If You Love J, You'll Tape Smallville, Too

Already the fall is a mess. Do you realize that the Martha Stewart Apprentice show will be on at the same time as ANTM? How are we supposed to get our full serving of crazy reality show people if they double book us like that? SOME of us don’t have TiVo or cable or fully functioning VCRs, which makes it HARD to watch shows that are on at the same time. Luckily, nothing seems to be standing in the way of Trump, so we’re looking good in that area. Are there other shows I should be concerned about? I should start my planning now.

Oh no.

I have just this second realized that I am getting married the week of all the premieres and then leaving on the honeymoon shortly thereafter, thus losing like THREE WEEKS of new Apprentice and ANTM. Okay, forget blender; a real nice gift would be for someone to tape these shows for me while I am away. Then I can spend a glorious Columbus Day weekend watching all of them in a glut of reality show madness. I’m joking; I’m sure going through one of the biggest events in my life, surrounded by the people I love best in the world, and standing next to the love of my life will completely obliterate small desires to watch crappy television. But also if someone could tape them for me that’d be great. Don’t crazy models and power-hungry weirdos deserve love, too?

There will be more cupcake testing tomorrow evening. In an attempt to make a stable cream cheese frosting (ala Buttercup Bake Shop) we are trying something suggested on baking911.com that involves adding a stabilized cream cheese filling to a standard frosting, so that the frosting might be cream cheese flavored while also not melting. If you have other sturdy cream cheese frosting tips, please weigh in.

I just finished reading Farewell to Arms, which I somehow missed in the reading the classics phase of school. (Right before that, I’d read James Frey’s new book, My Friend Leonard, which then immediately seemed very Hemingway-esque. Like if Hemingway went through rehab and befriended gangsters instead of hunting.) Anyway, [if spoiler alerts can be issued on 75-year-old books, then consider yourself warned] he gives a vague allusion to Catherine having narrow hips and of course the delivery and cesarean were complicated, but from a contemporary viewpoint, the average reader would probably guess neither mom nor baby would survive based on the facts we get leading up to and during the birth. Did Hemingway realize he was putting in hints when he had Catherine drinking alcohol every time we saw her (“The doctor said I should drink beer to keep the baby small.”) and when he describes the inadequate (by today’s standards) birthing procedures? How much did they know in 1929 about FAS and cesareans?

Reality shows, cupcakes, and dead Hemingway characters: happy Friday!

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