LR 1, nWa 0:Little Rock's Evanescence debuts at No. 1 on Billboard hot 100 album chart

A Little Rock band is the hottest thing going in the country according to this week's album charts. Evanescence's album debuted at No. 1 after selling 447,342 copies in its first week to push out the Killers from the top spot.

In other news, Fayetteville's Cate Brothers are breaking up.

What's going on with Hogville?

Hogville has been built into a pretty incredible site, but since the start of the football season, it seems like it's become dominated by newbies who hate Houston Nutt and are obssessed with worshipping at the altar of all things Malzahn. This continued demand and obsession with the hurry-up no-huddle offense -- even after the success at Auburn with the running game -- borders on psychotic. Just take a look at this latest thread as Exhibit A. Also, you rarely see posts by old-school guys like hSv (the board owner) and WilsonHog. At some point, someone handed the keys over to "mikeirwin" as THE admin of the board, and he's gone to work deleting and moving many opinions that contradict his own or the cult's.

LR 1, nWa 0:Snyder best, Boozman worst

Found this item in the Pat Lynch newsletter...

"A national environmental group Wednesday named Rep. Vic Snyder of Little Rock among lawmakers with one of the best voting records for protecting the environment and Rep. John Boozman of Rogers among the worst. The annual scorecard from the League of Conservation Voters showed Snyder with votes matching the league's pro-environment views 92 percent of the time. Boozman's score was 8 percent."

Enough about 'Year of the Dog'

These threads keep popping up on Hogville promoting the upcoming release of this book about Springdale High School. It's become obvious someone connected to the author is using Hogville to hype this book and sell a few copies to these people who salivate over Springdale High. Reading some of these posts, it's like they are anticipating the release of a Playboy or something. And to make it worse, they gleefully look forward to any criticism it might contain of Houston Nutt. This is the kind of discourse that the admins of Hogville have come to endorse these days. Just don't dare to post anything negative about Malzahn in the thread, and notice there aren't any negative posts.

Wally's column today: It's Houston's game plan

Wally Hall writes today about how Houston Nutt was the mastermind behind the game plan that beat Auburn and vetoed two of Malzahn's pass plays. That's no surprise, and thank goodness Nutt's taken control of the offense. They might have had a better shot against USC had that happened earlier.

But it's funny how the Cult of Malzahn claimed before the Auburn game that Nutt was holding Malzahn back, yet after the game they are claiming Malzahn is responsible for the win. You guys can't have it both ways.

Did anyone see Malzahn's on-field interview after the Auburn game? Something was weird about it. Malzahn didn't seem happy about something. Very strange.

Little Rock, don't embarrass Joe Johnson

According to a story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday night's NBA preseason game at Alltel Arena between the Atlanta Hawks and Houston Rockets has only sold 2,000 tickets so far. They attribute this in part due to competition from the opening of the Arkansas State Fair and high school football.

But the real problem is the high ticket prices for the product that shows up on the floor. Ticket prices are $12, $25, $35, $45, $50, and $100. That's a lot to pay for a game where the starters last less than a half. People who have been to these games at Alltel for so many years have probably gotten tired of paying that when you can drive two hours once the season starts and watch the Memphis Grizzlies in a regular season game.

Still, we can't embarrass Joe. Buy a ticket and show up.

LR 1, nWa 0:Travel Channel's 'Taste of America'features Little Rock and River Market

Mark DeCarlo rolled into the River Market in Little Rock to do a segment for his "Taste of America" show on the Travel Channel. Little Rock's featured dish was fried green tomatoes, as cooked at an American Legion hall during a square-dancing get together.

If you missed it on Tuesday, the show will run again at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14. Set your DVRs or whatever the kids call it.