A LINK I CAN LIVE WITHOUT

I'm still shell shocked from an event that happened earlier this week. In today's blog you are going to get the inside skinny on the behind the scenes stuff. It was Mano e Mano, Mike Walter vs. George Carlin's 7 dirty words earlier this week. You know George came up with the famous comedy skit about the 7 dirty words you can't utter on TV. Actually I'm pretty sure you can't show them either. So you can imagine my terror when I came within seconds of getting one of those famous little words on the air.

We have a segment in our five o'clock show called links you can't live without. Our producer Jessica Glasser is always nice enough to send us the links a week in advance so that we can take a look at them before they end up on the air. The site on Monday was about those pesky passive aggressive notes left in the office. You know the type, "Your mom doesn't work here, so clean up your own desk, no one else will." It seemed innocuous enough.

So Monday I hobble over to the web center on my busted up ankle. I look at the website that has been called up. I stare at the memo that is prominently displayed and just minutes from going on the air. This passive aggressive note reads, "Your @#$$ cell phone makes lots of noise, so when you aren't at your desk turn the @##$#@$ thing off!" I do a double take and then quickly as I can I scroll down to the next note pictured on the website just as the camera is coming to me. I dodged a bullet. Later during the broadcast I pointed out to my good friend Jay Mishkin (or at least he used to be until he tried to destroy my career) that he had come very close to single handily destroying me. He pointed out rightly I might add that he almost single handily destroyed his own career. We had an issue with another Link a day or so later. I was complaining about it when Jay smiled and said, "Well it's not as good as Monday's, that's my favorite link ever, it was great!" I had to smile!