It’s been a moderately uneventful pop culture day thusfar, aside from the shocking news that Jon Gosselin and his nanny had an affair WHILE THE CHILDREN SLEPT (wouldn’t it have been far worse if the kids were awake? I’m just Splitting Heirs. Yes, the Rick Moranis movie.)
However, in the interest of looking at Wednesday September 16th as though it is a glass that is halfway full of water, here are two extremely happy pieces of news:
1) All day long, Deadspin is being written by the editors of the currently-retired FireJoeMorgan.com, my all-time favorite website. The site’s co-creator, Michael Schur, is also the executive producer of Parks & Recreation (and plays Mose Schrute on The Office), so the event is a kind of sports/Parks And Rec pop-culture crossover dealie, a Venn diagram that happens to intersect right overtop my heart. So I’m excited.
2) The band Pavement is finally reuniting, after more years of reunion rumors than there were actual years of the band. They’re apparently playing a benefit show next September in Central Park, and as soon as ticket information becomes available, I’m definitely not going to link it, because I don’t want to do anything that might even slightly negatively impact my already-nonexistent chances of getting tickets.
Though I could always pull the “Hello, I’m the guy who writes those Lost recaps!” card. That usually works to remind Michelle who I am.
Hopefully, one or both of these pieces of news make you as happy as that sun and I both are.
