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David Duchovony has apparently entered a clinic for sex addiction.

He's been married to Tea Leoni for a decade and has two children, so no F*%&s Mulder jokes or anything just...wow. That's sad.

The former X-Files star recently starred in the Showtime series Californication -- in which he played...well, a guy who stops enjoying all the sex he's having but can't stop himself.

(Video trailer not-entirely work safe)

The Daily Show, taping before Obama's big speech last night, had to settle for this "biographical film."

For those who missed the actual speech:

I did think it was a little strange that after the speech, as the Obama and Biden families were gathering together on the stage, there was this over-the-top country song called "Only in America" playing.

Maybe it was one of those hedging-your-bets things. Like -- all right, we've just seen a black man nominated for president by one of the two major parties for the first time in history. Let's give them a little twang to take the sting out of it for those people who are a little freaked out. When Bruce Springsteen's not patriotic enough you've gotta find somebody in an actual cowboy hat.

Sorta.

Steve Foley was not an original member of The Replacements, but he stepped in to tour behind the band's final record, All Shook Down, when original drummer Chris Mars quit.

Ironically, All Shook Down was the first Replacements record I ever heard. It was essentially the first Paul Westerberg solo album put out under his old band's name. The notoriously drunken Westerberg was trying to dry out during this album and it's never enjoyed a great reputation among critics or fans. But I kinda liked it -- and it led me to their other stuff.

So here's a tip of the hat to the drummer who kept the group on the road there at the end.

It's another Web Junkie Wednesday and this week we're looking at getting more bang for your DVD buck.

If you're like me your inability to keep track of series television (especially large, complicated serial stories like those on Lost, Heroes and 24) has led you to give up, wait for the DVD and watch it at your own pace.

This can be leisurely -- an episode or two a night -- or you could stay in your pajamas, get a giant punchbowl full of breakfast cereal and create your own Saturday catch-up marathon. But however you do it, it can get expensive.

That's where Just The Disc comes in. By ditching the packaging and selling you just the disc of movies, shows and music CDs they cut the price dramatically -- CDs are just $2.99 and DVDs $3.99. You can buy one disc at a time and if you buy five, you get free shipping. All discs are pre-owned but in excellent condition and fully guaranteed.

They don't have everything -- but they do have a lot of popular shows, movies and CDs.

Example: On Amazon.com the cheapest price for the First Season of The West Wing is $37. Even used, the best you can do is $21. You can buy all four discs of the same series at Just The Disc for $16 -- or just buy the first disc to see if you get addicted (you will).

I don't know about you, but I rarely keep DVD and jewel cases nowadays anyway. I slip them into a disc wallet to save space. From now on, when possible, I'll be buying them this way, saving money and cutting out the middle man.

Apparently HBO has given up the idea of turning PREACHER into a television show.

The popular comic, concerning a disillusioned preacher, his gun-toting girlfriend and vampire buddy in search of an absentee God, is apparently too dark, violent and controversial for HBO.

Yes - TOO CONTROVERSIAL FOR HBO.

Somehow I just don't buy this explanation.

This is the network that brought us live car sex in Taxicab Confessions, graphic rape and murder scenes in Rome, prisoners shivving, poisoning and forceably sodomizing each other on OZ.

They're the network that originally gave us all George Carlin's specials, brought us Borat on Da Ali G Show, who gave Bill Maher Real Time when he got bounced from his network gig in a political/religious controversy.

They're going to shrink from PREACHER?

I'd be willing to believe they thought it was too complicated to translate to TV, that a lot of it would have to be changed or wouldn't come across the way it was intended, that the comedy would be hard to balance with the drama and that all of that, on top of the controversy it would create, made it untenable.

Luckily, PREACHER scribe Garth Ennis seems happy in comics. No one seems to be waving him off controversy there. I recently read THE CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD, in which the hero, a rebellious anti-Christ who has shunned his dad and become friends with Jesus, has anal sex with a perverted Joan of Arc while she talks dirty and begs for more.

And then, two pages later, serious philosophical discussion.

Kevin Smith says: "I saw 'Watchmen.' It's f%&^ing astounding." (profanity redacted)

The Dude abides, indeed.

Rolling Stone has a great piece on the 10th anniversary of the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski -- which has only grown in cult stature since its initial, disappointing release.

The film will be on the big screen Sept. 3 as part of the Mix-Tape Film Series at the Carousel Luxury Cinemas in Greensboro. If you've never seen the movie, you've got a lot coming to you - and it's worth seeing on the big screen.

I plan on being there. You should, too.

UPDATE: Those doubting the endurance and growth of the Lebowski cult need only check out this shirt...

I don't have any tattoos, but I do love seeing other peoples'.

Wired has a great gallery up today with photos of geek tattoos they saw at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. They're comic-book heavy, but there are also some Tim Burton- and Calvin & Hobbes-influenced ones.