Rachel Maddow and Her Girlfriend Give Up TV on Weekends

People Magazine ^ | 4-6-10

[Justaham]

Rachel Maddow doesn't bring her work home with her.

The MSNBC host, 37, and her artist girlfriend Susan Mikula spend each weekend at their quaint home three hours north of New York in Western Massachusetts, and it doesn't have cable – or even a television.

"We realized that the two of us have the TV Disease," explains Mikula, 52. "Rachel can't have one because she'd watch it all the time!" Instead, they enjoy the solitude and home-cooked meals Mikula prepares.

Maddow does have a small TV in their tiny New York City apartment, but Mikula only uses it "so that I can watch her on Friday nights before I come pick her up."

The couple met in 1999, when Maddow, who then worked odd jobs, was hired to do yard work on Mikula's property in the Berkshires.

"It was very Desperate Housewives," jokes Maddow of how their relationship began.

[Politicalmom]

Double EW!

And I’ll raise you an “Ick. Ack! PATOOOIEEE!!”

[Politicalmom]

I guess it’s time to clean up that fantasy life, or every time you’ll see THAT. :p

Heehehee

[JaguarXKE]

I just threw up in my mouth.

[Politicalmom]

!!!

I’m telling your mother. :P

[Maverick68]

No wonder she/he’s so angry...

[Apercu]

MY EYES....MY EYES!!!!!!!

[Lee'sGhost]

Why is the dorkie kid with glasses hugging his mom so tightly?

[dfwgator]

Rachel looks like Jim J Bullock in that pic.

[Politicalmom]

You owe me a new monitor. Big time!

[angcat]

That’s a women on the right? No wonder Islam hates us. We are a bunch of sickies.

[JenB987]

Tell my grandma, too. She makes cracks like this all the time! lol

:)

[JohnBrowdie]

heh. we could end muslim radicalism in an afternoon if we could convince them that all 72 of their virgins are going to look like rachel maddow.

[Politicalmom]

Methinks I’d like your grandma. :)

[vpintheak]

You got it.

[JenB987]

I walked into her house one day and before she even said hi she threw an US Magazine on the table and said, “What’s all this about George Clooney being engaged. He’s not engaged. Everyone knows he sucks ****s.” I said, “GRAM!!” She said, “What?”

lol They get wiley in their old age.

[RichInOC]

Rachel Maddow, the early years...

[Sloth]

She looks like Jim J. Bullock from Ted Knight’s old ‘Too Close for Comfort’ show.

[Sloth]

Rachel looks like Jim J Bullock in that pic.

LOL, I just posted the same thing.

[N. Theknow]

Rachel Maddow and Her Girlfriend Give Up TV on Weekends

So, these snobs think transvestites are only good enough for weekdays?

[nolongerademocrat]

That’s true MSNBC doesn’t really count.