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Entourage, one of my favorite television shows, has been pretty lame this season. Last season ended on a high note with Vince scoring the lead role in Martin Scorsese's Gatsby and Johnny Drama buying a bar in Queens. Turtle somehow got Jamie Lynn Seigler to be his girlfriend and the Eric Murphy group was doing well. Expectations were high.

But, when Season 6 began, Vince was finished shooting the film and after 6 episodes to date, Drama's bar has yet to be mentioned. So much for a season in New York.

Anyway, last night's episode was easily the season's best and featured cameos by Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg and New England Patriot's quarterback Tom Brady. Check out the video in which Mark Wahlberg impersonates Jonnhy Drama; it's pretty damn funny (about 2:30 into the video). To see Tom Brady's best scene, click here. He wasn't half bad.

The MTV-owned cable channel has announced a new identity which will debut this fall, its biggest change in 25 years. While the new logo has not officially aired, it can already be seen on material for the upcoming Nickelodeon Animation Festival and new merchandise like DVD box set

The A.V. Club interviews Jorge Garcia, aka "Hurley" from Lost. The interview is pedestrian (not Garcia's fault), but one tidbit piqued my interest:

JG: ... I know they've been talking about trying to air the last episode of the final season as close to the same date all around the world. They're doing it for security reasons, in a way, to keep bootleggers and spoiler people from getting information out. But I think it'd be exciting to do it that way, because the whole world can experience the last season of this show that's been pretty special to me at the same time. That'd be fun, too.

AVC: Has that ever been done before in television before?

JG: I don't know. First of all, you have to get a show that has this much coverage around the world. Then you have to do it with enough time left so they can record our dialogue in whatever languages they need to do it in. That's what the main obstacle is, I think.

An interesting idea and a logistical nightmare. It would be a seminal moment for television, maybe one of the last. (If you haven't noticed, TV is poised for a complete paradigm shift, or something.)

Interview gripe: "Has that ever been done before in television before?" Really, not only did you repeat yourself, but you also assume "Hurley" is a television history expert? Maybe pose the question differently, like, "Have you ever heard of that being done before?" Subtle difference, but the former assumes Garcia to be an expert in global media. Or even, "Have you ever heard of that being done before before?"

The first volume of W.F.P. Napier's four-volume set, History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, was returned to the shelves of Washington and Lee University's library, after an absence of 52,858 days.

A Union soldier named C.S. Gates took the book from Washington College, as it was then called, on June 11, 1864, when General David Hunter and his army of West Virginia raided the area and looted the college's buildings.

Gates, however, thought he was exacting revenge on Washington College's next-door neighbor, the Virginia Military Institute, which was set on fire by the raiding party.

A note signed by Gates and inscribed in the book reads: "This book was taken from the Military Institute at Lexington Virginia in June 1864 when General Hunter was on his Lynchburg raid. The Institution was burned by the order of Gen Hunter. The remains of Gen. Stonewall Jackson rest in the cemetery at this place."

The book was returned by Mike Dau, of Lake Forest, IL, who inherited it from the Lake Forest couple, Myron and Isabel Gates, ancestors of the aforementioned soldier.

If Washington and Lee would have hired Detective Bookman, this never would have been an issue.

NFL linebacker/Renaissance man Dhani Jones has a new show on the Travel Channel, entitled Dhani Jones Tackles the Globe.

I watched for the first time last night and it was entertaining, but if Dhani is such a Renaissance man, why does he curse so much? It's totally unnecessary and just makes him look stupid.

Popular Mechanics takes a look at the science behind Lost. Their search function doesn't allow for a simple link so if you head here and then search 'lost' as a keyword (not Full Text) then you will see the full list of 32 articles. The recent entries discuss time travel naturally. Some very interesting stuff here, here and here. All the articles are worth at least a cursory glance.

This is what it was like in my house as a young lad with my two brothers on St. Patrick's Day. I hope that everyone enjoys themselves safely today!

All I want to know is who the hell over at Charmin thought it would be a good idea to promote their new toilet tissue as preventative measure for avoiding dingleberries? If my mother ever followed me around the house with a dustpan and brush I would've been quite upset.

We all know by now how good Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin is on Saturday Night Live. Every week, we are treated to a hilarious portrayal of the Alaskan governor's public persona.

What you may have not seen, however, is comedian Sara Benincasa's Sarah Palin Vlogs. What began as a Youtube project has been picked up by the Huffington Post's 23/6 humor site. Is she as good as Tina Fey? I don't know, but she is pretty damn funny. What I do like is that Sara Benincasa takes a stab at Sarah Palin's private persona.