If you pay attention to the most awesomely inane entertainment news, you’ve probably heard about how Dane Cook’s landlord is evicting him for continually letting his dog poo all over the building’s courtyard, and how he filed an appeal with the court to delay having his Pottery Barn chez thrown out onto the street, citing the cosmic effect that living in the apparent former apartment of legendary comedian John Belushi had on his creative “juices.” Well, he promptly dropped that appeal yesterday, and it turns out he also just happens to have closed on a house in West Hollywood, so I guess the whole thing was bullsh*t. He just made it up to buy time between feeding his dog castor oil and moving into his new place.

However, I feel it’s relevant to point out that although this whole suit turned out to be pure fiction, it does reveal something about Cook’s psyche — even if it isn’t his belief in coked out ghosts. He knew that these proceedings were being followed by the tabloids, and yet he still had no problem making indirect comparisons between himself and Belushi, completely unaware that the mere mentioning of both names in the same breath is enough to make people roll their eyes, or scoff at the notion, or induce vomiting just to make a point. So even though he’s not a crazed paranormal enthusiast, we still know Dane Cook is a douche. But what else is new.

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