Read:

• Jan Swafford at Slate shows off some great examples of critical invective against music in a piece that's a lot of fun until right at the end, when it becomes another baffling example of Nothing's Any Good Anymore journalism.

• When Stereogum refers to musician/writer/crazy-dancer Andrew W.K. as an "outlandishly infectious personality," they're not kidding. And they have a report from the shooting of his new pilot. As a big fan of his 2003 MTV special Crashing With Andrew W.K., which you can read more about here, I am definitely looking forward to his collaboration with Adult Swim.

Note:

• In a surprising reversal of the trend where television audiences for everything are dwindling madly, Sunday's Super Bowl turns out to have been the most-watched Super Bowl of all time, and -- get this -- the second-most-watched telecast of anything in history, behind only the finale of M*A*S*H.

• My guess is that one of the better bangs for the buck to come from a Sunday Super Bowl ad went to Denny's, which saw long lines yesterday for the free Grand Slam breakfast it advertised.

Ignore:

• I love Cinematical, but that doesn't mean I sign off on their ideas to make the Academy Awards more like the Super Bowl. I am a much bigger fan of their hearty defense of the SXSW film festival.

• So far, reports that new mom of octuplets Nadya Suleman has aspirations to fame seem based entirely on her hiring of a publicist to handle the oodles of requests she's received, so until we hear more, you can hope that perhaps there won't be yet another person-with-oodles-of-children show coming your way on cable.

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9:49 - February 4, 2009

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