soggy saturday sundries

[rm]

So this morning, Patty and I are lying in bed trying to get up for the Pepper Festival when my phone starts buzzing. It's marchek texting me:

marchek: Macy's is having a buy 1 get 1 free sale on men's neckties. I am overwhelmed. This was not on my agenda today. Argh!
rm: Oh my. I've yet to try actual adult ties. Mine are all boy's. Now that I can do the half-windsor, I could probably use grownup ones though. Hrrrr. Hey am I still Jack in your new phone?
marchek: Yes, sir.

and then more about the ties.... you needed to know. Man, it's a good thing Patty thinks I'm funny.

So the Pepper Festival. Because New York is shit it took us FIVE different trains to get there. And it fucking rained. A lot. RAIN RAIN RAIN. And I was wearing winter whites, which are now all covered in mud. But we tasted some hot sauces, I took some cool pictures that I'll post later and we bought a pommegranite chutney and a fig chipotle hot sauce and I'm making nachos for dinner again tonight (since we just got home from an awesome Trader Joe's run).

In the department of weird, this bra has my name.

Did you people all see Rachel Maddow freaking out last night about the kakapo sex? That shit was HILARIOUS.

So far, it's been a really good happy day, and shall continue as such. Patty has reading to do for school, at which point I will be a productive writer or self-promoter or something, depending on how the mood takes me.

Comments

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Did you people all see Rachel Maddow freaking out last night about the kakapo sex? That shit was HILARIOUS.

Just watched it now. Her reaction was pretty much mine.

The kakapo is SO CUTE.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Her imitating the flapping!

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you already now this but there's an autographed photo of Rachel Maddow in the Babycakes bakery.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I did not know that. I think it's new then, I've not been in ages. But that is AWESOME. Maybe she was getting stuff for Olbermann, since he has celiac.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Om nom nom peppers! Shame about the horrible weather.

And I might've guessed that Maddow would've covered the kakapo story. I saw it on YouTube at the insistence of a flistie who happens to be a Stephen Fry fan and fairly cracked up. (Though my sympathies are still with the cameraman who ended up all scratched-up at the end of it.)

That *is* weird about the bra with your name on it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You kinda have to watch the Maddow clip about it, because she can't even talk she's laughing so hard.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I'm a full-windsor sort myself.

Have you seen this?
http://www.tie-a-tie.net/

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm still working on that. I'm sorta vastly incompetent with any activity that requires me to tell my right from my left, including tying ties.

*clicking*

[contrarywise]

OMG, the kakapo thing is awesome! Maddow's flailing about it just makes it better!

That's really weird about the bra thing. Also, I want to grab the model's right shoulder and pull it down until she's more-or-less symmetrical because her posture in that photo really distorts the look of the bra.

[capulet-rose.livejournal.com]

Did you people all see Rachel Maddow freaking out last night about the kakapo sex? That shit was HILARIOUS.

O_o

...I now know what my Halloween costume will be.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Are you going to attach a kakapo to your head?

[capulet-rose.livejournal.com]

I am already drawing up the plans to make the flapping wings. ;)

[capulet-rose.livejournal.com]

...now if I could only find someone to dress up as Rachel Maddow and follow me around laughing her ass off.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

I did not see this about the Kakapo sex. Is there a link?

[junebugged.livejournal.com]

Here ya go! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#33148607

[junebugged.livejournal.com]

I actually worked on that Kakapo story! I know it wasn't a lot of footage, but the stuff you saw at the very beginning of the piece that didn't have 'BBC' on it was found by me! (And that is EVERYTHING we had in our archives on that rare bird). When the producer sent me the link to the BBC video, our entire department laughed ourselves stupid.

Just another reason I love working for her show.