This holiday season had a few highlights, to be sure, but overall it was one giant clusterfuck. Still, I’m going to try to turn off my gloom and doom machine. Or at least hit the pause button. And since we’re only two days into 2009 I’m calling for a New Year’s Day do-over. Before I hit reset for today, there were three things that cheered me up last night:
- Watching clips of Irish comedian Dylan Moran on YouTube. In particular from his stand up routines Monster and Like, Totally
- I was all bent out of shape because my super shitty day had magnified everything else. Talking with the boyfriend (who is still not home yet) for a good long while helped calm my jangled nerves. He doesn’t think he is particularly skilled at cheering others up, but he is quite wrong.
- Talking with him alerted me to the existence of The Snuggie (the blanket with sleeves!) which is, apparently, a cheap knock off of The Slanket (the best blanket ever). While watching the infomercial, in particular the scene where an entire family of Snuggie wearers is roasting marshmallows, all I could think of was how dangerous it would be to dangle those long, wide sleeves near an open flame (this from the woman who lit sparklers inside her home on NYE). Instead I’ll just don the jalaba I picked up while in Morocco many years ago. Though I’m still kicking myself for getting it in burgundy instead of brown. It would’ve made for a great Jawa costume!
Bonus: Happy Birthday to my dear Emily!
Plus: An amazing portrait of the one and only Cat Woman, Eartha Kitt.
And: I’ve been too lazy/stressed/distracted to come up with my own best of lists for 2008, but I like Pink Tentacle’s.
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It’s funny you bring up the fire issue so I’ve always been more concerned about how the Snuggie turns a regular family watching an outdoor sports game into a cult. Oh well:
http://www.infomercial-hell.com/blog/2008/12/03/chewbacca-and-his-wookie-family-wear-snuggies/
Whoa. I had heard about the Wookiee connection, but seeing it spelled out like that? Mind blown. Thank you.
my wife got me the slanket for christmas (in brown no less). if i stand up when it’s on i look like a monk. now i just have to shave my head and leave that little ring of hair.
We went to visit my father in law over the holiday and he had cable so my son was watching more commercials than usual. One night tucking him into bed he quoted almost verbatim the whole ad for the snuggie. It was scary.
Your man Dylan Moran. I think he’s the writer/main character for the BBC series Black Books which is my new happy while Daily Show is on hiatus. The laugh track is annoying but after you get used to it you might like it. Netflix it.
Josh, thinking of you in your slanket makes me giggle. But Alice, thinking of your son quoting the snuggie ad? I just have to shake my head in empathy. My son only watches TV on Saturdays, but gets inundated with plenty of commercials during that time.
Agreed on Black Books! I’ve seen series one and maybe a little of series two. The laugh track is so very strange, but my love of Dylan Moran can overcome it.
You know, if I could just kick this “work” habit, I would have seen this earlier!!! Thank you!
By the way, my sister totally got taken to TOWN with the Snuggie. We think she might have been swindled. Plus, there has not been a Snuggie in sight.
Sad!
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