Betty's mom just gave it away

Swine flu is somehow scarier with a funky '70s beat.

Roar

Are you watching this? The Cougar? What a steaming pile of crap. I only watched the first half of the first show and then the recording cut off for some reason (don't think I'll be needing that Season Pass). In that time, I learned about Stacey, the younger-man-seeking 40-year-old:

She got married at 16, yet says this show is the craziest thing she's ever done. WTF?
She got the producers to skip over the part between "getting married at 16" and being single and having four kids today. Think we'll be getting that dirt any minute now.
She's hot, in a Barbie kind of way.
She's rich.
Even though she's hot and rich, she can't find enough guys to hook up with. Except by going on an idiotic dating show.
She's easy. She totally went upstairs and made out with the first boy toy she picked in the first 10 minutes. And that was before she kisses every one of those badly dressed tools during the elimination "kiss off!" Hi, herpes simplex, I'm Stacey!
Really -- if you're this hot, rich and easy, you should not have time for this nonsense.
She has some serious eye wrinkles -- need to use the sunscreen, girl. You're representing us all. Unfortunately.

The hostess, Vivica A. Fox, isn't representing very well, either. In the interview she gave, which is all over the place, she drones on and on about Baby Boomers and challenging gender bias, blah, blah, blah. Vivica. Honey. Forty is Gen X, not Baby Boomer. Geez, get your silly generational labels right.

I feel dirty for watching, but I can't look away. Maybe I'll leave that Season Pass on. I'm a 40-year-old, engaged to a much younger man. I'm thrilled about it, and he's more than thrilled about it, but this show makes it all into a big booty-call joke.

Older women rock, TVLand. No joke!

Sweet Violet

We got a sweet kitten, Violet, and a sweet new camera. Man, I wish I'd had this years ago...