Talking Points

* Whoa. Have you heard The Flaming Lips' single "The Wand." Whoa.

* Possible retroactive 2006 celibacy pledge. Developing.

* No women are up for National Book Critic’s Circle Awards in Poetry.

* Guy who washes Bill Belichick's car named coach of the Jets.

* Can't wait til this kills the book.

* Idea: a scroll during awards shows that thanks all the totally boring people so the winner can talk about something interesting instead...

* Will your book be a bestseller based on title? From Gawker, the poetry blog meme of the week (tm)! Enjoy!

* I put these here & here.

* I have previously underestimated the pure beauty of Chloe on "24." She's a crazy-assed hottie. So now they will probably kill her off, too.

* I fear love.

* What the hell was Dennis Quaid talking about during the Golden Globes? Was he calling "Brokeback Mountain" a "Dick Flick?" That round of no laughter marked the end of your career. You may join your Botoxic ex Meg for an episode of Nowheresville already in progress.

* You know, "School of Quietude" is a bullshit term, too. Ron's blog is a guilty pleasure. Repeating his catchphrases makes you as lame as anyone who walked around doing Hans and Franz in the 90s (Dear Jim hello / it is 1:27 AM / and you have implicated yourself / again). Any variation makes you a lame poseur, very 5 minutes ago. Starting *now*. Anyone who sucks on the erotic curse of poems deserves our sympathy and compassion. Until they start acting like assholes. Then jump all over them, be my guest.

* How fucking far off-script was Hilary Clinton when she uttered the word "plantation" on Martin Luther King's birthday? Miles off. Sounds a lot like Howard Dean's "ARRGH" speech.