Wildlife: Raccoons on the back deck again -- clearing the snow off the box feeder for me, to an accompanying cat-chorus from behind the sliding glass door.

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Weather: Full-blown blizzard Monday morning. Gotta transfer that follow-spot in this muck.

Charity Alert: Stay inside and let The Hunger Site do all your charitable work for you today.

Media Watch: NFL Football -- Every game I watched was like a college match, with one team dominating the other. There were moments when the losing team got close, but too few to be much fun. I like Tony Dungey, coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and I'm glad he's won 12 games in a row this season. Pre-game madness concentrated on playoff possibilities, which was interesting, since some teams with winning records may not make it. MAD-TV's Frank impersonated Andy Rooney, and drew some laughs. CBS started out with German supermodel Gisele Bundchen introducing the NFL Today show, interspersed with lots of tittilating lingerie runway shots from the Victoria's Secrets TV special. Their competition at Fox, Jillian Barbarie, was minorly funny, but she was dressed prettily for the occasion in a light skirt and a heavily brocaded bustier which showed almost all of her anatomy from the ribcage on up.
Guess what? PBS is showing the Cream reunion concert on Great Performances -- the order of songs is different from the DVD, and the mix seems more centered on the drums, which I always liked the best anyway.
Ellen DeGeneres did her much-ballyhooed show from New York at Lincoln Center -- overlooking Columbus Circle through a huge curving window. Except that it was in NYC, there wasn't all that much to ballyhoo about -- lots of taped Ellen-in-the-street stuff, but her guests got hardly any camera time. Bon Jovi did a fair musical spot, and Kim Cattrall wore an outfit that displayed her breasts, but made the rest of her body look dumpy because of bad cutting and too many folds in the wrong places. She's a very good comic actor, but you wouldn't have known it from her appearence on the show. She made a splash with the cover of her new book, so I'll splash it here as well:

Wikipedia's take on Kim Cattrell
Buy her book, if she's going to go this far to entertain us for free!