Happy Birthday Joss Whedon!

Today is the birthday of one of my two favorite writers/producers in television. Actually he could just be one of the coolest people in entertainment. It is Joss Whedon's birthday. Hooray! I am so glad he was born and made all of that interesting stuff for me to watch.

As a TV person, Joss Whedon is sort of like the Wizard to my Oz. He gave us so many great things. In fact, BuddyTV put together a little slide show of "Reasons to Celebrate the Existence of Joss Whedon." It is included here.

Slideshow47 Reasons to Celebrate the Existence of Joss Whedon

Which is...let's face it pretty cool. But not even nearly complete.

It is not really possible to understand how much I heart Joss Whedon unless you too heart Joss Whedon.

Now for those of you who know what I'm talking about let me share some of my favorite lines from his shows:

"Carrots! Medicinal carrots! Personal-use medicinal carrots that were here when I moved in and I'm holding it for a friend!"

"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here."

"Blast it Pacey! Can't you see she loves you?"

Also...my boys. I am pretty much in love with every male character he put on the small screen. 

So thank you Joss Whedon for being so great and for making so many great things. Happy Birthday!

Oh Pook!

I am not a jewelry type of person usually. I try to be. I like jewelry. I think it's pretty. And my dear friend "Lisa" left her beautiful necklace at my house last weekend. I wanted to look fabulous today. So I wore it. This necklace is long and beautiful and goes with my outfit to a tee. (T? Tea?) And yet. I hate it. You see, I remembered why I don't like necklaces. Because I am like Millie Dillmount from Thoroughly Modern Millie.

See that look on her face in the bottom left? That is the look on my face right now. Pure bead line exasperation. Why was a I born a jazz baby with fronts? Why couldn't I be like Miss Dorothy. It's a shame too. Because really the necklace is just so beautiful.

The Beautiful Necklace

Reviews From the Instant Queue

This is going to be a thing. I will watch old movies that netflix suggests for me to watch. Then I will review them here for you. First up.

Dream a Little Dream

This movie was released in 1989 and stars the Two Coreys: Corey Haim and Corey Feldman.

To sum up: Bobby Keller (Feldman) is in high school and a punk who "is in love" with his bully best friend Joel's gilfriend, Lainie. And old man named Coleman is into meditation and convinces his wife, Gina, to meditate with him outside. Naturally Coleman sort of takes over Bobby's body, and Gina sort of meshes with Lainie. So Lainie/Gina doesn't know she's Gina. And Bobby/Coleman has to somehow convince Lainie/Gina that she is who he says she is so they can go back to being old people and in love. Also, Bobby's other best friend, Dinger, is played by Corey Haim and serves no plot purpose at all.

Being a huge fan of the two coreys and since this movie was back in their prime and when clothes were at their most ridiculous and is about body swapping, I was sure I was going to love it. Sure enough the Coreys were in it. Sure enough the clothes were ridiculous. (This evidently being around the time of Michael Jackson's Dangerous since Corey Feldman looked uncannily like MJ.) This movie also mentioned hair mousse a lot. It seems hair mousse would be a major plot point since it was mentioned so frequently. Sadly. The hair mousse seemed to just hold hair. Throw in the fact that Bobby is failing, Dinger has a broken leg, Lainie dances in stupid aerobics gear, Bobby already has a girlfriend named Shelly who is best friends with Lainie, Joel wants Lainie to "do it", Lainie's mom is INSANE (she counsels her daughter to have sex because "Joel is going to college." I'm serious. I could not make that up by myself. Also when informed that Joel hit Lainie she tells her to not provoke Joel. ALSO she drugs Lainie. INSANE.), Bobby's parents are beyond ridiculous, there is a bully who just randomly picks fights, Joel carries a flask around ALL THE TIME, and the fact that this whole show culminates the night of the school dance after the SATs with a gun stand-off...well I'll just say this movie was a little too absurd even for me.

It did however have some high points. Those being, Corey Haim's completely unnecessary one liners.

I should be at the dance. I was at the dance. Dancing perfectly. With a hot chick. She wanted me. I know she wanted me. Well every girl wants me. But instead I'm sitting out here freezing my ass off in some butt-ugly red Mustang.

That's right, you're messing with Rambo's little brother.

What time is it?
[looks down at wrist]
Why did I look at my wrist? I don't have a watch, I never had a watch.

Wow, I always thought SAT meant Saturday Afternoon Test. What is up?

Why am I running? I have... a broken... leg.

And also the totally awesome soundtrack. It was seriously a great soundtrack.

And those were the only redeeming points of this movie. 

And yet. There was a sequel Dream a Little Dream 2. The sequel starred the two Coreys and Robin Lively. The two Coreys combined with the power that is the Teen Witch and sunglasses that can control other people! Dare I watch it? Yes I did. WORST. DECISION. EVER! I mean seriously. It was a terrible idea.

In conclusion, I give Dream a Little Dream and Dream a Little Dream 2 a combined score of 5 jelly beans out of 10 jelly beans. Three jelly beans for Dream and Little Dream and two jelly beans for Dream a Little Dream 2.

I'm the Biggest, Baddest Mucus

I have a miserable cold. Or allergies. I don't think I have allergies because I never have had them before. And it rained recently which (I believe) clears allergens out of the air. But it could be allergies. I am the sort of person who would have allergies. But any way, my head is so full of gunk that I am fairly certain it is going to get overly congested and just burst little mucinex guys all over everything. Like a mucus bomb.

Which is okay with me. Because I think the mucinex guys are adorable. Like the fat people in Wall-E.

So basically the only thing helping me soldier on through the dire pain and anguish and grump that accompany a cold is the thought that in my head there are a bunch of adorable round fat people chilling on hover chairs.

PS I apologize for the lame-nosity of this blog. As stated, I have a cold. Therefore, I am not "all there." Or here. Or however that works.

Surly

It has come to my attention that I am a “bench” a lot of the time. This is not always the case. But pretty much most of the time lately. And well I think it’s mostly and internal benching because I mostly just get annoyed in my heart and keep a lot of it in my brain. But I fear that may be making postal. So here are some of the things that I want to say:

This is my brain.

“Please. PLEASE! Keep telling me about how much you loved bowling back in the 1940s.” “Monster’s Inc. is your favorite movie. I know. You tell me EVERY WEEK!” “Oh. Is that what you would do? Then why don’t you do it and stop asking me to!” “Your laugh makes me want to throw water in your face.” “GET OUT OF MY CUBICLE!” “Seriously? You’re going to just not text me back?” “No I don’t know what you are doing this weekend.” “Stop looking at me ice-cream. I will melt you.” “Really BBC America! Really!” “MY SANDWICH!?” “That’s it!” “If I had to pick a least favorite person. It would be you.” “You have Ned Pepper’s teeth from True Grit.” “I ain’t BOVVERED!” “Stop stealing all the triple words spaces!” “Stop telling people about your problem child. No one wants to hear about it!” “Fix your own problems. I am not your mother.” “No. I’m not going to do it.” “Right now? You want me to do that…right now?” “Just leave.” “Don’t worry. I’m only dying of pancreatic failure. Please…let me crawl around on the floor and plug in things for you. Please.” 

Sorry. I just had to get that off my chest.

Reasons Why Being Tina Fey Would Be Awesome

She’s hilarious.

30 Rock is pretty good.

She’s a brunette and they are the best.

She has classy glasses.

I believe she has Greek ancestry which seems like a really cool thing to have.

She has an Emmy.

Baby Mama was a surprisingly wonderful treat. Really. It was shockingly great. If you haven't seen it...invest your time.

She knows Seth Meyers. And a lot of other people. But mostly she knows Seth Meyers.

Bossypants.

Dear Readers,

I apologize for my long absence. I know you've been going crazy without me. But you'll understand that my brain had turned to mush and I couldn't blog due to the horrible scent thing in the bathroom.

But rest assured dear readers, I feel that all that is behind us now. Yes, I believe the days of headache scented plug-ins are over. For you see...I bought a Febreze Plug-in with the only scent that does not give me a headache.

I discretely switched out the plug-in that was already in the bathroom for my recently purchased one and EUREKA! I can now use the work restroom free from the mind-melting agony that came from the horrid manufactured scents of days gone by.

So I should be able to use my brain fully from here on out. Look forward to happy blogs.
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this trying time.
With all my love,
Ms Amber