A WHOLE NEW WORLD: I'm not 100% sold on the potential brilliance of Sucker Punch yet (though I'll almost certainly go see it), but if it starred Disney princesses? That, I'd definitely be sold on.

WHAT CAN I DO TO GET YOU TO BUY THIS CAR TODAY? Why the Mariners should trade Felix Hernandez, by a bunch of national columnists:

1. He is not a Yankee.
2. He should be a Yankee.
3. Why build your team around a Cy Young-winner whom you just signed to a contract extension and who has been with your organization since he was 16 years old and who has established a rapport with your fans?
4. When you could build your team around a bunch of 20-year-olds who might be really good in four or five years?
5. When they would be ripe for you to trade them to the Yankees?
6. It would be good for baseball.
7. Because what is good for 200 miles of I-95 is good for baseball.
8. And Seattle is not a baseball town anyway. Something something coffee grunge rain Microsoft funny joke! You have not heard this one before!
9. So it's a deal, right?

THIS PROGRAMMING NOTE: To echo something Linda noted on her own blog today, we, too, are watching with great concern the devastating events in Japan. We will continue to blog as normally as we can, because that's the thing at which we are allegedly good, and like you we will balance our use of the Internet between the serious and the supplemental as events warrant.

A list of charities active in relief efforts is here, and this thread is open for whatever's on your mind.

"THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE WORST LEG RUN BY ANY TEAM EVER": So tweeted our good friend Linda Holmes tweeted tonight regarding The Amazing Race, and since I haven't been around for a few weeks to liveblog this season it's a good question with which to start.  My immediate reaction was that The Groanies' decision to fly from Brazil to South Africa via NYC and London was a bigger snafu, but as she pointed out "this contained more DIFFERENT bad decisions and more KINDS of bad decisions" than that singularly bad error.

So, where does tonight rank in Race history, with a team Dan Fienberg called "impressively stupid," "pretty astoundingly stupid," and "pretty mind-bogglingly stupid"?

THE ONLY GOOD TIME TO YELL OUT "I HAVE DIARRHEA" IS WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING SCRABBLE: I wish Saturday Night Live as a whole were as funny as Zach Galifianakis was last night.  The body spray joke was funnier than anything I've seen on the show at least since Tina Fey was spoofing Sarah Palin, and between the monologue (Hulu doesn't include the musical bit), the dead dog skit, and Scared Straight skit (which I usually FF past) it was a night worth watching (in bits and pieces, as always.)  And like others, I do want to see a full Boston Powers skit, and I want to see it now.

Also on Hulu: backstage before the farewells.  We are now at nine straight episodes without What's Up With That?, and I'm starting to get restless.

GOODNIGHT DUNE.

I DIDN'T KNOW THEY GAVE OUT RINGS AT THE HOLOCAUST:  If you listened to the recent This American Life episode titled "Oh, You Shouldn't Have," be advised that YouTube does have the complete This Is Your Life episode with Hanna Bloch Kohner (pt1, pt2), as well as excerpts of the one with Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, and it's every bit as bizarre and uncomfortable as the Allison Silverman piece makes it out to be.