Good Morning, Class!

You know that old saying, "You learn something new every day?" Well, I tend to feel, for me anyway, that this is a blatant overstatement. Most days I'm lucky to learn ANYTHING...unless you want to count how many times and in how many different ways I learn that Rachel Ray needs to untuck her shirts so as not to appear so short or stocky. Seriously, honey, I cook with my shirt untucked all the time, and the tragic consequences of getting the hem of your shirt caught in the oven door are neither as tragic nor as consequential as you may have heard.

In any event, when I find that I DO learn something new, it is such a suprise and of such note, that I can literally (well, okay, not literally, but the literally that actually means figuratively) see the lightbulb over my head. Today was one of those days. And because I love all of you....all six of you...especially you, Stalker Boy (thanks for joining us)...who come here to read the sometimes witty, often completely random, thoughts that run through my head, I thought I would share what I learned with you today, so you can say that you learned something today too. Are you ready? Here we go:

What I learned today is..........


....Balthazar Getty is NOT, in fact, Liev Schreiber. I know. Stunning, isn't it? And yet, I only just today figured that out.

I started watching Brothers and Sisters with McMama during my vacation to her homeland. It only took one episode for me to get completely sucked in. It has its flaws. Being a new show, it's still trying to find its footing. But it's got potential, and some incredible actors starring in it. And for the last month, I have thought that one of those actors was Liev Schreiber, playing one of the titular brothers. "OH!" I would say to McMama, "Did you see how Liev's character totally turned his back on his other brother in that last episode? That was cooooooooooold!" And then we'd move on to talking about something else and it would never occur to me that I had not seen, in any of the credits, Liev Schreiber's name pop up. Until I was sitting on the couch today, doing my best impression of a bump on a log (an impression I have perfected through many, many hours of intense practice,) watching the episode I taped last night on my new lover, the DVR, and I saw the name "Balthazar Getty" flitter across my screen.

"Hmmm..." I thought to myself. "That name sounds familiar. I should imdb him." And imdb him I did. And boy, didn't I feel like an idiot. Because this guy?



Is not the same as this guy.



This guy?



Is Balthazar Getty, one of the stars of Brothers and Sisters...the show I've been watching for the past month.

This guy?



Is Liev Schreiber. Star of other things, but not one of the stars of Brothers and Sisters...the show I've been watching for the past month.

You can see how I made the mistake, right? I mean, they DO look sort of alike, right? It's not just me, is it? I mean, I know that in the face of overwhelming hotness, my brain cells are in the habit of freezing up like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming, yet overwhelmingly hot, car. But confusing Balthazar Getty and Liev Schreiber is not a complete stretch is it? Well, even if it was, today I learned the difference. Which is probably a good thing, because with these pictures up on my blog now, I doubt I will be doing anything but looking at them for the next week, and while I'm okay with not learning something new EVERY day, I like knowing that I can still learn something new every once in a while.