A friend called yesterday to tell us she had seen the Drive-Time commercial that Martin did in December. The chain is only in the Southwest US, so we'll only be catching it on our local stations. She saw it on the channel 7 news, so we spent much of the day perusing local channels trying to catch it. I'd forgotten how awful the local news is. Overhyped celebrity gossip and plastic surgery miracles top the newshour. And it goes downhill from there. L.A. has a reputation for being shallow. I don't know how anyone could dispute it. I'm not saying that the Kansas City local news was a whole lot better, but they didn't call the newest tummy-tuck procedure "news."

And after a torturous day of watching news waiting for commercial breaks, we never did catch it. Boy am I looking forward to the news tonight.