When I was in college, I had a friend whose name was Michael Sean Patrick or Patrick Micheal Sean or Micheal Matthew Paul or something. I can’t remember. He had three first names and that’s all you need to know. Anyway, after a hard night of drinking followed by a lengthy day of classes (SFSU — home of the functioning alcoholic) he’d say he was Mom Tired. And I would laugh. I’D LAUGH, INTERNET. I’d laugh and then, every year or so I’d go to the lady doctor and lie back and stare at the waterfall/tropical beach/ three wee puppies in a basket picture tacked to the ceiling and you know what I would not say? I would not say, uhhh doctor, would it be possible to, while you’re scraping my cervix, to just lob off my ovaries because I know that one day I will be PUNISHED by the fires of hell for laughing when Dylan Brandon David said Mom Tired.

Internet, I have to tell you, I am Mom Tired. To the max. My measles-rubella-scarlet-fever-cancer-monkey-plague is still harshing my mellow (does anyone remember Paulie Shore? I wish I didn’t, but I’m from Southern California and it’s one of many crosses I bear) and AND I was a true journalist and stayed up past my bedtime on Saturday night to interview Belladonna, star of hundreds of adult films, including The Greatest Asswhores Ever! (Please, Internet Search Gods, go easy on me. And yes, that exclamation point is part of the title) and The ConAssuer. I can never correctly spell that word either.

My interview will be up on PDX Pipeline and I’ll link to it here. But in my interview, I asked Belladonna how she balances a full-time acting and directing career while having a small child. Yes, she is a mom. And she said something, but all I could think was, oh my god, you’re wearing clothes and I’ve seen right up your bottom and you’re just talking to me like I haven’t seen up your bottom. She was very sweet and charming. She gave me two hugs. Anyway, I don’t know what she said about balancing family and work, but I should have paid closer attention because maybe I wouldn’t be so damn Mom Tired today.

Ken, Stoogie — comments are open if you want to explain to my readers about Belladonna and the baseball bat.