The Cocktail Party Primer (Episode #17): Exhaustion, Confusion, and Hardly Any Sparkly Dresses

What with one thing and another, the last few weeks have left me more tired than the dregs from last night’s gin and tonic, but there’s so much going on this week, I just couldn’t stay away. So, without further ado, the DGA, Rachel Ray, and even though there’s no one to write them, award [...]

The Cocktail Party Primer (Episode #17)

The eggs have been nogged and the plums sugared, and the first New Year’s resolutions have already crashed and burned. indeed, the holiday season is over. The writer’s strike, however, lurches onward with no signs of abating. I’m busy steeling myself for the upcoming horror of Ryan Seacrest doing master of ceremony duties for [...]

Cocktail Party Primer (Episode #16)

Sorry for last week’s absence. A dear old friend jetted in from New York, and she insisted on a quick jaunt up to the wine country last Thursday. After a coupla dozen half-ounce pours of Sonoma’s finest, somehow it just totally slipped my mind that there was something I’d meant to write. What with the [...]

The Cocktail Party Primer (Episode #16)

Why Don’t Ya Come Up and See Me Some Time, Federal Agent?
Hello lovelies! Was your Thanksgiving adequately gluttonous? I discovered a marvelous recipe for something called the Perfect Turkey (a Wild Turkey Manhattan with both sweet and dry vermouth), and it kicked off my holiday season just right. And here it is, the weekend all [...]

Cocktail Party Primer (Episode #13): They Said I Was a Fool to Buy All the Ken Burns DVDs, but Who’s Laughing Now?

Mostly Martha is back with another hilarious installment of the Cocktail Party Primer.  She cracks me up.  Show the love!

So apparently, there’s some kind of strike or something going on. Know anything about it? I mean, it’s such a minor thing I’m sure you probably haven’t heard anything at all— who am I kidding? [...]

Cocktail Party Primer (Episode #12): Girls and Nerds, and Other Stuff I’ve Got Theories About

Has a busy week at work/school/jail left you with little time to catch up on the latest TV news?  Fear not, the GMMR Cocktail Party Primer is back to fill you in all of that’s happening in the world of TV.
Over to you, Martha… 
I spent the week watching “documentaries” about vampires on the History Channel [...]

Cocktail Party Primer (Episode #11): Do We Have to Call it Meurte Laughlin Now?

My apologies to Drew Carey and verbal (from the comments last week). You take one little nacho break at the end of The Price is Right and you miss the ever-important admonition to spay and neuter our pets. And then you feel like an idiot. I promise, from now on, if the urge for a [...]