Happy belated birthday, Facebook Jamal Ibrahim! You are a baby girl born last week in Egypt. Your parents named you, in honor of the role the social networking site Facebook played in your country's recent revolution. Your name struck me as strange at first. And I guess it is a bit strange. But the longer I sit with, the more I think it's strange in a good way, the more I like it. It's better than "Twitter," for starters, in that it won't be shortened to "Twit." And I actually think it will be pretty cool as you grow older. People will surely call you "Face." And that's an excellent nickname! Gangster tough, Hollywood glam, hip-hop fresh, mod sharp—and one that follows in a strong tradition. There have been many fine Faces over the years. Greta Garbo, for starters, who earned the nickname "The Face" because she was so beautiful. READ MORE

You wanna talk about enjoying awesome things? Let's talk about this trailer for The A-Team. Rather than bitch about there being no new ideas or complaining that Bradley Cooper is in no way fit to fill the shoes of whoever it was played the pretty boy in the original show, I am giving in to my inner nine-year-old and declaring that I am going to watch the fuck out of this movie. [You should probably click the clip as soon as you can; the odds are fairly good that it will be pulled at some point.]

Stephen J. Cannell is the creator of 40 television shows, including 21 Jump Street, The Rockford Files, The A-Team, and The Commish. He has written 450 TV episodes and produced some 1500. His production company is heading up work on feature films of 21 Jump Street and The Rockford Files. Also: he is also a popular mystery writer and has written 14 novels. We spoke at about noon on a Tuesday while he was in the car headed to lunch with a writer in Santa Monica. He had already spent five hours at his desk working on a novel. READ MORE