Onward Hoe!

I was at the gym this morning, jogging away, switching back and forth between watching Ellen, The Daily Show, The Today Show and a speech by the president. I didn't see much of Ellen. It was a really really old rerun with what's-his-face from American Idol...Ryan Seacrest. Jon Stewart is just hilarious. I can't emphasize that enough. It doesn't matter if you agree with anything he says. He's funny. On the Today Show, they had this quartet, whose name I wish I could remember because you all need to watch them perform. They're like some wacked out opera/pop fusion, but way way 90 bazillion times worse than any Josh Groban or Charlotte Church because there are 4 of them...choreographed as precisely, though not as elaborately, as any boy band ever was. It was bad. Just bad. I didn't catch much of the president except for one fantastically serendipitous moment when I switched from comedy central to CNN with such precise timing as to hear from CC, "My priest told me I shouldn't have sex with," and from Mr. Bush, "my nation." It was flawlessly seamed to make one very confusing and inappropriate statement.

Then, the icing on the cake, and I don't have much time here, so I'll be brief. A Mark Jacobson Toyota commercial exploiting little children. Here's the deal: Go and test drive a vehicle, and your kid gets a free Mark Jacobson bobble head doll. Who? Exactly. What kid wants a Mark Jacobson bobble head doll? The catchy catchy catch phrase clinched a fit of hysterics for me. At the end of the commercial, all the kids, bobbling their little heads, scream in unison, "Mark Jacobson Toyota: FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS!"