It's Like Playing Trivial Pursuit With Gramps

Here in the data center on Election Night 2004, "It's Like Playing Trivial Pursuit With Gramps" was a quip by my boyfriend while watching the excruciating attempt to simulate liveliness by shockingly non-retired old dudes Dan Rather and Ed (Anyone Got Some Weed? Do You Like My Turtleneck? ) Bradley. If you knew the Gramps in question, or had, in fact, played Trivial Pursuit with him, as I have, you'd know the drudgery invoked. Another Charles classic was "Look at this Murderer's Row of Hacks" upon seeing Carlos Brown, ("internet hack"), Larry King ("decrepit hack"), and Jeff Greenfield ("used to have a semi-relevant career hack") babble ad nauseum about how "Ohions care about jobs." They were, I guess, no match for MSNBC's B-level fest with fedora enthusiast Willie Brown and former balletrina Ron Reagan. Anyway, here I am, waiting to see who will be the leader of the Free World and it's a tight race and the votes aren't all in - yet the news coverage on TV is unbelievably banal, tedious and dead. It's weird, Jeeves.