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This week's episode of Still Single, Season 3, Ep. 8, was delayed by, let's just call it an act of Christmas charity. I will tell you this:  During this episode we spent almost the entire time with the Hardy Boys while they attempted to solve The Mystery of The Mad Crapper and Who Soiled the Spunk King's Bathtub? During this episode, which aired during Christmas week,  I gave up focusing on why Eric Schaeffer's potty might back up to his tub.  Or why on earth anyone would intentionally do this at all.  It really made Eric seem most mad to waste film footage on it. Frankly, this episode reminded me of what raising boys must be like.  I have girls.  The issues, while just as ludicrous, are, in fact, vastly different.  This week I was reminded that boys really like talking about bodily functions and sex. In the end sitting down to try to articulate, for this wee blog, just what the hell they were all doing in this week's show seemed like a perverse waste of m

I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL SINGLE , SEASON THREE -- SHOW NUMBER ONE: Meet Eric Schaeffer: He has a "Semi auto-biographical" show about him not finding true love or anything resembling it for many a season on Showtime.  God only knows why. Here's an older promo for his former seasons.  I can't find one new to put here.  Guess there's no money for promotion at the network this year. Meet some of his loyal entourage (Who happen to really be the main reasons I now watch this.) Meet Mark Ebner  Meet Mark Ebner, a feisty die-hard investigative journalist, and self-described " New York Times Best Selling Author , " who also was Schaeffer's college pal way back when.  Schaeffer wisely added Mark to the show last season, presumably, to have a "straight man" to play off.   What Schaeffer may not have expected was that the onscreen presence of Ebner, who is so intuitively comfortable tooting his own horn, onl