Thursday,
March 6, 2008

Looks like a Winter Wonderland to me

Okay, so Saturday we had beautiful sunny temps, Monday we had snow, yesterday it was 66F with a gentle breeze and bright sunshine, today there's 2" of snow on the ground here in the clavicle of Texas with the promise of more and we're under a winter storm warning until 6:00 AM tomorrow.

It's March, right? Is this supposed to happen here in March?

Have I mentioned recently that I love the Discovery Channel?

I love the wide variety of shows that they broadcast -- How It's Made, Storm Chasers, Human Body: Pushing the Limits. I love the fact that they took a chance on Mythbusters and introduced those marvelous maniacs Adam and Jamie to America at large.

And I love Dirty Jobs. Oh, how I love Dirty Jobs.

In case you haven't seen this show yet, Dirty Jobs features, well, dirty jobs of all kinds: sewer maintenance, demolition man, plumber, different kinds of farmers, hot tar roofer, tree surgeon, leather tanner, wine cave digger, bug breeder, exterminator, chimney sweeper, SFX designer, brewery vat cleaner, biodiesel fuel maker, mule logger, billboard installer, bell maker, cheese maker, terra cotta maker, bridge painter, assorted cleaners of all types, shapes and sizes, the list goes on and on. You name a dirty job, and chances are the host has done it or wants to hear about it so that he can do an episode on it, getting splashed up to the neck in mysterious stinking gunk in the process.

(Don't ask me how he does it -- I can only assume that he has a hardy nature, no gag reflex and a natural indifference to effluvium.)

Oh, the host. Mike Rowe -- actor, voice artist (he does the voiceovers for American Chopper), opera baritone, former host of QVC (I sometimes wonder if he'd ever talked to my friend Adrianne when she called in as Adrianna of Savanna), current face of Ford Trucks, and producer/host of Dirty Jobs. Also one of the hottest guys on television today, in my opinion. You can take McDreamy, Sawyer, or whatever prettyboy TV star you like -- I'll take a tall, funny, sarcastic dark-haired man with a resonant baritone and a pleasingly high number on THOCS (The Highly Official Chest Hair Scale) any day. And his film crew are not only competent, but funny as hell.

Ooh, I just thought of a dirty job I could suggest -- moderating a SFWA newsgroup. He could even bring his own hip waders.

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