I have to thank someone very special for the reference: Haf-Haf. Those are long a's, btw -- not to be suggestive of a diminutive person.

So I took a departure from reality to discuss reality TV the other day. I have another departure to make. This balances things out, too, methinks.

I stumbled across this show on Discovery channel a few years ago. It was a Lazy Sunday, and like any good person who pretends to be smart roll through Discovery, National Geographic, TLC, CNN.

All of the sudden my screen transports me to a foreign world. It's the Bering Sea. On a crab fishing boat. These guys are CRAZY! I was hooked (ha ha -- they use big boxes called pots though). I show it to my sweet gentile wife, and she's also transfixed. Suddenly we have a new show that we have got. to. watch.

It becomes a summer ritual for us.

To the point (no faking) that we even setup her parent's Tivo to record it last summer when we stayed with them for the 10 days we were homeless (between houses that we sold/bought). And it helped make that time sane -- it was our happy place.

So we have another season of Deadliest Catch with even more completely insane guys to entertain us.

Note - NBC issued a Cease and Desist to YouTube to pull the f'real version of Lazy Sunday. Bastards.