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Um, no. Brian Regan is a major "comic's comic", other comedians love him. I think he's pretty funny, even with the over-selling of a lot of his bits. Dane Cook, on the other hand:

Info here: http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=37991

That's a pretty big chunk of real estate on the prime-time schedule. How is NBC going to manage to squeeze in all the Law & Orders, too?

Skip that one, watch Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday instead.

Once on Strangers With Candy, Gerry Blank said "I like the pole and the hole."

No, I think he means that "hole" is an adverb in this case, describing how she was pwned. So if she'd been bitten by a dog, the thread title would have been "dog pwned". Or if she'd slipped on a banana peel, she would have been "banana pwned".

***nerd alert*** I once heard someone say "Snape totally got pohned in that scene" on a Harry Potter-themed podcast, and it took me a while to figure out that he was saying "pwned". I'd never heard it said out loud before.

How can you not love a (almost) 24-hour doughnut shop? Voodoo Doughnot figured prominently in the finale of The Amazing Race tonight, and it made us all think of Natalie.

Hee!

Moves! Moves! Moves!

Dear OTM, Maybe after you shovel, you could sweep? Signed, A Clueless Californian

Yeah, usually that stuff is only available with purchase after a new CD comes out, but eventually they seem to post everything up for free.

Those are all zip files. Do you have a program to extract those? WinZip or WinRAR or something? Or is it not downloading as a zip file?

Wilco doesn't want you to have to go to all that trouble: http://wilcoworld.net/records/bonus/

I still haven't seen the movie.

I can't believe they put such a spoiler in there!

Happy day, Matt! One of these days, I'm hoping to run into you in the N-Y-C.

Happy day, flapjack!

I love the turkey-death picture, too! And Lyric's headband! And Jess, that parka totally brings out the blue in your eyes. Oh, and don't even get me started on bobbob's mini-Mom. Yikes. I'm old enough to be your mother's mother! Here are the kids: and a good portion of the whole gang, tucking in to the feast:

San Francisco Magazine's got a great article about the history of the movie, the competing projects, how lucky we were that this thing didn't end up being directed by Oliver Stone and starring Robin Williams, etc.

This year, I'm thankful for our new President-elect. No, he won't be perfect, but yes, he gives me hope. And I'm thankful that this election happened during my lifetime. It's always good to get a proud-of-America moment for the holidays. I'm thankful for the Wilco residency shows, and the chance to see so many cool people at those shows. Knowing you all on-line is good fun, meeting you in person is a revelation (usually in a good way!). I'm thankful for Paul Auster, Tobias Wolff, David Foster Wallace, the Buffy comics, Carla Bozulich, New York City, documentary filmmakers, Sarah Vowel

The SF Chronicle's got a great on-line section with people's stories from that day, his legacy, etc. http://www.sfgate.com/harveymilk/ Despite the fact that this is one of his most famous lines, Dan White did not actually shoot Harvey Milk because Milk was gay; there were much more convoluted political reasons that probably explain his motives a lot better.

I'm a big fan of the Best American Nonrequired Reading series. The high schoolers who edit the book have a blog, where they post transcripts of their discussions of the pieces that are being considered for inclusion. Pretty cool: http://www.bestamericannonrequiredreading.blogspot.com/

http://store.yeproc.com/ Yep Roc's got some Xmas CDs on sale now. For anyone who's even vaguely a fan of Marah, or holiday tunes, I highly recommend A Christmas Kind of Town.

Happy day, Leigh!