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American Idol Ruins Johnny Cash Song With Help From A Fake KITT Mustang

If you thought the GT500KR in the Knight Rider made-for-TV movie was a disgusting piece of product placement, you ain't seen nothin' yet. What could be worse? How about the four remaining contestants in American Idol massacring Johnny Cash's song Ring Of Fire? What makes it extra terrible was the so-called "music video" which involved the Idols bullfighting with a Mustang which was apparently the cousin of KITT. Feel free to watch the clip with your sound turned off— we don't want to scar you.
[americanidol.com]

9:20 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By marnold
3,230 views, 67 comments

Latest by keicar: Doesn't compare to the Frank Zappa version from "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life". more »

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Commenter of the Day, Gravel In Your Guts Edition

Señor Loverman usually does this here COTD thing, but he had to go to Kiev to pistol-whip some discipline into the crew running his lucrative spam operation. So, while he's applying some persuasion to those ZAZ-driving hackers, I'm handling the COTD duties for the day. Sometimes we give the COTD award to a commenter who gets all erudite on us, throwing in references to great works of literature and so on. Other times, the commenter who fires off a short, witty one-liner gets the nod. Today's COTD winner has managed to do both...
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5:30 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,141 views, 36 comments

Latest by lascauxcaveman: Sorry I'm late to my own party here (and happy to join my buddy Rusty in the club. Yay we rock! We're cotd's!) I promise to do my level best to keep the short, witty one-liners coming. (As well as more »

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The Man In Black Removes Harmful Engine Deposits

When you're filling up the family wagon and Johnny Cash himself tosses you a bottle of STP, what do you do? No, we don't mean this kind of STP- we mean the fuel additive in the red plastic bottle. Bonus points to anyone who can identify all three vehicles in this ad!

11:00 AM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,701 views, 36 comments

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Cash and Caddy: Johnny's Black Cadillac to Be Auctioned

Despite that (or, perhaps, because) our first impression of Johnny Cash was his singing "Dirty Old Egg Suckin' Dog" on the Muppet Show, we grew up to be a fan. We even watched "Walk the Line" on the plane back from the Geneva motor show, while we should have been sleeping off an ill-considered shot of morning courage. Now, one of his Caddys is going up for auction — a 1975 Fleetwood, powered by the "fuck you OPEC" 500ci V8 of the time. It'll be at the Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach 2006 event tomorrow. Oh, and our birthday's coming up. More »

7:24 AM on Thu Mar 30 2006
By Mike Spinelli
313 views, 1 comment

Latest by ParanoidAndroid07: Gotta love the 70's: An 8.2L V-8 with 190hp. more »

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It's Been Everywhere, Man: Johnny Cash's Tour Bus on eBay

It's been to Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelburg,Colorado, Ellisburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, Eldorado, Larimore, Adimore, Habastock, Chadanocka, Shasta, Nebraska, Alaska, Opalacka, Baraboo, Waterloo,Kalamazoo,Kansas City, Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City... It's Johnny Cash's 1979 MCI tour bus powered by a Detroit Diesel 8V92, and it's on eBay right now. We kinda think the coolest feature is that the walnut in The Man in Black's stateroom is from Johnny's farm in Tennessee, which was used by Ulysses S. Grant as his headquarters durinig the Civil War. Why do we suddenly feel like we need to be in the market for a bus? [Thanks to Allen for the tip.] More »

2:42 PM on Fri Nov 18 2005
By Davey G. Johnson
562 views, 1 comment

Latest by Robert Farago: Because you're mine, I sort a line. more »