MENUDEVO: It burns! It buuurrns! Turn it off. Take it off our stereo!! It freeeezes!! Nasty, nasty elveses recorded it!! Pleeeeaaasssse. It huurrts us!!

Hat tip: costik

MAMAS, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE SPACEBALLS: It's hardly a scoop at this point, but ALOTT5MA would not be ALOTT5MA if somebody didn't pause to note that Rick Moranis' Country Album, The Agoraphobic Cowboy, has been nominated for a Grammy. Sadly the nom was in the "Best Comedy Album" category, not the "Best Country Album" category, or even the "Best Country-Influenced Canadian Former Comedy Actor Album" category. Seemed like a lock for that one.

OKAY, AT LEAST SHE HIT MOST OF HER TRIPLES: Michelle Kwan has been cleared to compete -- but, let's not kid ourselves, she's not winning gold -- in her third Olympics.

THAT THIS HASN'T BEEN A TASK ON THE AMAZING RACE YET, QUITE FRANKLY, STUNS ME: Because, really, who wouldn't want to Ski Dubai?

Your assignment over the weekend, should you choose to accept it, is to identify an attraction somewhere in the world that would make for a good Race task. Paired potential Detour tasks are welcome as well. Amuse us.

THREE GUYS WALK INTO A CLINIC. THEIR LEGS HURT. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM? As Matt pretty much predicted a few days ago, the good folks at The Futon Critic have named the House episode "Three Stories" as the finest episode of scripted television for 2005.

See the whole list, from #50 to #1, via this link. And then tell us what you think.

AIN'T NO STOPPING HIM NOW? I just heard on the radio that Gene McFadden, a key figure in the "sound of Philadelphia" passed away today. Best known for the song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" as part of the duo McFadden and Whitehead, he was also a first rate songwriter (including "Back Stabbers" by the O'Jays, "Wake Up Everybody" by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and "Forget Me Nots" by Patrice Rushen) and producer (Freddy Jackson, Melba Moore, and Archie Bell and the Drells).

IF YOU WANT ME TO PLAY, I'LL BE AROUND TODAY: The Washington Post is reporting that reclusive soul star Sly Stone may perform at the Grammy Awards on February 8th. He has not performed publicly since 1987.

Stone is a major figure in the history of pop music. If you don't own it already, you should buy The Essential Sly & the Family Stone. As the WaPo article observes:

In its heyday, from roughly 1968 through 1971, Sly and the Family Stone created revolutionary music, an intoxicating mix of psychedelic pop, pulsating funk and social commentary. Among the first fully integrated groups on the American music scene, with blacks and whites and men and women together onstage, the seven-piece San Francisco band played the world's biggest venues while cranking out hit after cutting-edge hit.

Stone was an innovator whose work inspired Motown to find its social conscience, helped persuade Miles Davis to go electric, and ultimately laid out a blueprint for generations of black pop stars, from Prince and Michael Jackson to OutKast, D'Angelo and Lenny Kravitz.