PRANKING THE PRESS: This is funny. For 17 years, members of the New York media have fallen for a bogus press release about the upcoming April Fools' Day parade. It happened again this year. (CNN was among those suckered in.) The "New York Press" wonders why:

The really funny thing is, it’s hard to imagine why anybody would fall for it anymore. Not only because he’s been successfully pulling the same damn prank for nearly two decades now, but because even a cursory glance over his press release—you’d think—would make at least a few people suspicious. There’s just something a little hinky about it.

This Daily Billboard feature from the "New York Press" is an insanely funny blog. Here's a recent selection of funny lines:

On TV cancellations: The networks have began announcing their canceled shows, and the big story is that not even teen lesbianism could save Once and Again.

On country music: Country radio caters almost exclusively to an upwardly mobile class of suburban white women. The Lifetime network crowd. The women who tape Rosie and Oprah so they can watch them when they get home from work. In other words, women who have made it virtually impossible for any sane, nondesperate, heterosexual man to want any sort of a relationship with them, much less one of a romantic nature. And you know what that means: a bunch of made-to-order male-bashing songs for them to cry over their light beers and wine coolers to with the other girls at TGI Friday's.