Thank you for all the birthday wishes on Friday's post! I wish I had a book and a nice wheel of cheese for each and every one of you.
Now for the winner of the Blabbermouse Birthday Book Giveaway (selected by Random.Org):
Congratulations to ...
Nancy from Fear & Parenting in Las Vegas! Nancy will be getting a shiny new copy of David Sedaris's Naked (just email me the address where you'd like it sent, Nancy). Nancy has been a longtime reader and Blabbermouse supporter, so I'm delighted to bring this little piece of sunshine to her Monday morning. Or Tuesday morning. Or, you know, whenever she stops by here to see if she won. If she remembers. Which she might not. I'm going to email her and tell her. Just in case.
Okay, moving on!
Did any of you see the movie Julie & Julia or read the book? I got a near-frantic e-mail from my mother-in-law this weekend demanding that I drop whatever I'm doing, leave the kids in the cart at Target, and GO rent this movie. I haven't read the book, because (shallow reason alert:) I don't like to cook, and I am bored by descriptions of sauces and cuts of meat. I haven't seen the movie because from what little I know about the book, Amy Adams seems a weird choice for the role of Julie, and (REALLY shallow reason alert:) I hate the way she looks in her wig.
Now for the winner of the Blabbermouse Birthday Book Giveaway (selected by Random.Org):
Congratulations to ...
Nancy from Fear & Parenting in Las Vegas! Nancy will be getting a shiny new copy of David Sedaris's Naked (just email me the address where you'd like it sent, Nancy). Nancy has been a longtime reader and Blabbermouse supporter, so I'm delighted to bring this little piece of sunshine to her Monday morning. Or Tuesday morning. Or, you know, whenever she stops by here to see if she won. If she remembers. Which she might not. I'm going to email her and tell her. Just in case.
Okay, moving on!
Did any of you see the movie Julie & Julia or read the book? I got a near-frantic e-mail from my mother-in-law this weekend demanding that I drop whatever I'm doing, leave the kids in the cart at Target, and GO rent this movie. I haven't read the book, because (shallow reason alert:) I don't like to cook, and I am bored by descriptions of sauces and cuts of meat. I haven't seen the movie because from what little I know about the book, Amy Adams seems a weird choice for the role of Julie, and (REALLY shallow reason alert:) I hate the way she looks in her wig.
Don't get me wrong--I love Amy Adams. She's beautiful--and she's a wonderful actress. If you haven't seen her in Junebug, GO. NOW. RENT, or I'll sic my mother-in-law on you. I just have this feelingwith Julie & Julia that they tried to cash in on Adams's rising stardom, realized she was way too adorable and sweet-voiced for the part, and thus slapped that stupid wig on her to make her seem more like a "no-nonsense New Yorker".
And I derive all of this from my own head, basically. It's where I get all my best opinions about things I know nothing about.
So, if you saw the movie and loved it ... or read the book and loved it ... and you think I would love it, despite all the cooking (yawn) and that WIG (blargh), let me know, so I can keep my mother-in-law happy.
Thank you.
In other news, I have a new humor post up at Her Nashville this week, in which Gus tackles the wonderful world of magic.
David Copperfield, he is not. But the spell he casts is really ... something else.
And I derive all of this from my own head, basically. It's where I get all my best opinions about things I know nothing about.
So, if you saw the movie and loved it ... or read the book and loved it ... and you think I would love it, despite all the cooking (yawn) and that WIG (blargh), let me know, so I can keep my mother-in-law happy.
Thank you.
In other news, I have a new humor post up at Her Nashville this week, in which Gus tackles the wonderful world of magic.
David Copperfield, he is not. But the spell he casts is really ... something else.
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