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| I'm going to a Pink Martini concert in an hour and a half (yay!) and since I waited till the last minute to buy my ticket, I had two delivery options:
-Will call, for a service charge of $2.50
-Email, for a service charge of $4.50
That's right, folks, it costs $2 less for them to print the ticket on fancy ticket paper and hire a human being to hand it to me than to send an email.
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| Both of my brothers came home this weekend to surprise my mom for her birthday, and she decided to take advantage of the occasion by making us take a bunch of pictures. Here, as Tyra would say, is our best result:
Things that were going on before, during, and after the taking of this photo include Benjamin complaining that there wasn't enough room on the couch for three people and starting a slap/poke/general harassment fight with Jonathan as a result, Benjamin moving behind the couch, Benjamin and Jonathan continuing to slap/poke/generally harass each other while I attempted to keep them from doing so (hence all the hand holding and the fact that we're all about to burst out laughing), Benjamin wanting to show off his new class ring, the actual taking of the photo, Benjamin deciding to switch gears and tickle me instead, and me accidentally smacking him in the face and also probably kicking Jonathan as I fell off the couch escaping. Hooray for siblings!
(Also, since it's impossible to tell from this angle, I thought I should point out that in the photo I'm wearing my Dillon football shirt. Go FNL!)
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| Commune with nature? Nah.
It looks like Lauren and I need to do some fine tuning of our communing-with-Shonda
skills. The whole Alex and Addison thing was going eerily according to
our plan for a while, but then it got derailed by plans for the spinoff. The spinoff's very existence served as confirmation of our communing-with-Shonda skills, which was awesome, but the news about it since then has been less than stellar. The casting sounds awesome, naturally -- Grey's is probably the best
cast show on television, so I expected as much. My mom, who has a
massive crush on Taye Diggs, is thrilled, of course. It's the whole
L.A. wellness center premise that's bugging me. I was really excited
about potentially getting to watch Addison go back to the pretty
brownstone she won in the divorce and getting to meet all her old
friends who believe in the healing powers of cocoa. I was complaining
about it the other night -- "Why can't she go to New York and be with
her hot chocolate friends?" -- to which my mom responded "She has a new
hot chocolate friend, and he is cute."
And then I laughed my head off, and called Lauren and laughed some
more, and if there are no objections I'll be calling the spinoff Hot
Chocolate Friends from here on out.
I'll also try to be as specific as possible with my next communing-with-Shonda wish: a sweeps episode of Hot Chocolate Friends (I'm seriously loving this fake title; the word "Friends" at the end makes me feel like it should be a show for preschoolers) with guest stars Sara Ramirez and Idina Menzel, who end up singing a duet. Got that, Shonda? Steve my new favorite network exec and ice cream man McPherson? Everyone else important at ABC?
Sara Ramirez. Idina Menzel. Singing. If you must mess with this one, I suppose it would be okay if Taye Diggs joined in, too.
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| The other day I finally took it upon myself to read about about See Jayne Run, my favorite Melrose
diva's new pilot. My coworkers, better versed in '80s movies than I,
say it sounds exactly like Baby Boom, and I'm sure I'll end up knocking
the premise in some other blog entry later, but the part of the press
release that really caught my attention was this: "[Jayne] catches her
annoyingly thin French nanny drinking." Seriously? Did they steal
this writer from the chick lit back-of-the-book-blurb room and then
forget to remind him or her that television is a visual medium? If so, please
let me be the first to explain. While the book's audience can feel
free to imagine the heroine as an everywoman who carries a few extra
pounds, the TV show's audience will be able to tell that she is, in
fact, played by an actress who is plenty thin, and who I presume will
not be gaining weight or donning a fat suit for the roll. That's how
you win Oscars, not Emmys. So I think the only thing I have to say about the fact that
the French nanny will have to be played by someone "annoyingly thin"-er
than Ms. Heather Locklear, is that it's a good thing See Jayne Run is an
ABC pilot; there's a slim chance -- pun very much intended -- that
Ellen Pompeo or Calista Flockhart might be available for a cameo.
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| Last Wednesday, Melrose Place star Brooke Langton did her third episode
of Friday Night Lights as a single mom who sleeps with a teenage boy.
Not twenty-four hours earlier, on the very same network, Melrose Place
star Laura Leighton did an episode of Law & Order: SVU... as a
single
mom who sleeps with a teenage boy! (As an added bonus, Sarah Drew
played her daughter and Peter Hermann played her lawyer. I realize the
latter's presence isn't all that much of a rarity, but still, I think
someone over in the SVU casting office likes me.)
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