Apologies for no posts the past few days. I just sent my editor a bunch of new book pages. That's not an excuse, just an explanation. And not even a good one, because of course I had time to post, I just didn't have much to say. Angels were robbed the other night with that dropped third strike call, but I didn't have anything interesting to say about that. I have a list of news-relevant Halloween costumes I'm working on, but I've only thought of 2 so far, and want to have a list of ten. But that'll come to me with some thinking this weekend I think. And then yesterday was Yom Kippur, and so I was busy atoning.

There's a bizarre story in The NY Daily News about the mTV show, "Date My Mom" --

A Russian mother-daughter team is suing the Viacom subsidiary for "emotional distress" allegedly caused by a case of miscommunication on the popular reality show "Date My Mom" - in which a male contestant chooses a daughter to date, based on her mother's sales pitch.

Fortysomething movie producer Irina Stemer and her 19-year-old daughter, Anastasia Camras, appeared on the June 23 episode. Speaking Russian, their lawsuit alleges, Stemer told potential suitor Jorgen Sampson: "My daughter has a very big heart."

But according to court documents obtained by the Daily News' Michelle Caruso, MTV's English subtitles translated: "Jorgen, there is no better piece of a- than my princess Anastasia."

Reality TV. Wow.