tom green wakeboarding..

So I zoomed through this week's episodes of MTV's The New Tom Green Show on TiVo, and it's turning out pretty good - still by far the most watchable latenight show, imho. Highlights this week? Glenn Humplik has taken his weblog down (or actually, just the link from glennhumplik.com, the site is still available on Livejournal), because Tom raided it for comments and made fun of him on the show about it (doh!), the show got an ad deal with Quizno's Subs, so Tom did an item where he tried to make ducks eat from his sub-filled Quizno hat (they ignored him and ran off round the set, naturally), they finished off the 'Tom and Glenn's Hitchhiking Adventures' clips and have started the ones set on their USO tour in Kosovo, Glenn had to sleep in a bear suit at a porn star sleepover, and lots more randomness.. the show's only let down by occasional awkwardness and sometime lack of decent guests. But yeah, it's sad that the show doesn't have an official (besides the sparse MTV one) or even unofficial website right now, especially with guest lists and episode info and suchlike. I'd love to do it, but don't have the time :(

On an unrelated tip, Activision's Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray is the best extreme sports title I've played since the original Tony Hawk, unexpectedly. There were such a glut of random half-assed extreme sports titles that the populace got burnt out, and wakeboarding isn't the most immediately exciting-sounding pastime in the first place. But the game, much-delayed since a kinda pedestrian playable demo failed to impress on one of the Tony Hawk releases, is super-addictive, with some really interesting play mechanics (you can let go of the line and then grab it again at a later date to go round obstacles and find secret areas), and the basic trick gameplay is great fun in unadulterated chunks. Surprising stuff.