Well, my stint at “The Apprentice” is over. After serving two weeks in office, the people elected to give me a second term. But now it’s over, and it’s time to write my memoirs. There are so many interesting stories, starting with…
… oh yeah, there were those non-disclosure agreements. The ones that make sure that if I divulge even the tiniest details of my weeks Inside, I can be stripped of all my possessions, including several vital organs.
But still, I can let you in on a little of the journey, so long as I have my lawyers vet it before I post. So here, then, is my story.
From the first, working at a reality television program was a little more xxxx than I expected. I found that between the Trump show and the Martha Stewart show, there was a lot of xxxx to be xxxxxx. Interestingly, this proved to be more xxx for the xxxxxxx, because of our deal with xxxxx in xxxxxx.
So imagine my surprise when xxxx came in and announced that xxxxxxx was now our xxxxx, and everyone had to xxxxxx our xxxxxx in xxxxxxx for the xxxxxx-xxxxx! Yes, there I was xxxxxx in xxx without xxxx or even xxxxxx xx my xxxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxx llamas!
Xxxxxxxxx, everyone xxx xxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxxx xxx but xxxx xxxx xxx xxxxxxx was xxxxx. Danny Devito xxx xxxxx xxx rum and cokes before xxxxxx xxx in drag, but xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx said, “Forget xxxxx - it’s xxxx xxx xxxxx ducks!”
That’s just a taste of what went down. Stay tuned for more, as I return to the world of the sporadically employed.





37 comments
Auros
March 4, 2005 at 11:22 pm
1Llamas and ducks?
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
Don
March 4, 2005 at 11:35 pm
2This looks as if it had been released under the Freedom of Information Act, Adam.
But you need to stop using the x’s and just black it out.
Ananna
March 5, 2005 at 12:23 am
3Hey, Adam went through a lot of work un-blacking-out all those x-es.
Love,
Hanna
scott
March 5, 2005 at 12:24 am
4Wow! It’s even more exciting than I imagined. Did he really make you xxxx his xxxx? and is it all xXxxXXxx-xxxx like they say it is? hers too?
steter
March 5, 2005 at 7:22 am
5.
kenllama
March 5, 2005 at 9:31 am
6I am rather concerned about the fate of my camelid brethren. xx xxxxxx’s will be hearing from my lawyers if xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxx. Even xxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxx dandruff-control is no excuse for xxxxxxxx xxx xxxx xx xxxxxxxx.
Llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos everywhere are prepared to xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxx!
Harold
March 5, 2005 at 9:52 am
7Wow, it’s like Mad Libs. Come to think of it, most Freedom Of Information releases are probably more fun if they’re treated like Mad Libs!
Don
March 5, 2005 at 4:17 pm
8Hey!
Some of these comments look as if they could be plants!
Are those folks secretly on your payroll, Adam?
You wouldn’t shill us, would you?
P.S.
Congrats on an impressive come from behind win, Adam!
Murray
March 5, 2005 at 8:00 pm
9Just let us know when we have to watch.
SeattleDan
March 5, 2005 at 8:11 pm
10Danny DeVito, rum and cokes and ducks? This sounds like everymans dream!
ginny
March 5, 2005 at 9:22 pm
11“Yes, there I was xxxxxx in xxx without xxxx or even xxxxxx xx my xxxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxx llamas!”
What? Those bastages at Amazing Race swiped your llamas (or pre-haps they repatriated them back to Peru).
Damn addictive reality shows.
Don
March 5, 2005 at 10:54 pm
12Oh no!
Not Murray, too!
How could I have been so inattentive?
Don
March 5, 2005 at 10:55 pm
13Is there anybody out there but me and you, Adam?
Don
March 5, 2005 at 11:43 pm
14I’m starting to feel like the guy in “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, Adam.
Will Murray point at me and scream?
[I know that I have some neurotic and perhaps even paranoid tendencies … but THIS is crazy!
Or maybe it’s just me and I just need some meds to make me feel better.
Maybe??)
Jerry
March 6, 2005 at 3:48 am
15This post is just too scary…it’s like looking at the world through Bush’s mind. Except, unlike him, I see the ‘x’s! If you know what I mean…
Murray
March 6, 2005 at 9:06 am
16* pointing in his general direction*
DON!! CALM DOWN!!!
Sorry to disappoint you. The Felber/Segal ticket/administration doesn’t pay nearly as well as the Bush administration for its shills, so I’m just taking Deep Throat’s advice, “Follow the Money”.
Nothing personal.
jackd
March 6, 2005 at 11:24 am
17I’m sure this week’s victory on WWDTM is a comfort to Adam. Even though PJ O’Rourke threw the final round by going into “don’t give a shiat” mode by the third question. Was there more drinking than usual before showtime?
Harold
March 6, 2005 at 12:19 pm
18Don, just relax. You must be tired. Take a nap. Go to sleep. Everything will be better if you just go to sleep…
Adam, if you’re just “sporadically employed”, how will you continue to pay us to say nice things on your site? Unless, of course, WWDTM is handing out some phat appearance fees!
I think the story of your unsuccessful 2004 campaign would make an excellent book (or, more likely, book product) culminating in the world-famous “Concession Speech”. How about printing out a bunch of your entries, throwing them in a box, and taking it over to the folks who published John Stewart’s book? Then get ready to make like Uncle Scrooge in his money bin.
Don
March 6, 2005 at 1:01 pm
19I got a good night’s sleep last night and today I’m feeling much better.
I don’t understand what could have gotten me to act so strangely.
(And I didn’t even have to change my address.)
tess
March 6, 2005 at 2:37 pm
20Body snatchers? That would explain Dennis Miller, except it was more like a brain excavation.
PC Pete
March 6, 2005 at 3:16 pm
21Don, that’s Freedom FROM Information, not OF Information. XXs are mandatory, like in most of Dubya’s speeches. Although, to be perfectly PC, Adam _should_ have used xy’s in addition to the xx’s, since xx’s are so easypeasy to decode. (Just ask Noah. He can decode Bushy-Wushy’s xx’s so easily it looks like child’s play. Oh wait, it is…)
Now if I can just get that damn llama song outta my head… ….gnnnn….. nope, it’s like “The Girl from Ipanema”. Damn. Auros, you rotten swine, you! You’ve drownded me in llamas!
Mary
March 7, 2005 at 9:15 am
22After spending a week dealing with the stupid requirements of the Office of Homeland InSecurity, this Freedom From Information piece was just what I needed.
As for the llamas– I’m a knitter, so all that comes to mind is yarn to rival cashmere
bramster
March 7, 2005 at 10:09 am
23For us poor frozen uninitiated northerners, what the XXXX is WWDTM?
Johnnyboy
March 7, 2005 at 11:34 am
24WWDTM = Weapon of Wild Derision and Terrific Mirth
Ann
March 7, 2005 at 1:01 pm
25Shame on you, Johnnyboy. A sincere request for information, and this is how you respond? Do you work for the current administration?
Murray
March 7, 2005 at 4:03 pm
26bramster,
sort of like asking if Paul McCartney had a band before Wings.
(check out OUT THERE)
Ann,
Way to answer the question while not answering the question.
Mary
March 7, 2005 at 4:09 pm
27WWDTM = Wait, wait, don’t tell me
Harold
March 7, 2005 at 5:26 pm
28Bramster, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” is a weekly news quiz show on National Public Radio. In the tradition of great old radio quiz shows like “My Word”, there’s a lot of screwing around and some real information tossed about. Adam is a regular contestent and frequent CHAM-PEEN. There is a link to the WWDTM website on the right-hand sidebar of the main page, in the “Links” section, in the “Out There” subsection. (Oh, THAT’S what Murray meant.)
adam
March 7, 2005 at 6:11 pm
29I agree - my victory this week was entirely due to PJ’s amazingly entertaining meltdown. What got edited out was that after his round I requested that half of my points be given to him. Silliness like that ought ot be rewarded.
Murray
March 7, 2005 at 7:44 pm
30Adam,
I’m sure the handful of ludes you slipped into PJ’s pre taping half gallon of Vodka had nothing to do with it.
Mike Z
March 7, 2005 at 9:41 pm
31Now that the weekend is past it doesn’t matter anymore, but I’m wondering what is the proper etiquette for giving away the WWDTM winner before everyone has had a chance to listen to the show.
Granted, it isn’t something mega-important like the Academy Awards or the Apprentice, but it’s still nice to be able to share in the intense drama that is the “Lightening Fill-In-The-Blank” round, especially when our favorite panelist pulls off an improbable come-from-behind victory!
Don
March 7, 2005 at 10:18 pm
32Sorry, Mike Z
I wasn’t in my RIGHT mind for a while there.
I’m much much better now, though.
How long should one reasonably wait before extending — congratulations, condolences — whatever?
Mike Z
March 7, 2005 at 10:51 pm
33Apologies heartily accepted!!
Hhhmmm….I guess the proper thing might be to wait until Sunday night. By then the show has been through it’s normal airing and it’s been available on the internet for a while.
Thanks!
Allison in Santa Cruz
March 8, 2005 at 1:12 am
34I just wanna say that if there’s anything that would make me even come close to watching “The Apprentice” is a chance to see our boy, Adam. Or at least to see his name in the credits.
And damn, it sounds like I missed the end of a most excellent WWDTM this weekend! I had to leave at 11:50 to meet my students for a tidepooling trip.
Murray
March 8, 2005 at 11:06 am
35Allison,
That’s why Al Gore invented the internet.
Saturday at 11AM is very inconvenient for us so we listen at our leisure on Sunday off the net.
Allison in Santa Cruz
March 9, 2005 at 1:33 pm
36I know, Murray, and I could always just listen to the rebroadcast on Sunday evening at 8 p.m., but I’ve gotten used to spending my Saturday mornings with the animals at the marine lab. I sit at the microscope and get caught up on cleaning, with the radio blasting Car Talk and WWDTM, and the people walking past the lab poke their heads in and wonder why I’m laughing so hard.
What can I say, I’m a geek. Besides, it just feels different listening from the radio instead of through a computer.
jackd
March 10, 2005 at 4:51 pm
37Darn it, I never thought I’d be giving away the results early.
But for those of you who hadn’t heard the show, wasn’t it great to anticipate PJ’s blowoff? Sorta like hearing they’re rebroadcasting Terry Gross’ interview with Gene Simmons, right? Sorta?
Oh. Well, sorry.