HUMBLED AND SHAMED: Humbled by the nice wishes and words from Adam below. (I didn't even remember my anniversary, which will come to no shock to my wife--I am still trying to live down a Mother's Day comment of "You're not my mother." I know, I know.)

Shamed, because I have been falling down on job of bringing you lists, so here's a little something to slake your thirst.

• Premiere has a great look at 20 Movies Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You, which includes the good news that I have more time to finally get past page 50 of Kavalier and Clay, plus updates on long stagnant projects like Dieter, Confederacy of Dunces, and AHWOSG. One complaint, I hate, hate the format of one item per page. (EW is often guilty of this Web sin, too.)
• In case you were foolish enough to not watch 30 Rock this season, investing your time instead in that other show about a late-night comedy sketch program, Cracked whets your appetite for what may be the funniest show on TV with the show 10 Best Moments.
• Karl Rove, the Fridge, and Fred Flintstone. It may sound like a Carnac bit, but in fact all three figure prominently on The Onion's AV Club's list of 13 Great Moments in the Co-Option of Hip-Hop. While you're at the AV Club, check out their First Annual Best Issue.
• In the fun tradition of the excellent Kill Your Idols, several hipsters and musicians list for the Guardian Records They Gladly Never Hear Again. Especially amusing is Scritti Politti's Green Gartside take on the transcendent "Neon Bible" by Arcade Fire:

  "What I hear in Arcade Fire is an agglomeration of mannerisms, cliches and devices. I find it solidly unattractive, texturally nasty, a bit harmonically and melodically dull, bombastic and melodramatic, and the rhythms are pedestrian. It's monotonous in its textures and in the old-fashioned, nasty, clunky 80s rhythms and eighth-note basslines."

• And back in the day when I started blogging about lists, I loved to randomly troll Google News for post ideas. In honor of that bygone practice, here news that Phoenix is again American's Sweatiest City, Johnny Depp looks good in a hat, it's expensive to live in Moscow, and it may be easier to get a last minute airplane ticket from Edmonton to Medicine Hat.
  

MEET ME IN MONTAUK: Remember back in January when American Film Institute announced it was revising its 1998 list of the 100 Greatest American Movies to include the last decade's worth of film, and we spent a long time debating it? Wednesday night, CBS airs the results in its annual three-hour clipfest extravanganza, and like every year, we'll be around to live-blog it.

Back in January, we debate it in terms of what recent films should crack the top 100. Anyone want to predict which films from their list of eligibles will join the AFI's canon?

Finally, if it's our annual AFI time, that means it's also time to wish our own Alex Gordon a happy four-year blogiversary, as his A List A Day site debuted on June 20, 2003. Anyone who can put together lists of lists like this and this, well, you can see why we're all big fans of Alex's work, and have been thrilled to have him on board here.

HOW WILL THEY MAKE IT THROUGH THIS CRISIS WITH ONLY EACH OTHER TO LEAN ON? I was a bit concerned at the end of last season that Big Love's producers had shot their "polygamy exposed!" arrow too early. But now I think it was a great move, and feel pretty confident in saying that I believe that season two will turn out to be significantly better than season one. (And hey! That was Emmylou Harris!)

Season one had a whole lot of setup. Sometimes way too much setup. But now the whole cast of characters is in place, we know who everyone is and why they act and react the way they do, and it's as if this whole strange-but-not-strange world has been set free to unfold naturally. Add in some much-improved writing and some beautiful acting from the sister-wives, explaining how they got here and how they feel about their peculiar institution, and you've got a show that has become a worthy addition to the HBO canon.

One nit, though -- for a family that's so concerned about having been publicly outed, they sure are cavalier about their kids' tendency to flap their jaws to their friends.

BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT A GEODUCK IS A 150 YEAR-OLD GIANT CLAM: Wouldn't it be nice if the producers of Bravo's Top Chef and especially Project Runway aired a "Pop-Up" version of each episode after the main broadcast (or even, as the main broadcast) to explain some of the lingo and nuances during the show?

I mean, I know from mise en place, but I'm somewhat of an aspiring culinary geek. I had no idea that, for example, "because kangaroo has virtually no fat it can easily dry out during cooking", the many ways to cook a black chicken, a/k/a the "Silkie", or that alligator, when fried, tastes like chicken. I'd like to see these shows educate as well as entertain, and pop-ups can make these shows just a little less cryptic. Runway would've been a lot easier had I understood what ruching was...

IF I WERE INVISIBLE: I really couldn't make this up--Idol: The Musical!, a show about a group of Clay Aiken fans who've built a shrine to Clay in a barn in their small town, is coming to Off-Broadway. Adam has oft remarked on how Aiken should join Tamyra Gray (currently plating Mimi) in Rent, but maybe this will do.

SELL, MORTIMER, SELL! There's never a bad time to review just how the Winthorpe & Valentine FCOJ scam in Trading Places worked. Or, as I once emailed Randy Cohen:

Dear Ethicist,

I have learned that my employer, a major brokerage firm, has planned to obtain confidential information relating to the upcoming orange crop, which will have a major effect on the price of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice futures. I don't believe the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will ever pursue this to my satisfaction, so I have a plan: if I switch their accurate crop information with the reverse, I can myself manipulate the market to drive them into the poorhouse (while enriching myself), eliminating the need for the lengthy, and likely ineffective government involvement. Yes, technically, I suppose it's insider trading, but given the harm my employer has done to others over the years, it seems like the only way they'll ever be sufficiently punished, and it can't work unless I stand as their opposite on the trading floor. Do you approve? B.R.V., Philadelphia Pa.

Randy explained that he didn't have the time to handle hypotheticals. So get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!

KNOCKED DOWN: I'm two weeks late, but I still want to say that Knocked Up is a good movie. As a lifelong bearer of an Isro, there was much to relate to in the movie (Do you use a product in your hair? Yes, it's called 'Jew'), and everything having to do with Martin Starr's hirsuteness and every word out of Jason Segal's mouth was pure comic gold. I want to see more movie stars like Seth Rogen, more comedy coming from insecurity rather than putting people down. And every Office cameo, but especially Darryl's as The Doorman, like, wow. I like movies that make me laugh out loud, laugh uncontrollably.

But, seriously? I had a hard time with how awful Pete & Debbie's marriage was. They really weren't communicating, were really doing and saying awful things . . . and at a certain point, it was just uncomfortable, and not funny. There wasn't much sympathetic about either of them, and I think Jody was right when she commented, "I loved everything about the movie except for Leslie Mann, who was awful on so many levels I'm not even sure where to start. I feel like Apatow, being her husband and all, probably thinks it impossible that anyone could dislike Leslie Mann. So he gave her carte blanche to be a great big self-centered b-iotch. I guess we were supposed to love her and identify with her or something. The way she treated Paul Rudd bordered on abuse. If that were reversed, if you had a guy talking to a woman like that, constantly belittling her and putting her down, people would freak out."

Yeah, also? The "shocking" "Heigl" shot in the delivery room? Didn't really add to the comedy. It was just kinda there to prove that it could be there.

Do I recommend the movie? Yes. But I have no idea why some reviewers have said it's the match of, let alone better than The 40 Year-Old Virgin, a movie that got everything right.