Dr. Robert's Feel-Good Variety Blog

You have to understand, I despise the Lakers. I can't stand any of their players. They've ruined my life several times. They're evil. So evil in fact that I think Phil Jackson made some deal with the devil that guaranteed him the most number of NBA rings than any other coach in exchange for looking like a billy goat (note: this is similar to my theory about Ronaldinho making a similar deal except substitute soccer stardom and looking like a horse). Picture me, May 2004, about to graduate from high school (and coincidentally in the best shape of my life), at a friend's house to watch a pivotal playoff game between the Spurs and the Lakers. The Lakers were the only thing in the way between the Spurs and a back-to-back championship. Nothing would've capped off a thus-far stellar year better than San Antonio wiping out Los Angeles. And we'd just about done it. I mean, we had the LEAD with only 0.4 seconds left in the game. 0.4 seconds. That's nothing. You c...

Woah, so I just found this old post that I never finished from back when I was watching the first season of Lost. Total throwback post, which is pretty fitting seeing as how the last final episodes of the show really tried to tie everything back to the first season. Here are thoughts from the second half of season 1 of Lost... More thoughts from Season 1: Okay, it's been like 6 episodes now and there's been no discussion about who the hell hit Sayid in the head and destroyed the transceiver way back when. I know there's tons of other stuff goin down, but I feel like figuring that out would be pretty important. Do they expect us just to assume it was that Ethan dude? I'm still convinced it was Locke. Hurley just started complaining about not getting enough protein in his diet, and Sun, the Korean wife, just planted a garden. It's like they're rubbin it in the guy's face. Come on now. Locke just knocked out asthmatic girls brother and tied him u...

Diagnosis: Humidity Prescription: Explosions in the Sky (no, not that kind , even though they're awesome too ) I know it's still technically somewhere between Spring and Summer right now, but I was just outside earlier today and the humidity was so bad that it literally felt like walking through a cloud trapped inside a sauna housed in the heart of the tropical rainforest while wearing a snuggie. During the short time that it took to enjoy a meal at Five Guys, it randomly started pouring rain outside in broad daylight with the sun still shining and everything. Now I don't know if I'd necessarily classify that as rainfall, because really it was more like the air was so drenched with humidity that it literally couldn't get any more saturated than it already was, and so the atmosphere just sorta burst open and the air turned into water and got everybody on their way to Target soaked. And then within five minutes it was over and back to just being hot and sticky and hum...