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Eminem's new video. If MTV won't play it, the Internet will. I've got goosebumps.

You can go here to write in "Mosh" by Eminem on the TRL ballot.

ETA: right click and save, if the streaming link isn't working for you.

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Being an English major must be kind of like being a conspiracy theorist. Everything means something. Which explains why Mel Gibson's character in that one movie liked Catcher in the Rye so much and why, in high school at least, I hated it with such an abiding passion.

Which is to say: note please, if listening to "Mosh," and thinking that it's awfully Anybody-but-Bush and Em has, for whatever reasons of his own, claimed to be undecided as to how he'll cast his vote...

The line "Carry on, gimme hope," appears in the chorus, which means it's repeated more than anything else in the song, including the phrase "fuck Bush." And in Em's Michigan idiolect of English, as in mine, "carry" and "Kerry" are phonetically indistinguishable. The question boils down to whether you think Em's smart and subtle enough to make his point that way, and I know I do.

I fucking love the internet

Mosh aired on TRL today, toward the end of the show, just before the #1 video (also Eminem). I missed seeing it myself, but viewers report the f-word was bleeped but the video was otherwise uncut from the version available online.

The TRL ballot has been updated to include Mosh, so no write-in is required to vote it into tomorrow's lineup.