Tuesday quick hits

- Who loves a good “The man holding me down story” more than I do? Nobody, that’s who. I love being anti-establishment as much as anyone, and sometimes that can take a person to unusual places. This time, it would be defending a professional athlete, making $60 million over the next four years, against his Nazi of a coach. The player in question would be Chicago Bulls forward Ben Wallace, and the coach in question would be Bulls fascist dictator/despot Scott Skiles.

- Hmm, looks like I was really, really right about Brett Favre not belonging on Monday Night Football anymore because his team is awful and that he’s no longer relevant or significant in the NFL. Stunner of all stunners, Favre threw three awful interceptions Monday night in Seattle and his team lost to the Seahawks 34-24. The Packers are now 4-7 and even in a gawd-awful NFC, they are way on the outside of the playoff race, looking in.

- Musical note (sorry, this was the spot I had reserved for the bad pun of the day), an artist who’s getting some good air time, at least on SIRIUS and IMF, is a new favorite of mine, Ben Kweller. He’s not new in the sense that his current album is his first, but this is the first time he’s gotten this much attention. His new video, Sundress, is great because it has a simple, relaxed vibe and a straightforward concept without a myriad of special effects. The song itself, like Kweller’s music in general, is a cool blend of college rock, folk, John Mayer-esque with much less of s pop feel to it. Dude also bears an uncanny resemblance to snowboarder/skateboarder Shawn White, what with the fantastic, floppy red mop of hair, totally pale skin and facial features that are a lot alike. Haven't seen the two in the same place at the same time, but if they were the same person, that’d be even better, an exceptionally cool athlete/great musician. Sorry, went off on a weird tangent there……point is, check out Kweller’s music, it’s good stuff.

- Suspicion confirmed when it comes to Prison Break and its big “fall finale”. Basically, it’s just a hollow moniker, a pointless label FOX placed on an episode that simply happens to be the last one before an upcoming holiday break. The show returns January 22, which can't come soon enough, because PB keeps getting better and better. Memo to the networks, though: stop making up phony labels for something we’ve been seeing for years, shows taking time off over the holidays because you all have those lame holiday specials to jam down our throats and also because you figure people will be more focused on holiday festivities instead of watching television. Thanks for nothing, guys.