Squirrels on typewriters, and other things that are making me smile this week, Vol. 1

[brandywine28]

- I can think of at least two dozen reasons NOT to buy this dress, but they all wither and die in the face of TYPEWRITING SQUIRRELS! Obviously--obviously--I need this in my life, right? Right. I'm amazed I've lived without it this long, quite frankly.

- Into The Woods is playing at Shakespeare in the Park this summer, causing my Sondheim-loving little heart to do cartwheels of joy! I'm a little skeptical about Amy Adams being cast as The Baker's Wife, but you can still bet that when I found out about this I templed my fingers and said "Eeeeexcellent" in a most Mr. Burns-ian fashion. :)

- Reading everyone else's NKOTBSB concert re-caps! I'm still a bit bitter that I couldn't swing it myself this year, financially speaking--but secondhand squee is far, far better than none at all! (And that video of Nick Carter motorboating some girl? I died.)

- Game Of Thrones continues to knock my socks off...even though I usually end up watching about 90% of it through the spaces between my fingers./squeamish

- My mother's reaction to the whole John-Travolta-fondling-himself-in-front-of-hotel-masseurs scandal: "But--but he CAN'T be gay; he's ITALIAN!!!" Priceless.

- I found out yesterday that I am not the only person in my workplace who recoils in horror at the sight of that eyeless, Sopranos-esque talking lemon from the McDonald's commercials. (I'm pretty sure his official purpose is to make us want a strawberry lemonade? Or possibly to haunt our nightmares like a lemony specter of wrongness. One of the two.) It's always nice to know you aren't alone. :)

- And last but CERTAINLY not least: I met zebraljb! She's awesome, face-meltingly funny and, best of all, she didn't make fun of the lopsided farmer's tan I got from milling up and down 8th Ave all afternoon. AND she brought me souvenirs from Hershey Park(!). (Oh, and we, um, may have partially written a Real World AU in which JC and Lynn Harless co-manage an erotic bakery, so. Yeah.) All in all, not a bad time.

Comments

[pensnest]

Typewriting squirrels FTW!!!!! It must not be possible to resist.

Ooh, Into The Woods in the park, how delightful! I think it's mostly cast-proof: I saw a version at the Donmar Warehouse (wonderful tiny theatre) in which the Baker was basically a doughy pudding. I think he was used to acting for TV and didn't notice he was not on camera. Meanwhile the Baker's Wife was EMOTING LIKE MAD. Great stuff.

Meeting other fans is an awesome thing to do, and such meetings inevitably result in AUs in which JC and Lynn co-manage erotic bakeries, or possibly everyone is a frog. I remember a Camp outing which involved sparkly cupcakes, and there was quite an involved storyline as a result...

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING about that dress is made of awesome except the size...apparently only anorexic stick figures need apply...

I did not realize my humor melted people's faces. I should try and rein that in a bit. :) This story could possibly be awesome if I can just find a place for Justin. That being said, there is NOTHING like creating an Erotic Bakery AU while walking around NYC with a non-fandom butchy lesbian friend (my good friend from high school, Brooke), throwing out ideas to add to the plot.

:)

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

(and we believe in roping innocent fanfic readers into the lifestyle where boyband members morph into beasts and merpeople)

(just sayin')