Monday 13 July 2009

Little Miss Sunshine Souffle

RECIPE


Ingredients (6 fragile people)

  • 9 step self-improvement program designing father, destined to fail
  • 1 heroin addicted grandfather banished from Sunset Manor for Seniors
  • 1 mom who's trying to keep it all together while family goes bankrupt
  • 7 year old, four-eyed Olive that participates in LMS Pageants 
  • 1 Nietzsche reading, jet pilot wannabe teen, lightly seasoned with a vow of silence
  • 1 suicidal, gay uncle with a dash of Proust
  • 2 porno mags
  • 1 fag rag
  • 6 heaping cups of love

  • Pre-heat oven to 350° butter and flour a broken-down, yellow, VW van, preferably with a damaged horn.
  • Prepare your basic roux (allow dad to have a complete meltdown in the dining room, add mom and Olive—whisking constantly—until it just begins to turn into a big yelling match about going to a pageant.)

  • Heat suicidal, gay brother until hot, but not boiling. Add a small amount of heroin snorting grandpa into the mix, then add silent son. Surprise! You now have the basic foundation for a dysfunctional family meltdown in a Little Miss Sunshine Souffle.

  • Add intense heat to each person. Whisk a small amount of porno mags, fag rag, and weird motorcycle cop into the mixture of the emotionally fragile family, then add stress of a beauty pageant back into the sauce, continuing to beat the hell out of mixture.

  • Warning #1: Once you have mixed in the dead grandpa and the son's freak-out on the side of the road, you must be very careful to keep the overall mixture at a low temperature! Otherwise the family will have either a mottled texture or the consistency of a mysterious plastic petroleum by-product. Once dad drives over sidewalk and through landscaping to get to the pageant, almost on time, increase heat to the highest setting with a bitchy pageant worker and a totally over-sexualized pageant, competing children until warm enough to continue total and complete meltdown.

  • Slowly add love, Rick James, and mix until family melts into a creamy, saucy dance. Bake for 1 hour and 41 minutes. Surprise! You now have a basic American family and a delicious Little Miss Sunshine Souffle!
Turn up the volume on this poor copy of the English version


Or watch a higher-quality German version!

Saturday 4 July 2009

If you loved this song as much as I did back in 1983 then you will totally love this video. I'm new to the "literal video versions" but it looks like there are a few out there. It makes you pause and wonder what in the world was she thinking?!


Wednesday 1 July 2009

Silly Parents, Facebook Is For Kids

Okay, I think by now it's pretty clear that I'm not a big fan of Facebook. It just seems so, so, white, middle-class, and for lack of a better word, high school. So one can make the formal and logical leap that the following is my official stance on Facebook and...high school:


Facebook is like high school
I did not like high school
Therefore, I do not like facebook

Amazingly, there are a ton of blogs out there dealing with the good and evil of Facebook and other social networking sites, so, I will try and refrain from beating a dead horse but I need to give it one last good whack!

This was a "rule" that I found on some site, I don't even remember where now but I do remember that it was Rule #34 - Don’t friend your child’s friends. Friending your child’s friends is like intentionally calling them on the phone just to chat.

I concur.