January 21, 2000

I really have no business doing a journal entry when I have A LOT of other things to do, but I had a few things to say, so here I am.

One is that I watched Larry King last night, and he had on Melissa Etheridge, her partner Julie Cypher, and David and Jan Crosby, talking of course about their babies. I don't normally watch Larry King, but I was transfixed.

First of all, Larry King is a bumbling idiot. He clearly just couldn't wrap his mind around the concept of a lesbian relationship. I don't know why some production assistant couldn't brief him before the show started. For those of you who don't know, Julie Cypher used to be married to Lou Diamond Phillips, and never had any kind of relationship with a woman before Melissa. And that's fine -- clearly, Julie had feelings that she was repressing or something. But Larry insisted on terming her "bisexual", which I guess she is in the strictest sense of having been attracted to both men and women. And then he asked her if she was the one who carried the baby because she's bisexual. What the hell is that supposed to mean? Like women who haven't ever been attracted to men can't have the desire to be pregnant? Melissa answered that at the time they wanted to have a baby, she was still on tour, and it didn't make sense for her to carry the baby. Julie also had always really wanted to bear a child, much more than Melissa did.

Also, I have to wonder why they went on this show. Like, I can understand wanting to settle the question of the children's parentage, because they explained that it came up in every interview and everywhere she went, and she just got sick of lying about it, and felt like if she made it known, it would be a big deal for a while, but then it would go away. But they clearly need a better publicist. They did the big story in Rolling Stone. Then they should have done one or two big interviews -- maybe the Today Show or one of the nightly news magazines, and that's it. By going on so many shows, and being interviewed in so many magazines, they end up looking like they did this to plug Melissa's new CD. The timing is just bad.

They also need a publicist to help them answer some of the tough questions. While they did an okay job, they stumbled a little bit. Like, you know they are going to get the question about David Crosby's addictions, and did they worry if it was genetic. So they need to prepare a smooth answer. The answer they gave was basically that they did a lot of research and decided that the benefits outweighed the risks, which is fine. But they didn't deliver it very smoothly, which makes it look like they're hiding something. Also, Julie needs to sit up straight. I'm just saying, if you are going to go on national television, you need to be aware of these things.

And finally, Jan Crosby is such a flower child. When Larry asked her why she suggested such a thing (because apparently it was her idea), she was all about "two being coming together" and stuff. All four of them looked like they were facing down a death squad. I don't know if they got more comfortable as time went on because I turned off the television before they could take calls from idiots.

The other thing I wanted to tell you is to go read Stee's entry about commercial auditions, and Xeney's entry about sexism. Both are really great, in different ways. That's it.

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This is a really long article about penis enlargement, most notable for the sidebar about reputedly well-hung celebrities.

Brandy explains her collapse. I am willing to cede that she might have collapsed from exhaustion, but they should have just said that instead of dehydration. Dehydration just sounds fishy.

A new reality court show - for kids! It probably says something about me that as a teen, I wanted my school to have a social court (and I wanted to be the judge) where we could settle all the petty misunderstandings that happen in high school. Like, I'm mad at her for spreading a rumor about me -- take it to court!

EW wonders, "What is up with the movie studios pushing loser movies for Oscars?"

I always liked Brian Unger. I'm glad he got his own show.

I don't know who writes these stories, but clearly they don't listen to the Howard Sten Show, because this is NOT AT ALL what happened!