Kathy posted her Weekend Outlook before leaving for the celebration of a dear friend's marriage. Read on:

As you all are reading this I will be zooming along the zip line at Camp Kern in southwestern Ohio. One of my best friends is getting married there on Saturday (it's where she and her fiance met) and the wedding weekend is getting started with a day of camp activities. How's that for a destination wedding? Here's hoping that I don't break an arm on the ropes course before my bridesmaid duty.

I know everyone complains that advertising for all things Christmas starts earlier and earlier each year, and Oct. 10 is certainly very early, but I have to tell you that A Charlie Brown Christmas came out on DVD this week. The Christmas feature, made in 1965, was the first of the animated Peanuts features, and I can't think of a movie that makes me happier, except for possibly the second Peanuts release. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which would be timelier.

Speaking of DVD releases, if you want to spend an entire weekend laughing at the hilarity created by Tina Fey with Tracy Morgan (who was just on our cover ) and the gang, pictured at left, 30 Rock Season 2 is out now. The third season starts Oct. 30, so if you haven't watched the show now's a good time to catch up. Of course, you can also hope that Fey, who does a spot-on Sarah Palin impression, will appear again this weekend on Saturday Night Live. She's a busy woman, what with writing and acting in her own sitcom, but it's got to be hard to resist the call to do Palin as much as possible before the election.

Not the best weekend for new movies, but if you're in the mood for the theater experience try The Express or Body of Lies. Body of Lies has Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe going for it, but Dennis Quaid's The Express has been getting far better reviews.

We mentioned in a post this morning, but I'll plug it again: USA WEEKEND's peek behind the scenes of this fall's hottest movies is always a fun read. This year you can find out which big star adopted a puppy he found under his trailer on set and who made  Oscar-nominee Amy Ryan starstruck.

And I almost hate to pass this along because Google totally stole my idea (although mine was for text messaging and phone calls), but they've come up with a way to prevent — or at least make you really work for it — sending emails when you're in what may not be the best state of mind. They call it Mail Goggles, and you basically set a timeframe (say, during the hours of 10 p.m. - 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday) during which if you try to send an email you first have to answer several math questions.

(photo by Mary Ellen Mathew/NBC)