if you haven’t yet checked it out, might i make a friendly recommendation toward the new lewis black show, root of all evil? it may seem like a terrible premise for a show, but really it’s just a loose framework around which stand up comedians get to unleash bitter tirades on deserving targets. patton oswalt’s dick cheney rants were a highlight for me this week. check it out if you like stand up, laughing, that sort of thing.

i’m trying to zip through james frey’s book as quickly as i can to get on to some better fare, and started out kind of hating it. but as the guy becomes less of a self-hating junkie, i am also coming to hate him less. maybe that’s kind of the point? so i guess there’s hope yet that in the second half of the book i’ll decide it was worthwhile after all, just like i’m assuming he will decide about him life. how fitting.

jessica has just left on another trip, although this one’s only a few days. a fine time to finish half life, watch a kung-fu movie, and perhaps get up to some sort of manly shenanigans (wait, that doesn’t sound right…) this weekend? i need drinking company and/or someone to lose to at poker some more; please apply within.