Late links

Some personal stuff has gotten in the way of the professional column-writing (blog posts are much easier to put together), but I've had a couple of pieces in the paper this week, with at least one more to come. Monday featured another mailbag, while today is a grab-bag review and news column, with the second item -- a preview of tomorrow night's very silly "30 Rock" -- probably of the most interest to What's Alan Watching? readers.