Keith Olbermann not MIA, Changing Names for Hubby

OK, I must have just listened to (from my office where I can hear but not see the TV, I do that when I have to actually go right back to work after dinner) Friday's Countdown on MSNBC so I didn't catch the joke that he was going on vacation this week. Really, he should have made an announcement and said "I won't be here next week so please don't flip out, I'll be right back". It freaked me out when a woman started doing the voiceover for his show tonight, Sparky and I were both like "Where's Keith?". But early in the show there was an inserted video of Keith saying "I swear, I'm just on vacation", which was a smart thing to do. And when you think about it from business terms, he's been working his ass off all year with the election, so logically (had everything turned out correctly) this would have been a perfect week to take a vacation. But he is still dutifully doing his blog (or at least we're told it's him, hmmmm).

But of course, things didn't work out correctly, and now all the rats are jumping off the Neocon ship, and even nastier rats are climbing on. Randi Rhodes was gone two days last week also, for female problems and a one day vacation herself, so it does make one a little nervous. Especially after Phil Donahue just disappeared into thin air last year (Phil, where are you now?).

Speaking of Phil's, I also missed all but the last glimpse of the clip on Jon Stewart tonight with Dr. Phil's patronizing platitudes about how well democracy is working now (I was in the garage doing laundry, oh well). He's from Texas, and apparently much more of an optimist than he pretends to be. Or high, or just part of the whole rght wing takeover of the media. I haven't been watching him much this season, one dysfunctional family after another, and I've been to the little Texas town he's focusing on this season as being one of the worst places to live, it's a few miles outside of Houston. I went there for a fireman's benefit picnic in the 80's, got to help direct traffic, and ended up with a bunch of fire ants in my car (discovered the hard way on the drive back).

But I've got to go to bed early today, Sparky was talking to his mom the other day about his making a will and how I had to legally change my name to be on it. I don't, BTW, we really did get married. I want to keep both my last names, but I don't want a hyphen, I did the hyphen thing with my last husband, it's annoying. So I get to drive down to the local Social Security office this afternoon with all of the proper paperwork and try and add a fourth name to the end of my name. Should my maiden name be a middle name? I've changed most of my things like doctors and prescriptions over to my married name anyway, I don't want to confuse them even more by having a hyphen in my name. And Sparky's last name is much easier to tell people and spell. My maiden name has, gasp... an X in the middle of it, just freaks people out. Seriously, it's two syllables but it might as well be in Greek letters, they cannot pronounce or spell it. But I want to keep it, there's only a few of us left.

But speaking of rats, hasn't this last week or so been a whirlwind of weirdness? Arafat drops dead ("I'm not dead yet!", Monty Python reference), oops, not, then he's in a coma... OK, now he's gone. No official cause of death given (someone hinted he might have been poisoned, the timing sure makes sense, I dunno. All of Dubya's people (either in fear of prison or of burning in hell) have been fleeing. And Condi's getting a promotion?? WTF?? At least they found Scott Peterson guilty, maybe we can stop hearing about him on an hourly basis now. At least until he's found beaten to death in a prison bathroom...

Off to bed, crap - I've got wet clothes in the dryer I've got to hang in the bathroom still... I want one of those big $1000 dryers with the cabinet on top for hanging and folded clothes, I've got too many cotton things.

Posted by Morticia at November 16, 2004 05:55 AM