I am so tired. I haven't gotten enough sleep the past few days and have way overdone it. Just a quick post and then I'm out. And dear sister, how much longer until you become a doctor or at least learn enough to get me freebies of my back drugs? Also -- um...thanks for inviting me to a party you are having in a week. Did you do that to offend me or just make me feel bad since I haven't been up there? Seriously. Although at first I thought it was actually going to be an evite coordinating everyone to be around for Arthur coming down to TX which would have been a really great way to irritate me.

M and I watched the My Boys premiere tonight on TBS. Which means I fell victim to one and/or both of the two marketing campaigns they had going (advertising minions -- that's not implying evil, as we determined this weekend, right? Right? -- rejoice!):

- M had My Boys condoms sitting out on the counter when I got home from the beach. Yes, condoms. Since I hadn't heard of My Boys and the condoms had stuff like "I just want to cuddle" and the TBS logo all over them (or as all over as something can be on a 2 inch square) , I thought My Boys was a new show about gay guys. Understandably. However, it's apparently a show about some chick that looks like Kate Hudson who has a bunch of guy friends and she's a sports writer. She's pretty but dating is just so hard. Oh, we haven't heard that one before!
Apparently some promo peeps were handing out said condoms downtown over the weekend when M and Shirikins went out. This must have been between them stealing the "If there's a fire, the exit looks this big!" poster for me. I had obsessed over this poster on my birthday when I saw it in a bar. Shirikins brought it all the way home for me and put it on my bed, but when I looked at it (sober and a few months later), I said "Why did I find this so hilarious again?" Shirikins said she didn't know but remembered that I had coveted it all night on my birthday.


- Jim Gaffigan, made famous for his stand-up routine surrounding Hot Pockets (I've put the link up before but if you didn't check it out then, you are doing yourself a huge disservice and your world must be very cold and lacking in laughter and comedy), is in My Boys. He plays the main girl's brother who is the older, married tied-down guy. Original, I know. Isn't it uncanny how the writers happened to put a character for everyone in there? Amazing. Anyway, I was watching Glenn Beck tonight while I was making dinner and Gaffigan was on promoting his show. His promo on Beck was rather unfunny but hey. Gaffigan's character did have a couple of funny lines during the episode tonight. His wife (yet to be introduced) is made out to be really cold and controlling. So Gaffigan goes over to his sister's place to escape and play poker with the boys one night a week. At poker night, someone asks Gaffigan's character, "Are you text messaging like the kids do these days?" Gaffigan goes, "Yeah, my wife figured out that she could text message me and I couldn't say 'I'm unable to talk right now,' like I would on the phone." A moment passes by and then Gaffigan looks up from his phone and asks, "What's 'ROTFL?'" His friend says, "Rolling on the floor laughing." Gaffigan immediately says, "Oh, I seriously doubt that."

I guess that's it. The show wasn't great, wasn't terrible. I was just glad there wasn't a laugh track. I also was surprised at how much TV I was able to tolerate tonight - I watched an hour of Sex and the City before My Boys. It just sucks to watch anything after that because it's so wonderful.

The most exciting news item was what I found out from all my determined TV watching (since as soon as I took a show, it left along with the rest of the US Army, thank you Project Runway and President Bush): Jim Gaffigan is going on tour in 07 and he's coming to the ATX. February 22 at the Paramount. Sweet!