It Might Have Been the WEIRDEST Anchor Shift I've Ever Done

I can't believe Evelyn Macko and I got through this morning's News run with our faculties intact!

Now the two of us have been doing this job for a long time, so you'd think a pair of veteran Toronto radio news hounds would be able to knit something together that resembled a major market product. On most days, I'd like to think we managed that. But today?

OMG (as the kids like to txt!)

We literally spent the better part of the pre-dawn hours banging our heads against the anchor desk trying to come up with a line-up that made sense. And the mushy remains either highlighted our cerebral genius or the obvious evidence of self inflicted brain damage.

I still can't believe our top five stories were:

• Oprah's pending announcement that she's ending her daytime network show.
• The second "Twilight" movie New Moon premiered last night
• Major retailers are starting their Boxing Day Sales now, and it's not even December!
• Rumours that WWE 2012 will be held in Toronto
• Canada Post says kids will still get return letters from Santa!

...and we threw in news on the death of of Charles Greb...(ya, the workboot guy), and a good dose of civic flagellation over the ROM Crystal being the 8th Ugliest building in the world.

THAT WAS IT!

No murders, no raping or pillaging, no bombs or bleeding, and, believe it or not, NO H1N1!!

It was the least "newsy" news run I think I've ever done. But, you know what? It's exactly what most of you will be talking about this weekend. (How many versions of "Oprah-Uma" will you hear?). As goofy as it all may be, it's kind of refreshing.

Now I'm going to take the next two days to heal the head banging bumps!