Robot Monkeys

Now the word “xtreme” has never been cool; and anyone who yells “It’s XTREME!!!!!” without first saying, nay, yelling, “SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!” is asking to be hit up ’side the head. On second thought, scratch that. Hit them too.

We have xtreme wrestling, xtreme sports, the now defunct XFL (Actually, I don’t think the “X” was supposed to stand for anything, but given the hype, it’s xtremeness (xtremity?) was definitely implied), and countless other things. Now we have the Xtreme Shopping Network. XSN, as I like to call it, is a low budget home shopping network. (Think Shop at Home (You know, the one with the loudmouth that hawks baseball cards and knives.) rather than the home shopping OGs, HSN and QVC.) (Yes, let it be known throughout the land that the cooption of hip hop is complete. The Home Shopping Network has just been declared an “original gangsta”.) Apparently the xtreme take on home shopping is that they auction off the jewelery, rather than just say “We only have 10 left and you only have 45 seconds left to take advantage of these super low prices. Most sad of all, there are actual fans of this.

Catch it late nights on TVG.