Of course, if you're playing poker, and your cards are already in order, then it's a bit confusing to your opponents.  But yeah, you should stop that.  Or, if it's too hard of a tic to get rid of, do this:  arrange your cards in suit order when you get a pocket pair.  Use the bridge rankings:  spades over hearts over…

I'm so glad Matt Damon is going bald.  It makes me feel better about myself.

My bad — I thought it failed to make the "Best of" show for some reason, and now I know why.

I love his "voice" in the stuff he writes, like iBrain and the Adam Scott-Mullally stage play.

I don't love Gelmania.  It's strange, brilliant, compulsively listenable, genuinely original, and a billion other adjectives which escape me now.  His "Brett Gelman" persona on Comedy Bang Bang was hilarious.  His "Brett Gelman" persona on Gelmania is so far spun away from his CBB character that I can only conclude…

Zach, the episode numbers are still wrong.  This one is episode 9, the previous one is episode 8, and the one before that is episode 7.

Blues is precisely the kind of inessential money-grab that Simpsons fans would normally make fun of.

One other thing:  Last Comic Standing is such a clusterfuck of a reality show that no impression of any comic that you get from watching it can be taken seriously.  Jimmy Pardo has spoken at length about their ridiculous editing, and the voting has been so suspect that Drew Carey openly accused the producers of…

There are lots of reasons beyond just "internalized homophobia" why a gay person might not want to publicly come out

I'm surprised by how much I like his podcast.  I thought Thin Pig was mediocre and I was never impressed by his contributions on Comedy and Everything Else (which I listened to for way too many episodes before I realized that it wasn't funny and Jimmy Dore is really pretty dumb).

And now I hate myself!  Well, actually, that hasn't changed recently.

What the hell, here's another fun fact:  Leaving Trains frontman Falling James Moreland was Courtney Love's first husband.

Huh — fair enough; I didn't realize that Cobain cited that many bands as influences.

That's Bob Mould.  An amazing fact I recently learned from an episode of PRI:  The Sound of Young America (now Bullseye with Jesse Thorn):  Bob Mould actually wrote for the WCW.

"Handful of Sand" was a pretty damn good song.

I bought a season pass of Rubicon on iTunes about 2 episodes in, which I bring up because every so often someone will complain about us Rubicon fans somehow not doing enough to get the show renewed.

Given my avatar, I feel obligated to put in a good word for the late, great Trotsky Icepick (cited by Cobain as an influence, no less).

Hey!  I noticed it first!  No fair!

Say, this is coming up as a review of "Luther", not "Downton Abbey", by the way.

I totally met Doug Benson at Cobb's in S.F. a few years back!  He was really quite friendly!