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The world is a lot less beautiful today. David Foster Wallace, a prodigiously gifted prose writer, has died of an apparent suicide.
2. It only gets worse — MTV decided to shutter TRL in November.
3. On a sunnier note, lucky USA Today pop culture writer Whitney Matheson interviewed the cast of It’s Sunny in Philadelphia about their upcoming fourth season, which premieres this Thursday. I’m only a recent fan of this show, but I have to say it’s one of the few out there that’s consistently laugh-out-loud funny — if you’re a fan, mash up your own trailer here.
4. Fair readers: Why is this news?
5. People has a list of five things you didn’t know about Sarah Palin. I stopped after the third one.
