I just saw the most heartwrenching episode of Intervention that I have EVER seen. I don’t watch the show regularly but I like to catch it when I can - a combination of car-wreck factor and some personal issues. This episode featured Leslie, an alcoholic, and her husband Craig, and their three kids. I was stunned by the depths of Leslie’s alcoholism. She basically has to be treated like a 6-year-old at all times, that’s how bad she is. She habitually drinks mouthwash whenever she can’t get alcohol. She has to be physically separated from the mouthwash or the alcohol, and her plaintive pleas of “just one swig? please?” were just appalling. Needless to say, this has utterly ruined her family’s life. Her intervention was actually postponed three weeks because she had to go to court for DUI charges, and wasn’t released on bail, so she had to serve the three weeks. She was sober when she came out, of course, and she was whisked straight to her intervention where her kids told her how awful she has made their lives. The kids and husband went to the Betty Ford Children’s and Family programs, and Leslie had to serve in a county program before going to her own treatment. It looked like it was going to be a great ending…but then they did the followup captions, and they said that she was sober for seven months before relapsing. She now lives with her mother and drinks every day…apparently the mother should have gone to treatment, too, because now she’s just enabling her. What a horrible story…I feel so bad for the family.

We were channel surfing, or had just turned on the TV, or something - anyway, we ended up on Logo, which was airing their “Click List” show that I’ve never bothered watching before. But for some reason we stayed on the channel, and we were treated to two astonishingly bad music videos. Both videos were bad, both songs were bad…it was just wrong! The first one was by Keo Nozari, his video was “Question of Monogamy” - which is just as silly as you’d expect from the title. The second was Jonny McGovern’s “Somethin’ for the Fellas” - which was so hyperactive it made even my head spin. Now, I can tell from looking at McGovern’s Gay Pimp website (worksafe) that he’s doing it tongue in cheek, so that may be okay…but Keo Nozari’s video was just inexcusable. You can catch both videos here on the Click List website.

• I have been watching The Lost Room on Sci-Fi. It is ultra-good, but I am going to miss tonight’s CSI:NY because of it, which makes me sad because tonight’s episode is heavily deaf-themed. But The Lost Room is just that good.
• My new addiction is Sugar Free Chocolate & Caramel Creme Savers, by the people who make Life Savers. Just 9 calories each and SO good…they taste like chocolate pudding! I think I am eating more than I should be in a day, though.
• I no longer want to win Blingo movie tickets. I used to get a bunch of them, but I hadn’t in a while until yesterday. I was given the choice of a movie ticket or a $10 iTunes card, and I chose the former; I should have chosen the latter. They don’t send movie vouchers in the mail anymore - you have to pick what movie you want to see, and what showing, and then you put in a code and print out the ticket. I pretty much never know what movie I’m going to see in advance; the old way was much more convenient. I sent the code to an unemployed friend in NYC, who will get more bang for the buck than I would have.
• Nobody has tagged me on 43 People. Tag me? I need to be classified! (And if you want to meet me, put that down too.)