12/19: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS

Steve Monaco has your Monday Movie Quiz at Couch Pundit.

The PizzaMan compares his current ride to a certain octogenarian sports columnist at Streets of Pizza.

THESE DAYS

Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, at a time when the climate was warm enough for lions, elephants and saber tooth tigers to also roam what is now England.

Women who take longer to get pregnant are more likely to bear sons than those who conceive quickly, a new study indicates.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

You'll find one of the most forthright and cranky Minneapolitans blogging at Undercurrent.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

Nominations are open for the 2005 Koufax Awards

Listen to a podcast by The Office and Extras co-creators Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant at the Guardian.

Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Andre Braugher, and Emmy Rossum are cast in Shinji Aramaki and Wolfgang Petersen's remake, Poseidon.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"Beach Boys, Beatles, Alan Jackson, Alan Jackson, Alejandro, Alison Krauss, The Angels, The Archies, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles... Dan McLean... remember him?"

-- President Bush, scrolling through his iPod inventory for Brit Hume on FOX News recently

The Archies?