HOORAY FOR THE INTERNETS

If you liked Arrested Development, Thai-Ball pointed me to an Internet show you should be watching: Clark and Michael starring Michael Cera and his friend Clark Duke. Good stuff. Second episode went up today...

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S TIME FOR?

Some random Family Guy clips I dug up off the YouTube. First, Stewie trying to watch Mr. Belvedere: Which reminded me of the episode where Peter imagined he was on a sitcom. With nods to Perfect Strangers, Family Ties, Webster, Gimmie a Break! and Three's Company, this has got to be one of the best 80's-sitcom-intro parodies ever: And I was talking to Thai-Ball the other day and it reminded me of that novel Brian was working on:

CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!

CHICAGO -- Went to the Cubs/White Sox game yesterday at Wrigley. Sat in the bleachers listening to the endless trash-talk from the Sox fans as their team was up by 1 at the top of the 8th. But then came the glorious bottom of the 8th. Cubs tie it up. Sox can't contain the surging Cub team. Bases loaded. BAM! Grand Slam, baby! I have never, ever seen a Wrigley crowd that excited. Beers flying in the air. High-fives all around. And, as icing on the cake ... the smattering of dejected Sox fans. As the guy in front of me put it to his Sox-fan friend, "Oh does that sting a little bit? Does that hurt? Just a little? What? Southsider gonna cry now? Southsider gonna cry?" The photo is right after the Grand Slam sealed the deal. The woman with the Sox gear was at the game with her husband, a Cubs fan. She was needling him the entire game. For the remainder of the game she consoled herself muttering "World Series ... World Series ... " Sorry, lady. You're living in the past. Now, to be fair, the Sox got a little payback today with a grand slam of their own. But I have confidence the Cubs will close the gap if we can only get past this rain delay ...

VILLAGE VOICE INFOGRAPHICS: DISSECTING WHY I'M HOT

So, I posted this over at SND's Update blog, but I felt it was worth repeating here: The Blog is sure that many of you are huge fans of Mims' chart-topping hip-hop anthem "This Is Why I'm Hot." But despite rather clear lyrics such as "This is why I'm hot / I'm hot 'cause I'm fly / You ain't 'cause you not," many music listeners remain baffled as to why, exactly, Mims is hot. Thankfully, New York's Village Voice has stepped in, breaking down the song and providing a few charts and diagrams as helpful visual aids. An excerpt:

Mims is hot because he's fly. But it raises the question: Does being hot guarantee one's being fly? "You ain't 'cause you not" would seem to clear that up.

Read the full analysis with additional flow charts and Venn diagrams over at the Village Voice Web site.

YOU TUBE HAS ALL KINDS OF NEAT STUFF!

Scott Shepherd makes a triumphant-ish return to television-ish.

WATER SO CLEAR YOU CAN SEE TO THE BOTTOM

KEY WEST, FL -- Yeah. That's the stuff.