For some reason, the news on Channel 1 (that’s New York 1 to those of us “in the loop, but not that Loop”) was on my TV at 10:17 p.m. tonight, just moments before I pressed play on my cool DVR recording of the Project Runway finale.

I generally hate NY1 because it’s the channel that always just starts playing when my DVR/life partner decides it’s been paused too long. (Because it obviously has the power to decide things. It’s tough being in a relationship with an inanimate object, but we manage to “make it work.”)

NY1 also starts playing when I roll over my remote control and accidentally turn my cable box on and off in the middle of the night. It’s really annoying.

Okay fine. I turn it on and off myself, deliberately, because I’m wide awake in the middle of the night and think the black hole that is the news will serve as a lullaby. I seem to be a little unclear on the definition of “lullaby”. As an added bonus to this TV habit, I also get to torture my neighbors with noise compositions as inexplicable as the saxophone-solo opening song for the NY1 news. The NY1 news plays every 10 minutes. I am begging NY1 to get a new song. That one is OBNOXIOUS.

I did get to see this, though, and somehow NY1’s entire loathsome existence was suddenly all worth it.

I’m glad they were considerate enough to wait until the fifth bullet to mention “mentally challenged.” It’s probably only a minor detail.

Come to think of it, they should add a sixth bullet: “Occasionally guests on Desperate Housewives“

New O.C. tonight, finally. I was beginning to forget what the Cohens’ fake pool looks like. (I remembered: Really fake.)