From the BNL (Barenaked Ladies) Blog:

Hello Seattle. We�re right smack in the middle of a dreaded 7 days straight of work. I know what you�re thinking� poor baby, seven days straight of work. Trust me though, flights, bus sleeps, 3 hour shows, press, sound checks, shit food� it all ads up. 3 to go before some rest post Portland. We played as guests on the Commies last night. It�s Comedy Central�s Award show, and was hosted by Andy Richter (The worlds most underrated funny man� and all around nice guy).

The show however was about one third of Santa�s jolly chuckle. We played to a sea of seat fillers, while celebrity funny people combed the green room for free gifts. The two highlights were Rodney Dangerfield�s old school stand up, and Colin Quinn actually getting really upset over Triumph the insult dog making fun of him. Triumph said Quinn�s show sucked so hard that the sides of his TV caved in. A very funny line, if you�re not the person with the shitty show�

No longer do we have to wait for the VH1 "After the Music" specials. We can now get the day-by-day thoughts of our rock stars via blog.

The more enlightened artists could very well all start blogging as a natural way of connecting with their fans in between tours, albums, and, well, crappy cable TV awards shows. (Although Barenaked Ladies haven't gotten the "permalink" thing down yet.)

Snoop Dogg in a blog item in September, wrote about a fellow rapper and noted:

Bad timing for Source Magazine. Just as they are claiming that 50 Cent's gansta image is basically a fraud, he gets shot at in New Jersey.

Yesterday, he wrote about the honor of having a video game character based on him. Cool stuff.

Keeping with the theme of entertainer blogs, we find comic Margaret Cho's journal. She sounds off on, what else?

How we loved Michael Jackson. We played that record more than it was reasonable, just taking the needle and putting it right back to the beginning. "Off the Wall" was a favorite and of course "Thriller." He sang with the tenderness that a young girl needs to get by in the world.

He sang the way that makes the little girls no longer afraid of men, or bad experiences with boys playing doctor in the woods by the old train tracks, the uncles who touched us when we were not yet women, and were not to be touched as if we were. Michael Jackson eased the relations between the sexes, and the inappropriate actions of adults against children at the very sound of his voice. If the allegations against Michael Jackson are true, irony is the true lord and master of all that is.

Yes, award-winning comics can have heavy thoughts.

Jeff Jarvis discusses the potential for the New York Times to start blogging, and the inevitability, perhaps, of the paper adopting the medium in an official way. "Once The Times blogs, everyone will," he writes.

The Barenaked Ladies and Snoop Dogg have started blogging. Maybe The Times will be the last one into the pool.