STRAP ON THE FEEDBAG:  I don't think last night's episode of "Louie," or at least the half involving Melissa Leo, is the one I'm going to recommend to either of my parents as their gateway into the show, but that was genius.  Patton Oswalt:

Watch the progression of the episode: The late-night talk at Gray’s Papaya about a fellow comedian’s death, tossed off while choking down poisonous junk food. The tension between Louie and Melissa Leo at dinner. The ugly behind-closed-doors fight between the married couple after dinner. The joke-free, laughing conversation in the bar. It’s the shark from Jaws, underneath the dark water: You know something bad (and hilarious) is coming, if only because of all of the buried death, awkwardness, hostility, and desperation in the scenes leading up to...

FRIDAY GRAMMAR RODEO PRESENTS: HOW MICROSOFT CHANGED THE LAW WITHOUT THE LAW EVEN KNOWING IT: [Now with embarrassing math error corrected] This started as a post about Microsoft Word’s irritating choice of default header styles – take a font that nobody uses (Calibri), use a color that nobody uses (blue), default to a font size that almost nobody uses (14-point), and make sure that it clashes with just about every other typographical choice a person could make. But running that conundrum down crashed me headlong into another discussion I had last week with both Spacewoman and a colleague: what does "double-spacing" mean? Allow me to borrow a phrase from the teasers for the 11:00 local news: the answer may surprise you.

IF THIS IS NOT PLAYED AT DISNEYLAND REGULARLY, WE HAVE LOST: In other "Now the Internet has everything!" news, yes, there is an Andrew W.K. cover of The Mickey Mouse March.

IN ADDITION, ALL THE GUNS HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY WALKIE-TALKIES:  In honor of the 50th anniversary of William Faulkner's passing, the Folio Society will republish The Sound and the Fury in the way Faulkner had intended -- using different-colored inks to mark the shifts in chronology. "If I could only get it printed the way it ought to be with different color types for the different times in Benjy's section recording the flow of events for him, it would make it simpler, probably," wrote Faulkner to his agent in 1928. "I don't reckon, though, it'll ever be printed that way, and this'll have to be the best, with the italics indicating the changes of events. And also, I need to make clear that Greedo shot first."

[HT: Watts. I may not have the last part of the quote exactly right.]

added: As saray discovered, colorized Faulkner will set you back $345.00.

BOOM BOOM BOOM EVEN BRIGHTER THAN THE MOON MOON MOON: No, this post is not about Katy Perry: Part of Me 3-D, which I suspect I'll be passing on, but about San Diego, where, due to an unfortunate technical screw-up, rather than igniting fireworks over 15 minutes, the entire show went off in about 15 seconds.

I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD RASTA-FY HIM BY ... TEN PERCENT OR SO:  Chuck E. Cheese now has a "revamped image" as "a hip, electric-guitar-playing rock star". He will be voiced by Jaret Reddick, the lead singer for the pop-punk bank Bowling for Soup, singer of the Phineas and Ferb theme song as well as all of the work of Love Händel.

SWEEPING LEAVES ON A WINDY DAY:  Well, dog my cats. This week's Wire season three episode,  "All Due Respect." turns on the difference between one's dog and one's dawg, as we see the diligent work of Baltimore's Finest undermined by an understandable interpretive error confirmed in a well done, darkly comic interrogation scene, made more brutal by the fact that the audience knows the whole time how badly the police have misread things.

In the meantime, both Stringer Bell and Bunny Colvin have had enough with doing things the usual way; Stringer wants less violence, and Bunny less bullshit. Given that this is the Baltimore of The Wire, I'm not optimistic about reform taking hold, but let's see what Bunny wants to do with his "paper bag" approach exactly. Looking to do things the more usual way, however, we see Commissioner Burrell agreeing to a sitdown with Councilman Littlefinger, which for the moment may work to their mutual advantage, and for a second straight episode both Rawls and Valchek seem like more of a solution than the problems they were in season two.

In other news, McNulty doesn't need Rhonda, and Rhonda clearly doesn't need McNulty, as viewers' desires to see Lance Reddick shirtless have been fanserviced once more. Marlo Stanfield appears to be someone not to mess with and, as with the Sobotkas, Cutty is frustrated by the lack of job opportunities in the modern economy, and one fears what choices he'll now make.  We're more on plot than theme at this point, but we've got a lot of story left to tell this season.