Don’t let the title alarm you.
A few weeks back, I discussed a controversial magic trick involving Chinese goldfish and possibly magnets.* Another equally-impressive-slash-disturbing trick has come my way in the form of the video you see below. I don’t want to give it away, so please watch it for yourself. I suspect you’ll need to watch it twice. I also don’t want to do any research on what I’m seeing on this video, so I have no idea if this footage is brand-new or ten years old. The video was uploaded about three years ago. That much I do know. Here it is:
Here’s a different performance of the same trick, with a slightly better view of the minks dropping:
My theory: The fox-thing (wolf-thing?) is just a trained canid. No problems there. The minks (ferrets?) are held inside the coat, and are released by some mechanism controlled by the lady wearing it. This mechanism also flips the fur panels on the outside of the coat at the same time, making it look like the released minks were clinging to the coat, rather than merely contained inside it.
In other words, the things you see hanging outside the coat aren’t really the minks.
I don’t really have a point, here. I just wanted to post this video.
It’s either very cool or a little unsettling.
Ok, it’s both.
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city has not escaped the watchful eye of the 
wrestler (guess which one of them takes the “having one leg is an advantage” position?), as well as discussing the future of boxing and professional football in light of the problems that currently plague those sports, particularly concussions. They also touch briefly upon March Madness and sing the praises of the wondrous restaurant known as Chik-fil-A.
Well, such as it is. Up first is a two-part podcast. Tom and Mike transition from one topic to another like the Frogger of yore diligently hopping across so many logs and lily pads.
From the narcolepsy department* comes this gem: Sixers color man 
uneasy to think that, unlike the Office, 30 Rock didn’t feel the need to air reruns during March Madness for the sake of not being able to draw its key demographic.
In the meantime, enjoy this look at the NCAA Tournament brackets of a man who follows college basketball only slightly more closely than he follows The Bachelor.
SitCombat 3/24/11
I’m not sure why the NBC shows would want to go head-to-head with the third round* of the NCAA Tournament, rather than waiting one more week to come back, but they didn’t.
Poor strategy aside, we got three new episodes for the first time in a month, and that’s never a bad thing.
Here’s a recap of the violent, bloody conflict of March 24, 2011:
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