This Evenings Dinner Conversation

Tonight the dinner conversation was a simple delight. Most dinner conversations are driven by my mom and are usually focused on the happenings of TV land... mostly reality shows. But tongiht we were treated to a special opening event: chapter 2342 of 'Do you know a good job for Jamie...?' Tonight's suggested job was 'back up musician in a rock band'. I'll be hitting the road in the morning in search of a band that needs a 33 year old guy who can play a guitar with mediocre skill and has a repertoire of 15 songs. When I told her that I did not want to play 'Do you know a good job for Jamie?' she replied curtly with, 'You are nasty and impossible to talk to.' And I hadn't even brought up the fact that she doesn't even think her son is good enough to front a band. Thanks for the No Confidence vote.

So we moved on to a recapitulation of last week's reality shows. It is a new season, bitches! The conversation centered around Amarosa from the Aprrentice show with Trump. Apparently it's an All-Celebrity cast this year including the pseudo-celebrity Amarosa (Am I spelling that correctly? There's a local Italian bread company with the same name and I can't help thinking she's can't be Italian). Anywho, Amarosa took charge of a team of women and decided that using celebrity to raise money was utterly unnecessary, probably because she has so little celeb juice. Her team was comprised of a bunch of actress ladies who fell right in line with little or no argument. But the other team had the old-style, New York, Jewish guile of one Gene Simmons. Simmons went grassroots, called up some well funded buddies and raised X times as much money as the actresses in the same time window. Don't mess with Gene in or out of costume.

Lastly, and most unfortunately, I was drop kicked by the following response to, 'Mom, do you know what jail bait means?' She had just used the term in conversation and I was curious if she knew what she was saying.

Her response was 'They used to say I was your dad's jailbait'.

I finished my dinner in silence and can NOT wait to be gone. I'm officially looking for a position with company managing marketing so if you know anything please help me. Please.

God bless.

The Backup Singer.