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When your sense of humor tends toward the unfortunate, Adult Swim is clearly a winning option when you need some animated entertainment in your (empty, socially inept, totally effing awesome) life. This show is old but a recent conversation revealed that only 4% of the employees at work (that’d be me and my husband) know about it. This is a travesty of unspeakable proportion. Surely someone else is as awesome and socially inept as we, no? Perhaps not. Anyhooo, it’s gross and inappropriate and hilarious and disturbing and oh-so-watchable. Please love it as much as I do.

Word is they don’t air this anymore. I wouldn’t know, though, because I’m either in a coma or watching Wow, Wow, Wubzy! at that time of night.

Dirty Josh Bernstein. Phwhoa.

Rather, someone. And probably more hot than cool, but whatever.

Josh Bernstein, the explorer for Discovery Channel who hosts Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein (and previously Digging for the Truth on The History Channel), is single-handedly responsible for my Pavlovian response to archeological documentaries.

I call him Dirty Josh, and I mean that literally. The guy gets down in the caves and up in the ruins, and he gets dirty. And sweaty. And he rolls his sleeves up and does something brave or amazing, like descending into an ancient, uncharted tunnel rife with extremophiles, or making a mummy in Papua New Guinea. Regardless of the location, there’s always Josh emerging triumphant from a swirling cloud of dirt, dust, ash or smoke, and in the sincerest form of hero-worship, there are drooling, giggling, glassy-eyed history nerds perched on sofas, watching in awe.

If those things in their exceptional attractiveness don’t do it for you, he’s unbelievably smart. And multilingual. He left Cornell University with a double-major (Anthropology and Psychology) and a double-minor (Native American and Near East Studies). He’s a professional photographer, a survival-skills teacher (and CEO of an impressive outdoor-skills school), an acclaimed author, and one of 2007’s Sexiest Men Alive.

He fights like a gladiator and tracks elephant poachers, decodes ancient texts, helps preserve the cultural history of countless millions of people, lives sustainably (in a yurt!) and travels to all the places you ever wanted to go.

I really could go on and on, but it’s unnecessary–just watch the damn show. If you learn something, great! If not, well… there are worse ways to spend an hour. I think getting a full body massage would be less enjoyable than watching Josh be smart and dirty on TV. Really. No, really.

If you haven’t (or if it has been a while), I urge you to read Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, by Raymond Carver. I also urge you to buy it used or (if you can find it, and good luck with that) as an ebook. I know that none of you will actually spend money because I mentioned something here, but in case you do, go the kind-to-the-Earth route for me, will ya? Anyway, about the book: it’s a collecton of poems, but Carver wrote many, many books, most of which are pretty well known in the People Who Read circles. I won’t do a full-on review, but I will tell you that if you’re at all interested in life or people or relationships between those two things, then you will probably enjoy this book. It focuses on fleeting moments of happiness or memories, and general appreciation of life for ordinary things. It’s sometimes sad, though, because it was written in the last few years of Carver’s life while he was battling lung cancer. Despite that, I’m loving it; I can’t bring myself to sit and read an entire book of poetry (how do you even do that??), but between tasks, I’ll read a few and think on it while I’m carrying on with whatever tedious things I do. So, pick it up and give it a few minutes–it’s perfect for lazy Saturday reading.