"If you believed they put a man on the moon..."**

Like Rick said, we've been anticipating May 16 like little kids hoping to stay up late enough to catch a glimpse of the Tooth Fairy. But like older kids who know it's probably not real, but want to believe in magic for a little while longer, anyway.

This Sunday is 20 years to the day that Andy Kaufman died. And the story his friends are putting out, which is overwhelmingly likely to be bullshit designed to keep us guessing (but intriguing nonetheless), is that he used to talk about staging his own death and re-emerging exactly 20 years later. They're throwing an exclusive party right here in LA on Sunday, just in case. Though logic dictates that now that we're expecting it, Kaufman wouldn't show even if he was alive.

I'm not even a huge Kaufman fan, and barely knew who he was until a few years ago, but still...personally, nationally, globally, we need something this truly ridiuclous to happen to save this year. The world has gotten so stupid that we need Andy Kaufman back to lampoon it. Otherwise, we need a new Andy Kaufman -- and, persecuted though he may be, Howard Stern ain't it.

Budding conspiracy theorists can read this and this (especially the very bottom of the page) for fodder.