Make sure you watch the Today show on NBC Friday at 8:30am to find out who your Carnival Dream’s Godmother will be.

Enjoy.

So, like most of this city I was watching the baseball World Series between the two countries of Philadelphia and New York. Actually, I think I have actually been watching the world spitting championships.

Bloody hell, can these people spit. The rule seems to be that everybody has to be chewing something, at all times — gum, tobacco, fingernails, toenails, boogers and a fan or two. And not in regular style quantities, either but in dinosaur portions. There was a guy out there last night who apparently has the rather unfortunate name of Mr. A. Rod who had a wad of gum in his cheek the size of a puppy. Actually, it might even have been a puppy. And what goes in invariably comes out. Then they cut to the manager just as he unleashed a stream of tobacco juice the width of Hudson. Then just as I was recovering from this charming sight the camera a player called Derek Cheater who was shelling peanuts with his teeth and lips and regurgitating the shrapnel like some kind of demented human beaver.
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