Drudge report
"Drudging up" challenges? Or "dredging"?

Yup: It wasn't Marines in "Black Hawk Down." Rangers, Delta and Green Berets.

Muriel Hemingway
"Manhattan" would be a fundamentally different movie if it featured Muriel Hemingway (i.e. of the Tribe) rather than Mariel Hemingway (WASP): Discuss among yourselves.

(East) Orange
Is Aaron Sorkin on "Jersey Shore" now?

"Lighthouse"
I always thought Pete Townshend's unfinished project was "Lifehouse." But what the f*** do I know? I'm unemployed.

I dig it, Lovecraft: Learn something every day.

Ever seen "Scotland, PA"?

Have they ever done a show about recent law-school grads working for a fly-by-night firm and called it "Barely Legal"? Or is there a copyright issue with the magazine?

Pearl Jam was originally Mookie Blaylock.

Really one of the best-written newswire pieces, though. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

I guess Foo Fighters are what World War II aviators called UFOs? Nevertheless, I think they (Grohl & Co., not WWII aviators), Metallica and Green Day transcended their stupid names.
Isn't Avenged Sevenfold a biblical reference?

Badass female butchers
Didn't Julie Powell just write a book about butchering and having an affair?

Alaskan Thunderfuck
What happens if you accidentally put them and Alabama Thunderpussy on the same bill? Do they have to fight to the death?

Grouchy-animal noises
REALLY, guys: "painkiller's"?

Thurber's story …
… was "The Catbird Seat" (one word).
*Sigh*
(Goes back to being unemployed.)

Has South Carolina really gotten THAT bad?

It was two weeks ago …
… not last week, that Jamie cut her finger.

Stolen from Colbert
Hip of the tat: Somebody got "jelled" right.
F*g of the Winger: Kind of a weird structure for a "Gateways," essentially, "Start with the greatest hits. then it's probably OK to get everything else."

"Christmas in Cottage Grove"? "Cabrini (Red and) Green"?
I guess I support Kanye's right to have a British dork who wears multicolored Band-Aids sing the name of the body of water that abuts his city. Where do I sign the petition?
(Sure, he probably could have found a Chicago native to sing it, but you'd also think…

LOL@ "turducken of suckin'": ready-made lyrics for a holiday battle rhyme.