"With 4 million of the blankets already shipped or on order, or just under $40 million in retail sales, Scott Boilen, president of Allstar Marketing Group, Hawthorne, N.Y., is laughing all the way to the bank. The company behind the Snuggie is moving the blankets out the door as fast as it can get Chinese suppliers to crank them out. "

Why would anyone use handwriting in today's world?' I write my books on the computer. I discovered two schools of thought: One is that it wouldn't matter if nobody learned handwriting because we all have computers, and the other is that this is an interesting, historic, valuable, and beautiful skill that has been around for thousands of years, and we are just tossing it out."

Gawker has a good point there, stating that nice TV ads are on a downslope. Will good TV ads become a thing of the past?

Have you noticed lately on your television that there are a stunning number of crappy infomercial-quality ads running during prime time? That is because the fancy advertisers are broke. We live in Snuggie's world now.

The Simpsons last night was replete with ads for 5 Hour Energy that seemed to have been filmed in one take, in a locker room, with a Handicam. Fortunately the NYT today confirms that this isn't my imagination. The collapse of ad sales, and the decline of the auto industry, means that even regular networks—and even, sometimes, in prime time—are increasingly forced to plug empty spots with cheap ass infomercial standbys.

Same troupe(?) also did that last year:

"Ladies And Gents," a site-specific noir thriller set in a public restroom in 1957 Dublin, will be staged in Central Park's Bethesda Fountain Toilets.

The 35-minute play will be performed from March 17 through 29 with three shows nightly, at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. No seating will be available.

The play, which was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years ago, is coming to Central Park through the Irish Arts Center and Georganne Aldrich Heller and Semper Fi (Dublin).

More on the subway theater

Think your morning subway commute is unpredictable? Try staging a full theatrical production on those same trains - complete with props, set dressing and a cast and crew of 35 people.

Yet that's just what "IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations" will attempt this weekend.

"The length of the show depends on whether the trains are running express or local," said the writer and director, Brooklynite Jeff Stark. "Our biggest problem has been where to do costume changes, and where to stash our costumes during scenes when they are not needed."

OK. I get that "banned" ads probably gets more views than normal superbowl spots anyway (and they don't have to pay). But still, i'm always a bit skeptical when presented an ad implying that women love sex with vegetables. How is that suppose to make my eat less meat?!

PETA's ad—which features a bevy of beauties who are powerless to resist the temptation of veggie love—was deemed too hot for the Super Bowl. NBC rejected the video because of concerns over "rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin," a woman "screwing herself with broccoli," and more!