me: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I2uQkGxIykM/SyOF9xMJPBI/AAAAAAAAIEk/tZws9NocPSI/s400/god+julia.jpg Mark: uhhh me: I'm sorry, that's fucking funny me: so, I'm in Texas, and covering a Sarah Palin rally for Vanity Fair next week me: a Sarah Palin rally in Tyler, Texas Mark: wow, that should be edifying Mark: i suppose they have to send texans to cover something like that me: not really, I've been to family reunions Mark: to avoid the risk of lynching me: yeah, they can spot a secular Hebrew from a hundred yards around here me: I got a haircut just to be safe me: also me: my friend Caleb here me: who works as a producer at the local NBC station me: he has this dumb bitch reporter whom he refers to as Dumb Bitch Reporter me: the other day, she was reading over a script before a shoot me: comes across the word "Ayatollah" me: and says me: "I'm not even going to TRY to pronounce this" me: she had never heard the term before me: and today she said there was a ghost in her house me: film at 11, lol Mark: you meet all kinds of interesting people in the workforce me: I wouldn't know Mark: wait, she said that on the air? Mark: exactly me: no, no me: to Caleb Mark: ok me: he has like two great anecdotes EVERY DAY me: there was a church burning here a couple months back me: they caught two teens me: police found a book in one of their rooms me: Humanism in Art me: and deduced that they were acting out of secular humanism Mark: hahahaha me: the station ran with it Mark: i was afraid that's where this was going me: Caleb tried to explain me: didn't work me: and today he was reprimanded because he ran a clip of a democratic rep taking bush admin to task for being cozy with oil regulators me: someone had called to complain me: keep in mind that there are much smaller, more ludicrous towns here Mark: that kind of stuff must start to grate before very long at all me: nah