Monday morning thoughts

[yendi]

First, big thanks to all of your comments from Friday. Please forgive me for not writing a "Thank you" comment for every one of your comments and emails (insert "why don't debutantes attend orgies" joke here). Trust me, I read and appreciated and saved every one of 'em. They mean a lot.

shadesong and I have decided to move all the wedding talk into a community (song_and_yendi), to spare those of you who aren't interested excessive

In other news, huge, huge thanks to dtaylor, who magically transported (okay, with the help of the US mail service) two Cocoa Pete's chocolate bars to my mailbox this weekend. Damn, they're every bit as good as I expected. If the rumored opening of Trader Joe's in Atlanta every actually happens, I'll be dead of a heart attack within a year.

It's also occurred to me that I haven't had sushi yet this year. This is a situation that must be rectified.

Embarassing Elayna story of the week:

Walking back from Karate the other day, Elayna asked me about the various words for nonsense she'd read recently (humbug, balderdash, poppycock). She then asked how I knew it was "HUM-bug," as opposed to "hum-BUG," so I went over some basic stuff about accents, and how silly words would be if we mispronounced them. She then, just as we were crossing the street and passing a bunch of the local Orthodox Jews, started shouting (in a typically piercing Elayna Voice), "poppy-COCK."

*sigh*

I have no idea what they thought.

In other news, I bet everyone is sick of my writing about how fucking swamped I am. So pretend I didn't say anything. Likewise, pretend I haven't mentioned needing to respond to a bunch of comments and emails.

Oh, interesting "What were they thinking?" moment (remember the SNL skit?): Corey Hart (see current music) turned down the lead role in Back to the Future. But hey, he's a two-hit wonder who also writes songs for Celene Dion. Who needs an incredibly successful movie career?

Comments

[michaelnolan.livejournal.com]

at least it wasn't peanut buttah jelly time!

[yendi]

Heh, true.

[michaelnolan.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

[aiela.livejournal.com]

There was a story I read once of a woman whose three year old yelled "Look mommy, FAGS!" as they were passed by a couple of men on bicycles in full cycling gear.

Of course, she was pointing at the FLAGS on the building they were walking past.

Oops.

[philrancid.livejournal.com]

Where could we go to see the living yendi?

My wife, upon hearing the good news and recovering from her pleasant surprise--Congratulations you two!--wondered what you looked like.

[yendi]

Check out my icons for one of the few decent pictures of me ever.

[thejunebug.livejournal.com]

I've always pronounced it POPPY-cock. Damn western accent. ;)

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

See, I always always always hate it when people say, "X turned down [fablously popular movie]" with the implication that by doing so they ruined any chance they had at making their career fabulous. Who's to say that Corey Haim wouldn't have sucked in that role? Maybe what made that role was Michael J. Fox, not vice versa.

[yendi]

Well, of course Corey Haim would have sucked. :-)

But seriously, Hart/Haim/whoever would have had a chance to be in a high-profile movie that was pretty much crafted as a star vehicle for him (this is different from, say, Mindy Clarke turning down the Rose McGowan part in Scream). Had time or health been factors, sure, but given the cachet of the movie (Zemeckis had done Romancing the Stone, and was pretty much on top of the world), I suspect it was something he had reason to regret long before the first positive review of Fox came in (which isn't to say that Fox wasn't perfect for the character).

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

Jeez ... I mailed those AGES ago. Like, seriously, a month ago. Wow.

Glad you enjoyed 'em. And congrats on the engagement!

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

a) Congratulations.

b) Orthodox Jews have kids too. Sometimes they even have sense of humour.

;P

[yendi]

The ones in our neighborhood have kids. But not senses of humor. Seriously, these are the folks who glare at shadesong and me because we dare to hold hands, or *gasp* I let her walk in front of me.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Oy. Yuck and grah.

:/

Well, we're not ALL like that (okay I'm not Jewish yet and not particularly Orthodox at the moment, details, details). But if they are then it serves them right if they were offended or felt uncomfortable at your daughter shouting.

[shaydra.livejournal.com]

I took my 4yo niece to the grocery store recently. To keep her occupied, I let her bring in her Lilo and Stitch figures. She talks to her figures, talks for them, loudly. Stitch got lost, so Lilo was repeatedly calling for Stitch...only the little one can't get the first s in stitch and she can't always get the ch on the end, so she was actually riding through the store singsonging...'tits tits tits'... which was bad enough. Then she asked some strange woman 'have you seen my tits?' *sigh* gotta love'em. :)