This might be short but I have to vent. I still maintain that Larry King is a worse cancer on the body politic than anyone Fox News has to offer.
So I just read that today is Ringo's Birthday. (Happy Birthday Ringo!) It seems that his only wish was for everyone to flash the peace sign at noon, local time.
I heard about this at 9PM, so I was kind of bummed that I would have to wait 52 weeks to give him his wish. But then I remembered that Ringo was on Larry King tonight. I missed the live show, so I made a point of being in front of the TV at 11. (Central)
Well Ringo will be on all right, but first we have to sit through some crap about aged model Christie Brinkley's divorce. (Apparently she's not married to Billie Joel anymore. I guess I need to read more tabloids.)
So far I've learned that Brinkley's current husband likes to masturbate on his web cam. And spends a lot of money on pornography, a fact I am told that makes Christie "concerned" for the well being of the child they have together.
Your daddy jerks off?
There is no damn hope for you
It's called entropy.
There you have it... a Christie Brinkley Haiku.
So instead of hearing about Ringo flashing the peace sign, I hear about some guy named Peter Cook hitch hiking to heaven.
Now I admit that Ringos' birthday is a fluff piece. But he's fucking Ringo Starr! And it's a positive thing. WHo doesn't love peace? (Well okay, neo-cons.)
It's 10 after now and they brought in Dr. Drew and Raul Felder to illuminate us.
Oh, wait. News flash. Apparently she's been married to somebody in between Piano Man and Onan the Barbarian. (Raul represented husband #3, and his name wasn't Billy Joel.)
Okay. It's 12 after and I really need to get going. I should change the chanel. But I don't want to miss Ringo and I don't have a DVR.
Kurt Vonnegut used to tell his writing students that the mission of an artist is to make people believe that life is worth living. Once challenged that this was a too-lofty ambition and pressed to name a single artist that had met this standard, Kurt said "The Beatles did."
No one will ever say the same of Larry King. Or Christie Brinkley. Or, let's face it, Billy Joel.