books

If you have been crying into your pillow ever since E! announced they weren't going to have Star Jones work the red carpet for them anymore, dry your tears. Um, no, she didn't get the job back... But she's got a new blog! To help promote her new book Shine: A Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Journey to Finding Love, Star will blog about her book tour from now to March and, apparently, lay down the law about Internet etiquette (in the very first entry of her first-ever blog? Goodness).

On more than one occasion I've heard a family member, friend, or stranger claim they watched something lackluster on television because "there was nothing else on." I've always found this statement odd, as it implies that even if there's nothing on, you still have to watch TV. I can't think of any other medium where people do this. I've never walked up to someone reading a book and had them exclaim, "God, this Michael Crichton novel is horrible, but there's no other books in my house, so I have to read it." Anyway, if you tend to watch TV just because it's there, you should know it's that kind of attitude that keeps shows like Scrubs on the air, and nobody wants that.