my new favorite show

Last Sunday when oeilade was here, we were watching some of Ghostbusters on VH1, you know, like you do, and there was a commercial for this show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. And lo, I was all, OMG AWESOME. And oeilade was all, you scare the hell out of me. And I promptly TiVoed the first episode for future viewing. Which turned out to be tonight.

Holy crap this show is nuts! So you have JEFF CONAWAY, who, I didn't even recognize until they identified him, he's that much of a mess. Completely destroyed and dessicated, and is actually the best anti-drug argument you could ever see. There is also Chyna Doll (eeeee!) and Brigitte Nielsen (and the two of them are Surreal Life pseudo-lesbian buddies, so, yay), and Jessica Sierra from Idol, and the little girl from Family Matters, NO REALLY, and Daniel Baldwin, and a couple other people, and running it all is Dr. Drew, who is as sexy and smart as ever. And he has this assistant who doesn't take shit from anybody, it's great. Next week is detox week! It's all very intense and sometimes hard to watch and Dr. Drew says part of his reason for this is to deglorify drug use, and it definitely does that. But at the same time these people are all famewhores (maybe not Jeff Conaway, who doesn't have enough higher functioning brain power left for that), so you don't feel so bad mocking them. Heh. Anyway. I am HOOKED.

There are a couple of more XF movie stills here; variations on what we've seen, but still cool. (I made this icon from one of them, feel free to snag.) As some have pointed out, David is wearing a wedding ring in one, but seeing as how Scully is clearly not wearing one in the coats pic, I suspect that was David and the continuity person screwing up. And does anyone else find it funny to see them sitting in front of such a modern computer? *g* Also, I need to remind everyone that Carter has been spewing that "intellectual romance" b.s. forever, since back in the day; it's all about a romance of the mind, you see, with the emphasis on the fact that it does not involve any icky body parts. Douche.

Zac Efron tries to look straight.

So a bunch of people wrote letters to the NYT in response to the fibromyalgia article, and not surprisingly, they're not happy. I was actually glad to see how many took the article to task for being shabbily written and researched and possibly even biased. Disappointed no one mentioned the feminist angle, although maybe NYT just chose not to print those letters. Anyway, interesting reactions.

Two sad and frustrating health care stories, here and here.

Calling the vet tomorrow about my cat. Not sure I can express how aggravated I am that her breathing seems WORSE after undergoing a full round of antibiotics. DAMMIT.

Oh, and my MRI went fine, thanks. It was just further fibroid joy, nothing more serious. (I hope.)

Happy Birthday gnomi! Hope you had a great day.