WINNING!

That's how far I got last time, a little rant on WINNING!!! And just to lively things up, along came Warlock Charlie Tiger Blood Sheen, to define and redefine what makes a winner. And he'll tour the country, sharing his secrets with lucky us for only $25 or so per ticket. Is he on a personal mission to evaluate the quality of designer drugs, coast to coast? What a sacrificial lamb! I'm really tired of his snarkiness - can't even watch 2 and 1/2 anymore, though I used to think it was fairly funny. Sometimes.
Now I wish he's shut up and go home. Go brood on the mountaintop. Have a conversion experience. Take a long, long walk off a short pier.

I guess it's good to have that kind of trainwreck happen, in the midst of the other disasters piling up. I think the tsunami upstaged Charlie, though. Bigtime, if only because Charlie couldn't think of anything new to say. Did he even check in on Japan? If he had would it have been so appallingly inappropriate that we'd have to censure him? Why is it that, when you have boatloads of money, you can act out in public all you want and nobody shoots you with a tranquillizer dart and hauls you away in a straitjacket?

I'm not really interested in my X-DIL this week. I don't know if I ever was but I've spent much unrecoverable time trying to figure out her shtick. She's post-McLuhan, for sure: sound bite baby, leave out the adjectives and probably the verbs and she's off and running. Once she wrote a letter to PETA, to tell them how proud she was of her husband (my son) because he did not support the use of animals in medical experiments. Gonna shine in that reflected glory!

I did chuckle the other day, walking home from our upscale corner grocery with a bag full of corned beef and cabbage (yes, we did eat it on St. Paddy's day, baked, with honey mustard and carmelized cabbage) when I realized I could send her a note thanking her for the invitation to Two's bar mitzvah (which we haven't gotten and don't expect) and affirming that we will see her there. Maybe she'd talk Two into calling it off. Rumor has it that he wants to. Wanna start a pool as to whether she'd respond in any direct way? And another pool as to whether she'd actually invite me or tell me to take a flying F?