Thursday Quick Hits

• If you can handle the subject matter (and if you can't, it's time to grow a pair, folks) go see Vera Drake. Not only is Imelda Staunton's performance the best by far of an actress this year (makes Hilary Swank look like she's in a DMV drunk driving video), but it's also the first Mike Leigh move that i did NOT fall asleep during. And that includes Topsy-Turvy, during which i believe i set the record with a reported 17 doze-offs in a thirty minute period.

• Dok has finished his pre-season baseball rankings. And I have a feeling he might have something to say about The People’s Chump as well.

• Some enterprising slacker youths created an account on Amazon to save Fox’s embattled Emmy-winner Arrested Development. At the time of this posting, the site had raised $525 towards a goal of $1000 to be used for…uh…banana stress balls for Fox Entertainment president Gail Berman!?! WTF!?!

• In case you’re wondering, yes, I lost the over bet. And no, I don’t even care. WORLD CHAMPIONS, BABY!!!

• Not sure if I’ve linked to this before, but April Winchell has one of the better archives of absurd sound clips that I’ve found. Nimoy covering “Both Sides Now” has made my week.

• Either none of you have gone to get your Which Red Sox are you test done, or you’re all too chickenshit to comment about it. Either way, I am very disappointed in all of you. For shame.