Lee, come over and you can have Pimms.
It just occurred to me that I don't have to make an entire 32 ounce Pimms just because I have a 32 ounce cup. So I have a bit more.
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Apr 20, 2013 6:14:25 pm PDT #19926 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
JZ - Apr 20, 2013 6:14:49 pm PDT #19927 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Did we know about this tumblr?
We did not, but we surely are pleased to make its acquaintance!
Lee - Apr 20, 2013 6:18:38 pm PDT #19928 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Lee, come over and you can have Pimms.
I totally want to do that.
Hey, I am going to be in San Diego in early June--wanna come down? Cass and I are doing the Wild Animal park, or whatever they are calling it these days.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2013 6:38:05 pm PDT #19929 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. I just caught Katie Crown doing standup, and it was remarkably painful to watch. Cursory googling is all the expected good press, but I'm scared that if I click on a youtube link of her other material, it will be the same screechy awkward sort of stuff she just handed over on BBCA, which wasn't offering a particularly high or apparently stressful bar.
sarameg - Apr 20, 2013 6:58:15 pm PDT #19930 of 30001
Pumpkin is resting against my foot, snoring. It tickles.
billytea - Apr 20, 2013 7:11:09 pm PDT #19931 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Speaking of standup, today is the last day of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (one of the highlights of living here, really). Last night Biyi and I saw one of Australia's best-known comedians, Wil Anderson (host of the Gruen Transfer). It was the funniest show I've seen in maybe fifteen years (since I saw the Irish comedian Ed Byrne explaining the plot of Cosi Fan Tutti).
Example: he recounted how he's no longer invited to the Logies (Australia's equivalent of the Emmys, and if you ever want to understand just how small Australia is compared to the US, compare the two). He went a couple of times, got in trouble each time, so now he doesn't go, "partly my choice but mostly their choice." One of the occasions when he did go, one of the headline acts was John Mayer. This was around the time Mayer gave the interview to Playboy. Wil Anderson tweeted:
"In front row for John Mayer. I may not take home gold logie but now have herpes."
There was something of a media furore about all this, the odd act of pearl-clutching and such ("COMEDIAN MAKES JOKE ON TWITTER"). One journo called him for an interview about it, and asked, in breathless tones, "Why did you say John Mayer had herpes?" Wil was fed up with it all by then, and replied,
"LOOK, I was DRUNK, ok?! ...I couldn't remember how to spell 'syphilis'!"
Good, very funny show.
bon bon - Apr 20, 2013 7:26:50 pm PDT #19932 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I heard Wil Anderson on a podcast here and he was hilarious.
billytea - Apr 20, 2013 7:42:57 pm PDT #19933 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I've found him to be one of the most consistently funny comedians on the circuit. His latest show certainly didn't disappoint.
Cass - Apr 20, 2013 7:43:23 pm PDT #19934 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Hey, I am going to be in San Diego in early June--wanna come down? Cass and I are doing the Wild Animal park, or whatever they are calling it these days.
Yes! Come down and we'll all pretend to get educated but mostly make heart-eyes while also getting educated.
DavidS - Apr 20, 2013 9:12:08 pm PDT #19935 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Having been on Hec's tour, I can say that there will be a lot of happy LA folk out there today.
It was fun! And well received. I got to talk to a woman who saw the rare production of Waits' Alice at BAM, which she said was a transformative experience for her. Cool!
Less cool, driving to LA yesterday and driving back today. So bleary on I-5 at the 3/4 mark, but then pulled over for gas and to pop in a new Harry Potter disc and was able grind it out.
Six hours on the road just makes my hips so sore, though.
But I'm home again and Matilda waited up for me.