Rather than blogging I’ve been working on my facet joint problem, which I’m told is what’s been wrong with my back. Can’t believe how weak my right leg is from just one month of favoring it. I’ll keep working out and going to PT.
Anyway, ignoring for the moment the catastrophe in Haiti, something that’s bugging me is how there’s so much babbling about Jay Leno crawling back to the 11:30 PM ET slot, and what it means for Conan O’Brien, but almost nobody — Mark Evanier is an exception — has pointed out the significance of Stephen Colbert being on at 11:30. I refuse to believe that cable TV is not yet counted in the ratings equation, and I for one won’t even flip channels during commercials on “The Colbert Report.”
Coming up (I think), will be Milli. No, not Vanilli!
It was shameful how NBC was covering the Leno/O’Brien debacle in the first half-hour of “Today” this morning while every other network (including cable, with 24/7 coverage, natch) had wall-to-wall Haiti. I sent a check to Catholic Relief Services, as I have no cell phone or credit card. I even got on Twitter and spoke in English and French to some of the survivors. Quite a day! Most are just desperate to find relatives and are angry that the Haitian/Americans get first dibs on planes out of the country! Can you BLAME them? On Twitter I posted: Envoyez de l’argent et des fournitures médicales de Médecins sans frontières ou la Croix-Rouge. Vérifiez Twitter Adresses,” (“Send money for simple medical and comfort supplies to “Doctors without Borders” or the Red Cross) and that got repeated over and over with a lot of people adding the correct cell phone addresses where the money and supplies could be spent.. Wyclef Jean, the Haitian singer, is single-handedly doing a bang-up job over there. It’s great to be able to help in some small way.
On a totally different note, why shouldn’t Colbert JUMP at Conan’s spot? Because he has it so good over at Comedy Central. I hate to see Conan go to uber-conservative Fox (along with PALIN!??!)
Glad you’re plugging along with the leg, Dougie! My eye is almost all better, hardly any pain, but blurry vision, can’t ignore it. Back to the eye doc for final visit tomorrow. “PLEASE give me a victrectomy! PLEASE!” Joking.