One night, he had his back turned to the bar, and heard a female patron say, "I'll have a beah." He snapped right around, took one glance at her and said, "You're from Revere!"

Niiiice.

dinner

pita bread with various dips, some olives, and roasted potatoes with rosemary. Basically stuff that didn't require more than a microwave warm-up.

Too bad he can't have a sketch comic writing those parts.

He fucking does! And it's not like he scraped the bottom of the barrel; Marck McKinney worked on one of the best sketch comedy shows ever. But that was over a decade ago. Not to mention, he wrote during one of SNL's *worst* seasons.

It's hard to write good sketch, but this show has it easy-- you don't even have to resolve the damn thing! But how was that Jeopardy sketch any less hackneyed than the Bush cold open from the premiere? And don't get me started on how not-funny Sarah Paulson and D.L. Hughley are. I'm not even convinced Nate Corddry can do sketch. The funniest thing about last night's was Carlos Jacott, IMHO.

To me it's as if each week on House the medicine was gibberish and the patient always died.

I had soy & ginger chicken (marinade) and a small salad.

I like going on fun trips. The planning? Makes me queasy. I've become such a homebody.

Maybe they can just stop showing the "comedy."

Maybe they can just stop showing the "comedy."

I think I would prefer it, though honestly this town is chock-a-block with sketch writers. (Even Bob is doing it now.) You don't have to keep hiding the ball, you know?

Just wait until you get to the montage of audience laughter.

Oh, I did.

All those dinner things sound good. Maybe I should just go to trader joes.

I am so sick of gubenatorial and senatorial ads

I'm sick of coming home to messages on my machine and my mailbox stuffed with flyers telling me how evil and liberal our incumbent Democrat representative is. It's ridiculous that liberal has somehow become an invective. (And I realize it's been this way since the 2004 presidential campaign, at least. Still, annoying.)

Weird thing is I'm not getting any pro-her stuff at all. So either she's not worried, or else some computer system somewhere has me labeled as a die-hard Republican.

We had the phone bomb during the primaries. There was some fairly vocal bellyaching in the press and letters to the editor, so maybe that got through. They haven't started back up. I hope they don't.

Ads started quirkily enough with the republican senatorial candidate running one that said his opponent would accuse him of hating/kicking puppies and that he likes puppies (complete with a dog-cuddle.) I give the campaign points for creativity, if not content. It rapidly devolved from there.