It’s days like this that a guy can start to feel insecure about his opinions.

I saw “Evan Almighty” last week and thought it was good enough, not great, improved quite a bit by the presence of Steve Carell. I wrote my B- review accordingly.

Then I began to hear from other critics, and I discovered two things. One, no one liked “Evan Almighty.” At all. And two, no one seemed to have liked “Bruce Almighty” much either — and I gave that movie a B+! I don’t know how I failed to notice at the time that I was in the minority, but apparently I was. Huh.

Not that it matters, but I seem to be closer to the consensus with today’s other reviews, positive notices for both “1408″ and “A Mighty Heart.” That “1408″ is a real pants-wetter, in a good way.

This week’s podcast edition of “In the Dark,” available here (if you have not already subscribed via this feed), features my impersonations of the audience members at “Evan Almighty,” so there’s a special treat for you. For more information on the e-mail version of “In the Dark,” which has lots more features and is as delightful as it is free of charge, go here. And for a video of a prairie dog being very dramatic, go here.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen today.

(The source of the video is a Japanese kids’ show, a clip of which can be seen below. It’s fairly amusing in its own right, what with being Japanese and all.)

A while back, someone (or actually a lot of someones, independently of one another) discovered that “Garfield” — the lame, unfunny comic strip by Jim Davis — is actually much better if you remove all of Garfield’s thought balloons. It becomes surreal, sublime, sometimes odd like a Fellini film.

This thread at the Truth and Beauty Bombs message board has quite a few examples that various people have compiled, with Garfield’s thoughts Photoshopped out. There are some classics there.

On my own, I discovered these two strips and immediately recognized they’d be better if I got rid of Garfield’s contributions.

Original version: Garfield says, “Yeah … They’re your shirt, dummy.” I don’t even know what that means.

Original version: In the third panel, Garfield says, “Whoa! That loosened up some hair!” I like my version better, where he’s shedding intentionally and gleefully in response to Jon asking him to stop.