The Washington Post whooshed a Deep Throat blog into being, and checked out the Amazon rankings on "All The President's Men": today the book's at #5 on the non-fiction list and #24 overall (up from 27 per the WaPo blog). The DVD is doing well too, at number 11 (another jump - ahead of "The Incredibles" as WaPo points out but, then again, behind the number-one ranked "The Eagles Farewell 1 Tour, Live From Melbourne" - who the hell is buying that???). I was actually planning on renting it this weekend ("All The President's Men," not the Eagles), so I'll let you know how I fare at Blockbuster. That's the real litmus test.

Another quick note about web popularity, specifically Google searches: this morning top queries included "Deep Throat," "Bob Woodward," "Watergate" and "Richard Nixon" (now it's just Nixon). I've been keeping my eye on it and I haven't seen any query for "W. Mark Felt" crack the top spots. Going back to the Felt family's eagerness to make a buck off this thing, one wonders what kind of hook any "authorized" Felt version will have given that the real custodian of the story is Woodward, and the public seems to know that. We'll see what Google Zeitgeist has to say next week.

Meanwhile, if someone wanted to whip up a "Deep Throat's Identity Is Revealed And It's All Been Kind Of Scandalous" mixtape, we wouldn't discourage it. If you wish to remain anonymous we'll totally swear to not to tell anyone for at least 30 years, even at summer camp.