Hoarding: Buried Alive wavers between being a sad self-esteem boost and a depressing dose of perspective. Tonight, Cindy and Pam got help with their debilitating hoarding.

Lots of activity on Twitter and blogs tonight about a huge fire at 285 Grand Street in Chinatown. According to the Times at least ten people were injured in the fire, which spread to three buildings. Video and photos inside.

With only five teams left, things got personal on this leg of the race. One unlucky team was U-Turned in Singapore as the racers drummed, zipped, and sold ice cream (random much, Amazing Race?) to stay on top.

Last month, we met Ken Bannister. He put his collection of 17,000 "banana-themed artifacts" on eBay, and this man and his mother bought it. The International Banana Museum is saved!

20 years ago, Gene Simmons would've laughed if you told him he'd be getting a pedicure on television—especially one that scares him. And While the blood-spewing, tongue-lashing Simmons is a classic, the Nouveau Simmons is pretty hilarious, too.

A retired Italian Bishop thinks the Catholic Church's pedophilia scandal is a "Zionist attack." Of course! The Jews dressed up as young boys and were abused by priests, and then dressed up as the Pope and ignored it! [Guardian]

Can anything compare to the singular pleasure of a $360 bottle of Dom Perignon? In his first column for the Wall Street Journal famous novelist Jay McInerney tries to explain why you should be drinking ludicrously expensive alcohol.

Did everybody catch the title of last week's episode? "I.F.T." Watch along with us tonight at 10 PM EST on AMC.

Natasha Leggero is like a snottier upper-crust Sarah Silverman, which makes for some hilarious and mildly offensive bits. Watch her muse on the phenomenon of girls who don't know that they're pregnant.

There are many reasons you might not fill out your census form: distrust of the government; questionable immigration status; illiteracy. The "young, recent graduates with ironic mustaches" of Williamsburg have apparently pioneered a new one: Being "too cool".

Advertising execs on Nike's Tiger Woods' dead dad ad: "Wish I'd thought of It."

[Her elbows frozen at right angles and toes perpetually flexed, Fameball Barbie poses with her airhead husband Spencer at a pool party in Las Vegas. Image via Pacific Coast News.]

Two billboards advertising a papal visit to Malta have been defaced with Pedobear. "It is not clear why the artist in question juxtaposed the bears with the Pope," reports the Times of Malta. Let us clear it up.

Columbia J-school students got emails last week inviting applications for an assistant editor "fellowship" with the Columbia Journalism Review, a full-time position that pays only $27,000 yearly. Less than working at McDonald's, selling your eggs, or even impregnating cows.

It was a big week for Woods. He just came off the golf course after a top-five finish at the US Masters, and the inevitable black-and-white Nike ad aired and spawned the inevitable parodies. So how's Tiger doing?

Earlier today, on ABC's This Week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended the troops shown killing Iraqis in a video aired by leaks site Wikileaks. They responded to his rebuttal simply, in a tweet: "Robert Gates is a liar."

Statistics blogger Nate Silver calculates Park Slope is New York's best neighborhood.

As a young man, Mark Hawthorn reported for the Times. Now he lives on the streets of Berkeley where he eats garbage and wears women's clothing. Known as the Hate Man, he asks people to tell him, "I hate you."

First came the baby, then came marriage, now comes the honeymoon, swampy virgin margaritas, and more pictures of her jewelry. Real Housewife of New York Bethenny Frankel got married and now she's posting pictures to Facebook, Twitter, and her website.

Vincent Gallo is a giver. In the past, the actor/director/pervert has put his seed and his sexual "company" on the auction block. Now, because "I'd rather buy shoes," he is auctioning the snobbiest painting in America and other five-figure treasures.