Letterman Does Yankees

A few Dave Letterman jokes about you-know-who, taken from the MLB site:
“Long season, brutal season, 162 games, 40 or 50 playoff games, and then the best of 30 in the World Series. Finally, now, they get a well-deserved rest, and then on Monday they report to Spring Training.“
“The Yankees, your world champion Yankees, they have [...]

Solitary Confinement

In last night’s episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a perp who throws Detective Eliot Stabler off a roof uses a defense of mental distress from having spent nineteen years in solitary confinement. He’d been jailed for bank robbery, and when he refused to join the White Aryans in the prison, he got [...]

Go, Dave!

He didn’t try to redefine the English language. He didn’t clear his throat and look down at his shoes, ashamed. He didn’t force his wife to walk out onto the stage and hold his hand while he confessed his sins. And he didn’t pay a blackmailer two million dollars to shut up.
No, David Letterman, separating [...]

On Baseball Commentators

The other night, during a Red Sox/Oakland A’s game at Fenway Park, commentator Ray Fosse said something that made me positively livid. It’s not that unusual for sports commentators to get me crazy–they make idiotic statements all the time. Worse, they hog the mike and camera at the expense of the game. I mean, aren’t [...]

Cagney & the Dykes

I feel like the Dean of Students at freshman orientation. Every couple of years when I venture into SF Lesbian Nation, I’m older but the girls aren’t. The older ones have moved across the bridge and are busily raising babies, so I seldom run into anyone I know here. Today I did; Valerie’s a doctor [...]

Ed McMahon: Being No. 2

The death of Ed McMahon got me thinking about people who play sidekick, or give behind-the-scenes support, or are in one way or another a prop for The Big Cheese. McMahon was probably the most well-known Number Two in show biz, having hooked up with a slice of cheese the size of the moon. [...]

Jon and Kate Plus 8

If I’d asked a random sampling of people as recently as a month ago if they’d ever watched Jon & Kate Plus 8, they’d stare at me blankly – but that was BT, Before Tabloids. BT, Jon & Kate Plus 8 was a half-hour weekly reality show on TLC that followed the lives of the [...]

Roseanne Revisited

In singing the praises of Roseanne Barr Connor I’m a couple of decades late and many inflationary dollars short—I guess I’m going to have to stop thinking of myself as a trend-setter. The thing is, I didn’t like Roseanne back in the day, and that’s putting it mildly. My antipathy towards her made me a [...]