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Tuesday, May 28, 2002
 
The Osbournes

I followed a link off The Onion and came across this article on The Osbournes. I've only seen the show one time and even then not in its entirety. But judging from what I have seen and heard, I think that this paragraph sums things up very well.
I’m sure the 14-year-olds for whom Ozzy is merely the heavy metal cliché who brings the new crop of rap-metal bands to town every summer for Ozzfest found it rip-roaring hilarious. But Ozzy influenced about every hard rock band worth their salt, from Metallica to Soundgarden to the White Stripes. And watching this glassy-eyed, unintelligible stooge falling over in his own chair while a group of no-name who-the-fucks sit in the adjacent room discussing a tour — which he seemingly would rather not even do — was far more sad than it was amusing. If that’s funny, it’s funny because we’re laughing at how fucked-up he is. All I could think of at that point was the future that Kurt Cobain must have feared when he chose instead to put a shotgun to his head eight years ago.