They don't use a regular phone/line. You can use an ISDN connection to get high-quality digital audio from one end of a standard phone line to another. You need special hardware but it's not too challenging to set up.

The reunion tour is in my town tonight. I'm very tempted to make a big cutout of a pig, put it on a long pole so I can hold it up real high, drive to the top of the parking deck across from the theater, and entertain all the people who will be lined up waiting to get in.

The Gavin sketches. Whenever I need to make a lame excuse to leave, I go with "I'm in the middle of a big bike race!"

No, it's "Weirdo Al" Yankovic. Apparently some people haven't heard that he's taking the o from Dr. Demento, so now it's "Weirdo Al" and "Dr. Dement."

You mean "like a kump."

Oh man, these guys. Surrender will always be linked with the summer/fall of 1999 in my mind, back when I was college radio program director (Hi, Marah!) and could insist that we took it four or five singles deep.

In Mexico, it's known as "El doorknob grande."

How much longer could it go before something else becomes the titular "new black" and orange just goes back to being the titular color of a fruit?

If this event sells out, I hope the management will instruct the box office staff to say "Sorry. Everybody 'need see' Buckaroo. Later." when they turn people away.

Even with all these changes, I'm sure the new season of Oranges: The New Black will be better because NO LARRY.

I could almost see my 2-year-old daughter's brain bending when we explained that Mr. Noodle from Elmo's World was also in the Don't Worry Be Happy video.

No. Prince Paul is a scrub.

I honestly don't know why CBS does it that way for Price Is Right. Generally, breaking a program into parts gives the network and/or stations more control over the rates they can charge for commercial spots, and where those spots can be placed.

"Fun" fact: For Nielsen ratings purposes, The Price is Right is technically two 30-minute programs. First half-hour is named "Price-Rt 1-CBS" and the second half-hour is named - get this - "Price-Rt 2-CBS."

As erf I curd cherse mah fravrit Gersberms berk!

To this day, I still try to work "Girl, you know it's true" said in the same cadence and weird accent from the spoken intro into daily conversation.

Kind of like that watermelon?

Nice, but now the SXSW organizers are going to feel pressured to pay McDonald's for being part of the festival.

Then they'll have a party.

DURHAM!