COMPLETE WITH A PELICAN GARBAGE CAN:  What does one do when one has Dick Clark Money? Apparently, one thing Clark yabba dabba did was build a Malibu home which is a replica of the Flinstones', now for sale for $3.25M.

THE BEAT STARTED—AND INSTANTLY, PANIC REIGNED: Grantland tells the inside story of Marvin Gaye's NBA All-Star Game rendition of the National Anthem, from thirty years ago this weekend.

IF ALEX TREBEK IS THE SHOW'S VIRGIL, JENNINGS IS DANTE, THE ONE GUY WHO MADE IT OUT ALIVE: Buzzfeed's Kevin Lincoln profiles Ken Jennings as he tries to make his way in the world as a "professional smart person":

[P]arlaying both intelligence and effortless charisma into not just celebrity but also a seemingly permanent spot in the pop-culture landscape is a pretty specific hustle. Don't let the clean-cut Mormon good looks or aw-shucks demeanor fool you: Ken Jennings is on the grind.... His current job description is emblematic of the social media age: Being himself, for fun and profit. Which means being more than a little self-aware.

PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT TO ALOTT5MA FRIDAY GRAMMAR RODEO: Given our past discussions, I was grabbed by a headline in this morning's New York Daily News:

New Yankees third baseman Kevin Youkilis says he’ll always be a Boston Red Sox

But then, when you read the article, you find the Greek Hebrew God of Walks' actual quote, and ...

“To negate all the years I played for the Boston Red Sox and all the tradition, you look at all the stuff I have piled up at my house, to say I’d just throw it out the window, that’s not true,” Youkilis said. “I’ll always be a Red Sock.”

It's the latter, right?

DON'T WANNA MISS A THING: Like Isaac, I've been buried in paper. But instead of a lovely cover of R.E.M., I point you to the news of a meteor in Russia that knocked down a zinc factory and injured 500 people from shockwave-induced broken glass. This is, by the way, unrelated to this afternoon's close brush with 2012 DA14, but reminds us that it was not so much an asteroid but the lack of a space program that killed the dinosaurs

NXNW:  Just checking in from the deep paper-filled hole in which I currently reside to say: (a) the Internet is awesome; and, relatedly, (b) here's Colin Meloy, Peter Buck, and Ben Gibbard doing You Are the Everything.

FIRST PRIZE IS A TICKET TO THIS, SECOND PRIZE IS A SET OF STEAK KNIVES:  We've previously talked about Jason Reitman's livereads of screenplays around here, but his newest one seems like the most interesting yet.  He's doing Glengarry Glen Ross, but with one big twist--an all-female cast, including Allison Janney, Mae Whitman, and Catherine O'Hara.  No announcement for who's taking on Alec Baldwin's "always be closing" monologue, but this sounds like it could be fascinating.