So why is it that when you’re sick, your mouth feels like the bottom of a birdcage? What is that? It’s like the virus crawls up onto your tongue when you sleep, lies there overnight all cozy and pasty white under you uvula, clutching your tonsils and adenoids as fleshy stuffed toys for comfort. It…
Jack Lemmon with maracas Some Like It Hot 1959 Screenplay Wilder & Diamond after a story by Lomax and Thereon Last night we shared Some Like it Hot with Rissa for the first time. As soon as she saw the B&W hit the screen – she rolled her eyes. “Is the whole movie like this?”…
So you know when you feel like this?? The Nightmare, Fuseli 1781 A toddler stuck his fingers in my mouth last weekend and I am now fucked. Because why? Because an adult’s immune system sucks. Kids? Kids can be infected with a freaking alien plague, take some Dimetapp and be fine. “Mummy I’m good to…
So you know how I posted about Jeff Buckley’s cover of Hallelujah? I didn’t reckon it would shuffle onto our playlist last night as we were driving home from Toronto, nor did I think that it would make me cry for a completely different and soul-shattering reason than at the beginning of the day. I’m…
from jeffbuckley.com I’m crying now. I’m crying because I didn’t know until just moments ago, that Jeff Buckley died in 1997. What the? He died 15 years ago?!? And what do you mean you don’t know who Jeff Buckley is? Well, Jeff Buckley has the title of this blog post – that’s who he…
Jim Carter & Phyllis Logan from Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey So you know how, when you’re hosting a big shindig and you pretty much become relegated to the roles of Butler and/or Head Housekeeper? Well I have to say that David plays a mean Carson to my Mrs. Hughes and we rocked the crap out of…
WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE IN THIS POST I might have developed this… uh….little… small… (wee really)… obsession with Tim Minchin. Nothing warranting Mr. Minchin seeking out a restraining order or anything. It’s totally the Bloggess’s fault. In September of this year, she mentioned him in one of her posts. I watched some clips on You Tube…
WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE IN THIS POST Pssssst…. over here! You won’t have to starve yourself! You won’t have to exercise!!! Watch how these other women lost 20, 40, even as much as 75% of their total body weight! Take a couple of tsp of apple cider vinegar before every meal! Spoonfuls of honey speed the…
Asks Rissa. At bedtime. Because she’s crazy. “Mummy, how do snakes actually have sex?” “Pardon?” Gear shift. I was mildly confused as the last thing she’d said had been: “Mummy what if you just started sprouting extra ears all over your head?” As to the snake sex thing, I really hadn’t a clue. I was…
Smiling… laughing – that’s okay, but if you catch me on film/pixels while I’m talking, I look like I’m either in the midst of an epileptic fit, morphing into a velociraptor or channelling Lucille Ball in one of the episodes where she has to deal with stomping grapes or packaging chocolates. Below is a pic…