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Double secret YGYLB probation means three days of YGYLB posts, starting right now.

My friend good friend Pat at Albatross Hour, perhaps the awkwardest person I know, recommends you watch this video if you feel deprived of Even Stevphen. Trust me: you do.

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While were on the subject of video trips down memory lane, see if you can name all the indie icons who graced Pete & Pete. Don't look at the cheat sheet! Via Idolator:

Man, there's no way you can expect a non-deeply disturbed kid to get the Dead Zone reference. My major complaint with the vid is the .5 seconds allotted to Michael Stipe's cameo, despite being the one musician who perhaps shaped Pete and Pete's spirit more than anyone else. Have you found your target yet?
The annual rite of passage of BCS grumbling has started, and Bryan Curtis of the Daily Beast isn't having it, despite what Obama clamors for. Or at least he wasn't having it. Bryan Curtis, as it turns out, is a die-hard Texas Longhorns fan. I'd be interested to see what he has to say about the BCS now (this is the benefit of having two weeks of YGYLB hindsight).
According to Clyde Fitch, the excellent Pearl Theater Company is taking new steps to create affordable theater in dire times by eliminating the press comp. For a volunteer critic like me, this is devastating news, but the side of me that likes innovative theater solutions likes the move immensely. I just hope this is treated more as a method of innovation than as a sign of the death of theater criticism (though the Pearl's coverage may suffer as a result of the move).
Is the NHL starting to take precedent over the NBA, like it supposedly did in 1994? You wouldn't know it from ESPN's coverage, but Puck Daddy's Greg Wyshynski thinks this may be happening. Yes, the NHL's ratings are crappy, but the NBA's isn't much better. Plus, at least the NHL still has devoted fans, which are dwindling rapidly in the NBA (Nick Friedell's description of an Orlando Magic game is pretty depressing). Even though the NBA has bigger stars, they're not seen as local stars. Does anyone in Cleveland really think Lebron is staying in 2010? It's starting to look like even Lebron doesn't think so.
I once praised John Zogby's polling but dismissed his writing. Now it's starting to look like his polling is going sour too. Nate Silver reports that Zogby engaged in ridiculous, empirically-challenged push polling. All of a sudden, the Onion's analysis of Zogby seems more accurate.
Finally, we have one of the best contrarian, anti-Google SEO articles I've ever read. In an era when everyone is calling people on their bad SEO strategies, why is no one calling Google on having us all suck on the SEO teat? John Andrews shows more courage in SEO writing than has been shown since some dude claimed that all SEO is Black Hat.