"Gene, really explore the studio space this time..."

• Could someone please turn off the blast furnace outside? Please? Pretty-fucking please?
  
  
• So there's a lesion in my ear. ...that's a good thing, right?
  
  
• Is Rick Santorum serious?
  
  
• Could Entourage be one of the top five programs ever broadcast on television?
  
  
• And before you answer "of course" consider whether the producers are trying to personally torture me with images of Malibu PCH...and even Vista del Mar, with the red-and-white El Porto smokestacks in the background.
  
  
• That's right: In the end it's all about moi. You hear that, friend-of-a-friend??
  
  
• Speaking of torture: The energy bill conference wraps up tonight. Yeah...covering that gem is about as exciting as reading the previous sentence. Go see for yourself - flip on C-SPAN 2 right now, they're gonna be going till 1 am. After five days of this crap, poor Chairman Barton looks and sounds about as good as I felt sitting there hungover on Thursday. Does that mean Joe and I actually have something in common?
  
  
• Speaking of Barton: Last week, I declared war on Texas. This weekend, they pulled the Delay-backed MTBE liability waiver language out of the bill. So I'm gonna go ahead and take credit for that one, thanks. ...is that the strangest way ever to get back at an ex-girlfriend who's a Houston native? Or is it the saddest?
  
  
• That's what I thought.
  
  
• Christ, is that guy still talking? Laugh all you want about West Virginia and Joysey - but they did not elect Rick Santorum to the United States Senate.
  

"Guess what, I gotta fever - and the only prescription is more cowbell!"