I mentioned on FB last week that, realizing I was going to be in Madison Wisconsin, I simply
had to try to stalk Dean Strang. So obviously I emailed him requesting a meeting. Then, obviously, Skylar on his own accord called Dean Strang's office as my "personal assistant" to "see if we can possibly arrange their busy schedules to meet while Eli is in town." Then obviously Dean Strang's office called me and were incredibly nice and requested to know when I was available and whether this meeting was "business or personal." Obviously I answered all of the questions as vaguely as possible and also pretended like I was almost too busy to even be considering a meeting. Obviously after they told me that they couldn't arrange anything for that particular weekend because Dean Strang would be too busy being interviewed by Oprah/the queen of England/NASA I pretended like I also just realized I couldn't possibly make time for a meeting either, what with the conference I was attending (cheese) that weekend in Madison. Obviously they asked me to check back next time I'm in town to see if we can arrange something. Obviously I said I would try to remember to do that, if I had the time. Obviously they told me Mr. Strang asked them to pass on a thank you for the "very kind email" I sent him. Obviously I asked them to return a thank you for his very kind response. Obviously I forgot as I was saying this that he didn't
actually respond. Obviously then I over-laughed at myself, to the confusion of the person on the other end of the call. Obviously then, flustered, I abruptly hung up and hid for the remainder of the day.
And now, your Pictures & Distractions:
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| It was negative two hundred million degrees when I took this picture in Madison. |
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| Matt in puppy heaven. |
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| My friend Adam just got this dog. His name is Teddy. But I'm now calling him Mr. Teddy Scraps. Or Mr. Scraps, for short. I love him with every fiber of my being. And he loves me. And Mr. Pants is not pleased about this. |
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| By the way, Mr. Scraps is a Cockapoo. And every time you pick him up he licks your face. And it is majestic. |
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| Jolyn chatting with an 81-year-old for our newest project. Details to come. |
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Stranger Picture of the Week
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| A Filippino chicken. Thanks, Sydney. |
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| Thanks, Andra, for this important find. |
Crap to distract you from whatever you're supposed to be doing:
Miranda Sings, Hello. Thanks, Esther.
Family pizza meeting. Thanks, Janel.
Preeschool gems Twitter account. Thanks, Rebecca.
The worst ten seconds of Sarah Palin. Thanks, Chad.
Minor inconveniences that make us irrationally angry. Thanks, Brian.
Five expectations for Fuller House. Thanks, Brian.
3-year-old sings perfect rendition of "Little Mermaid" song. Thanks, Kalli.
20 Gone With the Wind facts that prove Hollywood was a very different world in 1939. Thanks, Diane.
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Dean Strang was probably just overcome with all the feels by being contacted by your people, and so he was pretending to be too busy because he didn't want to appear too eager to see your hair and whatnot. Probably next time he plans a trip to Salt Lake City, because tourist destination of the world, as we all saw in the news interview given by the Famous Eli of Stranger, he will contact you and you will probably go out to lunch with him and run into Paul Simon and just decide to grab a table for three and chat the hours away.
ReplyDeleteAlso, CENSORSHIP. (I don't really care much about this, but I love bandwagons. They are so much fun to jump on and ride for a while, amiright?)
ReplyDeleteYES! We've got another one! Emelle, crochet her a neck thingy, that way she'll feel welcomed. Suzz, lock her into place before she decides she wants to jump off the bandwagon. Nicole, make me a sammich...and some of that nice soup you had the other day.
DeleteWelcome to the dark side Amy Rose. And Nicole don't you dare make Lee a sandwich, how will he ever learn to be self-sufficient if we wait on him hand and foot. Repeat after me "Make your own goshdarntootin sammich LeeOtrix"
Delete"Make your own goshdarntootin sammich LeeOtrix"
DeleteBut I've got a ton of leftover soup so you can still have a bowl of that . . . .
You're too nice Nicole.
DeleteI agree Suzz, I was expecting a bigger backlash. I'm kind of disappointed.
DeleteI've been busy... I was away... here's a little more backlash for ya, Lee:
Delete"Make your own goshdarntootin sammich LeeOtrix"
and how many times I gotta tell ya, Lee, the "neck thingies" I'm crocheting are for family members first? I haven't been able to find out if I'm related to Eli or awesomesauciness (who I am CONVINCED I am related to) or The Suzzzzz or Nicole or you, much less Amy Rose. Not that I don't welcome her to the censorship bandwagon. But you're not the boss of me, Lee! I'm tellin'.
MoooOOOOOOOOooooommmmmm! Lee's actin' like he's the boss! It's not FAIR!
Welcome to the censorship bandwagon, Amy Rose. You sure you can handle us? ;)
AND with the whole censorship thing, we have to WAIT for our comments to show up, I had actual,y completely forgotten about this one and then was sitting there quietly, innocently, the way I do, when I remembered and wondered if I had made it through Eli's scathingly difficult censorship process or not,and came back to check only to see I had a scarf waiting for me and a group of people eating sandwiches and soup. Love you guys.
DeleteSorry, Amy Rose. Until we determine through the LDS family tree relative finder that we are, in fact, related, I'm still only working on ScarfLETS for my immediate (known) family. Frankly, so far, it's just been myself and my sister, and I'm trying to discover how to make gloves or fingerless gloves or maybe just wrist gauntLETS out of the second skein of yarn. I'm really very new at this whole crochet venture, and while I'm proud of my output so far, it's not like I've got a cottage industry running. Lee exaggerates a little, I think. Maybe he's actually Eli in disguise.
DeleteBut I'd love to get a soup and sandwich to go!
Anyone who knows Miranda Sings NEEDS to check out Todrick Hall's "4 Miranda": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSvyh6IdnSk
ReplyDeleteFirstly...holy crap to that 3 year old singing the little mermaid. WTF!??! She had the emotion for it and everything. Crazy what some kids can do.
ReplyDeleteAlso...Full House...I hate that show. There I said it. It is a show spawned from the depths of hell.
Lastly...I'm still laughing at this twitter comment that you posted Eli "The worst is when you befriend someone you think has money and then you find out they don't so you wasted time making another poor friend." That was totally awesomesauce in all it's wonders.
I have to disagree with you, Lee, re: the 3-year-old. My bet is, when she just sings her Disney tunes for her own pleasure, she just sings them, and she sounds great. But that video is over-produced, and is certainly not "perfect". There are quite a few words that she doesn't even GET yet (because THREE, hello?), so she either pronounces them exactly but without the requisite emotion or she slurs right through them, because, you know, THREE. Her dad working in commercial production is not going to help her have a normal childhood. Can't we just let her be a kid? I won't be watching her "Let It Go" video. I hated that movie.
DeleteI'm sorry, I didn't read anything else you wrote once I saw that photo of Mr. Scraps. Forget stalking Dean Strang. I'm driving up to Utah to stalk that dog!
ReplyDeleteI have a cockapoo... his name is Moose, but we call him Moose Pie! Super snugly and super cute!
ReplyDeleteI have a cockapoo as well. Aren't they so nicely tempered? I love mine. Her name is Trixie. I sometimes call her Trixie Poo. I was wondering if we're supposed to call our dogs the same way Eli does. Because if that's the case mine would be Miss Poo... At least yours would be Mr. Pie (I'm guessing it's a boy).
DeleteUh where are you people getting your cockapoos? My brother brought one home when we were kids and he named it Crowley, I renamed it Beelzebub. If it wasn't satan himself, then it was at least his spawn. We all breathed a sigh of relief when my dad accidentally backed over it with the suburban.
DeleteLee, do you really have a dog named Trixie? And if so, did you name her after Trixie the cat?
ReplyDeleteI do have a dog named Trixie. She's mostly white with a black ear and she used to have black spots on her but they're kind of fading. But no I didn't name her after Trixie the cat. I actually had to look up who Trixie the cat was. :)
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ReplyDeleteWell you are going to make Sister Sydney Ralston's week yet again. Can't wait to tell her that she made your Distractions again when I email her this week. It was so funny she sent me this photo and I told her that I was going to email it to you. She told me that I was to late that she had already sent it.
ReplyDeleteRe: 20 facts that "PROVE" Hollywood was different --- <*BUZZER SOUNDS*> nope. There are (still today) no ceilings built in interior sets (within soundstages, not on location), but not to keep costs down. Unless the camera is SUPPOSED to look up at the ceiling, like, say, in the Sistine Chapel, then we don't ever see a ceiling. It's typically a grid, where the theatrical lighting will hang, so we can see the FACES OF THE ACTORS. We don't care that we never look at the ceilings in movies. How often do you look at ceilings in your real life?
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of minor inconveniences that make us irrationally angry, did anyone make it through however many pages there were, to scroll through and discover that MULTIPLE-PAGE LISTS ON THE INTERNETS are one of those inconveniences? Man, does that drive me bat-$#!t crazy. (I didn't make it past the first page).