Like a pig rolling in shit,

I watched both The Law Firm AND Kill Reality last night. It was an overload of glorious glorious crappy reality tv, including some of my favorite crazy insane people from prior shows (Crazy Stacy from The Apprentice; Crazy Tonya from RW/RR) and a new favorite crazy person, Toni Ferrari from Love Island or Hotel Paradise, or something like that. I love RobfromSurvivor, the "producer"'s comments on Toni's rewriting the script to give her character more lines. "Sure, maybe Jack Nicholson will rewrite a script or Robert DeNiro will give line suggestions, but I don't think they got their start on Paradise Hotel." I can't even begin to parse that situation, it's too much. The Law Firm 'stars' a bunch of people who make you realize why lawyer jokes* are so plentiful--they seem to be solely interested in making whatever rules exist serve the end of WINNING. Gross display of Scrooge proportions: grasping clutching covetous old sinners. But the show makes it delicious because it's great to see them all snipe at each other and remark to the camera how unpleasant this one is (oh, really?, just them, huh?), and how incompetent that one is, and then they just get roasted in court. I mean, I've haven't spent a lifetime watching Law & Order to not recognize a courtroom fuck up when I see one. Suffice it to say, I was in hog heaven.

*Lawyer joke caveat: I am making a real effort to cut down on my knee-jerk reaction to make fun on hearing that someone is in law school or they are in fact a lawyer. It turns out that myfriendJohnbrennan is in law school in large part because he's worried about his family's land, which strikes me as a really kind, big hearted thing to do... go to law school to protect your family. And recently I was impressed with my ability to keep my mouth shut when I met a friend's friend's husband, who said he was in law school and instead of saying, "oh, poor you" I said, "where?" and he's at Suffolk, and instead of saying "among the army of other little lawyers" or something stupid like that, I said, "oh, do you know John Brennan?" and he did! Which means he's a good person. AND THEN he turns out to have spent his summers leading troubled teens on month long camping expeditions and is going into environmental or social activism law or some such thing so how glad am I that I managed to keep my feet firmly planted on the floor and not have to deal with the social awkwardness of having to extract them from my mouth?