COME ON, BABY, THE LAUGH'S ON ME: Via Jay, below the fold it's time to Jazzercise with the Boss -- outtakes from the rehearsals for the "Dancing in the Dark" video:

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE "GUB" OR "GUN"?  A few days ago Linda Holmes tweeted that the pilot for "Take the Money and Run," a reality competition debuting on ABC tonight, was "silly and intriguing" but she was "instantly sucked in." Shall we give it a try?

SHERMAN MCCOY'S GPS: Joe Queenan muses on movie plots rendered impossible by the advent of modern technology.

I BELIEVE THEY'RE CALLED "BRAZIL NUTS," ACTUALLY:  Someone here was supposed to tell me sooner that I needed to start watching Louie.  Hot damn am I enjoying this quirky, dark, weird and fearless little show. I thought "Moving" was just genius and deeply affecting, and a show that can pull off that and "Blueberries" and the Joan Rivers episode ... yes, I will follow Louis C.K. wherever he wants this show to go.

(Okay, Sepinwall has been sounding the alarm.)

PAGING JOHN QUIÑONES: On a recent evening, I pulled into an unfamiliar parking lot which had a posted rate of $10. The lot had no gate, no booth, no ticket, just an attendant on a chair by the exit. I walked past the attendant after parking, who explained to me that the fee was $10, "pay now or pay later," but that he was leaving soon after having worked a 10 hour shift and, as such he explained, "or don't pay, and that's okay. I really don't care. Up to you."  He didn't indicate whether he was being relieved upon the end of his shift.

Tell me what you'd do, and then I'll tell you what happened ... a bit later.

#MTV30:  Below the fold, some of the vintage clips I've seen on VH-1 Classic in the past hour that have left me unable to get off the couch:

HIS HAND WAS UP IN THE AIR, AND HE WAS ARCHING WAY BACK. SO I REACHED UP AND HIT HIS HAND. IT SEEMED LIKE THE THING TO DO: The current issue of ESPN's magazine has a fantastic longread on the origins of the high five, which goes in a number of unexpected directions that I shall not spoil.