12 Bars

Shortly before Bar Seven or Eight, where I got sent home drunk and crying. 12 Bars of Fullerton rules.

Things on TV That Bother My Ass

Randal on The Apprentice. After a whole season of "what a star!" and "ohmygodhe'sthebestguyintheworld!" Randal throws his bestest friend under the bus, even though it's no skin off his nose. "Hey, Randal," you're hired, Trump says. "Whaddaya think, should I hire Rebecca too?" Randal, of course, answers no. There can be only one.
Is it just me or is Randal not the man he's cracked up to be? How about that fantastic, amazing speech he gave about autism? The one where he would say things like, "One of the most powerful experiences I've ever had was hearing these stories." See, that's motivational speaking 101; everything's an "experience," even when you didn't experience it yourself. Next he'll start talking about life's journey.
Rebecca on The Apprentice. We get it. You broke your ankle. Shut up now. Still, she's 23? Girl is terrifying!
Rosanna Arquette on Grey's Anatomy. Hey, you're a murderer in solitary confinement? Then how'd you get four razor blades? Huh? Answer me that!

Fun With Television!

Apparently the edition of Rick Reiff's "Inside OC" in which I accidentally say I am an alcoholic on television will be reairing the week of Dec. 25. Um, yay!

Fun with Christmas!

From the LA Times, about, naturally, the War on Christmas:
"The memo was written by the Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit law firm based in Orlando, Fla., that is affiliated with the Rev. Jerry Falwell. The firm won a federal ruling in 2003 that said several Massachusetts high schoolers' free-speech rights were violated when they were suspended for distributing candy canes adorned with religious greetings."
I seem to remember the ACLU getting in on that action too. Why do I doubt the very Reverend Falwell doesn't mention that in his fundraising letters?

And from later in the same story:
"Even people who aren't normally churchgoers are saying they're sick of it," said Jennifer Giroux of Cincinnati, who has begun marketing $2 rubber bracelets stamped "Just Say 'Merry Christmas.' " In her first week in business, she sold about 5,000."
That's the same Jennifer Giroux who sneered on a discussion of Jews and The Passion of the Christ on Scarborough Country, "we cannot go back and make it that the Hawaiians killed Christ.'"
What a peach.

The horror

Yesterday morning on KBIG 104 (my bedroom radio is in a dressing nook with very poor reception), the host, who for some reason was not Charlie Tuna, explained that the computer had eaten the usual questions, so he was going to ask the call-in contestant the easiest questions he could think of in his own little head. "What is the capital of the United States?" he asked the full-growed American woman on the line, and she answered, "We don't have one!" When pressed by the disbelieving host, she stuck to it.
This makes me sad.