gt;boy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We looked at &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/kate-moss-stocks-up-on-beer-strips-for-new-york-magazine.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Kate Moss semi-naked&lt;/a&gt; and got a little jeal-jeal of her cute little tats. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/sexytime-shopping-list.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;went shopping&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/18/Top-10-Words-For-Vagina.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;discussed our girl parts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/what-exactly-do-you-do-with-your-hair-down-there.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;twice&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We fell in love with &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/17/people-are-talking-about-beth-ditto-naked.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;LOVE&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We need you to &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/20/video-of-the-day-yet-another-kid-we-want-to-adopt.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;put a baby in us&lt;/a&gt;. Right now. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Now we know &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/20/the-wost-way-to-die-anally.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;how we do not want to die&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Looks like somebody&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/20/pat-smeared-pray-for-the-swayz.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;putting Johnny in a corner&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/17/bearded-no-no-of-the-week-mel-gibson-s-chin-pubes.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;another beard we simply cannot endorse&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We recalled, for the umpteenth time, &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/20/my-deflowered-memoir-is-not-so-flower-y.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;how we lost our virginity&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned that &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/how-to-lose-a-guy-in-44-bullet-points.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;we are not unique&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Apparently, we &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/weight-watchers-activity-points-for-sex.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;cannot earn Weight Watchers activity points&lt;/a&gt; for sex.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We learned that fake fake vampires are pissing off &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/18/wannabe-vampires-are-totally-pissing-off-real-vampires.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;real fake vampires&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We bid &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/19/don-t-miss-the-awesomeness-on-late-night-s-goodbye-week.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;a fond farewel&lt;/a&gt;l to Con-nan O&amp;#39;Briaaaaaahhhn. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And a &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/18/the-tragic-tale-of-a-pet-chimp-going-apeshit.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;bittersweet farewell&lt;/a&gt; to a crazy-ass chimp. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We don&amp;#39;t want to be &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/17/video-of-the-day-did-you-know-obama-had-an-elf.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Obama&amp;#39;s elf&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/17/today-in-the-apocalypse-barbie-is-even-skinnier.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Barbie&lt;/a&gt; got even skinnier.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;But &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/16/the-uk-babies-having-babies-plot-thickens.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; might be worse than all that. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=177516" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner/default.aspx">scanner</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve/default.aspx">nerve</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/babies/default.aspx">babies</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex/default.aspx">sex</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/highs+and+lows/default.aspx">highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/week+in+review/default.aspx">week in review</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/pregnancy/default.aspx">pregnancy</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/celebrities/default.aspx">celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+highs+and+lows/default.aspx">scanner highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/faking+it/default.aspx">faking it</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+blog/default.aspx">scanner blog</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve+blogs/default.aspx">nerve blogs</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/fake+vampires/default.aspx">fake vampires</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/faking+an+orgasm/default.aspx">faking an orgasm</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/faking/default.aspx">faking</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/stand+up/default.aspx">stand up</category></item><item><title>Happy Friday the 13th, Fraidy Cats</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/13/happy-friday-the-13th-fraidy-cats.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:174753</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=174753</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/13/happy-friday-the-13th-fraidy-cats.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/08-15/camp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/08-15/camp.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Hey, it&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;Paraskavedekatriaphobia &lt;/i&gt;Day everybody! Did you watch out for black cats (isn&amp;#39;t that terribly racist?), avoid crossing under ladders (as if there&amp;#39;s even an opportunity for that in today&amp;#39;s paranoid construction job), and, honestly, who opens umbrellas in the house anyway? Don&amp;#39;t you wait until you step out of the doorway so the umbrella doesn&amp;#39;t get caught inside?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Seriously, though, have you ever wondered why the number 13 is such a big deal and why a Friday the 13th means a damn thing besides &amp;quot;bad &lt;i&gt;Halloween&lt;/i&gt; ripoff?&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Wikipedia, of course, provides the annotated and also impossible-to-skim answers. We&amp;#39;ll summarize it for you below:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1) The fear of a Friday that falls on the 13 is a phobia. That really long word up there is the name of that phobia. We&amp;#39;ll just call it The Fear for our purposes here.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2) Honestly, no one really knows why The Fear is The Fear. The first known reference to The Fear was made in an 1869 biography of some guy named &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino_Rossini" title="Gioachino Rossini"&gt;Gioachino Rossini.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3) &amp;quot;One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_%28number%29" title="13 (number)"&gt;thirteen&lt;/a&gt; is an unlucky number and that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday" title="Friday"&gt;Friday&lt;/a&gt; is an unlucky day.&amp;quot; That settles it for us, but you can read on.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4) Another interesting note: &amp;quot;According to the &lt;i&gt;Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute&lt;/i&gt; in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million [&lt;b&gt;crazy&lt;/b&gt;] people in the United States
are affected by a fear of this day. Some people are so paralyzed by
fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking
flights or even getting out of bed. &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s been estimated that$800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day.&amp;quot; &lt;sup id="cite_ref-NatGeo_4-2" class="reference"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;Despite this, representatives for both Delta and Continental Airlines
say that their airlines don&amp;#39;t suffer from any noticeable drop in travel
on those Fridays.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th" target="_blank"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/12/09/this-week-in-gayness-call-in-gay-tomorrow.aspx"&gt;This Week in Gayness: Call In Gay Tomorrow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/04/single-ladies-put-a-used-ring-on-it.aspx"&gt;Single Ladies (Put a Used Ring on It)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/10/08/top-5-sex-scenes-from-bad-movies.aspx"&gt;Top 5 Sex Scenes From Bad Movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=174753" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/cats/default.aspx">cats</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scary/default.aspx">scary</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/racism/default.aspx">racism</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/numbers/default.aspx">numbers</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/crazy+people/default.aspx">crazy people</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/americans/default.aspx">americans</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/superstition/default.aspx">superstition</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/ocd/default.aspx">ocd</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday+the+13th/default.aspx">friday the 13th</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/phobia/default.aspx">phobia</category></item><item><title>Scanner Highs and Lows: All Aboard the Crazy Train</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/scanner-highs-and-lows-all-aboard-the-crazy-train.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:26:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:172149</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=172149</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/scanner-highs-and-lows-all-aboard-the-crazy-train.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/01-07/crazy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/01-07/crazy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We would like to thank the Crazy Baby Lady, Christian Bale, the cutter, Paula Deen and numerous others for making us feel a little more sane this week.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We had the &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/life-imitates-art-minus-the-thong.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;best workout ever&lt;/a&gt;, well, considering we haven&amp;#39;t had sex in months. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;When we finally do have sex, we&amp;#39;d like it to be with &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/03/bearded-man-of-the-week-justin-vernon.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this bearded man&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Scanner Brian &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/amazon-giving-away-lots-of-great-mp3-s.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;gave it to us&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Andy Dick &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/05/and-we-thought-throwing-up-in-a-cab-was-bad.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;made us feel better&lt;/a&gt; about that time we threw up in a cab. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And the &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/02/octuplets-media-money.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Crazy Baby Lady&lt;/a&gt; made us feel better about being a crazy cat lady.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;In fact, we&amp;#39;re &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/woman-brands-one-night-stand.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;not all that crazy&lt;/a&gt; at all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found our &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/04/world-s-oldest-showgirl.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;new idol&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;That is if we &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/04/paula-deen-being-all-suggestive-on-conan.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;didn&amp;#39;t already&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/jennifer-aniston-can-t-win.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;defended&lt;/a&gt; Jennifer Aniston even though we&amp;#39;re just not that into her. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;re not a big fan of the LOL. But &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/03/this-kid-is-so-wasted.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this video made us LOL&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Speaking of videos, we think we &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/world-nude-day-how-to-win-10-000-for-your-average-saturday-night.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;found our calling&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Our meager boobs hurt &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/04/a-new-world-record-bustline.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;just looking at this&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We had to &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/04/just-in-time-for-valentimes-smittens.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;start thinking&lt;/a&gt; about Valentine&amp;#39;s Day. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;re going to &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/02/do-you-drink-like-a-man.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;get wrinkled and go bald&lt;/a&gt;. Soon, apparently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If we don&amp;#39;t die of &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/05/bbc-wants-you-to-know-you-ll-all-get-sex-cancers.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;sex cancers&lt;/a&gt; first. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If we die of sex cancers, we&amp;#39;d like to be &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/03/warning-this-skirt-may-turn-into-a-giant-vagina.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;buried in this&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Christian Bale&amp;#39;s roid rage &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/05/bale-bill-the-best-remix-yet.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;came to a head&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/03/today-is-the-day-the-music-died.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;music died&lt;/a&gt;. Again. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;re pretty sad we missed the &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/02/smiths-speed-dating.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Smiths&amp;#39; Speed Dating&lt;/a&gt;, which was four doors down from our old apartment. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://blog.barkers.nl/wp-content/uploads/victor-coral.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=172149" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/highs+and+lows/default.aspx">highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+highs+and+lows/default.aspx">scanner highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/2009/default.aspx">2009</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/february+6/default.aspx">february 6</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/tgif/default.aspx">tgif</category></item><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: Ted Haggard Speaks</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/23/sloppy-seconds-ted-haggard-speaks.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:167553</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=167553</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/23/sloppy-seconds-ted-haggard-speaks.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/01/ted_haggard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/01/ted_haggard.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama (we love typing that!) overturned the Global Gag Rule today. [&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/23/washington/AP-Obama-Abortion-Ban.html?hp" target="_blank"&gt;NYT&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We&amp;#39;re not ones to let a little salmonella come between us and peanut butter, so we ate our peanut butter sandwich Girl Scout cookies before we even knew they were safe. [&lt;a href="http://www.masslive.com/metrowest/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-17/123269853783830.xml&amp;amp;coll=1" target="_blank"&gt;The Republican&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Also, we spent too much time on Craigslist today, but we found these gems:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;This Kansas City gent wants a skinny girl, the kind other girls hate
because she&amp;#39;s so skinny. But only if &amp;quot;U R asked by other people if you
have an eating disorder.&amp;quot; [&lt;a href="http://kansascity.craigslist.org/m4w/1004516741.html" target="_blank"&gt;Craigslist Kansas City&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If a guy wants to lick you &amp;#39;everywher&amp;#39; does it really matter if he can&amp;#39;t spell? [&lt;a href="http://corpuschristi.craigslist.org/m4w/1004151417.html" target="_blank"&gt;Craigslist Corpus Christi&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Oh, and Facebook is probably ruining your relationship, whether you know it or not, so you might as well go on TV to talk about it. [&lt;a href="http://austin.craigslist.org/tfr/1004455966.html%20" target="_blank"&gt;Craigslist Austin&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We haven&amp;#39;t heard anything from Ted Haggard since his gay sex/crystal
Meth scandal. That&amp;#39;s because the severance package from his church
prevented him from talking. But in the HBO documentary, The Trials of
Ted Haggard, he finally does. [&lt;a href="http://www.veryshortlist.com/vsl/daily.cfm/review/941/TV_show/trials-of-ted-haggard/" target="_blank"&gt;VSL&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=167553" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sloppy+seconds/default.aspx">sloppy seconds</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/relationships/default.aspx">relationships</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/facebook/default.aspx">facebook</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/HBO/default.aspx">HBO</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/craigslist/default.aspx">craigslist</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex/default.aspx">sex</category><category 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christi</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/salmonella/default.aspx">salmonella</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/january+23/default.aspx">january 23</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/peanut+butter/default.aspx">peanut butter</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/peanut+butter+sandwiches/default.aspx">peanut butter sandwiches</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/bad+spellers/default.aspx">bad spellers</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/gay+sex+scandal/default.aspx">gay sex scandal</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/skinny+women/default.aspx">skinny women</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/peanut+butter+girl+scout+cookies/default.aspx">peanut butter girl scout cookies</category></item><item><title>Scanner Highs and Lows: Friday Night Lit</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/scanner-highs-and-lows-friday-night-lit.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:165420</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=165420</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/scanner-highs-and-lows-friday-night-lit.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/01/drunk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/01/drunk.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Because sometimes blogging is more fun when you&amp;#39;re drunk... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Fuck yeah, Ryan Gosling! &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/12/fuck-yeah-ryan-gosling.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Fuck YEAH&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;PETA&amp;#39;s sea kittens cracked us up in a totally we&amp;#39;re-not-taking-you-seriously way. &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/14/peta-blah-blah-sea-kittens-blah-blah-make-your-own.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;We think&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Boobs. &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/15/boob-boob-boob-boob-boob.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Hilarious, spinning boobs&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Turns out we&amp;#39;re &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/15/star-wars-retold-by-someone-who-hasn-t-seen-it.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;not the only ones&lt;/a&gt; who haven&amp;#39;t seen Star Wars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found the &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/why-are-playmobil-playsets-so-damned-crazy.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;funniest graphic ever&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And the &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/madonna-s-very-hairy-bush-expected-to-go-for-15k-at-christie-s.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;hariest bush ever.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We considered &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/mccains-fembot-wife-wants-to-go-dancing-with-the-stars-footloose.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;the hilarity&lt;/a&gt; that would result from Cindy McCain appearing on &amp;quot;Dancing With the Stars.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mmm. Beards. Bears. &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/15/bearded-men-of-the-week-unshaven-bartenders-in-new-york.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Beards and food&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We played a &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/13/who-d-you-rather-hot-for-teacher-tournament.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;fun little game&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found the &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/15/video-of-the-day-durex-bunnies-keep-going-and-going-and-going.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;cutest video so far this year&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Or wait, &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/video-of-the-day-cat-and-rat-fall-deepy-in-love.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;was this it&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Turns out we &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/12/hey-everybody-i-just-moved-to-the-1-worst-city-for-dating.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;just moved to the worst city for dating, ever&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;So then we &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/is-the-past-tense-of-tweet-twat.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;broke down and twat&lt;/a&gt;. What? Yeah. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were thrilled and creeped out by the &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/15/creepy-bizarro-obama-photo-won-t-stop-creeping-us-out.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Filipino Obama&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Turns out not all Swedes are hot. &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/13/not-all-swedes-are-hot.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;WTF&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found our new weight loss strategy: &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/illegal-sardinian-cheese-with-writhing-maggots-that-jump-into-your-eyeballs.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;read this&lt;/a&gt; every time we&amp;#39;re hungry. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We found yet &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/woman-pregnant-for-60-years.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;another reason&lt;/a&gt; to fight for socialized healthcare everywhere. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We hope we didn&amp;#39;t &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/will-2009-be-the-stache-s-year-to-shine.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;say goodbye to the beard&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were glad to say goodbye to these &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/12/golden-globes-worst-dressed-wtf-was-up-with-the-hair.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Golden Globe hairstyles&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Um, &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/14/kansas-city-man-kills-rare-seagulls.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;hometown pride&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We experienced the &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/16/mary-f-ck-or-kill-inclement-weather-edition.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;winter blues&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We still don&amp;#39;t know what to make of &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/13/once-you-go-black-you-never-go-back.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;all this&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/13/sarah-palin-hates-lying-bloggers.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;got into it&lt;/a&gt; with Sarah Palin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lower:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/15/how-low-can-you-go-wino-and-us.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Amy Winehouse&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=165420" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner/default.aspx">scanner</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve/default.aspx">nerve</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/drunk/default.aspx">drunk</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve.com/default.aspx">nerve.com</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+highs+and+lows/default.aspx">scanner highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/saturday/default.aspx">saturday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+blog/default.aspx">scanner blog</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/2009/default.aspx">2009</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve+blogs/default.aspx">nerve blogs</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/january+16/default.aspx">january 16</category></item><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: Kanye Will Pose Nude (Don't Worry, He'll Keep His Sunglasses On)</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/09/sloppy-seconds-kanye-west-will-pose-nude.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:163151</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=163151</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/09/sloppy-seconds-kanye-west-will-pose-nude.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/01/kanye_west_shades.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/01/kanye_west_shades.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Earlier this week Patrick Swayze was &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/07/everybody-stay-calm-and-think-positive-thoughts.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;telling us&lt;/a&gt; he had two to five years to live. Today he was hospitalized for pneumonia. [&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090109/people_nm/us_swayze" target="_blank"&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Tom Cruise&amp;#39;s Golden Globes date? Katie Holmes&amp;#39; dad. Weird. [&lt;a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/tom-cruises-golden-globe-date-katies-dad" target="_blank"&gt;Us&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Uh! You guys! This is so not fair! The media is being way nicer to Caroline Kennedy than it was to Sarah Palin. (Don&amp;#39;t take it personally Sarah, it&amp;#39;s just that everyone in media has been &lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/nymag/intel/%7E3/aDeSpH_H6UI/magazine_readers_cant_afford_a.html" target="_blank"&gt;laid off&lt;/a&gt;, that&amp;#39;s all.) [&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/01/sarah_palin_wants_to_be_bitter.html" target="_blank"&gt;DailyIntel&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Nerve alum Will Doig rounds up the year in sex. [&lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/big-fat-story/2008-12-29/the-year-in-sex/" target="_blank"&gt;The Daily Beast&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Ummmmmmmmm.... [&lt;a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20251195,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines" target="_blank"&gt;People&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I&amp;#39;ll pose naked. I&amp;#39;ll break every rule and mentality of hip-hop, of black culture, of American culture,&amp;quot; Kanye West told &lt;i&gt;Vibe&lt;/i&gt;. We can&amp;#39;t say we&amp;#39;re not looking forward to that. [&lt;a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1602383/20090109/west_kanye.jhtml?rsspartner=rssBloglines" target="_blank"&gt;MTV&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Related:
		        
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in</category></item><item><title>Because I Don't Wanna!</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/05/because-i-don-t-wanna.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:124460</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=124460</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/05/because-i-don-t-wanna.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-your-cat-will-sleep-for-food.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-your-cat-will-sleep-for-food.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey. Scanner Emily here. My blog reader isn&amp;#39;t loading, which means I have absolutely no idea what&amp;#39;s going on in the world. Because, God forbid, I actually go to a website. Plus, it&amp;#39;s Friday (it is Friday, right?), and I&amp;#39;m ready for a drink. So I will take this opportunity to do what I do best when my blogging abilities are impaired: post pictures of LOL cats.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-cat-asks-you-if-his-fur-is-looking-attractive.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-cat-asks-you-if-his-fur-is-looking-attractive.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-cat-makes-room-for-caption.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-cat-makes-room-for-caption.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/invisibledrunk128632467071065952.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/invisibledrunk128632467071065952.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-your-cat-will-sleep-for-food.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-there-are-crazy-cat-gentlemen-as-well.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-there-are-crazy-cat-gentlemen-as-well.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-now-would-be-a-good-time-to-try-to-take-your-cat-to-the-vet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-now-would-be-a-good-time-to-try-to-take-your-cat-to-the-vet.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-you-tricked-cat-into-going-to-the-vet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/09/01-07/funny-pictures-you-tricked-cat-into-going-to-the-vet.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=124460" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/booze/default.aspx">booze</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/blogs/default.aspx">blogs</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/lol+cats/default.aspx">lol cats</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/work/default.aspx">work</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scacnner+emily/default.aspx">scacnner emily</category></item><item><title>Apollonia 6 Would Like to Wish You a Happy Friday</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/04/04/apollonia-6-would-like-to-wish-you-a-happy-friday.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:83142</guid><dc:creator>Nicole Pasulka</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=83142</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/04/04/apollonia-6-would-like-to-wish-you-a-happy-friday.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/04/01-07/apollonia6together1.jpg.w560h375.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/04/01-07/apollonia6together1.jpg.w560h375.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Because last night we had a dream we were riding on the back of Prince&amp;#39;s motorcycle, and because it&amp;#39;s Friday and who knows what will happen over the weekend. We give you, the song we woke up singing this morning.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If you want to skip the intro, just jump to 1:40.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VAArDdip8PE&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VAArDdip8PE&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=83142" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/prince/default.aspx">prince</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex+shopoter/default.aspx">sex shopoter</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/apollonia+6/default.aspx">apollonia 6</category></item><item><title>Scanner Highs and Lows: Bowls, Balls, Bugs, Boobs and Beads</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/01/scanner-highs-and-lows-bowls-balls-boobs-and-beads.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:12:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:68430</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=68430</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/01/scanner-highs-and-lows-bowls-balls-boobs-and-beads.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/01/23-End/boobs2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/01/23-End/boobs2.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="0" height="189" hspace="4" width="223" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This week went by pretty quicky, but not without bringing to our attention many things that begin with the letter &amp;#39;B.&amp;#39; Frankly, we&amp;#39;re glad the week is over. We&amp;#39;re going to go crawl into a hole, then watch the Super Bowl, and we&amp;#39;ll be back on Monday.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isabella Rossellini&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/01/isabella-rossellini-does-bug-porn.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;bug porn&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;New Kids on The Block are going to &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/29/sloppy-seconds-new-kids-on-the-block-julianne-moore-and-garrison-keillor-s-stalker.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;reform&lt;/a&gt;, making Scanner Emily a little too happy.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Halle Berry&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/28/halle-berry-sets-the-gold-standard-for-foxy-moms-to-be.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;baby bump&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and if you thought Scanner Emily was neglecting you and making
silly little errors a little too much this week, she was. But she just
turned in her manuscript (like &lt;i&gt;just now&lt;/i&gt;) so she&amp;#39;s back in business. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scanner Emily finally learned that Super Bowl is &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/31/quot-would-you-be-willing-to-kiss-everyone-at-the-party-quot.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;two words, not one&lt;/a&gt;; still doesn&amp;#39;t know who&amp;#39;s playing. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the first time, we were &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/31/file-under-creepy-new-psas-on-statutory-rape.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;really upset by boobs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As always, &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/28/don-t-miss-the-state-of-the-union-drinking-game.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;The State of the Union&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We learned big breasted women could face higher health risks, but it gave us an excuse to look at some, &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/30/someone-at-abc-news-is-still-angry-about-their-high-school-cup-size.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;breasts that is&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scanner Bryan &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/30/scanner-bryan-is-off-to-mardi-gras.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;left us for Mardi Gras&lt;/a&gt;. Good for him, sad for us.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=68430" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/boobs/default.aspx">boobs</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/halle+berry/default.aspx">halle berry</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/babies/default.aspx">babies</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/highs+and+lows/default.aspx">highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/George+Bush/default.aspx">George Bush</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/state+of+the+union/default.aspx">state of the union</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/new+kids+on+the+block/default.aspx">new kids on the block</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/breasts/default.aspx">breasts</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/isabella+rossellini/default.aspx">isabella rossellini</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/bug+porn/default.aspx">bug porn</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/super+bowl/default.aspx">super bowl</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/friday/default.aspx">friday</category></item></channel></rss>