SMALL WONDER: Following in the footsteps of Fresh Prince reruns and The Dr. Phil Show, this blog is now being syndicated at http://throwingthings.blogspot.com/atom.xml.

Mind you, I have no idea what this means, just that someone asked me to enable it, so I did.

CATCHING MATT NAPPING: In a story one of my co-Bloggers should have been all over, Justin Guarini has been dropped from the cast of the upcoming Beach Boys Broadway musical Good Vibrations.

YOUR HONOR, DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A MAN WHO HAD ALL HE COULD EAT? Congratulations to Barry "Tink" Giddings of Gassetts, Vt., a "gourmand" who just ate nineteen lobsters in thirty-five minutes, earning the title of 'Lobster Maniac of the Year'.

As a reminder, Wing Bowl XIII is less than three months away. . .

THANK YOU, COPY DESK: I'm so glad this headline made it through in a Philadelphia Daily News article today about actress Cybill Shepherd's pimping for an anti-irritable bowel syndrome drug -- "Cybill lets loose about IBS".

Indeed.

NEXT, GROVER WILL BE TAKING OVER THE ROLE OF TREKKIE MONSTER IN "AVENUE Q:" Ridiculously poor casting decisions are not confined to television and movies. Yes, Harvey Fierstein will be playing Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." Yes, this means we'll be going from the guy who played Dr. Octopus in "Spider-Man 2" to a guy whose recent (non-drag) credits include "Duplex," "Death to Smoochy," and "Kull the Conqueror."

HEALING AMERICA'S GREAT DIVIDE: What unites the Dixie Chicks and Jimmy Buffett, who both made appearances for John Kerry, with Brooks and Dunn, who played the RNC? They've both joined this brief (along with Sheryl Crow, the Eagles, and Stevie Nicks) asking for Supreme Court review on the copyright issues raised by file sharing. Perhaps, however, they should look for new counsel, given that the Dixie Chicks' Martie Maguire is called "Martie Maquire," and Jimmy Buffett's name is spelled incorrectly.

DARK DAY FOR DESMOND: The Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" has been picked as the worst...song...ever. In a survey of 1,000 folks from across the pond, the "Life Goes On" theme song beat out a number of novelty hits not heard on these shores, as well as Meatloaf's histrionic comeback single "I Would Do Anything..." and "Ice, Ice Baby."