Oh geez. That is tough. Usually I have a rule - if I'm writing an email with anything even a little sensitive, I imagine that it's going to get forwarded to the person I LEAST want it to get forwarded to, and I read it as if I were them. Usually this leads to me either rephrasing what I'm writing (switching from "if…
I had a minor one of my own doing. I was super excited to send out my invitations. I wanted to seal the envelopes with pressed violets, so I got clear circle stickers and raided the lawns of two different friends' parents and picked HUNDREDS of them, carefully pressed them in books, and chose only the best ones for…
When we got married 21 years ago, there were not a lot of home computers or printers. My fiance (now husband) was finishing art school, and insisted he could make the invitations and print them at his fancy school. He had to have handmade, acid-free paper ordered from Seattle (we were in L.A.) which he then…
The invitations to my November 2001 wedding were mailed on September 10, 2001. The wedding venue? Windows on the World.
In my experience, you can be friends with your exes granted you didn't care too much for them in the first place.
This didn't happen to me exactly, but it's still pretty awesome. So my aunt was getting married (c.1982), a few years before I existed, and her wedding color was a light mauve. She picked out nice mauve invitations with dark text which were surprisingly elegant considering it was the early 80s. She gave them to her…
I found myself spinning a towel above my head with forearm over mouth at the 3:00 mark when the white one shows up out of nowhere.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE???
I loved Colorforms when I was a kid. When I was about 4 or 5 (this would have been @ 1977 or so) I went to the hospital a few times to have tubes placed in my eustachian tubes to aid in drainage. In '77 that was inpatient surgery, but I didn't care because even though my ears hurt like a motherfucker coming out of the…
When I got engaged 15 (!) years ago as a scared and uninformed 22 year-old, I went through all this rigamarole, and one thing really stuck with me.
Unless you're a poor planner, and are going to pop the question the same day you buy the ring, or you're really, really uncertain about whether she'll say "yes," stay far,…
My aunt and uncle's wedding, many years ago, was a very traditional church affair. Before the ceremony, they were piping in soft, calming music interspersed with nature sounds, like waterfalls. At least, everyone thought they were nature sounds, until they heard a flush. The minister went to the men's room with his…
The best man sounds like the title fit.
Two things on the matter:
The idea that people should not be praised for doing good things to benefit worthy causes is fucking ludicrous.
To ease your sorrows...
the part I found the most perplexing was the Eddie Murphy tribute. 4 minutes of Chris rock talking and zero clips of Eddie and only a little speech live. How epic would it have been if he brought back james brown as Annie!?
Celebrity Jeopardy was everything.