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July 13, 2003

Banzai!

Fox is currently airing their new series Banzai and, well, it's certainly different. I was looking forward to the play-at-home option, assuming there might be some sort of prizes, but it doesn't look like that's the case.

So, I think I'll go back to reading Salt: A World History until I fall asleep. No prizes for that either, but it didn't try to lure me in with implied winnings and strange Asian men screaming the title of the product.

Speaking of strange, screaming people - here's an idiot from the Banzai message boards, apparently distraught that a chicken got a chance to fly:

How dare you use a live animal for your interpretaion of a game! Considering that you have validated that this game is in real time and real life, I, Valerie A. Carr, will be filing suit with our animal rights lawyer for wrongfull abuse, as of Monday July, 14th, in the state of Connecticut. I encourage other readers to follow "suit". I, and as should you, will be contacting the state paper as well as my cable company. I encourage all readers to make the same complaints; use of animals via cruelty is not a source of entertainment, it is the route of abuse!

Maybe next week Banzai will bet on Ms. Carr's IQ. I'd aim low.*

Update: Michele watched the whole thing.

* You see, the chicken wasn't harmed by being attached to the helium balloons. It clearly had a wire in place for retrieving it, lest it fly far far away over the rainbow.