I never thought that this day would ever come when your words and your touch just struck me numb. Oh and it's plain to see that it's dead. - Jesus and Mary Chain buy it for the fuzz!

The OC got out of the way of the Braves' bats, as well as a very shaky 1st by the hard-to-hate Smoltzy, so we were without the doe-eyed profundity of Coop and the fisticuffs of that handsome kid from Chino. Anyway, it was probably just movie night over at Sandy's.

Pitchfork Mania:

If It Ain't Broken Social Scene Don't Fix It. Wow! That's comedy! Pitchfork gives mad props to the Canadian band's latest effort. The self-titled album follows up one of my all-time faves, You Forgot It In People. In fact, YFIIP would make my top ten list, which I plan to reveal very soon. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/broken-social-scene/broken-social-scene.shtml

Thunder, Lightening, Strikes America! The Go! Team see the domestic release of their wonderfully party-tastic debut album without much interference from our gavels. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/go-team/thunder-lightning-strike-us.shtml

Semen Stains The Mountaintops. In case you missed this gem back in the 90s (like YFIIP, another must-have): http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/n/neutral-milk-hotel/in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea.shtml

W The Sticker Mania:

Another Bad Day For George W The President. The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, despite Bush's crossed fingers, was awarded to both "a fuggin Egypshen" and the International Atomic Energy Agency. W, who claims he had done more to force peace upon the world than anyone else this past year, was taking it hard, according to sources close to the White House. "It's a chocolate chip cookies and warm milk night if there ever was one", said one top aide. There's always next year, W. Or, perhaps, you can just get the guys who did this to you. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/07/nobel.peace.main/

God Told Me To Do It. Also, He Told Me To Execute 47 Men in Texas. And eat the rest of your sandwich. The BBC will reveal in an upcoming special that Bush claimed that God told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. He apparently recounted his chat with the Lord to two Palestinian officals who, since then, are no doubt telling all their friends that our President is crazier than a shithouse rat. But in Arabic. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article317805.ece

Undefined Mania:

Al Pacino Is One Of Our Greatest Living Yellers! Still, my money ain't on his newest film, Two For The Money. It sounds a lot like Devil's Advocate to me. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/353157p-301100c.html

Conan O'Brien. Funniest Man On TV. Quirkiest? Yes. Funniest? Quite Possibly. I stayed up til around 2 last night (this morning) reading last week's New York magazine, which had a feature on Conan and New York comedy in general. The writer, Vanessa Grigoriadis, did a fair job at best. She intimated that there is some friction between Jon Stewart and Conan, and she also wouldn't shut up about Conan's under-the-breath comments about how no one watches his show because it's on so late. Vanessa, Conan just throws those comments away. There's no need to pick them apart. And while you pointed out that he has no female writers on staff, your expose of the 'ten funniest comedians in NYC whose names we don't know' covered one lone female.

The most interesting part of the article questions how Conan is going to reconcile his strange wit (and even goofier antics) with the Tonight Show when he sits at its helm in a few years. It's true, Conan's humor is offbeat and certainly filled with kind of nonsequitors that the Tonight Show's faithful are not used to and most likely not going to adapt to; however, if Jon Stweart takes over Letterman's seat, Conan might seem like a safe alternative to the politics of Stewart. Or maybe those Heartland viewers will just turn off the tube and read. Impossible. Prediction: Pimpbot will invade their homes and impregnate their daughters. Here's hoping things work out between him and Scott . . . http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/features/14575/

Word Of The Day: Hyperphagia! http://www.ltspeed.com/bjblinder/14.htm

Syndrome Of The Day: Prader Willi! http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/chrom3a.html

Sentence Of The Day: Chad Rucker was not born with Prader-Willi Syndrome, but an interesting sidenote is that his breath, according to Koonce, does smell like Dan's taint.