IT WAS TWENTY YEARS (AND A DAY) AGO TODAY:  John Chaney. John Calipari.

ALOTT5MA FRIDAY GRAMMAR RODEO:  As Language Log notes, the "worst choice of preposition-phrase modifier placement anywhere in the world" might be the recent E! Online website headline of "Cameron Diaz Encourages Women to Keep Their Pubic Hair in Her New Book."

CUÉNTELE A SAÚL:  Yes, you'll want to see the full six-minute trailer for and read about some of the culturally-related changes necessary for the upcoming Latin American remake of Breaking Bad.

OUR SWEET, SPANGLED PRINCE:  If today is the end of Plushy's career, at least we've got the fashion to remember.

THE SONG IS BARELY THREE MINUTES LONG, BUT IT CHANGES KEYS 18 TIMES:  A thinkpiece on "Birdhouse in Your Soul":

Both literary and exuberantly naive, the song epitomizes a particular everything-at-once way of thinking and being. In the ’80s, it was easy to disparage hyperassociation like this as awkwardly geekish. It belied an ignorance of when to shut up—think Rick Moranis as the factoid-spouting Louis Tully in Ghostbusters. (Or for that matter, Rick Moranis in anything.) But something funny happened on the way to the millennium: the geeks won. 

This is a Blizzapocalypse Open Thread.

IT'S NOT CLEAR HOW MUCH BAGGAGE SHE BROUGHT:  Have you thought "I enjoy the Winter Olympics, but wish that it featured more characters from HBO's original series Girls?"  If so, it's time for you to participate in the Shoshi Games.

YOUR COMIC OF COMICS:  Jamie Poniewozik remembers the late Sid Caesar: "[E]ven if you’ve seen little of his original work, any family tree of modern comedy branches back to Caesar, through the writers and actors he worked with, the works they went on to create, and the sketch-comedy format that the chamelonic performer Caesar defined."