For some reason I often end up checking out Bonnie Hunt clips on YouTube. I'm not sure why I keep seeing links to her interviewing guys I think are hot.

Her interview with Jeffrey Dean Morgan was adorable on every possible level.

(For an athiest Jew, I really am a ginormous sap about Christmas. I even love the horrible mall Christmas music.)

I am the same, 'cept I'm an atheist Gentile. I love Christmas, mostly because so many excuses to bake and have people over and visit and gifting. I also do like the stories of Jesus, especially around his birth (I love the no-room-at-the-inn thing, and the manger, and the animals and the Wise Men).

I drank wine coolers in high school. And smoked cloves. Very mild stuff. I tried pot later in life, and very much like it. For someone like me, who rarely fully relaxes (there's always Stuff.To.Do!), it's lovely. I especially like smoking pot when I am in Amsterdam and can sit in a cafe and people-watch to my heart's content.

Ellen also had an audience full of grown-ass women screaming their heads off for R.Patts.

::boggles:: Is there a separate term for grown up Twihards?

Her interview with Jeffrey Dean Morgan was adorable on every possible level.

I need to track that down!

Dating is like a job interview which goes on all evening.

God, yes. And then if you decide you don't want the job, there's only so short you can call it.

I think the Bonnie Hunt show is adorable. The only late night show I can really deal with is Craig Ferguson OMG he kills me.

ION, I suck at dating.

Does that mean you went on a date? And survived well enough to report back to us? Because that right there is evidence of non-suckage.

I don't really like talk shows, which has me all conflicted over Wanda Sykes. I like her enough to have not only watched her sitcom but tracked down the unaired episodes when they showed up on TVOne or whatever that network is called, but apparently not enough to watch the talk show, but I keep thinking I should give it a chance.

OK, I just cracked myself up with my ridiculousness. I was trying to remember the last date I had. This is how the process went: Wait, what year was that? Gah... Oh, remember how Devi had that gross hairball right before you left? And you figured it was a sign of how great (not) an idea this was? Hey, that was the first time she ever barfed, which is why you were freaking.out until the gross hairball happened. That was when she was 2. So that makes it a decade ago.

So. I associate dating with hairballs.

Probably explains the decade thing.

right. So I need to say, that the date may have sucked, but Tom Scola does NOT suck. He knows I will call him and yell at him, so he needs to RECOGNIZE. Dating is hard, and not at all fun, and the fact that he is out there trying is so much of the awesome and strong person that he is, that I don't even know. He's laughing right now, because he knows I will call him and yell at him saying that exact same thing.

ION, I suck at dating.

I doubt it. And if there's any truth to it, it's simply that you are not generous with the sharing of The Scola. You're quiet and it takes you a while to warm to people (I used to think that you didn't like me, now we make out at every F2F, it just takes time). Unfortunately, when you're dating, you gotta put yourself out there. People today aren't willing to do the work that it really takes to get to know someone.

You're quiet and it takes you a while to warm to people Unfortunately, when you're dating, you gotta put yourself out there.

You were listening in on my therapy session today, weren't you?