PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

Well, this is one classic I look forward to reading. Hehehe.

FAREWELL, JOHN UPDIKE

John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, best known for his four "Rabbit" novels, died of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass., according to his longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.

AND THE NEW DOCTOR IS...

A guy named Matt Smith. He will be the 11th Doctor come 2010 and the youngest one to date.

News here.

FOR FANS OF THE WIRE

Check this bit of news on "Bawlmore". Police commissioner collars a shotgun-toting black dude on the street on New Year's Eve in lieu of watching the fireworks display at the harbor. How could you not think of The Wire with this? Pure awesomesauce.