Google Trends: It's crazy what people search for sometimes

Every so often I like to check out Google Trends. I get blogging ideas and get "caught up" on things that might be relevant to my interests. It's always amusing, though, what exactly people in the US search for sometimes.

1. mike adamle

- Let me get this straight. The top Google trend is the new General Manager of WWE's Monday Night Raw? Now, don't get me wrong... I like wrasslin'... but this is kind of a sad statement of what people are interested in considering the state of the world.

2. gurren lagann

- Another shitty-assed giant mecha cartoon from Japan, featuring the same old plots and emo teenage pilots. Goody.

3. john edwards girlfriend

- So a politician has a mistress and a secret love child? Wow. I can't imagine that could ever happen.

4. sesame place

- I'm not sure that this is ranked because of the popularity of the beer-company sponsored Sesame Street amusement park (oh, the fucking irony) or that some woman popped out a kid in one of their bathrooms.

5. now and then here and there

- The name of the first episode of the previously mentioned shitty-assed Japanese cartoon.

6. a time to kill

- John Grisham's 1989 book (or the great '96 film) is popular again? Cool.

7. weeds season 4 episode 7

- I've never seen the series, so I don't have a comment here.

8. blooter

- Isn't this a Scottish slang word for pounding the hell out of something?

9. tonight lyrics jonas brothers

- Okay, little girls, they suck. Ask your parents about Hanson.

10. ronald gray

- US Army private convicted in 1988 of multiple rapes and murders is finally going to get what is coming to him.

11. unabomber manifesto

- I'm not sure why this has suddenly surged in interest.

12. isabel lucas

- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star injured in a car accident. There's a joke here.

13. pickle pops

- I hate to break this to people... but these are not "new". We made them in 2nd grade.

14. cindy nicole

- Latina actress with the face of a horse.

15. paper moon

- I saw the film, but don't remember it noteworthy enough to search about 35 years after it was made. Apparently some do.

16. princeton review rankings

- The 2009 edition of The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, The Best 368 Colleges, has been released. You probably can't afford to go to 360 of them.

17. mirrors

- Upcoming Kiefer Sutherland flick. It probably won't suck.

18. hiram bullock

- A fantastic musician from the World's Most Dangerous Band has passed away at age 52.

19. ryan seacrest shark

- No happy ending here. He lived.

20. jimmie henderson

- This is related to Ronald Gray from #10. President Kennedy commuted his death sentence in 1962.