2/23 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Diablo Cody has Juno cast updates at the Pussy Ranch.

Download free MP3s from local artists such as Avenpitch, Future Wives, Romantica, Brother and Sister, and more at Music To Go.

THESE DAYS

KFC has asked Pope Benedict XVI to bless the Fish Snacker Sandwich, a Lenten addition to the chain's otherwise chicken-centric menu.

Actor and national dodgeball champion David Price is suing the writer, Rawson Marshall Thurber, and distributor of 2004's Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, claiming elements of the hit movie were derived from Price's script.

New Zealand's newest television station is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow using a $10 kitchen wok.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Darrell Schulte blogs on vacuum cleaner shopping, scratchy mom legs, and rocking horse butt stink at Schulte in Minnesota

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TIME WASTERS

From McSweeney's: Condensed Letters to Penthouse Forum

A Wikipedia list of famous smokers

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"It's ridiculous, this is something that never happens to translators."

— Israeli translator Gili Bar-Hillel, on the fame he has received from translating the Harry Potter series into Hebrew