So I wake up after a long night of movie coverage (a review of Bella is in process) and open my AT&T Yahoo home page to find these three headlines stacked together under an innocuous string of drool about "the myth of multi-tasking":

• U.S. Astronaut Stuck in Space
• 50-Foot Michael Jackson Robot May Roam Desert
• 'Monster' Toad Captured in Australia

I can't believe I slept through this stuff! If any of this had even the most tenuous North Texas connection, I'd probably resolve never to sleep again, or at least to change my sleep schedule so that I could be awake during the next Ed Wood lunar cycle.

This may be the first time I've ever felt compelled to drill down on EVERY featured headline on the Yahoo home page.

I've read the first one about the "stranded" astronaut, Sunita Williams (which turns out to be a total ruse: they mention "launching her some items that will make her more comfortable for that extended period of time," which - and I'm not a science guy, just a liberal arts schlub, but I think I'm tracking straight and true here - leads me to believe that if she really needed to get back to earth in a hurry, she could stow away on whatever vehicle is being launched to her current address with the items chosen to enhance her comfort.

Hopefully they will be replenishing her diaper supply - and, if she's lucky, shuttling back the used ones. (Maybe that's why she doesn't want to ride along on this return voyage...)

Now that I've got my coffee, I'm going to go ahead and read the M.J. robot story, and I suggest you do the same unless you want to be totally caught with your pants down on your next trip into the desert.