26 Sep 2006
It’s Nuglicious!
Nuggets:
• You will be happy to know that I am caught up on Grey’s Anatomy. I will stop talking about it now.
• So Top Model started, only I didn’t watch the first hour because of all the squealing and tears. I looooooooove the predictable trajectory of the reality/contest show, how the person who wins one week will always be in the bottom two the next week (see: Sebelia, Jeffrey). I love that the person this happened to has an embarrassing self-created nickname (“Melrose”), I love that the evil girl is so obviously the evil girl, I love that there are geeky, Rory Gilmore-esque twins, I love the weird black-haired girl, and I love Ms. J. Alexander.
• Gilmore Girls starts tonight! Lorelai and Luke and et cetera!
• We gave Pete a bath on Sunday. He hasn’t had a sink bath since he was a tiny kitten, but he sort of smells like dirt so we went for it. He gets high marks all around for accepting his fate and not cutting up, except to try to escape a couple of times. Larry gets medium marks for dumping that cup of water on Pete at such an angle that it rolled right off the cat and down my pants.
• Last night in my short story class our instructor encouraged us to “put good characters in [our] stories.” People: I don’t know if I can keep sitting there.
• Have y’all seen this book, MadLiberals? It combines two of my favorite things: MadLibs and making fun of George Bush.
• I still think that I. Etta Hamburgher is funny.
• Someone emailed me yesterday named Rex Ward. The subject line of his email said this:
Rex Ward: Researcher
I am printing up business cards as we speak that say:
I. Etta Hamburgher: Researcher
• I’m reading Friendship: An Expose. I’m not far into it but it is the kind of book that I love: a personal, non-expert examination of a concept no one has really thought about examining.
September 26th, 2006 at 10:59
[proper name]: [job title] is kind of a badass way to subject an email, no?
from now on: J.Bubba Cots: International Man of Mystery, Barrister.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:29
I think I can’t read your website for the next six or eight months (however long the season of Gilmore Girls lasts), unless I somehow magically watch 4 seasons of it on DVD and then catch up. Look what you’ve done to me!
Sincerely,
Mix J. Malloy Eiffel: Sentimental Television Viewer
September 26th, 2006 at 13:46
OMG YOU WATCHED ALL THE GREY’S please write me and spoil it now. Seriously!
September 26th, 2006 at 15:07
Here is one of the names on the business cards I was proofing for an Alabama hospital:
Stephen A. Fox, Controller
That’s pretty rad.
September 26th, 2006 at 15:11
Oh, and our instructor also said “Hemingway wrote a lot of literary works.”
PS. there is no such thing as a “mind plot”.
September 27th, 2006 at 09:23
In college, I was set up on a blind date with a guy whose business card had his name, and then underneath it said “Poet/Engineer”. There was no address or phone number because: he worked at a snow cone stand.
September 27th, 2006 at 09:34
I am so jealous of that story. I may steal it. I’m just saying.
September 27th, 2006 at 11:03
Dear new writers of Gilmore Girls:
If you’re hoping to reassure your viewers that the show won’t go totally down the tube without its original creators around to supervise things, then it was probably a bad idea to give Babette a 45-minute monologue right there at the beginning of the show.
Also, please kill Sookie.
Best,
PF
September 27th, 2006 at 17:24
After Ramona broke Poet/Engineer’s heart, we forever referred to him equation-style ‘Poet/Engineer=Dork’. No one remembers his real name.