Why am I watching Golden Girls? Well, it's an annoying story. I was supposed to go back to Davis today, Hellbunny in tow. I was going to leave my mom's, escape the Christmas malaise, and plot my escape to L.A. in order to hopefully start my career. But before we drove back to Davis, Hellbunny wanted to stop by her old high school to visit her teachers and whatnot. Fine. So I dropped her off, and not two blocks later the car crapped out and would not restart.

Fuck.

Let's put this into further perspective. I just got this car. The reason I got the car is so I could go to L.A. with it. If it doesn't work, then I can't go to L.A., which defeats the purpose of getting the car and also defeats the $1600 I spent on it.

It could be worse. It's just the timing belt, which can be catastrophic. Luckily, I'm told it's a non-interference engine, which means that the timing belt breaking doesn't explode the valves or some shit like that. I don't know shit about cars.

But anyway, I can't go back to Davis, and I sure can't go to L.A. in the cars as it is. Hopefully this will all be fine tomorrow. But in the meantime, I'm back at my mom's house, at the mercy of my sister's television choices, and so I'm watching Golden Girls. But hey, it's not all bad. This episode is guest starring A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez) from Saved By The Bell!

Here's Lifetime's summary of the episode:

Dorothy becomes very excited and proud when Mario, a Latin boy she is tutoring, wins first place in a local writing contest for a story he wrote about his life in America. After the newspaper runs a story on Mario, the Immigration and Naturalization Service suspects Mario is in the country illegally and eventually makes him leave. Starring: Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan.

It doesn't even say it's guest starring Mario Lopez! How sad! It's awesome, though, because he plays a character named Mario and this was obviously before Saved By The Bell. I just wonder if this is supposed to be a true life story. I mean, did a young Mario Lopez have to run from La Migra on a regular basis?!

Food for thought.

P.S. I'm going to spoil the story for you. Mario got deported.