* Ten years of Aeroplane. Really really good.
* I haven't read a lot of this "Yelp" business, but I am a huge Amy Blair fan: her new column for Eater LA: The Week in Yelp.
* Just another reason I wouldn't want to live in a world without Lizzie Skurnick.
* My friend Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous is guest-co-editing Gawker this week. (Also, welcome to New York, Rex!)
* This correction was pretty much the most interesting thing in yesterday's NY Times.
* Virginia Heffernan calls the Bachelor out on lying (sort of) to Jimmy Kimmel about finding love on the show.
* I got my Golden Fiddle tshirt last week and have worn it pretty much constantly ever since.
REAL QUICK:
* My Kid Nation thing on Vulture.
* Gabe's Kid Nation thing on HuffPo.
* Kid Nation Host Jonathan Karsh's outdated IMDB bio. (He's 2 degrees away from "The View" host "Barbara Wallace!")
* Huge congrats to Claire Zulkey on her BOOK DEAL!!
* TheDailyShow.com launched today with the almost-complete Jon Stewart-hosted archive, all web-2.0'd up. It's a pretty awesome site.
* And this holiday's Holiday Celebrity Breakup Announcement Is: Heath and Michelle. The "if they can't make it" joke doesn't work anymore even as a joke. Long relationships are for the nonfamous (or "fame-free") And don't give me Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. It's a different age. And don't give me no it's not. It is.
* Out on DVD this week:
30 Rock Season 1. I'm having trouble even talking to people who don't watch 30 Rock! Get a TV, seriously.
The Black Donnellys: The Complete Series. Well, that's one way of putting it.
* A very cool Vulture post about how every movie trailer is using the theme from "Brazil" lately (with video). Awesome catch! Sort of on topic: I have a huge pet peeve with copycat "American Beauty" music (and in some cases, the original score) being used CONSTANTLY everywhere from commercials to TV shows to 48 Hours Mystery. It's been 9 years since that movie came out - don't we have another way of evoking the sinister element that lurks behind the tranquility of suburbia by now? It's just lazy. Even the Little Children score was similar (and I loved that movie.)
* Claire Zulkey is quoted in this AP story about hardcover books versus paperback. I hate lugging a hardcover around and wish every book came out in both versions (it seems from the article that they soon will, though.)
* I know I'm years late on this, but I am suddenly and completely addicted to Meerkat Manor. The anthropomorphism makes me giggle (the Meerkats are presented as "hoping", "dreaming", "remembering", "realizing", etc) but I still fall for it. Best celebreality show on TV! (And when you think about it, the Meerkats are as or more capable of complex reasoning and self-awareness as those girls on The Hills.)
* Twitter at the VMAs: I am thinking: the amount of time between 'nerd-buzz' and 'MTV sellout' is getting closer and closer to a literal 15 minutes.
* Virginia Heffernan forced to interview the Evil One:
"I’m looking at it, cropping it, resizing it, drawing on it, making it my own.”
That's so weird that he said that to the Times and that's also coincidentally going to be his defense in the lawsuits against him! Funny!
* "What Eats, Doesn't Shoot, and Leaves" : And you thought your last group hug was awkward!
* The Top Ten Comedy Sketches of All Time (One message boarder's opinion, but a good list nonetheless) I'm firmly in "The Audition" camp for Mr. Show though, as I keep mentioning over and over as if anyone cares.
* Guess what? I've been hanging out with kids who ride bikes and now I want one too!! Mine got stolen a few years ago and I never replaced it. This one will get stolen too because I'm going to keep it on the street (5th floor walkup), so does anyone have an old crappy one they want to sell me for cheap? If so: email me!
* There is a guy counting to a million. Of course. Gabe: "Our children are going to hate us so hard for the way we wasted the internet." Also Gabe: "I'm excited for when we put the internet in the garbage and walk away" (but he says this every time I send him a link to anything.)
* Arthur Bradford plays a practical joke at a wedding, and it is funny.
* Top 10 Unintentionally Funny TV Intros. (via Last Stop)
* 100 Things Funny: "Connie, the oldest horse said "Let's play a drinking game and a smoking game" (Update: Link fixed)
* I have a favorite pair of boobs on Jane Magazine's boob slideshow (what, you don't?): Jules
I want her to design me some jewelry! Literally! I like free stuff.
* Totally gross sad awesome story about a silly girl who did it with Jared L. (Thanks, Kambri!)
* Grambo hates the Claire Danes/Patrick Wilson Gap commercial too. (video) So, whatevs, he doesn't "like everything" after all.
* Librivox: free mp3 audiobooks in the public domain; encourages users to record PD audiobooks and send them in. Which makes me want to do a prank. But I won't. (via Lifehacker)
* Thing I said last night to friend who was sending me the link to a music-sharing site: "ooh, thanks. I've wanted to hear Fall Out Boy ever since Sasha Frere-Jones' New Yorker article this week." This is exactly what an old person would say. (Also, how did I live with Miss Ultra for two years and never hear a Fall Out Boy song (to my knowledge)?)
* Steven Coogan will be on Curb Your Enthusiasm? Yay!
* Everyone who is going to SXSW, have a great time! That said, everyone who is marketing SXSW-related shows to me 100 times a day: this is not a music blog.
* aLIVE from New York discovered the set of The Bourne Ultimatum and took photos. I don't care about that movie, really, but the pictures are beautiful.
* American Beauty (and Forrest Gump!), redeemed.
* "Start with talent, and you get The Daily Show. Start with a "target audience," and you get The 1/2 Hour News Hour. Start with talent, and you get Saturday Night Live. Start with a "target audience," and you get Mad TV." Word.
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