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We were only vaguely aware that ex-con domestic goddess Martha Stewart had another show besides her soon-to-be-canceled Apprentice spinoff, but a reader recaps an instant classic TV moment from yesterday's Martha:

Thanks to TiVo, I got to watch one of the most awkward transitions in my television watching experience, and you should check it out.

Whoopi Goldberg was the guest, and for the first time in years, I experienced her as a genuine person talking about her recent experiences in Biloxi, post-Katrina. She was sincere, talking admiringly of the generosity of people who had lost everything managing to show generosity and compassion to those with even less.

And Martha cuts her off: "So, you want to learn how to fold a T- shirt." Fuck generosity and Biloxi, there are t-shirts to fold. It was amazing.

While Stewart's apparent jarring indifference to Goldberg's story is initially horrifying, this isn't any run-of-the-mill, pussified Gap technique we're talking about. How was she supposed to concentrate on the seamless execution of her Martha Stewart Living Patented Shirt-Folding Process™ with Whoopi yammering in her ear about tragedy and suffering? Sometimes we're all guilty of not trying to get inside the head of the multimillionaire lifestyle guru, so white and so rich, to see things from her perspective. For shame.

UPDATE: If, like us, you can't make any sense of the inscrutable shirt-folding diagram on Stewart's website, this video shows the Japanese doing it better. International shirt-folding patents are obviously not enforceable in the United States.