That headline from Friday was annoying, I just had to change it.  I couldn’t stand staring at it every time I came to the site. 

I was sick all weekend and I watched a LOT of television.  And a few movies.  And finished reading Dry by Augusten Burroughs.  I learned a few things of absolutely no importance during my weekend of forced television watching:

1. Pomeranian puppies are all black and wet when they are born.  Their mom eats the afterbirth, which is actually not as gross to watch as it sounds.  Pomeranian puppies are black and tan by eight weeks old and look like teddy bears.  They are very adorable.

2. The Designers on Trading Spaces DO NOT work well together when they are all forced to execute a design together.  No sir.  Although it makes for great entertainment.  And Frank should not be allowed to wear dresses.  Seriously, it’s wrong.

3. Manhattan is a really boring Woody Allen movie.  And I apologize to whoever of you it was that recommended it, but it was boring.  And didn’t really have an ending.  I liked seeing Meryl Streep when she was young though.  She was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.

4. The Sky Captain of Tomorrow is pretty good.  A little long, but good.  Nice special effects, nice explosions, Jude Law, etc. Subpar script, but then, you expected that.

5. The Cat’s Meow is also a pretty entertaining movie.  If you happen to catch it on tv for free, you should watch it.  It’s got the head vampire from The Lost Boys in it and that irrepressible Kirsten Dunst being irrepressible.  And some great costumes.  And Eddie Izzard playing Charlie Chaplin and looking and acting absolutely nothing like Eddie Izzard.  And Patsy from AbFab being Fabulous.  And some great costumes.  And the guy from the Princess Bride and Robin Hood Men in Tights.  And Jennifer Tilly being obnoxious.  Hmm, maybe it’s even worth a couple of bucks, now that I think about it.

6) Alcoholism is gross (I learned that from Dry).  Really, quite disgusting.  Don’t do it.

7) The hottest thing these days is something called “Baby Einstein”.  Apparently their tape called “Baby Monet” teaches your child to love nature.  Although in the commercials, all they showed was the child, inside, watching a tv and playing with plastic leaves.  The child also pawed at a frame containing mounted butterflies.  All to a voice over of parents saying, “Little Cameron loves nature because of Baby Monet”.  Possibly this is nature for the Boy in the Bubble. 

I think that’s all I learned.  Or at least all I remember learning.  I feel like I left a few of my brain cells on the couch, really I do.