Entourage: Let's Blog It Out

Forgive me for a moment or two as I start tripping about this episode. I just made that drive on I-15 from Los Angeles to Las Vegas five days ago, and there were no porn stars flashing me and Joey Jitsu along the way.

In fact, the closest we got was some freestyle music and a state trooper who pulled me over for speeding on the way out to L.A. Oops, guess I can't plead not guilty to that ticket now. Oh well. At least it just became a business expense and a tax writeoff.

Here's what else didn't happen on the drive: Finding that damn Joshua tree. Oh sure, there are plenty of Joshua trees on the side of the road, but nothing we could see that resembled where the entourage set up shop with Eric Roberts. (P.S. Joey Jitsu does the best impersonation of Roberts in "Best of the Best.")

Of course, we also didn't research it too deeply. We were too busy making sure we got back to Vegas in time to lose money gambling before passing out. (I threw $5 on red at the roulette table, per "Entourage" rules. I lost.)

And that's about as close as I can relate to the mushroom trip. I'm sure there are plenty of you out there who can directly appreciate and relate to the trip. God bless. That was never my thing (and that's not just because of BPL rules). I'm a drinker first (and second, and third and so on).

The closest I ever got to that stuff was in college -- shocking! -- when I saw two dudes I knew sitting on a log in the middle of town with the dumbest looks on their faces as I dropped off my DJ equipment at 3 a.m.

However, I have had my share of nonchemically enhanced hallucinations. Freshman year in college. Finals week. Five tests in six days. Day 4: Wicket the Ewok from "Return of the Jedi" helped me study and pass my biology exam. No joke. I will swear to any god you want that Wicket was there. Crazy.

But I digress.

This week's episode was pretty strong, I thought. I enjoyed the "Am I still tripping or is this real?" ending with the firefighters. Just as Vince had decided to collect a $3-million paycheck to do "Benji," he saw himself in a firefighter's uniform fighting the blaze that was on the side of the road.

Nice touch by Doug Ellin and the show creators. And a good way to keep the storylines of struggle and not compromising artistic integrity for money going.

Haven't we all been there? That place where we made a decision to do something we didn't really want to do, only to find inspiration from a random place that keeps up from doing it?

Sure you have. Just think about the last time your friends saved your drunken self from going home with that ugly girl or guy from the bar.