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Reinventing Television: We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart, at Wired, is one long yuk.

Stewart and Ben Karlin, The Daily Show's executive producer, could be having a lot of fun with interviewer Thomas Goetz or doing one of those, "Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones" moments. Here's how it ends:

Your contract goes through 2008. How do you think people will be watching the show then?

Stewart: Through their nipples. I believe the show will come in through one nipple and will be broadcast out the other through some sort of projection device.

Karlin: And if you have three nipples, you're basically walking high definition.

Stewart: No, listen. We make the doughnuts; we don't drive the truck. I have no idea. I assume there are people in white lab coats working on that very thing. And I'm sure at some point it will be in liquid form.

There's not much here, but Stewart's so hot that he's on the cover of the magazine's print issue anyway. And I bet if I put "Jon Stewart" in this blog's headline on the projo.com homepage, hundreds of readers would click it.

The Oxford American's 7th Annual Southern Music Issue is out, with an accompanying CD that includes Elvis (...A six-minute live version of "Suspicious Minds" made just days before the song hit the airwaves and record bins); Erma Franklin, Aretha's big sister, doing "Piece of My Heart"; Joe Tex, The Wilburn Brothers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Nat King Cole, Al Green, Buddy Holly, Helen Humes, Ricky Skaggs, Erykah Badu, Cowboy Jack Clement, Bubble Puppy, the DeZurik Sisters, Johnny Winter, the Pilgrim Travelers, Jim Ford, Blind Tom, and Johnnie Lee Wills.

I'm impressed enough to subscribe. You can get this issue and CD (before it sells out) for $9.95 plus $3 shipping, or start a year's subscription (four issues) with this issue (and they pay postage), for $19.95.

This comes from Liz Donovan's excellent Infomaniac blog at the Miami Herald.

Key Lime Martini Recipe: My friend the food editor -- Gail Ciampa -- emailed this after she raved about it in a recent review of lunch outdoors at Newport's Castle Hill Inn (Fog can't dim Castle Hill's super cuisine, free reg. req.):

Rim a martini glass with lime juice, dip in crushed graham crackers

Over ice in a mixing glass, mix the following:

1 1/2 ounces Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka
1 ounce Parrot Bay Coconut Rum
1/2 ounce Rose's Lime Juice
A splash of pineapple juice

Shake well, strain into a martini glass and garnish with a lime wheel.

I would like to try this with real key-lime juice, rather than Rose's.

(Of course, since I am a wimpy drinker -- I drink light beer over ice -- I will experiment with ways to water this down.)

Update: Lemonade tames it considerably. Balance the sweetness with more key lime juice.

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3 Comments

Kerry said:

You're right...I clicked on the blog link because "Jon Stewart" was in the title. But, never fear, my husband is a regular reader and big fan of your blog.

In what I find a bit ironic, I popped in an Elmo video for my 14 month old son tonight. Who was featured? Jon Stewart, looking much younger and much less hot. That's right, I find Jon Stewart hot, much to the disbelief of my co-workers. That whole smart and really funny thing truly has something going for it!

Link | August 24, 2005 8:46 PM
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Sheila said:

My blog's a guy thing? Who knew?

Is your husband smart and funny?

Yeah. I like smart and funny, too. And kind. (Smart, funny, cold and detached is not fun.)

Link | August 24, 2005 9:19 PM
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kerry said:

actually Sheila,just a few minutes after I posted my comment, my husband yelled to me from another room saying, "hey, stop posting to the blog!" He was already reading it!

And yes, he's smart and funny. I'm very lucky to have him.

Link | August 25, 2005 7:11 AM
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