Don’t overthink @TheEllenShow’s #Oscars #selfie: http://t.co/tMBAEhY0wJ pic.twitter.com/NTcoois56E

— Kirsten Salyer (@kirstensalyer) March 3, 2014

It’s Monday!

If the name David Faustino has any sort of resonance with you, the news that he turns 40 today will almost certainly fill you with a sense of dread and the realization that where once your potential spread itself out against an infinite skyline, now your visual metaphor for the days you have remaining resembles something small and fragile and insistent, like the kitchen timer you would see up on the counter that you were too small to reach. The plans you left off for the future? Abandon them. The goals you thought you had world enough and time to achieve? Do your best to dismiss and discard them, as difficult as that may seem. Moments ago David Faustino was a young boy on television; now he is 40. How many hours are left to you? How quickly will you use them up? Try not to blink; once you do they’ll be gone.

The song that is generally acknowledged to be the first rock and roll record was recorded on this day back in 1951, and here, 60-some years later, is what they are doing with rock and roll now. I like it, but I also like the song that is generally acknowledged to be the first rock and roll record, so I may be from a different demographic than you. FYI, “the clip features a bit of female nudity, so possibly not entirely safe for work.” Enjoy.

You can call it a “revolution in multimedia storytelling that has swept through digital publishing the past year” or you can call it “an indiscriminate assemblage of tech gimmickry in search of a purpose” or, for the sake of concision, you can call it “Snowfall,” but the question remains, how are these dazzling displays of “immersive” journalism to be paid for, particularly when you consider that the only people who really pay attention to them are other folks working in media already? Nobody knows yet!

.@gzchef @Storyful I was official photog for Reagan too. He also wore casual clothes on weekends in the Oval Office. pic.twitter.com/tz61N7jkNs

— petesouza (@petesouza) March 3, 2014

In which long-time White House photographer Pete Souza corrects idiot Reagan-worshipping celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian on the issue of Barack Obama wearing weekend clothes. Now you know where not to eat.

“Alain Resnais, the French filmmaker who helped introduce literary modernism to the movies and became an international art-house star with nonlinear narrative films like “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and “Last Year at Marienbad,” died on Saturday in Paris. He was 91.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MlwT1lBk0

Nestled midway on “Fear of a Black Planet,” Public Enemy’s 1990 platinum album — and one of the greatest musical releases of all time — comes “Burn Hollywood Burn.” (Halfway between “911 Is A Joke” and “Fight the Power”! I mean!)

The track is notable not just for rhyming “burn” TERM and “perm” (important correction!) but for the collaboration with Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane — the only guest stars on the album. “Butlers and maids,” slaves and hoes” is how Kane describes available Hollywood roles for black people.

Here we are in the future, 24 years later! How did the fellas take last night’s best picture win for 12 Years A Slave, in a year in which The Butler was the top-earning black film, at an Oscars where 42 barely made it into a montage?

@Seeds_ONE Seeds whatever fight you’re fighting keep on, but keep your focus in reality too.Screaming at speeding trains ranks with crazy

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) March 3, 2014

Chuck D. spent the night arguing with some troll who accused him of being a sell-out. Didn’t mention the Oscars.

Rocking late night with bigdaddykane at the Urban Gardens inside the Ritz!!! #trueskoolset #ruffneck… http://t.co/fIcquKEdeM

— MC Lyte (@mclyte) March 2, 2014

Big Daddy Kane spent the day recovering from Saturday’s show with MC Lyte in Charlotte, NC. He’s on tour! Didn’t mention the Oscars.

Once again, thanks for supporting the movie RIDE ALONG all over the world! Let me know the city and country where you saw it.

— Ice Cube (@icecube) March 1, 2014

Ice Cube’s most recent tweet is thanking people for seeing the moving Ride Along, the year’s 304th Kevin Hart vehicle. The cop-buddy-comedy has 17% on Rotten Tomatoes but is crushing at the box office. Didn’t mention the Oscars.

Me and my son Gibran Trujillo Ranked no.2 in the state of navada highschool football y’all Git on it Um proud of him pic.twitter.com/Cqvq2yKqhe

— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) January 17, 2014

Finally, Flavor Flav has been down in Perth? But before he left, he tweeted this picture of himself with his son. (Though Flavor has seven children of his own, this fellow is his girlfriend’s son.) Damn. Gibran’s Instagram is private. The more you know! Anyway, life goes on.

★★ Biting cold, and a sky slightly lighter than medium gray. The gray of a sparsely populated subway platform when every train but the C has already just been through. But a D train came after all, before too long, and the sun began to shine through. Then the sun vanished again and a few snowflakes came twisting down. Half the sky had gone bluer and half darker. Actual brightness came for a while and then faded. People were keeping their hoods up inside the subway station. At Columbus Circle, a wash of even colder air trickled along the 1 platform. At Lincoln Center, snow came blowing down the exit steps, a squall heavy enough for streaks of snow to blow along the surface of Broadway in the headlights.