Friday Five, in no particular order
1. For those interested in how dinner at Arielle’s turned out -- and that’s probably a very limited number of you: mini pizzas were delicious and fully consumed. Pasta with meat sauce was good, except for the lack of shaky cheese. (That won’t happen again.) And the peanut butter bars were a big hit. Arielle informed me after I’d made them that she hadn’t expected to like them, and only let me go on baking them because I seemed so enthusiastic and she wanted to be supportive. I don’t know how I feel about that, but I was proud when she declared them delectable and ate them -- I know she wouldn’t eat anything she didn’t really like.
2. I am really sad that there’s only one more episode left this season of Kathy Griffin, My Life of the D-List. My experience with Kathy is people either love her or hate her, and I am proudly in the former category. Yeah, she makes fun of people for a living, and yeah, that’s generally something I try not to do in real life, but she just cracks me up. If you watch the show -- and if you don’t, I think you should -- you’d see that beneath the tough exterior, she truly is good at heart, and therefore just the kind of person I’d like to have around me. Last fall I was out to dinner with my (real-life) friend Mary, and Mary said, “You know, we should invite Kathy to join us next time we get together.” I knew she meant Kathy Griffin and it made perfect sense to me, since I already think of Kathy as my friend. (Not as close a friend as my BFF Sheryl Crow, but definitely part of the inner circle.) Recently, I’ve also gotten it into my head that Kathy should befriend my friend Logan. I even tweeted to Kathy about it -- I just couldn’t help myself, and I’ve been sad about it ever since because Kathy didn’t tweet back to me. I follow her on Twitter (obviously) so I know she sometimes responds to her fans. This has become a new goal: to get Kathy Griffin to tweet back to me. And I’ve told Logan if she actually does get to be friends with Kathy at some point, then she has to invite me out to meet them for sushi or cupcakes or something.
3. I think popsicle brand popsicles changed their recipe. I bought a couple boxes this week, and they tasted different, a little more cough-syrupy, though still good.
4. My friend Jake Glaser will be on Sanjay Gupta’s CNN show this weekend to talk about life with HIV, the work of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and his mother’s legacy. I tweeted about this the other day, and someone wrote back to tell me when she was in high school, she actually performed Elizabeth’s famous speech from the 1992 Democratic Convention. She said she could still recite parts of it by heart. I can, too: One of my favorite memories is listening to Elizabeth practice the speech the week before she flew to New York to deliver it. She got a standing ovation, too -- if I remember correctly, it was the first standing ovation of the entire convention.
5. Today is my little sister’s birthday, and she is 30 years old. I’ve never felt so old in my life -- and I guess this is technically the oldest I’ve ever been. Happy birthday, Beluga (that’s what I call her, and don’t worry, because she likes it) -- I hope all your dreams come true!
2. I am really sad that there’s only one more episode left this season of Kathy Griffin, My Life of the D-List. My experience with Kathy is people either love her or hate her, and I am proudly in the former category. Yeah, she makes fun of people for a living, and yeah, that’s generally something I try not to do in real life, but she just cracks me up. If you watch the show -- and if you don’t, I think you should -- you’d see that beneath the tough exterior, she truly is good at heart, and therefore just the kind of person I’d like to have around me. Last fall I was out to dinner with my (real-life) friend Mary, and Mary said, “You know, we should invite Kathy to join us next time we get together.” I knew she meant Kathy Griffin and it made perfect sense to me, since I already think of Kathy as my friend. (Not as close a friend as my BFF Sheryl Crow, but definitely part of the inner circle.) Recently, I’ve also gotten it into my head that Kathy should befriend my friend Logan. I even tweeted to Kathy about it -- I just couldn’t help myself, and I’ve been sad about it ever since because Kathy didn’t tweet back to me. I follow her on Twitter (obviously) so I know she sometimes responds to her fans. This has become a new goal: to get Kathy Griffin to tweet back to me. And I’ve told Logan if she actually does get to be friends with Kathy at some point, then she has to invite me out to meet them for sushi or cupcakes or something.
3. I think popsicle brand popsicles changed their recipe. I bought a couple boxes this week, and they tasted different, a little more cough-syrupy, though still good.
4. My friend Jake Glaser will be on Sanjay Gupta’s CNN show this weekend to talk about life with HIV, the work of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and his mother’s legacy. I tweeted about this the other day, and someone wrote back to tell me when she was in high school, she actually performed Elizabeth’s famous speech from the 1992 Democratic Convention. She said she could still recite parts of it by heart. I can, too: One of my favorite memories is listening to Elizabeth practice the speech the week before she flew to New York to deliver it. She got a standing ovation, too -- if I remember correctly, it was the first standing ovation of the entire convention.
5. Today is my little sister’s birthday, and she is 30 years old. I’ve never felt so old in my life -- and I guess this is technically the oldest I’ve ever been. Happy birthday, Beluga (that’s what I call her, and don’t worry, because she likes it) -- I hope all your dreams come true!