Holy morbidity, Batman! How many celebrities died on Sunday/Monday?

Ingmar Bergman, Tom Snyder, Marvin Zindler and Bill Walsh -- and on top of that, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had a seizure, fell and had to be rushed to a hospital. The grim reaper is out for souls after what had been a very quiet year so far in my deadpool league.

I'm the defending 2006 champ and am only three points behind the leader, who scored 25 points on the former San Francisco coach's demise. I had Walsh on my list as well, but unfortunately, I didn't have Snyder on mine.

Snyder is one of those people who just out of mere respect, I wouldn't put on my list. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. Hey, it was very nice to see that ABC News with Charles Gibson actually included Zindler in its death block on Monday.

Look, Zindler was a big deal, and while most modern news executives wouldn't dare bring a guy that flamboyant, that "out-there" into a newsroom, I point again to just how much he did for his community. He wasn't just loved in Houston, he was beloved.

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Kathy Griffin was in Tulsa this weekend and went on a long diatribe about Ranch being the hillbilly ketchup. From what my colleague noted, Griffin seemed to be pleasantly surprised by Tulsa in terms of its relative cosmopolitanity. Truth is, Tulsa's still a pretty hip smaller city, but it's not nearly as cool as it was a few years ago -- too much crime.

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American Idol's Corey Clark was involved in a drug bust of some sort in Arkansas. Clark has long faded from public view, but my brother and I always thought that his tune "Paulatics" was actually significantly better than anybody had ever credited it. The rest of his stuff was utter crap, but that one tune was more than just awright, dawg.

Speaking of Idol, I found this very funny, mildly disturbing, totally innocuous video on YouTube. Not sure how real it is, but it's worth a giggle.

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Round 2 with Holly Hunter and Saving Grace is being DVRd right now. Don't have time tonight to watch it, and I'm already a few days behind on other shows. However, I did get a ton of yard work done this past weekend, including mowing, edging and pulling out six or seven trash bags worth of weeds from what is supposed to be a flower bed. It was a weed bed. Once I was done, I dispensed some weed killer on about a 4x4 foot area to test it out.

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Each week, I like to try out some new food, usually at a local fast food joint or restaurant. Three weeks ago, I tried some barbecue and wrote about it. Two weeks ago, I tried Arby's new toasted subs, and didn't write about them.

A colleague had given me one at work about three weeks ago, and it was incredible. The ones I've bought since aren't what I'd call incredible, nor am I certain it has the most healthful, freshest ingredients, but for my money, I'll take Arby's $4.29 sub over a $7 Quizno's sub.

And I really like Quizno's, particularly their tuna melt. However, honestly, Arby's product tastes just as good and is a ton cheaper.

This week, it was a two-fer. First, everybody at work has been chirping about McDonald's sweet tea. They loved it, and I've read a lot about McDonald's foray into the southern delicacy that is sweet tea.

It gets a big thumbs down from me.

It's just sweet, and that's it. Honestly, sweet tea isn't just tea with sugar in it. It's an art, and the quality and robustness and bouquet, if you will, of the tea all counts. That's why Mikeska's sweet tea down in south Texas was so damned good.

That was elixir. McDonald's $1 sweet tea was merely sugar water.

However, the golden arches has hit a grand slam with its cinnamon melts. At 460 calories, it's pretty much a piece of bread with lots of gunk on it that will make your ass fat the minute it sets up shop in your belly, but you know what? It's good.

Really good.

Many are comparing it to Cinnabon, but at $1.50, a McDonald's cinnamon melt paired with a $1 coffee is about the best dessert value going, ritzy or on the cheap. I'm stunned, but I'm serious.