Hello, Ducks!
Starzina
Starfish-Browne here with your Eric’s! Daily! Horoscope! for WinesDay, June 26,
2013. Happy Birthday to Greg, who turns
not-quite-twenty-four today somewhere called E-Town. Which sounds like a Very Gay Circuit Party
from the last decade, but actually isn’t, because the E stands for “Elizabeth”,
not “Ecstasy”. Indeed, come to think of
it, a whole lot of things stand for “Elizabeth”…Liz, Beth, Betty, etc. Not, perhaps, as many things as stand for “Margaret”,
but then, who the hell is called Margaret anymore?
We
are getting Our caffeine from tea this morning, so We are relatively certain We
are overcaffeinated. Whatevs.
Happy
Birthday also to Jordan, who turns even-less-like-twenty-four-than-Greg today,
either somewhere in suburbia or somewhere in Vermont. Which We have always pictured to be entirely
made up of suburbia, and maple syrup farms, maple syrup growing, as it does, on
trees, and wasn’t Bob Newhart’s inn in Vermont on his TV show where he wasn’t a
psychiatrist?
Oh,
dear. And Micro$oft Weird™ would have Us
believe that “overcaffeinated” isn’t a word.
We
cannot recall (and We certainly cannot be arsed to research) whether We
mentioned in these hallowed pages that, a few weeks back, We read The Perks of Being A Wallflower, and
that We highly recommend it. Well, last night
We watched the fillum, and We highly recommend it as well, as being an entirely
different experience from the book, which is peculiar, because the fillum was
written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, the author of the book, and when you
look at the deleted scenes…well, editing that fillum had to hurt. So go read a book and see a fillum.
As
you can see, Our latest video, Starzina’s Time of the Month
Horoscope: CANCER 2013 is
above.
If you’ve been paying attention (oh,
relax; We know you haven’t), you will note that this is the fourth installment
in a (so far) four e-pissode story arc.
Because We’re a writer like that, and stuff.
We would like you to take this link to said
video http://youtu.be/e-EpBAfem_M and
email it to your friends. Or put it on
their SitOnMyFacebook pages. Or, if they
are having a Cancer birthday, wish them a happy birthday with it. Seriously, people…is this so difficult?
And, having just heard the news that both discriminatory
DOMA and California’s Prop 8 are history, We will be cutting this short to go
perform some ablutions, because clearly, at any moment, suitors will begin
arriving to ask for Our hand in marriage.
In
gaseousness,
Starzina Starfish-Browne
(Your Your-O-Scopes:
(Meanwhile, why We didn’t think of this sooner, We’ve got no idea, but
better laid than necking, as they say (and how right they are!). For
real live actual ass(tromlaogical) ho(roscopular) advice, please visit Our good
friend AstroGeek here: http://agskylab.blogspot.com/. Our Own
epistular musings are of use to you only insofar as making you feel better by
comparison, but he will give you actual pertinent advice for your very own
lives, based on upon the positions and transitations of all manner of planets,
planetoids, asteroids, Altoids™, hemorrhoids, and other heavenly flotsam,
jetsam, and Jetsons. Plus, he knows all about Uranus!)
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Starzina
Starfish-Browne was born in the wagon of a traveling show…well, okay, not
really. She was actually born in Lowake, Texas, the daughter of a beautician
and either a garage mechanic or the town mailman. At sixteen, she escaped her
humble beginnings by running off with Doctor Browne’s Traveling Medicine Show
and, more to the point, Doctor Browne. Following the dissolution of this unfortunate
entanglement (Doctor Browne was a Virgo and Starzina is, of course, an Aries),
which produced a daughter, Starzina entered a contest in Soap Opera Digest and
won a scholarship to Oxford (yes, in ENGLAND), where she earned her doctorate
in the newly-created dual major of Astrology and Human Sexuality. There is
absolutely NO TRUTH to the rumor that Starzina’s second daughter has Royal
blood, despite tabloid photographs allegedly depicting her cavorting on the
Italian Riviera with Princes William and Harry, clad only in Prussian helmets
and armbands of questionable taste. Starzina currently resides with her
daughters in Philadelphia, the City That Loves You (On Your) Back, where she
enjoys Double Coupon Day at the local SuperCruise and “encouraging” the
coxswain of the Penn rowing team.
Perks was my favorite movie from last year. The book is about kids in PA who graduated high school in 1992. It could have been about me. (It wasn't, though; of this I'm fairly certain.)
ReplyDeleteDid you read the book? I don't usually do both any more, because I'm old, and ain't nobody got time fo' dat, but I read the book first and really, really liked it, then I liked the movie as an entirely different experience (and was amazed that the author wrote the script, directed it, and cut so much out (see the outtakes, esp. the one of the kid reading his poem).
ReplyDeleteI did not read the book. I was aware of it, as it was released at a time when I moved from reading, primarily, books written by the likes of Stephen King to moving, primarily, to books with a queer tone. I was told about the book by lots of friends who read it, but nobody told me there was a queer angle, which, I suppose sadly, would have made all the difference.
ReplyDeleteI do want to read the book. Usually, when you see a film, even if you enjoy it, reading the book doesn't seem appealing because, well, what's the point? But it's easy to see with Perks that there is a lot more character development that would have gone on in a book. And the movie is just about the only one from last year that was solely about the development of characters. (The boy who played the gay kid, Ezra something, was expected to get an Oscar nomination and the film was expected to get a script nomination, but it got neither, infuriating the people who have read the book over and over since it was released.)
Definitely read the book. It is all WhateverTheLeadGuy'sNameIs writing letters to his friend, which is only hinted at in the movie, and which is really well done. Also, there is more of The Gay.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that Liam has the book, so I might be reading it soon. He's reading it now, though, after having seen the fillum.
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