overeducated and underemployed

evening clips: basketball, blunt, britney and beckhams edition

- Sad news for Clipper Nation: Shaun Livingston destroys his knee, will be out for 8 to 12 months.

- Happy news for heretofore undubbed as such "Duke Nation": Gail Goestenkoers and the Duke Lady Devils complete the first undefeated ACC season.

- James Blunt thinks you're beautiful. Now get the fuck out of his way.

- I would like to think that regardless of one's wants, one couldn't take a whole wing of empty rehab beds from other people who might need them just because one's crazy. But I'm an optimist.

- Britain seems to be experiencing something with the Beckhams akin to sending a child off to their first sleepover.

afternoon clips: sharks with fricking laser beams edition

- Lisa offers further thought on the romantic and mysterious Kiefer Sutherland.

- Tina Fey zings Aaron Sorkin in his self-important twat. Oh, excuse me, for those on pills I am of course talking about Ron Narasoki, Sonia Karron, or Ana Riokros..n.

- If we don't teach Dolphins to look bad ass, then the terrorists have won.

- Get ready for tomorrow with some cheesy love songs.

- American Idol tells Akron Watson (one half of my favorite cousin duo) to stay home.

afternoon clips: i just want your extra time edition

- Christina Aguilera tells newly dewy Ellen that she and her husband keep their marriage alive with "Naked Sundays". They came up with Naked Sundays after earlier ideas Dirrty Fridays, Mouseketeer Mondays and Can You Believe Anyone Ever Compared Me to Britney Wednesdays failed to take hold.

- Was Prince's silhouetted guitar representative of anything? Gee I don't know. Let's take a look at a few of Prince's songs for insight: Cream, Get Off, Overtly Phallic Guitar Behind a Makeshift Scrim, Pussy Control...any answers yet?

- "Wearing a Saints jersey and holding an assualt rifle, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee fires back". Don't worry, we're talking about verbal fire here. Crazy, crazy verbal fire.

- Jessica Simpson hurt by the consequences of her own folly. Wah.

- Ryan Philippe hurt by the consequences of his own folly. Wah.

- Scientology Jesus spouse Katie Holmes looking to produce another disciple.

in light of the boston marketing scare...

...wherein the item pictured above was taken for a bomb, O&U provides you this handy list of other things to be afraid of:

Lite-Brites

Game Boys

Crosswalk signs

One of those LED scrolling belt buckles

Fireflies

Mag Lites

Unrepentent talk of haircuts from eras gone by

Hysteria

afternoon clips: hot thestral action edition

- Harry Potter goes full monty, people don't find it heartwarming so much as disturbing.

- People in Boston are wicked retahded.

- Miss USA was an "equality-opportunity" drug user, and a D-level English student.

- Wake Forest game once again interrupted....by the awesomeness of L.D. "Laser Disc" Williams! Yow!

- Presidential hopeful Joseph Biden pulls a macaca.

afternoon clips: it reads the jokes and clicks the links or else it gets the hose edition

- London Fashion Week organizers have made up their mind, they're keeping their twiggies.

- Even as an agnostic, I appreciate God's presence on airplanes, in movies or elsewhere.

- Senator Dick Durbin calls Cheney delusional, but I call him delightful.

- Isaiah Washington checks into rehab for bigotry, doesn't even have the decency to offer us the guise of a substance abuse problem that we so richly deserve.

- Paris Hilton's storage facility: only slightly less frightening than Buffalo Bill's.

afternoon clips: to reiterate, i have been working for this weekend edition

- Studio 60's lack of humor explained by creator Aaron Sorkin's inability to discern between improv and sketch comedy (just one of many interesting tidbits in that one, sweets).

- Last night on Grey's Anatomy: Dr. Burke reveals his hand is now tremor-less, and Isaiah Washington's co-stars weep at a lost chance to write his character off.

- Must...buy...new Menomena album.

- This Britney Spears pregnancy story about peanut butter and morning sickness has to be read to be believed. And then forgotten, as soon as possible.

- Tomorrow night at the Westside Eclectic: Aaron Sorkin's most hated sketch comedy troupe (copyright pending) performs A skit.

afternoon clips: chock full of house edition

- Cameron and Chase? Since when? And how will it affect their "spirited yet ultimately pointless because they could never solve a medical mystery this wacky" differential diagnosis debates?

- More Duke lacrosse.

- Hey! The Solomonster and I joined Lisa and Wayne of Employee of the Month/A Socialite's Life for their podcast! We got drunk! It shows!

- I don't know if I'm projecting Ari onto the man who plays him, but I'm just not buying that John Cusack is the problem in his friendship with Jeremy Piven.

- Surprise! most overly-skinny models aren't just born that way.

- Dave Matthews to be mistreated and eventually saved by Hugh Laurie as a guest star on House.

evening clips: sad, spicy, sarcastic edition

- Snubbed, yet again.

- Please, America. I am going to have to ask that you encourage her no further until she has won back our trust by "singing" and dancing at an awards show with a python and/or tear away pants.

- Another year, another take on the BCS.

- Eddie Murphy is fixing to see why they dubbed her Scary Spice.

- Gosh, this is a bummer for writers.

- AC Slater. The CW. Two symbols of unwavering quality, united at last.

overjoyed

Okay. Giddy over here. Democrat takeover. Rumsfeld resigns. And the cake on top of that cake? FIRST WOMAN SPEAKER. Could anything feel better?

86 years after women were first able to vote, it's just so important to keep knocking those milestones down. Well played, America.