occupational hazard of being a groupie?

Of being a bad groupie. I've never had sex with a guy that I couldn't be sure who it was. How could you not notice? But I'm assuming there was something in the Stamos groupie sex that made him think he could get away with it, and he didn't include getting busted in the anecdote.

I keep thinking it's even more important, if you're a groupie, to verify the identity of your partner, but that implies that there are many one on one scenarios in which the identity doesn't matter. And I'm fairly sure those are a minority.

Is it something he copped to in an interview or something?

I'm pretty sure I read it from him.

Aha!

There is an interview with John Stamos in Jane Magazine. One of the questions was "What's the worst you've ever screwed someone over?"

I was on the road years ago, I think it was before the Beach Boys [John played drums with the band in the mid-'80s]. I was playing somewhere in Finland, and there was a girl hanging around who was really drunk and interested in me. I wasn't into her, but my friend was. So the girl came back to my hotel, and I turned the lights down and we started making out. I said "Hold on a second, I've gotta go brush my teeth." It was dark, I left the room, and I sent in my friend, who looked like me. And she thought she was having sex with me, but she was really having sex with my friend. I was young and didn't have a conscience.

Ewwww. And the ewww is only slightly mitigated by the fact that he seems to now realize it was a bad thing, but just not enough. And admitting to it in an interview just floors me too much to be able to consider whether or not I could appreciate the candor.

just not enough

Yeah, that's the real kicker -- he knows he was screwing her over, but he wouldn't say it so blithely if he had even a glimmering that it was rape.

Coming up on Discovery Channel: "DIY Surgery"

Heh - "Who's Your SpyDaddy?" t-shirts

WANT.

Anybody else actually subscribe to the print version of TV guide? I just got around to looking closely at their new, larger format and...it...really is completely useless.

I mean, it's got the articles, which were sometimes fun to read, but the only reason I ever subscribed was because a) it was more complete then the Globe's or the Herald's listings, and b) so I didn't have to futz around on-line to find out what was going to be on a week ahead of time. This thing doesn't have ANY local listings - you now have to go on-line to get them. That makes it less comprehensive (apart from listings for a few movie channels that TVG was pretty hit or miss on for non-movie stuff anyway) than what the Globe puts out in the Sunday paper.

I'm thinking this could be a major fiasco - maybe more people get it for the articles than I thought, but I also think the people who aren't on-line in any significant capacity still vastly outnumber those of us who are.

Seriously, since they have this weird auto-renew thing, I'm going to have to make an effort to cancel because I see no reason to keep getting this. Unless the on-line version is going pay, I can get anything I'm interested in there from now on.

Anybody else actually subscribe to the print version of TV guide? I just got around to looking closely at their new, larger format and...it...really is completely useless.

I've known about the format update for a while, and I don't know anyone who doesn't think it's a stupid idea. They're basically hanging their subscribers out to dry while they try to horn in on the Us Weekly / InStyle newsstand consumer base. (And with more pictures and less content, they don't have to pay as many writers or researchers, so there's that money saved.)

holy cats! A transformer just blew up across the street! I saw the flash through my blinds and curtains.

I went out on my balcony and the entire block across the street is just a black hole of darkness. weird.

I don't know Rachael Ray from Eve, so maybe this picture makes more sense to people who do... is that really her?