Entourage: Let's Blog It Out

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It was Saturday morning, minutes after 10. Inside one of the 832 Hudson News stores at Penn Station in New York City.

Some dude (me!), walking with a purpose, navigated his way toward the back right magazine stand and grabbed the October 2008 issue of Playboy. This dude (again, it was me), walked uncomfortably toward the cashier, gave him the money and quickly asked for a bag to put the magazine in.

See, purchasing porn (whether, it's softcore or not) on a Saturday morning is just weird. Maybe if I was still wearing Friday night's clothes and hadn't slept save for 25 minutes slumped against a pillar in Penn Station after missing the 5:10 a.m. train, it wouldn't have felt so awkward.

But I slept in a bed Friday night and showered early Saturday morning. So am I just a sick perv?

Well, maybe, but not because of this story. I was in Penn Station on Saturday morning because I was picking up two tickets to the final game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night. Yep, I'll be there.

And this, six paragraphs in, brings me to my point. I bought the "classy" softcore skin mag because I had gotten word that Kevin Connolly was the 20 Questions interview subject this month. And seeing how I'll be in the Bronx saying goodbye to the world's most important and well-known sporting arena on Sunday night, I didn't want to leave my readers without something fresh to digest after this week's episode.

(The BPL, AGM and all our other goodies will go live Monday around lunchtime. Sorry, but dude, this is the last game at Yankee Stadium, America's Roman Colosseum. Surely, you can appreciate that.)

The interview by Ashley Jude Collie is solid. Connolly is honest and forthright, per usual. There is some new insight into the world of "Entourage" and the actors who play the characters we love to quote every Monday morning (and beyond).

My favorite is Question 5:

PLAYBOY: If we're to believe TMZ, you're out on the town every night. What is your typical evening like?

CONNOLLY: Cocktails and dinner first, then I'm like everyone else: I go to clubs and chase girls.

An investigative study of the magazine's Web site on Sunday morning (on my work computer, no less! Hey, it's for work, right?) has me believing that the Connolly interview won't be available online for free until the next issue comes out. In the meantime, you can purchase the article at newsstands or online to read the interview. It's a fun, quick read. Perhaps some creative Googling will help, too.

On a sidenote, there is also a little Web extra called the 21st question. BPL rules prevent me from linking to it directly, but if you go to the location bar in your browser and type in the name of the magazine followed by what we call .com and then follow that with a /21q, you won't be disappointed.