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Fans leveraging the "Betty White to Host SNL (please?)" Facebook fan page are proclaiming a social media victory. NBC announced Thursday that they have finally booked the 88-year-old actress to host a special "Women in Comedy" Saturday Night Live show on May 8. White will be joined by a troupe of six former SNL cast members: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.

Only a couple stand out in a surprisingly middle-of-the-road field. I think I had higher hopes at the beginning of this season than are currently bearing out. I'm trying to figure out why that is. Much of it is song choice. All these people picking songs that are too old for them or too big for them. Some of it might actually be that, as Simon said last night, too many of them are sitting on a stool with a guitar and not really showing a lot of charisma. And some of it continues to be that with four judges talking, the singers actually do less singing. Maybe i just don't like 90 second versions of 4 minute songs.

I may be the wrong person to post about television and movie censorship for kids. I, after all, was raised by parents who did not believe in censorship of any kind. My older brother and I spent the entire 1970s in the back seat of the family car at the drive-in movie watching one blaxploitation movie after another. Chock-full of sex, violence, and profanity, these films drew my parents in like bees to honey. If you censored out the inappropriate subject matter in these movies in accordance with one of those child-censoring services or devices, all you’d have left is the opening credits and a small portion of the closing credits … without the music … because Shaft was a bad mother shut your mouth …

We woke up to the news that Corey Haim has died.

What do you do if you are a web developer with the soul of artist? Do you go home in the evenings, take care of feeding the family and do your household chores, then paint with any remaining time? Caroline C. Blaker does that. But she does something else, too. She takes all that info about PHP and JQuery floating around in her brain from her day job and uses it to generate a new form of conceptual art she calls Twitterscapes.