"They're already changing the nameplate on my door."
- Tom Brokaw, who retired from his anchor position at NBC Nightly News Wednesday, on People.com.
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The folks at Chick-fil-A must have caught on that people were putting extra nuggets into their bags. Normally, the trademark red-and-white paper bags were stacked on the left as you enter the Chick-fil-A alcove. Now the fast-food joint issues paper bags only when customers cash out, making students juggle greasy fries, hot sandwiches, drinks and dips in their arms until they reach the register, where they have to dump everything on the counter and load it into a bag. We're not sure who came up with this idea, but it was probably the same person who decided to turn the "Tavern" into an aesthetic nightmare.
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Things seem to keep getting worse for Ben Affleck. After his 2003 flops "Gigli" and "Paycheck," he starred in the recent holiday turkey "Surviving Christmas" with James Gandolfini. It opened on Oct. 22 and hardly lasted a week in theaters. Now, DreamWorks has announced a DVD release date of Dec. 21 in order to cash in on the holiday season. This is the quickest from-theater-to-DVD turnaround ever for a major studio release, and yet another gaping wound in Affleck's waning career, despite the fact that he was da bomb in "Phantoms."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a feature in its Short Subjects section called True Crime, which compiles selections from a college's police blotter. In the Dec. 3 issue, the Chronicle draws five different days from the blotter of Mount Holyoke College. All days mention a female horseback rider who fell from a horse at the college's Equestrian Center and needed transportation to the health center. At one point, the rider fell off the horse at 4:03 p.m. one day and 9:55 a.m. the next morning. Who is this woman? And why can't she stay on her horse?
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Four University of Memphis basketball players who share an apartment on campus reported a break-in and stolen property that included $6,000 worth of shoes, $4,000 of custom-made shirts, $6,000 of trousers and $40,000 of mink coats, according to WPTY-TV in Memphis, Tenn. Mink coats? Mink coats?
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A giant inflatable snowman was keeled over Wednesday in front of the Sunrise Assisted Living Center on Glebe Road in Arlington, Va. Assist him!
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The Lohan's breasts can't stay inside fabric and the Lohan's father can't stay out of jail. Michael Lohan was arrested Monday for the third time this year. This event apparently came after Michael chased Lindsay - who has an order of protection against her father - around at her younger brother's soccer game in Merrick, Long Island. Wonder what Christmas will be like in the Lohan house this year...
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Dante DeCaro, guitarist from the Hot Hot Heat - you know, the one who single-handedly turned them from a mediocre hardcore band to a major label smash - has left the band following completion of his forthcoming LP "Elevator." We're siding with Dante, who made the right move to get out before the band becomes the latest casualty of "The OC." We're looking at you, Modest Mouse, Rooney, Walkmen, the Thrills and Death Cab for Cutie.
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- COSTA CALOUDAS, DANIEL LONGINO, CRISTA SCATURRO, MEGAN SLACK & DAN ZAK.
