Chess!

Chess! In concert! With Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Kerry Ellis, and lots of other good folks. It's also got a bad case of Josh Groban, but a little suffering is often necessary to enjoy good art. It's airing next month on PBS. Trailer's below (note that the first forty seconds or so are essentially content-free, but you get musical stuff after that).

TV squee I should have made last week

Sledge Hammer is on Ugly Betty! Yay!

(That'd be David Rasche, of course, playing the part of the father of Betty's new boyfriend.)

The shortest distance between the web and my wallet

The amount of time it takes between learning that a new de Lint (or, as is the case here, an unearthed and revised older de Lint) is availble for pre-order from Amazon, and the ordering it: about ten seconds.

Not sure I agree with the reference to Moonheart as "high fantasy," as it's generally considered a pretty fucking seminal urban fantasy novel (or mythic fantasy, if you prefer), but I'll let that slide.