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August 22

5-things12Sometimes finding 5 Favorite Things over a week is hard. Really hard. We’ll desperately search the newspapers, the internet, our interactions over the last seven days and still come up with squat crap by Friday.  Sometimes there just aren’t any favorite things to be had. It couldn’t possibly be our moods. Perhaps we’re extra dark and moody this week. Come to think of it, we’ve been feeling more Dorothy Parker and less Mark Twain lately. The only Dexterpeople that causes trouble for are the people at the end of our snark, but we assure you they all deserved it. Here are a few things we managed to rustle up.

1. Thank you, Netflix. We’ve watched some phenomenal television series while “working” at Bank of No Forks. We saw all of Breaking Bad and we’ve been on top of Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, and Orphan Black. Right now we’re embroiled in Dexter. We’re four seasons in and HOLY CRAP!!! There’s a lot of squealing Azaleaandfreaking out while we watch. Wow, this was a great show. If you didn’t watch it in the beginning, you should watch it now. You won’t be sorry.

2. Azalea. That’s what we’ve decided to name the sweet little elephant baby who was born at our zoo on Wednesday. Her keepers haven’t named her yet, so we thought we’d help them out. There’s a tendency to name the elephants after words in Swahili, but we think she needs a cutsie, girlie name. We mulled over Posey and Poppy, but they’ve been over-used. RolfShe’s an elephant, so we thought we should name her something a little heartier. We like Azalea.

3. We wouldn’t let him in either. Perhaps we’re judging a book by its cover, but we’ll be honest and tell you we’re freaked out by this. The World’s Most Pierced Man–a German fellow with horn implants and over 100 piercings in his face alone–was denied entry into Dubai. He was headed there to appear at a circus-themed venue. Because of course he was. Dubai officials cited “security reasons” for refusing to allow him to enter. Rumors suggest there was concern that he epilatorwas a practitioner of black magic. We don’t know about that, but we definitely think he’s a practitioner of bad judgement.

4. Electrolysis. Ava and the World’s Greatest Receptionist will endure all manner of pain for beauty. This past month they ordered up an electrolysis machine to remove unwanted facial hair. If you stop by the office in the afternoon, you can hear “Ouch” or “Ow” or “Holy Cow Balls!”. It hurts a little. Amy just rolls her eyes.  Amy is the least girly person we know when it comes to pain for beauty’s sake, but that doesn’t stop Ava and TWGR – they’ve starting growing their own botox. We’ll keep you posted. Or you’ll hear about it on the news. bad words

5. Bad Words. We rented this movie from RedBox this week when we didn’t have a copy of Dexter to watch. It stars and is directed by the delightful and hysterical Jason Bateman. The movie is very funny in an “Oh my god, we’re going to hell for laughing at this” sort of way. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Jason is a delight. His character is awful. Really, really awful. Still, you’re sorta rooting for him even though you understand why most people  in the film want to kick his ass. A side benefit is learning new words. We like tmesis. Abso-freakin’-lutely.

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