Okay, so a funny story: On Wednesday night, the night before Thanksgiving, I sat at the bar at HoofFinFeathers (otherwise known as The Carriage Inn) where my sister was bartending. It was quite busy, so I didn’t get as much time to speak with her as I would have liked. But there were some pretty funny snippets, in between Jean concocting cocktails.
During my whole time there, Larry King Live was on. The sound was down. He was interviewing Carol Channing. Who apparently has a new book out.
Who knows. Sometimes I look at Carol Channing and I just want her to lie down. For like a YEAR.
I glanced up at the TV periodically. At the bottom of the screen was always a teaser, of some kind beside the constant: “Carol Channing”. So that people tuning in at different times would know what was going on. Someone at “Larry King Live” had read Carol Channing’s new book, and pulled out different topics, which then were rotated as teasers. So every time I looked at the TV, the teaser had changed, and there was absolutely no continuity between one teaser and the next. It would be like if I pulled out 4 completely random facts about my life, and then offered them up on this blog as the definition of who I am.
Here were the 4 facts in rotation about Carol Channing.
1. Carol Channing reveals she has cancer of the uterus
2. Carol Channing reveals her father was part black
3. Carol Channing, 81, reveals she has no plan to retire
(and the last, the coup de grace)
4. Carol Channing reveals she has claustrophobia
How to boil an 81 year old woman down into 4 facts …. how completely absurd. It was that last one that did me in. I grabbed a cocktail napkin and scribbled it down feverishly.
