Where's Wald-O.D.B.?

UPN continues its reign as the network doing the most incredible job of flying under the radar. Last season, on Top Model, it aired footage of the models with their legs up in the air getting Brazilian bikini waxes. This season, while everyone else is caught up in the Janet-booby-brouhaha, Tyra Banks is sending her girls out for dinner with Ol' Dirty Bastard-- formerly Big Baby Jesus for awhile, and now, apparently, Ol' Dirty Bastard again. This is the ODB that was arrested for threatening to kill the mom of his baby. The ODB who referred to a female DA as a "sperm donor." The ODB whose rap sheet and list of drug problems is so hilarious and extensive that I won't even try to summarize it and will instead send you to the elegant wrap-up at allmusic.com. I'm not even sure if Ol' Dirty Bastard is currently warrant-free, what the status of his parole is, or if his time at rehab worked. All I know is that Tyra apparently couldn't edit together a single coherent statement from him, and viewers had to suffice with distant shots of him doing some sort of inexplicable fuck-dance in the VIP room of one of Manhattan's "top" restaurants with Shandi explaining that he's "silly." This is kind of like ABC trotting out Andrew Luster, Max Factor heir and serial date rapist, for a cameo on The Bachelorette. "In the most shocking rose ceremony ever. . ." Someone get Meredith over to channel 13 while the iron's hot.

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[Ron Mwangaguhunga]

This is the ODB who conducted an interview with MTV's Tabitha Soren in a limo on his way to pick up his welfare check.

[taramail]

These are far from verbatim, but the distinguished Big Baby said:

"No, I don't like the cool air, I like to see the women SWEAT!" (in the back of the limo)

and:

"Yeha, yeah, iight, i gopt the tek 9 in one hand and i'm like ooh, ooh , ohh, with the tek..." (in the restaurant)

Seriously, just when you think reality TV is so risk-free and over-produced, here's Tara doing something truly crazy. I was shedding tears of joy.

[R.I.P. Dirty]

Fuck whoever wrote this, Ason is god.