People here have been obsessed with that since about last August. While the Soulja Boy dance takes a few attempts to get right, the Cupid Shuffle's "to da lef to da lef to da right to da right" can be done even by the drunkest of my friends after about a thirty second observation of all the other drunks out on the dance floor.

I originally heard about it from my friends from Louisiana, where apparently it had become endemic sometime in 2006, but it has since metastaized and gone pandemic across the South.

A slight correction - it was actually Mosley's aunt, Unity Mitford, who shot herself in the head after hearing England had gone to war against Germany. She lingered for a while in a vegetative state and died.

His mother, Diana Mitford Mosley, lived to be a bitter old woman and died in, I think, Paris.

The book of Jessica Mitford's correspondence that was published last year had some not-nice things to say about Diana and her husband. No wonder their kid is so messed up.

Til you threw Sweeney Todd into your denunciation of cruetly for cruelty's sake in the movies.

The story of the Demon Barber, a man who killed his clients out of either lunacy or revenge, is extremely old; it dates back to Parisian penny dreadfuls at the beginning of the 18th century, and has been published and dramatized in multiple forms, up to and including the Sondheim operetta version that premiered in 1979. The movie version was, except for the addition of the sorts of special blood effects you can't really pull off onstage, not particularly different from the musical or even the original folk tale version; even the aspect of turning the victims into mincemeat pies was an idea floating around in the general ether during the 19th century as an urban legend, to the point that Dickens makes a joke about it in one of his books.

To argue that Sweeney Todd arises out of the same impulse that lead that stupid Saw movie to have four or five sequels is, I think, a little short-sighted.

And I thought it was darling. It's a different beast, of course, from the original, but I like to think I have room enough in my heart for both films. I did miss several of the original movie's touches, like the Madison, and Link in his red leisure suit, and Velma popping Amber's zits - bt the movie made me very happy. Gleeful, even. The kids in it are supremely talented, and John Travolta is oddly affecting, and he dances with Walken. There's a lot to like.

And I very much liked Cuaron's movie. It was a necessary and important step up in class from the two before it, and I thought it was just beautifully done. I also liked that the director of GOF kept several of Cuaron's additions to the school's architecture, like that long stone covered bridge.

I would love Cuaron to come back and do the last movie.

I was at the AT&T store today to yell at them about something, and I asked the sales clerk about the iPhone. He told me that they had just received a new shipment about ten minutes before I got there. How big was this shipment? A princely three devices. Their initial shipment was 16, and sold out in twenty minutes.

Yes, I want one. Really, really badly.

I've had Cingular service for several years, and haven't had any noticeable problems with it. My coworkers all have T-Mobile, and I noticed that when we all went to a conference together, we ALL had crappy reception and dropped calls, irregardless of carrier. It had more to do with the remote location of the conference than it did with our individual phone service. Within our surrounding counties, we all have equally good service. Perhaps I'm lucky and Cingular has good coverage in this area, and other writers who've complained are unlucky enough to be in a poor coverage area.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them come out with an iPhone nano in a few years, geared to the 12-20 crowd. It would focus more on what's important to teens - music, texting, that sort of thing, and leave out other features in exchange for a smaller size and a smaller price (no video, for example).

The price seems high, but I bet once Cingular starts rebating it with the 2 and 4 year plans that it won't cost me any more than replacing my video iPod.

Repeats. Sci Fi Channel has been buying up the runs of different shows and using them as lead-ins for their original shows. I know they've shown Firefly and Dead Like Me, for example.

I think Trek is dead, at least for a few more years.

And that's the Doctor Who Christmas Episode, of course. I've got mine downloading right now.

I will say, though, that I am going to TIVO the squid special. I love me some giant squid.

But what the hell is LVMH?

Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. It's a massive European congolomerate run by Bernard Arnault that owns a hefty percentage of the most popular and advertised fashion companies. Besides Louis Vuitton, they also own Marc Jacobs, Celine, Fendi, Givenchy, Thomas Pink, Pucci, Donna Karan, Lacroix and about a half dozen more. Plus, they have a large beverage division that owns Veuve Clicqout, Chandon, Guinness and Château d'Yquem.

Plus, I think they're also in partnership with Dior.

If LVMH buys you out, you have it made.

Sorry, Tomreedtoon, but not gonna happen. Not only was it #2 in the ratings last week, it's been given a full season pickup.

I'm glad, I have to admit. I'm a sucker for overwrought, portentious genre shows, so Heroes is totally my Monday night tv crack.