with no berlin wall, what the hell you gonna do?

--Gabe & co. are KILLING IT at Videogum right now. I cite as evidence:

• This terrific preview of Lost's sixth and final season (I'm pumped!!!!).
• Gabe found a textbook example of why the internet is bad for you.
• One of many great party games.
• And some great investigative work on Kirstie Alley's quest to wrest the title of "the worst" from Nancy Grace.
  

--Jeff Beck just won 2010, everyone. As if there was any doubt that he would.

--The very best idea in sports. Nnamdi is henpecked, Elvis is perturbed, Tashard is stirred up, Trent is the best, and Brian Dawkins is insane.

--Read some of my old writing earlier today. Yikes.

--Some nicknames:

MLB:

Kevin Youkilis – The Romanian Tickler, the Butcher of Bucharest

Grant Balfour – Is Going to Put a Ball Through Your Fucking Skull, Don’t Look Grant Balfour in the Eyes

C.C. Sabathia – Ruben Studdard

NFL:

Miles Austin – WNBA

Peyton Manning – Dougie Fresh, MFIC

Reggie Wayne – Lando Calrissian

Jon Vilma – Master Splinter

Aaron Rodgers – Temp, Mr. Frodo, the Lothlorien Leap

Jeremy Shockey – The Frederic Chopin of Tight Ends

Kerry Collins – Albi, Ratfink

NBA:

Tim Duncan – Dr. Manhattan (for that matter, Kobe as Ozymandias, KG as Rorschach, and Allen Iverson/Gil Arenas as the Comedian all work)

JR Smith -- The O Rly Factor

Ersan Ilyasova – The Night Stalker

Gerald Wallace – Sweaty Molasses

Rasheed Wallace – Typhoid Sheed

Monta Ellis -- Fenster

Hedo Turkoglu – Ball.

--The Wire/Sopranos comparison and eventual Room guide will have to wait. Too much work to do over the weekend.