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Confession: I am a fan of High Fidelity and Dharma and Greg. I suppose the former is not as embarassing as the latter.  Needless to say, creating Top Five Lists is one of my favorite activities.  But we'll get to that later. 

In preparation for the wedding, Marky and I have decided to drink copious amounts of wine and indulge in guilty pleasures.  A couple of nights ago, we rented Season 1 of Dharma and Greg.  This is not one of TV's greatest hits, admittedly, but we know just about every episode from late night network reruns.  Irony: We are only familiar with the show because we were too broke for cable a couple years ago, yet we are paying to watch it now.  When Dharma and Greg got taken off the late night roster, we worried that nothing could fill the void that Dharma, Greg, Abby, Larry, Kitty and Edward left behind.  Enter Malcolm in the Middle... but that's another blog. 

At the close of the third episode we indulged in last night, the Chuck Lorre vanity card popped up.  For anyone (including two-days-ago me) who doesn't know what a vanity card is, it's that screen that comes up at the end of a show like Oprah's HARPO thing, or Rosie O'Donnell's Kid Ro cartoon.  The Chuck Lorre vanity card is a page long diatribe that we were never able to read because it is only on the screen for a second.  After watching the show for something like a year, we never thought to tape the bastard and pause to read it.  We paused it on the DVD last night!  Chuck Lorre isn't necessarily a great comedian or philosopher, but he talks about his dog, and beer, and people who have screwed him in the business.  It's a good laugh. 

Back to Top Five Lists and guilty pleasures... I bought the new Justin Timberlake album.  If I were to list the Top Five Album Opening Songs, "FUTURESEX/LOVESOUND" would certainly place.