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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Arktube Ark. mini-queen gets her own reality show
Let's just say that reality shows like "Dance Moms" and "Toddlers and Tiaras" profoundly creep us out, and leave it at that. Now, one Arkansas-born grad of "Toddlers & Tiaras" — Eden Wood, from tiny Taylor, Ark. — is getting her own eight-episode mini-show, "Eden's World" on the Logo Network. Though Eden officially "retired" from pageants at age 6, the show will apparently revolve around Eden and her mother Mickie coaching other young pageant queens who dream of big crowns and all the glory that can be contained in a Holiday Inn conference room.
The show debuts on Logo on April 16 at 9 p.m. Check local listings.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Arktube This Week in Arktube: Accidents waiting to happen, Miller time, and the Coens on notice.
Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. Electric word, life. It means forever and that's a mighty long time. But I'm here to tell you there's something else - Arktube, our weekly salute to the most interesting Arkansas-related crapola posted to Youtube in the previous week. Enjoy.
I don't know why this gentleman wishes to whoop all our asses, but he really, really means it.
In this video shot last spring, a fan films the tornado-proof tank owned by Reed Timmer (the guy in the white hat and blue shirt), one of the stars of the Discovery Channel's "Storm Chasers" reality series, as they stopped in for a little pusholine on a dark and stormy night in eastern Arkansas.
Look, folks. I know you're disappointed in the Democrats. But do you really want to hand this country over to 100 million clones of this guy? Please, please, please go vote. Pretty please?
Attention, Coen Brothers. If you don't immediately cease your production of the remake of "True Grit," you might lose this guy's love. You've been warned.
The world's oldest rapper busts rhymes about Miller time. Ice-T has still got it.
No, wait, screw that times infinity. THIS is how accidents happen.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Arktube THIS WEEK IN ARKTUBE: Getting Stone'd at the OSH, shootin' ramen and surfin' rice.
Greetings, wageslaves! I have been instructed by the High Command to inform you that it is time for the weekly respite from your soul-draining worklife known as Arktube, Rock Candy Blog's Friday salute to the best, most interesting and most earth-shatteringly dumb Arkansas-related videos posted to Youtube over the previous seven days. This week: music memorabilia from Arkansas's attic, Ray Charles and school bus drama. Enjoy!
Arkansas, The Musical. I can laugh at this because I'm FROM here.
A difficult-to-watch video of a young African-American girl reacting to being racially taunted on a Sheridan schoolbus.
The Old State House Collections podcast, discussing the new Butch Stone Collection of Arkansas music memorabilia donated by the long-time concert promoter. Very interesting stuff.
The 4x4 Crew does a hip-hop mashup with Ray Charles on "Tell Yo Mama (I'm from Arkansas)."
Two redneck dudes get the feeling that they want to go shoot some stuff, including mud, candy cigarettes, a stuffed bunny, and ramen noodles.
They said he was crazy — that he'd never surf the rice field. They were wrong.
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Arktube THIS WEEK IN ARKTUBE: Toast mustaches, grade school Rambo, and Gran Pricks smokes.
Has it been a week already? Unless I'm caught in an inter-dimensional time rift, it's Friday, and that means it's time for Arktube, our weekly roundup of the best, dumbest and most head-scratchingly weird Arkansas-related videos posted the previous week to youtube.com. Enjoy.
Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl introduce a video in which their OTHER other brother Darryl shows off his homemade instruments of near-certain death. Send him a few bucks and he'll let you do it.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre sings "Arkansas Revisited"
Two words: Toast mustaches.
The haunting sound of a bull elk bugling in the wilds near Boxley, Arkansas.
He's a try-me-before-you-buy-me kinda guy, with green hair and Gran Pricks smokes.
Video of the most bad-ass ten year old ever popping bullseyes with an assault rifle while Dad looks on proudly in Huntsville.
An ancient spell, an Arkansas graveyard, 80's-grade synth music and demonic eyeshadow. Yep, it's Halloween in Hooterville.
Dudes in Pocahontas say fuck it and toss the whole bale on.
And now, your moment of zen.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Arktube This Week in Arktube: horse smushery and trucker showers
It's Friday, which means it's time to whittle away a little more of your precious, precious life with Arktube, our roundup of the best and/or dumbest Arkansas-related videos posted to Youtube.com in the past week. Enjoy.
Very scary video of a 9-year-old barrel racer from Garfield, Arkansas getting smushed by her trusty steed after the horse lost its footing during a run. She's okay, but I think the announcer is gonna need a stiff drink.
Arkansas's own Patsy Montana sings "Momma Never Said a Word About Love."
A guy who looks like an accountant carves the bowl at a Central Arkansas skateboard park. Get off my lawn, dude!
Stephanie, a very brave and bubbly young lady of 17, talks about living with the rare skin condition called Harlequin Ichthyosis
Yeah, this isn't weird at all.
Years later, as they huddled with their families around smoky fires in the shadow of the abandoned cities, the young ones would ask the old ones: "Grandfather, tell us again how it all began — the Great Plague that brought mankind to ruin?" And the old ones would sigh, and stare into the flames, and answer as they always did: "It began where all pestilence begins: in the trucker shower at the Flying J truck stop in West Memphis, Arkansas."
A simple but surprisingly moving list of the names of all the soldiers from Arkansas killed so far in Iraq and Afghanistan. To put it into perspective: A new name flashes once every three seconds, and the video is 5 minute and 43 seconds long. Somewhere, George W. Bush tees up, and thinks of none of this.
In a world where International Students can't understand a word their professors are saying, can Indian Boy, Chinese Young Lady and Spanish Hardworking Student find love, skyscrapers and friendship at ASU?
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Arktube This week in Arktube: Snuff reviews, Field Hockey for virgins, and chemistry!
It's Friday, which means it's time for Rock Candy's latest pointless time waster: This Week in Arktube. That's right: Every week, we scour Youtube.com for the best, dumbest, and most jaw-droppingly goofy Arkansas-related videos the vomitorium of the American digital psyche has to offer. This week:
The University of Arkansas has a Quidditch league. First prize: NOT having sex!
Screw Harry Potter. Chemistry is the real magic! Where is your Dumbledore now?
Speaking of chemistry, here's some crazy kids in Piggott detonating a Taliban-grade IED made from a soda bottle and assorted household chemicals. This is why we can't have nice things. Or fingers.
Two dudes are just minding their own business, talking about wrestling, when they see some Al Qaeda dudes carrying, like, a missile near Hope. Bonus: one of the bro-hams seems to be sporting Samuel L. Jackson's Jeri-Curl wig from "Pulp Fiction."
A man who describes himself as "not a normal dipper" gives a deep and soul-searingly honest review of Copenhagen Original Fine Cut smokeless tobacco. Your move, Copenhagen.
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