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· If you can hardly get through a conversation without an inappropriately yelped "Nee!" or threatening to taunt someone a second time, you already know about this: Eric Idle, original Monty Python demigod, reads from his The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America at Dutton's in Brentwood.
· If your nerd-dom includes a taste of misanthropy and a semester of film school, there's a sneak preview of Todd Solondz's new film, Palindromes, at the Aero. Solondz and star Ellen Barkin will be there for a post-show Q & A.
· Tonight rocks, for nerds: They Might Be Giants play the House of Blues on the Strip, pirate-loving, grad-core rockers The Decemberists are at the Henry Fonda, and Earlimart (who have no discernible nerd connection, unfortunately) hit Spaceland.