on the couch with Middle
My first day off!
What's doing?
Middle and I spent some time with our laptops in the living room watching Friends.
No matter what they do, there is no good way to sell perfume on television...It SMELLS great! says Middle after we watch the third particularly stupid high-concept perfume commercial.
The halls are decked.
We are pretty much ready for the holidays.
Wednesday was the office party.
And, if I may say, as the party organizer, it was pretty swell.
That's a stuffed, roasted porchetta, which the manager of the restaurant threw in as a gift to our staff. It was amazing.
It's all about food right now. That's an espresso and a wonderful panettone from my boss.
We are learning the new car and drove it into town to the German butcher to put together a care package for K's dad.
So much good meat!
Have you seen this?
Do you remember this?
I cannot stop laughing at this.
And then, there's this -
I've had all these tabs open to show you.
You know you've wanted to know where the Christmas tree salesmen pee.
Sweater-biting. It's what's happening right now.
What's doing?
Middle and I spent some time with our laptops in the living room watching Friends.
No matter what they do, there is no good way to sell perfume on television...It SMELLS great! says Middle after we watch the third particularly stupid high-concept perfume commercial.
The halls are decked.
We are pretty much ready for the holidays.
Wednesday was the office party.
And, if I may say, as the party organizer, it was pretty swell.
That's a stuffed, roasted porchetta, which the manager of the restaurant threw in as a gift to our staff. It was amazing.
It's all about food right now. That's an espresso and a wonderful panettone from my boss.
We are learning the new car and drove it into town to the German butcher to put together a care package for K's dad.
So much good meat!
Have you seen this?
Do you remember this?
I cannot stop laughing at this.
And then, there's this -
I've had all these tabs open to show you.
You know you've wanted to know where the Christmas tree salesmen pee.
Sweater-biting. It's what's happening right now.
Comments
I could totally see being a tree seller. Hm.
And you sure know you how to do up a holiday right!
Left over panettone (if there is such a thing)makes great french toast.
As for the perfume ads, it's kinda nice to see Gaspard Ulliel (that walk!) Charlize Theron, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Deitrich again. Those ads are so old but I liked them then and I like them still. Middle is right, there is no good way to sell perfume on the television, so you might as well be outrageous. In the past few weeks 5 people have asked me what song Dolly Parton was singing in that perfume ad (like I would know Dolly songs?! Seriously?!) I finally figured out what they were talking about, it's not Dolly Parton - it's Beth Ditto and Gossip.
The original video is good, the LIVE version is, well, outrageous!
You gotta see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLVhph02UOA
I don't speak German so the interview is lost on me but still...OUTRAGEOUS!
I finally got to see her live, she IS a force to be reckoned with.
I never eat it until after the holidays. It's not planned, it just happens each year, and once I had a slice, that's it. But pandoro ... is the DEVIL, I'll never eat that.
Edward Norton. *sighs*