Joaquin Phoenix February 11, 2009

is crazy, and I’m almost as sad as when I found out Heath Ledger died.

Let me back up a bit. 

Since becoming a SAHM, I’ve had to find little portals to the outside world.  When you’re stuck in the house with a toddler all day, you need some form of adult interaction, even if it’s only reading the latest celeb gossip as fast as Eonline can post it.  So I’ve become well versed in celebrity-dom over the past year.  To my credit, I’ve also become a news junkie…when the TV’s not telling Piper to yell “Backpack!” or to find a blue pawprint it’s on whichever news station pisses me off the least on said day. 

There are both up and downsides to this newfound addiction to celeb gossip…the biggest downside being late-night television.  At first I was happy to just check EOnline on my phone 2-3 times a day.  Then, I’d start grabbing People, or US Weekly every so often.  Now, I find myself getting sucked in to these late-night talk shows and I just can’t tear myself away.  I can’t turn it off, but if I leave it on, I can’t fall asleep.  I HAVE to see what the guy that was on Married With Children is doing now.  Jennifer Aniston?  Maybe she’ll leak something about John Mayer!!  Santonio Holmes?  I wonder what he did after the SuperBowl? 

Which brings me to tonight.  I was all set to go to curl up next to Brandon and go to sleep…but then I saw it.  Joaquin Phoenix was going to be on Letterman.  I love Joaquin.  Sure, he’s been acting a little nutty lately.  Sure, he looks like the unabomber.  Sure, he has no future as a hip-hop star.  But oh my hell, he is infuckingsane.  Seriously.  Either that, or he’s on some crazy shit and someone needs to do something.  Watch : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpYk7WGN5Y

Now that I think about it, I’m probably only bummed about his crazyness because I scrapbooked to Walk the Line yesterday for about two hours.