How I love The Onion.

If this post looks familiar, it’s because I wrote it last year. But Thanksgiving episodes of “Friends” are classic. Enjoy.

Thanksgiving is just a few days away. And this time of year always puts me in the mood to watch reruns of my Favorite TV Show Ever: “Friends,” which was famous for its distinctive and memorable Thanksgiving episodes.

I didn’t watch the American Music Awards on Sunday night, so I’m just now catching up. (Our Kevin C. Johnson live-blogged the show in the Blender, so be sure to read his minute-by-minute synopsis.) Here are what seem the be the highlights:

Jennifer Lopez fell down, which unfortunately was edited from the West Coast rebroadcast.

Adam Lambert made out — and more — with a boy.

Kate Hudson narrowly escaped a wardrobe malfunction.

Dick Clark Productions has done a good job of getting all unauthorized video of the AMAs off�

I’m not so much a fan of the horrible new “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” but this is a rare humorous moment:

Oprah’s people typically don’t let video of her show to stick around on the Internets for long. But here’s a copy of her tearful farewell:

Christopher Ave

The news media have undergone quite a lot of changes in recent years, mostly due to the stupid economy. Layoffs, furloughs, restructuring and changing assignments have been commonplace in most newsrooms across the country as newspapers, Web sites, TV stations and magazines struggle to find new niches and new, relevant ways of reaching readers.

Copy editors — hugely essential in the journalism process — seem to have taken the brunt of workforce reductions across the board.

Enter Christopher Ave.

He’s the Post-Dispatch’s political editor, but he’s also a talented singer and songwriter.

From dlisted:

Whenever the winner is announced at a beauty pageant, the losers always stand there with a processed smile on their face and freshly glazed eyes. They clap because they are programmed to, but deep inside their brains they are fantasizing about ripping the winning [contestant's] head off with their bare teeth. They never go through with it. But thankfully, a losing drag queen at the Miss Brazil Gay 2009 pageant had the [guts] to do it. No, she didn’t rip off the queen’s head, but she did something even better.

Poor kitty.