1. Oh, god, there is too much to do! Once upon a time I thought it would be a good idea to write my MA exams, attend a conference in North Carolina, and organize a conference at UCLA all in the same month, and now that month is upon me, and it turns out it was a stupid idea. OH WELL. No time to buy groceries; guess I’ll just get scurvy.
2. Remember last time I wrote a blog post and I was all like “I’m going to start giving a word of the week every week!” Well, I actually meant it. This week’s word is PENGUIN. Once upon a time a few weeks ago, my friends and I were watching The Terror of Tiny Town, a 1938 film that happens to be the world’s first musical Western with an all-midget cast. (I know, right?) So, anyhow, there was this one scene where they were at the neighbourhood tonsorial parlour and then all of a sudden the action stopped, there was an inexplicable shot of a penguin, and then the action resumed again. And we were all like “WHY WAS THERE THAT PENGUIN?” “I DON’T KNOW.” Thus, the “penguin” of the movie is the thing that happens in the movie that stops the action for a period of time and does not serve to advance the plot at all. Sam has correctly identified the Barbara Striesand Walks Down the Stairs in a Fancy Dress and Sings a Song scene as the penguin of Hello, Dolly. Sam wins this week’s vocabulary quiz, and he didn’t even know he was playing.
3. I have some thoughts about Lady Gaga but they are far to complex to reveal right now. I must let this percolate. I know you are dying to know what I think of Lady Gaga.
4. Los Angeles would be better if everything currently named “Beverly” (Beverly Hills, Beverly Glen, Beverly Blvd., The Beverly Center, Beverly Crusher, etc.) was renamed “CTHULHU.” Are you worried about zombies? Stop worrying about zombies. WORRY ABOUT CTHULHU INSTEAD.
Perfect word as penguins = totally useless
Ooh ooh! The Cthulhu Hilton! Humans check in; they don’t check out!