Afternoon Baseball

I'm just a sucker for posts that have lots of info in them.

"Arrested Development," the movie, is still being considered. Last week, the show, a former winner of Best Comedy and a two-time winner (and four-time nominee) of Best Writing, won nominations in both, and they also got a technical nomination. Best of all, Will Arnett was recognized, finally, with a Best Supporting Actor nod.
Unfortunately, the show runs up against "The Office" in both categories. "The Office" was definitely the better show this year, but the writing, even with a little slippage, was unique and special on "AD." Hopefully, it splits that way and not where neither wins anything.

The Killers have a new song. There's a link to listen to streaming audio of it. Not terribly exciting -- I got bored listening to it, although it's not a bad song at all. It's just after watching the world completely ignore Franz Ferdinand's second, great album, the dance rock thing seems to be on the way out. Which is bad news for Muse's upcoming album, too.
To bolster my liking of this song, by the way, Pitchfork slams The Killers' pretensions of being The Boss. While I agree that's a silly idea, equally silly is the notion that "Bruce's [lyrics] were equally garish, but there was legit working class pathos behind them."
Maybe 35 years ago. Any point after he became a big star? Please. If Bruce pulls off brilliant, touching lyrics, it's because he's a great lyricist, not because he's blue-collar.

Scarlett Johannsson does movies or something. She's apparently a good actress. As the overrated copycats Jet once said, though, "You don't need that money when you look like that, do ya honey?"

Odalis Perez says the Dodgers have treated him like trash and driven him to tears. He then goes out and gives up one of the most no-doubt home runs ever to Albert Pujols, who is now 10-15 with 5 HRs against Perez. Good timing.

The list of countries without a McDonald's.

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