I CARRIED A WATERMELON:  The Footloose remake must be testing through the roof, because Kenny Ortega has been signed to direct a film remake of Dirty Dancing.

ALOTT5MA GRAMMAR RODEO NATIONAL PASTIME EDITION: Do you accept as legitimate the assertion that the past tense of the verb "fly" is always "flew" except in the context of baseball and softball?  When you read a sentence like "Ryan Braun flied out to right, allowing Hart to tag and go to third," does that sound correct, merely tolerable, or downright wrong to you?

CUTE AND FUZZY BUNNIES I/S/O GIRLS WITH GREEN EYES: The crew at The House Next Door has been spending this summer remembering the movies of the summer of 1986, many of which have their fans here.

PROBABLE CAUSE EXISTED BECAUSE THE TRUNK WAS RATTLIN' LIKE TWO MIDGETS IN THE BACK SEAT RASSLIN': Rapper Big Boi was booked earlier today on drug charges based on his possession of ecstacy and Viagra.

POP CULTURE CO-DEPENDENCY: On this week's Pop Culture Happy Hour, the assembled panel played a game of "How Should Entourage End?" Unsurprisingly, most members of the panel proposed an ending involving the fiery death of Vinnie Chase, which, given the threat/promise that we're going to get an Entourage movie, seems unlikely. Two points for discussion spinning out of that:

1. As part of the discussion, several of the panelists noted that despite their loathing of what Entourage has become, they have nonetheless watched every or almost every episode of the series. Are there other pop-cultural touchstones that you just can't seem to quit, no matter your efforts?
2. As you might have heard, ABC has announced that Desperate Housewives will end its run at the end of this season (though depending on how their new Sunday programming fares, I can see this being a Seventh Heaven situation, where a new season is greenlit after the "final" one, possibly with one or two fewer Housewives). That's one of those shows that I just can't seem to quit, even though it hasn't been terribly good since Season 2 or 3, despite bright spots here and there (the Dana Delany arc in particular, and giving Nathan Fillion a job). It's early still, but we need to play a game of "How Should Desperate Housewives End?,"a game which I fully expect will generate a lot of fiery deaths for Susan Mayer.
   

WHEREVER YOU GO, WHATEVER YOU DO, I WILL BE RIGHT HERE WAITING FOR POO:  Richard Marx does an ad for a Sacramento colon-cleansing firm.

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THE DARK AND GOLD KNIGHTS:  Led by Ben Roethlisberger, kick returner Hines Ward, kicker Luke Ravenstahl, and coach Bill Cowher, the Gotham Rogues took on the Rapid City Monuments in a football game yesterday -- or, rather, they were filming The Dark Knight Returns Rises before 10,000 extras at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field. Article contains potential spoilers regarding what happens in superhero movies when thousands of people are gathered in a public space.