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Scribbles about News: Man tries to get eaten by an Anaconda for TV and *Spoilers* People are upset he didn't get eaten.

I don't know what sort of news I was expecting this morning... There is so sooo much wrong with this being a thing that I don't even know where to begin. So on some sort of Discovery Channel or something a man volunteered, I guess, to be eaten by an Anaconda on TV. So they did this whole special on whatever channel this garbage is on called "Eaten Alive" and I guess people actually wanted to see this guy become lunch so they started watching. He had a special suit designed so that the snake wouldn't crush his bones while he was being eaten alive. You would think maybe the idea of possibly getting your bones crushed would be enough to not make someone want to get eaten by a snake... but not this guy. I wonder if at any point he was like "This is a bad idea" and TV Producers were like "No, you gotta do this shit! It will work! You might get eaten and die... but think of the ratings!" Probably not because something tells me, this guy went into...

Review Time: 22 Jump Street!

21 Jump Street is probably all around one of my favorite movies and I was really excited about the sequel and it actually looked really really good, but at the same time I was a tad disappointed in this. I think I'm seeing it again, I think it will be better after seeing it a second time... but overall it wasn't as great as the original. Now the thing I didn't like about it, was actually pretty funny. It was weird because it was a movie about making movies, and that's something I usually enjoy... but it was a little too apparent here. For example there were lots of references about doing "exactly what you did last time, just in college now." And sequels can often be just the same people doing the exact same things, but in different settings. The challenge was that Schmidt and Jenko didn't want to do the exact same thing as last time. There were also some jokes about things being too expensive and that they didn't know that they could afford to do stu...