TV and Radio

When I wake in the morning I never know how my day will play out entirely.

Last night I walked across the rink at Rockefeller Center in three inch heels to set up for a Snow Day Activity segment.

Snow was coming down on me and all I could think of is how much I couldn’t wait to be inside somewhere warm.

That was before Mayor Mike interrupted my NBC LX TV segment to tell everyone school would be in session today.

But before that happened, a picture was taken from behind the scenes.

Here you go .. for all your snow soaking Victoria viewing pleasure -

Like the Searle hat I’m wearing? I took it off the show Executive Producers head.

Yup, I have no boundaries. That’s how I roll J

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When I went downstairs to go do my live segment at WCBS yesterday morning, my car hadn’t arrived.

And rather than risk being late by waiting around, I decided to grab a yellow cab.

I didn’t run back upstairs to get a hat. I just started walking to the corner to hail a taxi.

Walked fast with the snow coming down on me.

And rain. The rain snow came down on me.

I waited in the dirty slush puddle for a yellow cab. My hair was still in the bun I put it in to go to bed.

I always put my hair up in a bun. Occasionally when I take it out the bun, I comb it. Maybe brush it too for good measure.

This morning, I was even more neglectful than usual to my hair. So in the bun it stayed.

The hair stylist at WCBS didn’t touch my hair. He asked what I wanted to do and I said “nothing because it’s a major mess.”

Did the segment, came home and went on Twitter (of course!) to find several emails from viewers, a few Facebook messages and a tweet by Liz about how I looked -

I love Liz but I seriously can’t understand why she thought my hair looked good.

Here’s a screen shot for you so you can see what she saw -

After seeing her Tweet, I was on the phone with my mother and she said my hair has looked better. lol Which is exactly what I was thinking.

I’m really surprised by the reaction I received just because my hair had a few waves in it. I guess having someone blow dry it straight for twenty minutes just isn’t necessary anymore.

Then I asked a friend (and another!) who told me my hair looked like bedroom hair.

This is a composite of both of their conversations with me -

H:     It looks like bedroom hair.
It looks like bedroom hair. Sexy!

Me:     So I look like how all the viewers look when they wake up. Yeah, we are all on the same page.

H:     No it looks like you were at your boyfriend’s apartment overnight and grabbed a shirt and ran over there to do the segment.

Me:     It looks like I didn’t shower? Ew. Gross.

H:     No it looks like you were out late last night, went over a guy’s house had sex and did the walk of shame directly to work.

Me:     That would explain a lot of the emails I received when I got home.

H:    You look like the hotness.

Me:    Should I aim to look like the hotness more in 2009?

H:     Well it was Global Orgasm Day so you definitely helped some of those viewers out.

Me:    Glad someone’s having fun in that department *sigh*

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I know Back to School is a big time of year for retailers but pissing off the parents isn’t going to help JC Penney sell clothes.

Unless the parent is eighteen years old, and has no idea the commercial is a pathetic attempt at an homage to The Breakfast Club

There’s nostalgia and then there’s stupidity on the part of the ad agency. Some things should be left alone even when the main focus is for families to “Get that Look”

If they need an example of a commercial that gets it right, here’s one starring the former Doogie Howser, MD himself,  Neil Patrick Harris –

It’s so successful, I almost forgot I didn’t have man parts and considered buying Old Spice. OK, not really. But still.

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Although I live in Manhattan, home of the Macy’s Fireworks display, my favorite Fourth of July was spent a few years ago in Boston.

The Boston Pops Orchestra played as we sat on one of the areas lining the Charles River closed off to the traffic so everyone could watch the fireworks. It was absolutely beautiful. And it was amazing to see live. When we got back to the hotel, it was airing on PBS if I remember correctly but it really wasn’t the same.

My kiddos were asleep tonight long before the 9:25 start of the Macy’s fireworks display so I turned on the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular special on CBS to see Steven Tyler and Joe Perry performing (since I didn’t plan to head over to the East River and watch the Macy’s fireworks display.) Pretty cool. Was probably so much better in person. Duh, of course.

I really have to wonder what the members of the Boston Pops orchestra think when they have to perform with a rock or R&B act. Maybe they are silently cursing whoever made them share their screentime as they performed their special “Liberty Fanfare” string salute to the U.S. Or maybe they were just secretly wishing Dr. Phil and his wife weren’t hosting.

That’s the reason I only lasted 10 minutes of the special.

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