April 7th, 2008

5 Worst Minutes of My Life

Sweet mother of Jeebus, I get sucked in.

To watching true crap on TV.

Please, mother of Jeebus, tell me WHY I spent 5 minutes of my precious time watching the drivel that is spewed on morning television for housewives to gobble up like delicious Dibs, caramel macchiatos (google spelling), and Mr. Clean Scrubbing Bubbles.

I used to be a Today Show watcher, though I grew up in a GMA household (hi, Ma!). But then I woke up and realized that shiny pretentious head of Matt Laurer’s and the holier-than-though attitude Ann Curry exudes wasn’t worth my treasured TV time.

And then they did it. They added a FOURTH HOUR OF DRIVEL. Unless you’re in to window box herb gardening OR want to lose 25 pounds “the easy way” by imagining yourself as the size 4 model exhibiting the quick-and-easy exercises “even YOU can do at home” OR want to listen to Rick Springfield stumble his way through his newest “hit,” watch something else.

Like a made-for-TV movie starring Merideth Baxter-Birney on Lifetime Movies. Or the sixth hour re-run of SportsCenter. You’ll feel better about yourself.

But today. Today they hit an all-time low.

They geniuses at NBC added Kathie Lee to the FOURTH hour of the Today Show.

Yes, that Botoxed, pulled-back, cheated-on face appeared this morning chatting it up with Hoda Kotb.

And yet, I watched 5 whole minutes of that blather.

And all I got was a blog post.