News: Here A Tori, There A Tori (January 25, 2009)

[Here-a-Tori, There-a-Tori is an occasional column rounding up small Tori mentions far and wide.]

In this edition:

• Flight Of The Conchords
• American Idol “Mr. Zebra”
• Dew Drop Inn
• AOL Radio’s All-Tori channel gone, gone, gone
• Brief MattChamberlain.com recording update
• Real Names Of Stars
• 2008 Celebrity Fashion Flops

Just when it seems life can’t get any better, our favorite clueless band manager Murray namechecks Tori (again) on the second season premier of “Flight Of The Conchords.” You can catch the episode on On Demand through April 20th or online at Funnyordie.com (sorry, world, US only). Thanks to Kelly, Meagan, and Brandy.

On the January 21st installment of American Idol, there was a short “blink and you’ll miss it” audition clip of a fellow who had attempted to dress himself as a zebra — black and white stripey facepaint and all — and sing “Mr. Zebra.” Okay, ‘fess up … it was one of you, wasn’t it? (Credit to Shannon, torifying, Amber, Jordy, and Jessica Rich for not blinking.)

Apparent you can drop in at the Dew Drop Inn … in Gotham City in Neil Gaiman’s two-part send-off to Batman, Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader (hitting stores in February). We don’t know about you, but we’re planning to steal some shampoo and towels.

Yes, it’s true, AOL Music’s all-Tori station was recently wished to the cornfield. Your guess is as good as ours as to why.

Darrell, Dan, and Devin noticed that on January 4th, there was a micro update on Matt Chamberlain’s website where he posted about a Tori recording session at Avast Studios in Seattle and included a studio photo. A pic of Matt with Tori was also added this past Friday (January 23rd).

Matt told us that Rob O’Connor recently mentioned Tori in his Yahoo Music Blog, “List Of The Day.” Tori made #4 on his list titled Real Names Be Proof—Would These Ten Stars Have Made It With Their Real Names.

Tori made MSN’s 2008 Year In Review “Celebrity Fashion Flops” list for yes, you guessed it, the Comic Con outfit. Well, at least they were on the ball enough to mention that it was a costume. Thanks, christina.