Sunday reading

I finally posted a new video on my sidebar ... It comes thanks to my weekly viewings of VH1's Top 20 Countdown (... because hey, our area radio stations are too afraid to play anything outside of Nickelback, John Mayer, Goo Goo Dolls, and All-American Rejects...). The video is for a song called "Here It Goes Again" by a group I'd never heard of called OK Go. The whole treadmill thing is genius, fairly cheap to pull off, and it makes for one of the coolest videos I've ever seen ...

If you haven't seen it, just press the play button ...

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Kates and I watched V For Vendetta last night (... in preparation for a Sunday School lesson, believe it or not ...) ...

... I didn't get it. The whole terrorist running around in a white mask was a little too creepy and deranged for me. I expected Natalie Portman's performance to be stronger. And it didn't help that I wasn't watching the film in the best of moods and I was dozing throughout the first 15 minutes of the movie ...

... All of it made the whole exploding Parliament scene at the end a little anti-climatic ...

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A sampling of the intriguing and interesting reads that caught my attention this week ...

Media and pop culture ...
a Daily circulation falls 2.8 percent at U.S. newspapers
a Pop culture has long been the home of ... hoaxes

Television ...
a New TV season: New stars, new trends
a ‘SNL’ impressionist finally gets limelight
a Hiro's the hero of fall TV season

More from the postseason ...
a Are expanded playoffs good for MLB?
a World Series winners enjoy victory parade in St. Louis
a Eckstein riding high
a Decisions loom for Cardinals
a No. 1 lesson from this World Series - almost every team can win
a Fall Classic has taken classic fall
a Baseball's top off-season storylines

And finally ...