BACK IN THE DAY WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, BEFORE I HAD STATUS AND BEFORE I HAD A PAGER:  Twenty years ago today, the albums Nevermind, The Low End Theory, and Blood Sugar Sex Magik were all released, with Trompe le Monde having an official release date the day before. Not bad.

COMMA CHAMELON: It is time—can you believe it already (you can, I'm assuming)—for another National Punctuation Day celebration! This year's contest calls on folks to submit: "one paragraph, maximum of three sentences, using these 13 punctuation marks ... [y]ou may use a punctuation mark more than once." My submission will probably be so-so; good luck?

I'M YOUR DENSITY:  We frequently see ALOTT5MA favorites colliding into single posts -- SNL and pointless lists; NPH and Top Chef; Woody Allen and intellectual property law; spelling bees and musicals; shark and octopus; "Say You, Say Me" and foreign advertising.  So why not combine Back to the Future with (one man, multitracked) a cappella music?

JOEL MCHALE OR CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, ANYONE? With the 37th season of SNL debuting tomorrow night, Tara Ariano lists ten celebrities who have never hosted but should (and have something to plug) this year.  (My first addition was going to be George Clooney, but he hosted in 1995.) (Okay, we kinda did this post last year.)

Related: Complex.com has a brutally flawed slideshow of its picks for the fifty best skits ever.  (Essentially, it overvalues the past decade at the expense of the 1980s, and includes a bunch of things which aren't skits -- digital shorts, ads, Update appeances. Its #1 is the right character, wrong skit. And where's Jackie Rogers Jr's $100,000 Jackpot Wad?)

TARPMONSTER: THE STORY OF THE 1985 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS: Okay, so what other baseball teams that didn't win a World Series deserve the film treatment?

DOWN HERE IT'S JUST WINNERS AND LOSERS AND DON'T GET CAUGHT ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THAT LINE:  Let's give everyone behind The Office a ton of credit for succeeding in keeping secret the identity of the new regional manager until tonight's season premiere. Especially in the Internet era, that's a hell of a task. As for the merits of that selection, it remains to be seen, and the rest I'll leave for the comments.  (Episode as a whole: just okay, with a nice-and-I-dare-say-Scottian ending)

I'M LESLIE MONSTER: I'm sure I've said this before, but I will say it again. There are many things that make me happy. There are many things in the media that I love. But there currently are only two things in the media that make me happy -- and I mean the actual feeling that I have some kind of personal connection to the thing that I'm experiencing, when in fact I know that I do not. The two things in the media that make me happy are Jeff Sullivan writing about baseball in those fleeting months when the Mariners are not hopelessly out of the playoff race (e.g., right up until maybe the fifth game of a seventeen-game losing streak), and Parks and Recreation.

Don't get me wrong, I like Modern Family and I love Community. But I feel like an alien in a world where Parks and Recreation is not the best comedy on television and Amy Poehler did not, over the last year, deliver the best performance (male or female) in a televised comedy. But you know what? It doesn't matter, because that show still makes me happy.

That is all.