Here’s some early photo of a city truck that blew up outside our house the other day.  There were a couple of fire trucks here and I think they might’ve jostled something underground, because now it reeks of natural gas.  The National Grid here is here doing what they do best, digging! (snow shoveling sound fx: scrape, scrape, dig, chunk, KABOOM!)

While the newsdesk didn’t use our tape [nobody hurt, nothing damaged=not news], we’ve been requested by Newton Fire to put together a disc.  The big trick would be to get Channel 5 to fork over their footage.

No time for love, President Obama! As if I hadn’t watched enough tv in the last 24 hours, Lost has returned with a vengeance and most alarmingly, pace. And those title inserts were almost shockingly helpful too.  Despite the fact that the survivors tans were sort of yeller, the central arc of time as the major theme of Lost has not yet failed the show.  The preternatural inevitability that afflicts the world of Lost and its characters has become less confusing, and much more compelling.

Fun review from the AV Club: link courtesy of wharpua

Get yours at Obamicon space cadets! From the Obamathon: Nice hat H.W.! Nice hair, Hill! Why so depressed Bill?  Will the real Dick Cheney please stand up?  Shame on you Justice Roberts, for changing the words – just don’t try it w/the Constitution! Get well soon, Ted! Hey Barney – what’s another $40 million for a party?  Where’s Al (Franken)? Thanks MLK, Jr., thanks Georgie-boy, thanks Barry, thanks Democracy, for now…..

The craziest thing about this salmonella recall of King Nut peanut butter products is that most of their peanut butter ain’t jarred.  It’s manufactured by get this, the Peanut Corporation of America, branded by King Nut and sold to manufacturers of other food products for use in their recipes.  I was looking forward to ordering that 5 lb. industrial container of King Nut for the booze-’o-lanterns i make for disadvantaged alcoholics every Halloween.  This year I’m sticking with organic.

From a couple of days ago (click pic for video) – I can’t imagine anyone other than Dave wrote the bit. Also nice to see how much Clint cracks up at the yuckmouth. Enjoy, suckrod!

RICARDO MONTALBAN 1920-2009

PATRICK MCGOOHAN 1828-2009

For all those who hadn’t heard, Bodhi went under the Cyberknife this past March, which according to this article, seems to have turned the tables on that pesky killer, the Big C.  It also seems Entertainment Weekly still has no shame, suggesting that Swayze looks better from having lost all that weight.  FU jerkwads, that’s pretty cold.  Of course we all fear the Barbara Wawah interview was a subterfuge, but smart money says that after ol’ Jed beats this little cold (he checked himself in, dig?) he’s gonna start looking for the folks who said he was done.  Whatever, we’re praying for you anyway.  Hang in there buddy, your new series premieres next Thursday on A&E, 10/9c!