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Guess who sat in the first seat of the first row for a taping of The View yesterday?

Guessed yet?

Well, knowing my clever readers you guessed me, and you were correct. Good job.

You should consider auditioning for Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Tom Kelly, who is the warm-up comic, hooked me up with the tickets and I literally had the best seat in the house. It was a pre-taped show that will air today, so if you watch closely I'm sure you'll see me in my blue shirt, on Whoopie's side of the table. Tom even gave me a shout-out during warm-up and I must say it's nice to have 200 middle-aged women give you a round of applause. And as a bonus if you listen close enough during Hot Topics you will notice Joy Behar giving us a little mention as well.

In Pope news, the Pope is about to get in a helicopter and it is being shown on all major cable news outlets. Seems like they'd only need to show that if he tripped while getting out of a helicopter, but I guess that's why I'm not a cable news producer.

The Padres and Rockies played a 22-inning game last night in San Diego. Can you possibly imagine the boredom of that? No, no, you can't.

The NBA Playoffs begin tomorrow and for the first time in 7 years my team, the Nets, won't be playing. I guess that means I'll be able to get outside more in the spring this year. Seems like a fair trade-off.

Speaking of getting out, here we go...