1. Gary Oldman let slip the news that Batman 3 is due to begin filming next year.  Please, please be true.

2.  Damn you, Chris Cooley.  Damn you!

3.  First Tony Romo & Jessica Simpson, now Reggie Bush & Kim Kardashian.  Not sure what to make of all this, but I don’t like it.  Don’t like it one bit.

4.  Atta boy, Brett.  String the Vikings and their fans along for way too long only to pull the plug days before camp starts.  All while nobody outside of Minneapolis wanted to see you back anyway.  Reputation tarnished.  Sorry, Coley.

5.  Great piece by the Times‘ Maureen Dowd on the quality gulf that has emerged between Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.  Spot on.

6.  ESPN’s Rick Reilly recently called Tiger out for his childish ways.  Now that he brings it up, I totally see it.  Tiger does pout way too much.

7.  I didn’t like it at first, but on the recommendation of a friend I stuck with HBO’s Eastbound & Down and am happy I did.  It grows on you.  And it’s the kind of show that gets better with multiple viewings a la Anchorman.

8.  The Onion recently ran a smart thrashing of Dane Cook’s lameness that had me nodding and laughing throughout.  Cook might be the least funny successful comedian of all time.  Kind of like how Bill Simmons calls Dwight Howard the worst great player in the NBA.