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Just a few news pieces worth running by to close out the week. We will be sufficiently entertained with football, followed by an always enjoyable Mad Men season. These past few days have been unpleasantly busy, so we are embracing the relaxation that comes with football weekends.

Also, this seems as good of a time as any to mention that we will be out of pocket from September 12th-22nd as we travel from Los Angeles (for the OSU-USC game) to Vegas, then to Phoenix. This might seem excessive, but we haven’t left the state of Ohio in virtually nine months. You stay here long enough and all your dreams take place on cow farms and corn fields. It’s unpleasant.

Links…

Jason Biggs is teaming up with Mitchell Hurwitz for a new series. Biggs, basically regarded by this website as a younger, third rate Ben Stiller, is probably ecstatic that whatever Hurwitz will have him doing, he probably won’t end up being humiliated in a sexual manner. Then again, the plot doesn’t say anything to the contrary, so who knows? Biggs has made a career out of such tomfoolery, why stop now?

Entourage returns this Sunday along with the premiere of True Blood, a series that as far as we can tell from the trailers, depicts vampires as “not all that bad”. It has been getting mixed reviews which sounds about right, it is created by Alan Ball and we were never all that taken with Six Feet Under like everyone said we should be.

Entourage, on the other hand, needs to open strong to avoid officially being on this website’s shit list. And we don’t mean that it has to broaden its theme, even. Just make an effort to be clever and fucking funny for the first time in about seven episodes. Here is a review saying that the series really dissects the joys and pitfalls of Hollywood. Good, great, grand, whatever. Just inject some humor into it, along with the scantily clad women and avoid lazy, overly predictable plots, dull subplots, and voila! You have yourself some grade A fluff for the male 18-34 demo.  The initial linked review is fairly positive, but if it isn’t funny in any way and is overran by some of the hackneyed dialogue the series is noted for, we might have to cut it short.

Naturally, the LA Times is pondering whether or not Christina Hendricks is “too plump for primetime”. In response, we have to wonder if the LA Times is fucking crazy. Maybe we have geographical biases, and much like every guy I don’t scoff at the classic blond look, but I asked it before and I’ll ask it again: Did you see her on Jimmy Kimmel this week? Just to demonstrate how much we love you, we’ll part for the weekend with this:

If guys in LA actually complain about this, I wonder why any women still live there. Oh, that's right. Money.

Looking forward to Sunday night.