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Dave Chappelle just renewed with Comedy Central for as much as $50 million (with incentives). His “Charlie Murphy vs. Rick James” episode remains one of the funniest things ever seen on television.

Michael Jackson and a surrogate mom are expecting quadruplets. I can’t make this stuff up. Didn’t Indira Gandhi start enforced sterilization back in the 1970s or something?

Sports Guy has posted The Vengeance Scale, as a way of gauging just how pissed off Shaquille O’Neal is going to be next season. Enjoy.

Wit and wisdom from the author of Trainspotting:

Hopefully you grow old, but never up. My whole life’s been a midlife crisis. Dunno whether it’s a prolonged adolescence or a premature menopause, it’s seamless to me.

Failure teaches you everything. Success teaches you nothing at all. You learn things about people, how two-faced and sycophantic they can be. People who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire when you’re a failure are suddenly all over you when you’re successful.

Official VM bartenderess (ret.) Bonnie recently partook in the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade. She was part of the Iron MerMaiden Brigade. Click on her boobs or something for the link.

Isabel Sanford, best known for her role as Louise “Weezie” Jefferson on the eponymous TV show, died yesterday.

My buddy Tom writes:

I think I’m the only one who finds it super odd that the actress who played Weezie Jefferson was 21 years old than the actor who played George Jefferson on The Jeffersons. I can’t think of any other television pairing with that particular age disparity.

Howzabout it, VM reader? Can you think of any other more disparate age-pairing? And no fair going with Joan Collins and any other cast member on Dynasty.

Go here and let it load. Then laugh.

Something’s not kosher here.

I thought I’d have some indignation regarding this story on Colin Powell’s singing disco at an Asian security meeting in Jakarta.

Instead, I marveled over the coincidence of the song & get-up he chose, and their similarity to a friend-of-a-friend’s award-winning design for a pack of condoms.

It’s been a strange little life, 33 years into it . . .

Someday, I’ll be able to tell my (brother’s) grandkids that I saw Derek Jeter play.

Unfortunately, for his two greatest plays (last night’s, and the incredible backup play he made in the 2001 playoffs against Oakland), I was in the car, and heard them on the radio.