--Second City musical director Ruby Streak's podcast recently featured Jean Villepique, who shared details about her recent appearance on The Office. That podcast can be directly accessed here.

--Don Hall alerts us that "Animal House" star Tom Hulce ("the cute one") now looks like a genetic hybrid of Santa Claus and your crazy uncle. How did that happen, when '80's movie fixture Daryl Hannah looks exactly the same?

--Renee Gauthier has been indulging in a little '80s nostalgia lately, and it's not all about "The Karate Kid." No, this time, she's waxing poetic about "Family Ties." She'd also like to officially petition the universe for a "Small Wonder" reunion, because really, don't we all want to know how weird that little stiff kid actor who played the robot turned out to be?

--Did you know that spitting on a CTA bus driver will get you arrested? The CTA Tattler knows. They've also been collecting amusing Chicago public transportation stories for several years now, which is great, because only on Chicago's rolling, pee-smelling theater of human tragedy and comedy can you hear things like this: "So he like hands me the aspirin he just bought and then he buys his own pack of aspirin. And he like turns to me and says, 'You gotta piece man.' And I said, 'Yeah sure, you can come out in back and smoke some weed with me.' And the guy says, 'I was hopin' you had some crack.' You know that band Staind? I'm the guitarist from Staind.' And I'm thinking, yeah they were playing here that night. So I told him to wait and I would go get my buddy, who like, had a pipe and happened to have some crack on him."

--Second City's TourCo kids, including Seth Weitberg, all have their own way of remembering their show's running order. "For some reason seeing whole words written out is really jarring to me when I’m flipping that paper around during a show, so this slowly emerged. Everyone has their own way of getting to the same place, though, but usually sticks to that routine once it’s set." They've been having some fun on the road, despite little inconveniences like accidentally being locked in the green room.