Reading Digest: Vicarious Popularity Edition

“They’re only using you for your pool, you know.” – Lisa’s Brain “Shutup brain!  I got friends now, I don’t need you anymore.” – Lisa Simpson  The signal to noise ratio for on-line Simpsons stuff plummeted again this week on account of the music video commercial replacing the usual opening.  Yawn.  I’m used to it by now, it happens whenever Zombie Simpsons makes another desperate play for relevance.  It happened with Marge in Playboy; it happened with the Israel episode; it happened with the 20th anniversary.  It’s going to happen again in a couple of weeks when the American Idol…

Quote of the Day

“Fellow classmates, instead of voting for some athletic hero, or a pretty boy, you have elected me, your intellectual superior, as your king.  Good for you.” – Artie Ziff “Very well said.” – Principal Dondelinger Happy birthday Mike Reiss!