I found the text to the pantalones performance.

The NYT Magazine article about autopsies is also very good.

Well, that's QUITE the x-post.

Penguins and airport security.

Penguins and airport security.

Did they make the penguins take off their shoes?

That really is a cute picture. Kinda' absurd that the penguins have to get out of their carriers to be x-rayed.

I am very happy with Grey's Anatomy, for the record.

I find, in comparison to ER, I can barely remember the medical things that come up. I can recall them by tracing back through the emotional narrative. Which isn't a value judgment, but I was wondering if it'd still be off limits for Plei since it's almost coincidentally in a hospital.

Teen screen star Lindsay Lohan was shocked to discover burglars had broken into her plush Los Angeles pad when she returned from a trip to New York earlier this month. The criminals relieved the Freaky Friday actress of more than $10,000 worth of electronic equipment including two television sets and a DVD player, according to American TV show Celebrity Justice. Police told the notorious program they are sure they are hunting more than one suspect due to the size of the TV sets, and that they discovering discarded liquor bottles at the crime scene. Lohan is reportedly happy that no life was lost in the incident, which saw her bedroom ransacked, only replaceable material goods.

Now, that sounds like a clever girl who locks her sex tapes up somewhere nice and safe.

I've been reading up on the Mitch Albom scandal and its repercussion (or lack thereof). It sure sounds like he's earned himself a cushy job, immunity to consequence aside:

Hutton said Albom ordinarily writes a column on Sundays, which may or may not focus on sports, while writing sports columns during the week “when he wants.”

Since they're not sure if he was paid during his suspension, he's certainly not compensated by article. Nice gig.

Maybe there are some penguins on a terrorist watch list.

I didn't see the Bar Mitzvah episode either.

Oh my god. It was just hysterical. Frasier's son was being bar mitzvahed, and so he asked Bulldog (I think) to teach him a prayer in Hebrew that he (Frasier) could say at the ceremony. In the course of the episode, Frasier did something to piss off Bulldog, but Bulldog still taught Frasier the prayer.

At the bar mitzvah, Frasier gets up to the lectern, all solemn and moved that today his son is a man, and delivers the prayer.

In *Klingon.*

I have NO idea how Kelsey Grammer was able to keep a straight face. I'd love to know how many takes that scene required.

Huh. That's the first word I've heard about a Mitch Albom scandal. Then again, I've always thought he was a self-aggrandizing sap on TV (I've never read his column or books). But this:

an April 7 staff meeting, a Free Press reporter, originally a copy editor, said he had been told to keep hands off Albom's columns when he joined the paper. Spell-check them. Make sure there are no glaring errors. But if there were any substantive questions, don't ever approach Albom. Refer them to his editor and then forget it.

Peter Gammons has basically the same deal going on at ESPN.com -- a couple of guys on a sports board I read take his weekly column to bits on grammar, logic, incorrect reference to 70s rock lyrics, and coherence of phrase. Nobody would say Gammo actually invents untruths, just because his shtick is gossip-mongering among baseball decision-makers and outright speculation; but his version of the truth sometimes makes no sense and is comically uncopyedited.

The sad part is, Gammo used to be better. I've read some of his columns from the 80s, when he was in the local press, and he had cracking great prose, and never confused Steppenwolf with The Who.

Editors exist for a reason, people.

Editors exist for a reason, people.

To make the Baby Anne Rice cry?

Kinda' absurd that the penguins have to get out of their carriers to be x-rayed.

When I took a friend's cat along with me on a business trip from SF to Chicago, they made me take her out of the carrier and carry her through the metal detector while they put the carrier through the machine separately. I wouldn't be too surprised if they were concerned about exposure levels in the machine causing damage to small critters. Not to mention complete darkness possibly sparking a bad reaction in the animal.

David Hyde Pierce is freaking genius

Isn't he doing Spamalot?