Exciting news - you can experience the spectacle that is of Montreal LIVE on national television! That's right, of Montreal will be performing on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien this Thursday, April 12, at 12:35 PM EST (11:35 PM CST) Don't miss it!

• Novelist Kurt Vonnegut died. After a long life and numerous successful literary works, he was rewarded with doodley-squat. So it goes.
• The South Carolina house passed a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to first watch at least three episodes of "Jim Henson's Muppet Babies". This may not make it past the Senate due to royalty issues.
• It snowed in Iowa yesterday. This is not terribly common, but entirely possible this time of year in my part of the country. No, this does not "disprove global warming".
• The Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead" (2005) is indeed the best of the new episodes I've seen thus far. The pacing is good, the dialogue between The Doctor and Charles Dickens is punchy and fun, the title is perfect, and the show has some ghoulish imagery to send the kids hiding behind the furniture. I have to admit, I still miss the old days when the interior of the TARDIS was a brightly-lit room with a quiet hum, but if a rougher, edgier trip through the time vortex is what helps get today's daft little ones with the wheels on their sneakers hooked, I guess that's the way it is.