Did you know that you can buy New Coke on eBay? You can get a single can of it at the “Buy It Now” price of $75.00. I’ve never liked the taste of Coke…I wonder if the six year old me liked New Coke. I don’t recall. I’ve been a staunch Dr. Pepper partisan since puberty, roughly.

And did you know that director John Hughes isn’t, um, dead? I always wondered what happened to him after his run of hits in the 80’s, which — in my personal canon, at least — ended with Planes, Trains and Automobiles in ‘87, so I checked out his IMDB profile, where I was delighted to learn that he’d written Mr. Mom, Vacation and European Vacation, directed Weird Science, and produced Christmas Vacation and Home Alone. But then delight turned to dismay and WTF as I read that, in the 90’s and the Oughts, he wrote the Beethoven movies, the 101 Dalmations and Flubber remakes and — ew, ew, ew ew ew — Maid in Manhattan (under the pseudonym Edmond Dant?¢ÀÜ?°?ǬÆs). Somebody please tell me that he was brought in as a script doctor on these steaming piles.

And did you know–oh, wait. I was going to mention another cool bit of nostalgia but I realized it would give away the Xmas present I’m making for my brother. It’ll have to wait until Ought Five.

Addendum: c3l3br1ty addr35535*

A couple of weeks ago, I popped my addr355 into a website that uses camp8ign d0nation rec0rds (entirely public) to let you know which candidates your neighbors have supported, ostensibly so that you can organize meetups and such with a knock on the door (“Hi! You gave $2000 to We5ley Clark’s presidential bid — wanna come over?”). So I scroll through the names of donors in my neighborhood and I see a celebrity, noted actor Ph1l1p S3ym0ur H0phphman. Browsing it again today, I saw a lot more celebrities, e.g., Eth8n H8wke and the designer Dian3 V0n Fur5tenb3rg. If I were so inclined, I could be in celebrity trash heaven. If I were at all notorious, I might be a bit worried how easy it is to find my addre55.

* I’d rather not have this page come up on Google queries, hence all the leetspeak.