happy thanksgiving

If you’re reading this today, you have a dysfunctional family. You should be watching football with the brother you may not like, but have spent two decades learning to tolerate. You should be helping dad garden, or mom pick out what she wants to buy at the after-Thanksgiving sales. Or cooking, that’s appropriate too. But the only people who truly need to check their email today already have Blackberries. Sad as it might be, my inbox hasn’t exceeded word-of-the-day emails in two days. As for dysfunction, let’s just say that I’ve done Thanksgiving at Denny’s before.

And for those of us with dysfunctional families, oh, think of the memories. Just last year, we were reading drudgereport on this very day and realized that President Bush was pulling a photo op with fake turkeys and yes, soldiers, in Iraq. And then we thought, oh, just wait till next November Bush, just wait. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Sidenote… Along with “insecurity,” the words clearly and evidently are also banned from my vocab now. I’ve discovered that my infatuation for Wonkette (person, diction, concept, soul, all of it) has led to many unconscious attempts in me to sound like a paid blogger with wit and sass and nothing better to do in life. No, that’s probably no good.

And finally, took a little TV break last night. Watched two back-to-back episodes of “Laguna Beach” with utmost caution, but still managed to feel that my life experiences were fundamentally inadequate as compared to high schoolers – it’s a symptom of MTV. It just operates on a different paradigm of coolness, and I’m roadkill every single time I watch it. And then there was a little “West Wing” catchup. Since when did CJ become chief of staff? TV happens when you’re off living life.

I leave you with three separate (blogged) descriptions of the event to end all events: the premiere to “Closer,” a new flick whose premiere was down the street from us:

“I just got back from the premier of "Closer," which means that I spent the night in the same room as Natalie Portman, Jude Law, and Clive Owen. It was completely amazing and fun. Rachel and I walked down the red carpet together, and I waved pretending to be a movie star and a member of the paparazzi humored me and snapped away. The movie was really good actually, and the whole evening was just so exciting. Only in LA.”

The bonus was not only did we get to walk down the red carpet that the celebs in the movie got to walk down, but I got to sit directly across the aisle from Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owens during the entire movie. FYI, they are major talkers during the movie, and I so wanted to SHHHHH them, but I reframed. This was my first, in what's sure to be many, movie premieres.

I SAW JUDE LAW AND NATALIE PORTMAN!! HE WAS WITHIN TWO FEET OF ME!!! :D :D :D … we saw frankie muniz (from malcom in the middle) who is actually REALLY REALLY short. and diane sawyer, who has a really cute face and is incredibly tall and elegant looking. she got impatient waiting for people to open the door for her so she just opened it herself and stepped out. haha.