So I think I’m a little overdue in posting some of the recent episodes of The Adam Carolla Show that I’ve been on. I posted them on twitter and facebook but not here. Also right now I’m sitting in a room and the sun is coming through the window and blinding me. Stupid sunshine. I can see why no one wants to live in California.

Okay seriously, I need some kind of eye protection. Why hasn’t anyone invented that? If this entertainment thing doesn’t work out I’m going to invent something to wear on your eyes to shield them from the sun. I’ll call them… Sun Goggles and I’ll probably become some kind of millionaire.

On the most recent episode we chatted about the Golden Globes and then I could barely get out a story about a cat called to jury duty without laughing which has pretty much never happened to me on air or on TV. Maybe I’ve felt it nearly happen once on Red Eye (but not while I was talking) and possibly on my own Ustream show but not like last night where I really wondered if I was going to be able to finish the story. And then later Lemmy dropped by and we broke up. And also I worried that I talked too much on the show which is an ongoing concern I have… trying to find the right balance. I once had a dream years ago that everyone was telling me I was too loud. Sometimes I feel like I need to turn my personality down. But then sometimes I feel like I need to turn it up. I sound like a shampoo commercial.

And then on Friday’s show Eugene Mirman dropped by and we all played Hobo Power and I nearly puked. Also Adam questioned me about my dating life and what I’m looking for in a guy and as I later explained on Sunday’s Ustream show I was surprised at how inarticulate I sounded when answering the questions which I think was a result of not having really thought about these things in awhile, for better or worse. What I didn’t explain, but what you all who reguarly read my blog and follow me know is that I moved back to CA under family crisis type circumstances and so dating has been low on my list. Then again, that doesn’t really explain why dating was low on my list while I was living in New York also. Maybe I’m dead inside?

We also talked about honeybuns, abortion, how wrestler Jacob Volkman regrets his comments about wanting to take on Obama, Shirley Phelps-Roper being a media whore, [side note: if you want to see something awesome, check out this clip of Julie Banderas confronting Phelps-Roper], and… uh oh… now I’m forgetting which day we did which story. Well I’m leaving out quite a few stories but we also discussed OK Cupid, Jared Laughner (a lot of Laughner talk), laws prohibiting protesting funerals, the surge in gun sales in the wake of the Arizona spree, crazy stuff Laughner posted in online gaming forums, Conan, Leno and Letterman and more.

And then on Thursday’s show Harry Hamlin dropped by and now I’ll never think of the term friendly fire in the same way. We also talked about an uptick in dine and dashing and Camille Grammer on Stern suggesting Kelsey likes to cross dress and more.

And on Wednesday Larry Miller came on the show and we talked about cults and paprika and Snoopy’s brother. We also played hypothetical road trip which I’m extremely good at. Beginner’s luck? Hardly.

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(UPDATE: I changed the first sentence of this post because the whole thing was just a cheap boner joke and I only believe in earned boner jokes.)

If I’d remembered Adam had a thing for MINIS as he discussed on yesterday’s podcast, I would have told him about how I’d hosted videos for MINI from the LA Auto Show a couple years ago and from the MINIspace rooftop thing the year before and how I’d driven an electric MINI and a crapload of non-electric MINIS and how no one appreciated when I suggested a MINI party bus be named a MAXI. But I didn’t tell him. But I’m telling you guys. Mostly just because I think my image is kind of marshmallow-y so I like when I can show you that I’m no stranger to tuff stuff. Not that these videos are tuff stuff. Also, when did I start using the phrase “tuff stuff”? In the previous two sentences. But I’d recommend just reading the posts (click older entries at the bottom because I think only 5 or 10 per page show up) instead of actually watching the videos which aren’t my best work by any means. Well, some of them are. But some of them aren’t.

What else did I want to tell you? Well right now there is a shower cap clamped to a hanger dangling from a rafter outside, as if we are scaring off bad hair or hanging it in effigy. It’s actually because the thing reeks so significantly of mothballs I considered for a moment that the reason old people smell like mothballs is because they use this kind of shower cap. What’s with a young person like me even owning a shower cap? Sometimes I need to take a quick shower and don’t want my hair to get wet. Plus they just look cool. (note: they DO NOT look cool) It’s just not any shower cap though, it’s a special fancy one with a terry cloth lining inside which looked appealing until I opened it up and realized the terry cloth was made from freshly spun mothballs. Or maybe the smell is coming from some other toxic source. Maybe it’s the vinyl. Regardless I’m pretty sure I should place it in a drum deep in the bowels of the sea but I’m giving it a chance to air out. If a bunch of birds drop from the sky directly over this house then we’ll know this was a mistake.

Oh, also? Tom Rapp who writes and performs all the music for my show has started a blog about it so you should go there!