Food & Miscellany & books & music 10 Sep 2007 08:20 pm
I want dark chocolate ice cream, fresh pommes frites, and some pinky and the brain.
Green & Black has this out…and they flaunted the little tub of glory in a magazine I perused the other day. Alas, I’m not sure where to find it and even if I do, it won’t be in time for this rainy night. Autumn is hanging out over on the other side of the mountain and will blow in soon but it’s not here yet and the result is an environmental funk. The trees can’t seem to decide if there should be a breeze, the rain comes and goes, the crickets are half-hearted. I’m working late ‘else I’d be slicing fresh fries and crawling under my ancient blanket.
Madeleine L’Engle died last Thursday. This makes me want to reread the A Wrinkle in Time
This is a total gear shift but on one level, another “comfort” read of mine is People mag, so maybe within the realm of cozy-vegging it’s not such a shift: hot around the internet today was the building common head shaking over Britney Spears’s disasterous performance at the VMA’s. Say what you will about booty-shaking, half-dressed, sex-charged music, performing is Britney’s JOB. No one making her do it…presummably anyway; it would seem her “come back” is up to her. Who shows up on the job drunk and gets away with it? But that scene is scary. She’s glazed over and stoned looking, being steered around by dancers that were more in step than she was. I read somewhere that she looked nervous…I don’t think so. I think she looks disinterested and careless and lost and really, like a million red alarms over her health and well being should be screaming. It looked to me that rather than lip-syncing, “Gimme More”, she was saying, “Get me off this crazy thing….called life.”
The video, being posted all over the place, is also being pulled all over the place. Internet freedom is fading in whispers but that is a rant for another night.
While I’m posting tonight, let’s add a little “on topic” link love. A friend of mine had this delicious little clarifiying way to remember how to make the step from inaction towards action, from a Fortune Cookie of all sources! then Seth Godin had this post on the willingness to take little chances.
Maybe there’s some ice cream and Ancient Blanket Vegetation in my future after all; I’ll skip the fries and the mice who try to take over the world….this time. 
on 10 Sep 2007 at 11:25 pm 1.Queenofthehill said …
I just want to slap Britney. It wasn’t the beach, the brothel, or the strip club. Why the lingerie with boots?? At least replace the boots with bedroom slippers. For heaven’s sake, the back-up dancers on the stripper poles were wearing more than she was.
And I thought lip synching was something to be ashamed of. Remember Milli Vanilli? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli)
End of rant.
See you tomorrow night, I hope.
on 11 Sep 2007 at 11:50 am 2.Mimi said …
Enjoy the ice cream!
on 11 Sep 2007 at 7:35 pm 3.dalimama said …
Ah, thanks for the lovin’ linkage. I found the fortune cookie highly appropriate for where I am in life. Who says God can’t use fortune cookies to speak to you? It wouldn’t be the first time.
You know, I like to read People magazine when I’m vegging out, too. I feel bad for Britney. I have no idea why her people put her in THAT outfit. Whether or not she was drunk or high is up for speculation and definitely possible. Even so, I think it was obvious her self confidence was missing. Being dressed like that after having two children and not taking care of yourself was a bad move. She didn’t look bad for a mom of two but she also doesn’t look like she’s in her best shape and I think she knew it. I know my self confidence would be shaken wearing so little close and having wider hips due to childbirth and a slight pouch. They could’ve easily put her in something a smidge less revealing and still tried to carry off the sex symbol thing. I”ve seen Beyonce where more and still look sexy. So, that’s my pop star icon rant. Glad I could share it here.
on 12 Sep 2007 at 3:34 pm 4.Kelly Ayers said …
I LOVE Pinky and the Brain! You meant the cartoon right? Or I’ve just severely embarrassed myself! Yowsa!
Great day to ya,
Kelly Ayers
CES Librarian
on 13 Sep 2007 at 7:47 am 5.gina said …
I think the real story is this Sarah Silverman- who is she anyway? Who goes on a national awards ceremony and says that someone else’s children are mistakes? I feel bad for Britney- that’s excuse in my book for a bad performance. I’d be an emotional wreck if someone said that right before I was to perform! Give me a break! And after two kids, she may not be in the best shape, but who keeps their 16 year old shape after having kids? Sheesh!