Cliff wasn't super talkative, but everybody liked him and he had a good energy. As for Kent, you and I will just have to disagree on this one. I think he was a solid player through and through. He didn't fit the villain bill that some people might have thought he would, but that never bothered me.

I wonder how long that post-immunity fight actually lasted. My guess: Way longer than we got on camera. There were some pretty hard edits and cuts in there.

The best move in that challenge, me thinks, would be to steal the other team's ball and throw it far, far away. I'm guessing this was outlined as a Neddy No-No off-camera, though.

I really like Jeremy. Plus, my ears always perk up whenever somebody mentions the money on camera this early, like Jeremy did tonight. Editing clue that he goes far in the game? Probably not, but you never know.

That's a good call. Give the viewer a recognizable human being for a few episodes while the other contestants slowly marinate into our brains.

Absolutely. There's no reason to even try to drag a volatile person to the end. The risk of it blowing up in your face before you even get to Final Tribal outweighs everything else. You can find other leeches who will suck from your strategic gills and not do anything.

Rocker would have been perfect to take to the end, but it's way, way too early to even be thinking that way if you're in that tribe (at least not beyond the general notion of it). You know if you lose another immunity challenge or two, there's going to be a tribe swap and at that point, it's certainly in play that…

Stunt casting can work—Cliff Robinson was a lot of fun in a "he's really tall" sort of way and Jeff Kent was a legitimately good player. Kent might as well have been the ranch hand or construction worker or whatever that he used as his cover. He was much, much better socially than I had expected and I think he would…

I actually felt pretty good about this game and didn't find it too difficult, though that might just be selective memory based on the fact that I got a few clues right that they all bombed on (thus making me feel like an invincible monster of genius).

Dylan's my favorite artist, bar none, and I've struggled with 'Street Legal' for a while. I really want to like it, because a lot of people do, but I do not like it. It's probably Dylan's most melodic album, but everything else going on is a bit of a train wreck. I imagine I'd like the album much more if 80% of the…

Hey, there's that daily reminder that humanity is awful.

Not sure how you're going to make it much further into a Batman series if you're citing the logistical issues of physics.

Well that's pretty awful.

All I'm saying is that the NFL is not the problem. The problem is a wider, societal problem, NFL being an easy target. The movie industry is a billion dollar industry. The video game industry is a billion dollar industry. If FOX or NBC wanted to, they could run a two-hour special about breast cancer survivors. If…

Oh. Did not know that. Did not do my basic Googling. Other points still stand, though. It's easy to mock the NFL for the clunky, awkward way they go about this each year, but the NFL is far from the only entertainment medium that does a pretty half-assed job.

The pink campaign is crazy superficial, but if it raises money for cancer research, who cares? It's such a ticky-tack thing to bitch about. The NFL is under no obligation to donate. You can rip the phrase "raising awareness" as a corporate phrase that doesn't actually say anything, but this isn't an NFL problem—this…

“Over the last few years athletes have written Beats into their DNA as part of the pre-game ritual,” a Beats spokesperson said. “Music can have a significant positive effect on an athlete’s focus and mental preparedness and has become as important to performance as any other piece of equipment.”

Not ashamed to say that I've cried on multiple occasions while watching 'Super 8.' I wish the alien stuff took up a lesser percentage of the movie, because the detached grief and coming of age storylines are really effective. My engagement wanders when the alien is attacking the bus or the alien is creating an…

Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin taking on Steve Jobs. That's a headache in the making. Nauseating visual energy + nauseating spoken energy + nauseatingly deified human = nausea.

I don't think he's smiled once to this point.