Yep, I'm stupid.

Eric, I don't understand your point ..... Personal feelings regarding Degeneras aside, isn't this a case of an entertainer putting the wishes of her fans ahead of the latest demands of an organized labor group? ..... Or am I misreading this?

Eh. I knew when I posted this that I wasn't telling it right. I really wasn't intending to denigrate Ms. DeGeneres for crossing the picket line; I was really reacting to the idea that someone would plan a vacation around a visit to her show. That thought struck me as laughable, something this post failed to achieve.

(I did also want to poke fun at her tearful apology for the dog adoption SNAFU. There again, too clumsy. I should know better than trying to blog when there's real work to be done.)

Ohhhhh, okay .... Me? I would never center a trip to the Big Apple around tickets for the Ellen Degeneres Show .....

BUT !!!!!

I f I could get tickets to the Conan O'Brian Show, and a chance to meet Max Weinberg ..... THAT I would center a trip around!

:-)

Or you could come to the Philadelphia area and have a cup of coffee with me!

My treat. And we won't have to cross picket lines.

Ellen is still on TV? I had no idea she had her own show again; haven't heard anything about it. It must be on one of the public access channels.

Lots of people probably schedule a significant chunk of their vacation time to be a part of one talk show or another. Or a soap or sitcom. Being in the audience for a sitcom taping can especially chew much, much more time than you'd ever imagine.

So, in the grand scheme of things, I'd rather that someone make Ellen's show a pivotal part of their vacation than say... Montel or Geraldo or one of the other redneck slugfests that masquerade as talk shows.

You have to at the very least give Ellen props for having a great deal of compassion and generousity - even if it is occasionally misguided or over the top.

...as for me, I'll go ahead and 'fess up that I squandered most of an entire day in LA with some friends watching a taping of "Darma & Greg" - a show that I've never even watched. It was slightly akin to watching paint dry in the winter...

Lots of people probably schedule a significant chunk of their vacation time to be a part of one talk show or another.

Perhaps. I don't know anyone who's done that, but I lead a sheltered life.

OTOH, if I knew I could land a spot on one of Oprah's shows where she gives each audience member a Learjet and an original Picasso, then I'd willingly commit a whole year's vacation to being there. If, that is, I got vacation. Which I don't. But I'm not bitter about that.

Wow eric, I have never seen such. a post as the one by ATP just above...bad enough when the emails get plugged up with all that garbage...how insightful!! :)