EAT YOUR HEART OUT, MAVIS BEACON (LITERALLY):  Want "a glacially slow [typing] tutorial punctuated by moments of disorienting surrealism?"  Then the new (and unauthorized!) David Lynch Teaches Typing is for you.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

Participate in this thread, or it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

MISS BUXLEY WEEPS: I assume Mort Walker had been phoning in Beetle Bailey strips from the grave since the first Reagan Administration but learn that he had lived long enough to be dead only now. 

THE ONLY WAY IT WOULD BE MORE ON-BRAND FOR US IS IF IT INCLUDED THE EATING OF FERMENTED WHALE BLUBBER OR SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENING ON JEOPARDY!:  Josh Radnor + true story in the Phila suburbs + high school musicals (Spring Awakening!) = Rise, airing on NBC starting this March.

DAMN IT FEELS GOOD:  Today in controversial Jeopardy! scoring decisions--a contestant was told his response of "Gangster's Paradise" was incorrect because the song title is "Gangsta's Paradise."

MIKE DOONESBURY LED THE WAKE:  Yet another case of premorse.  John Anderson, dead at 95.

SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE: If ever I had a case of premorse, today's the day.

Jim Nabors, dead at age 87.