Irish and St. Patrick's Day

As you can see on his blog, Sven Sundgaard was grand marshall for St. Paul's St. Patrick's Day parade. As Sven says, "I don't have an ounce of Irish blood in me, but they still invited me to be in the parade."

I am also zero percent Irish. But my wife is: once at a family gathering, one of her relatives asked me how much Irish I was. "Zero," I said. Anyway, I generally don't celebrate or recognize St. Patrick's Day. It doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not Catholic, I'm not Irish, and I don't make excuses to drink--I just do it.

But good for non-Irish Sven enjoying the day.

Daytime TV

Is TNT just going to change its station name to "Law and Order" already? I also find it slightly interesting that the "Law and Order" cast has prominantly featured three pretty well-known stage actors: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, and Sam Waterston.

"Dr. Phil" is a total dick. I once heard him say something like "That sounds like ____ to me, but I'm not a doctor. Er...I'm not that kind of doctor." Yesterday he had a guy on with a sex addiction. Everything the guy described about his life fit the description of a sex addiction. But Dr. Phil kept calling it a "so-called" sex addiction, "what you are calling" a sex addiction, "you claim it's a" sex addiction, etc. No, he didn't outright deny that sex addiction is real, but he kept choosing prejudicial words to make people think it is a sham.

Chikage Windler is sort of cool. I don't know what it is about her, but I like watching her talk about the weather. It's probably just the wonderful name.

Back?

I've been sick of this blog, so I was abandoning it for a few weeks. Now maybe I'm back.

I saw on Kare 11 the other anchors were discussing Sven's tan, comparing their skin to his, as he had just come back from a vaction to some Southern clime. I thought: what does his tan have to do with any sort of vacation? He's that tan ALL THE TIME. If that guy doesn't frequent a tanning booth, I no longer believe in TV.

I've started vexing about what to do when the Republican National Convention comes to the very city I live in. Should I go away? Get a week's worth of groceries and hide in my house for a week? Go join in some anti-war protests? I'm not looking forward to it.

The quest to live cheap and watch a lot of local news goes on. Sorry for the brief hiatus from PV.

Cavemen on TV!

I just read an article that ABC is going to make a 30 minute pilot based on the Geico's cavemen. PV may finally find out what the caveman's mom has to say!
Read more here.

"Lousy Smarch weather"