ANTIDEPRESSANT WATCH: SLATE.COM

Slate's new blog, The Happiness Project: How to Be Happier (mercifully changed from its original title: The Happiness Project: How to Be Depressed) re-affirms the growing trend towards national happiness pursuit.  Amongst strategies recently championed: write knock-knock jokes, moderate your cookie intake, visit the zoo, and crowd onto the National Mall with 2,000,000 freezing people.  

TIME OUT NY PROFILES PENNY DREADFUL

Matt Gray (Co-Creator of Penny Dreadful with Bryan Enk) is interviewed by David Cote for The TONY Blog this week. What do we learn about the "byzantine sci-fi retro-melodramatic soap opera?" Is there an alien presence behind it all!?

See Episode #10 (”The Science and the Seance: Two Tales of Love and Horror”) this Sat, January 17 at 11pm [SOLD OUT!] and Sun, January 18 at 2pm. Click here for tickets.

ANTIDEPRESSANT WATCH: STEPHEN COLBERT

Thursday night, "conservative" Stephen Colbert confessed his addiction to happy pills.

"It's been tough keeping my mood up with the innauguration less than two weeks away," he bemoaned. The Comedy Central pundit then sampled his Innaugural Advent Calendar's daily offering.

"Zoloft? Paxil!"

See him medicate here.