Stuff of the week

Was there anyone who wasn't watching the gripping rescue of 33 miners in Chile on Tuesday night!?

The scene was something I won't soon forget -- watching the Rangers finish off the Rays in the division series and then seeing my e-mail and TweetDeck overflow with breaking news alerts. I promptly turned to CNN and watched intently, butt planted on our coffee table in front of television. I flipped back and forth from the CNN coverage to the baseball game, and timed it perfectly enough that I saw the last out of the ball game and parts of the Rangers celebration and the first miner appear above ground, to the utter joy of his young son.

As the CBS clip mentions below, I couldn't help but notice how the similarities to watching Baby Jessica's rescue struck me also. The miners' story is something remarkable and is, arguably -- like "Sully" in 2009 -- the high point of a mostly dark and gloomy 2010.

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Of course I watched Jane Lynch's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend, and I thought it was pretty decent. But in an effort to save time and space, I'll just direct you to EW's review -- because it's everything I would have said. My only regret is I can't find a clip of the "Glee" spoof -- EW couldn't either -- which was ha-larious.

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I've been listening to The Weepies nearly non-stop the last couple weeks. I had another fleeting moment of depression the other night when I caught a review of their tour opener. Dang, it would be good to see them.

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Um. These lightning photos are amazing.

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This is nuts: Firefighters let a house burn because its owner didn't pay a $75 fee.

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I'm always up for a good read about Facebook. Here is another good one from The Boston Gobe. So true.