This rainy Friday is right in line with my mood.
Gang, I’m not gonna lie — it’s been a bit of a rough week. Honestly, being unemployed for any extended period of time can be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. Every interview or contact sends you up, feeling optimistic, seeing the end in sight — and then every rejection, technicality, bill, etc. just sends you crashing back down.
Hubs and I have been riding the coaster for many, many, months now, and it’s truly exhausting.
But we’ve been both been applying like crazy, and are trying to remain optimistic through everything. Even though I’ve truly loved having free time to write more, I am really looking forward to life getting back to normal again (besides, stress doesn’t really cohabitate well with creativity). Hopefully that will happen very, very soon.
In the meantime, scrolling mindlessly on the internet does wonders for keeping your brain distracted! So let’s move on to the fun stuff, right after I share this hilarious pic that recaps last week’s online drama:
Product Placement
In 2003 Chile, the network showing Star Wars decided to try to avoid commercial breaks by cutting the commercials directly in to the film. This was absolutely news to me (not a huge surprise, to be fair, because I did not live in Chile in 2003 — I was very busy trying to be cool in high school), and I had to dig to confirm that the tweet I saw on the topic was true.
And it absolutely was. Here’s a compilation someone put together of all the ads:
I cannot stop laughing at this. Not just because of the actual placement itself — “Your father wanted you to have this…” but the disembodied hands here sensually caressing their ~Cervesa Cristal~.
As is to be expected, some news outlets did additional digging this week and apparently the advertising agency that put this together won an award for this shit. And honestly?? They fucking deserved it.
SOMEONE HAD TO SHOOT ALL THESE SCENES. Can you imagine making sure the color of The Hands’™ sleeves was just right? And getting the props accurate in the background? Plus the timing!! It’s absolutely perfect.
This has already become part of our household lore and all drinks are being held with the reverence of ~Cerveza Cristal~.
The Big Cheese
This concerning news actually came out last month, but unfortunately I’m just now hearing about it:
STOP. EVERYTHING.
First, put this fungus on the endangered species list, and do whatever it takes to make sure we have Brie!! I require Brie for cheese boards, and special events, and to bake in puff pastry with cranberry sauce. Also to just…eat by itself. Sometimes.
Now that that’s been said, EMERGENCY ALERT: THERE IS FUNGUS ON BRIE, and it’s a penicillin boi:
Now penicillin camemberti, the fungus used to create the cheeses, has lost its ability to reproduce sexually, as well as its ability to produce asexual spores.
Look. I knew there were cheeses with mold on them or whatever, and sometimes I eat those, because they’re cheese. But I didn’t realize that there was a fungus making the full on rind.
We’ve talked about this!!! I have created an allowance for fungus to eat trash, and radiation, and whiskey. Now I’m supposed to — what, just be okay with the fact that fungus is making Brie good? To fight for FUNGUS to REPRODUCE?? To MAKE ITS SPORES?! This feels extremely contrary to my concerns about mushrooms taking over the Earth!!
Save the Camembert. Save the Brie. Save the fungus, I guess. But it needs to stay in it’s goddamn lane. I’m on to you, penicillin camemberti!!
What I’m reading
I finally read a second book this year, and it only took me until March!!
This week, I read Till There Was You, the debut novel from my lovely friend
. I loved it! I don’t always find myself reaching for romance, but I usually end up enjoying them when I do. This one was fun, and sweet, and was absolutely perfect to disappear into for an afternoon (disclaimer: I read this in an afternoon, but I am also a very fast reader — it’s 320 pages!).I feel like it’s going to be a perfect beach read for summer, so grab a copy now!
(As always, if you buy anything from my Bookshop links I may make a few shillings.)
Shameless Self-Promotion Corner
I had a piece published in Hard Drive this week: Guy Exclusively Dating AI Already Has 3 .exe Girlfriends! I wrote this back in January but it’s finally been published this week. This is a very specific nerd humor for nerds, and I couldn’t be happier that I have a pun about executable files attributed to my name.
Randomly Selected Animal Cutie
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We love a rescue of a wild animal that’s angrily hissing the entire time!! Obsessed with this big sir or madam, and the rescuer is so sweet to clean ‘em all up before finding them a safe place to be.
Okay, that’s it from me today! I’m off to work on my homework for my screenwriting class and finish up Love is Blind. Have a great weekend!!
K
I want my tax dollars to go to saving the Brie fungus!
Sorry to hear the unemployment stretch is so long for y’all. It’s not nice out there. Hope something turns up for you soon!
Very upset about this brie news BUT the funny .exe helped balance it out, thank you!!