Tangents

Over the next month or so, I will be recording scenes from Superstition_hockey's Bells/Hayes arc and posting them at https://archiveofourown.org/works/23500855/chapters/56354350, including comment-fics from HawkeyeState that deserves a wider audience.

I'm not doing them in order (uninhibited as I am, trying to record other people's sex scenes with the BYM within earshot does cramp my style), and it would behoove you to become familiar with the series beforehand in any case. Start with archiveofourown.org/works/6099484/chapters/13981810

And if hockey/surfing/feminist-bro slash fic is just never gonna be your thing, it's perhaps worth noting that I fell into that fandom via lomedet, whose tweet tonight also clued me into #SaturdayNightSeder, which delighted me on many levels, including these:

Highlights for me included:

* (as described by Lion Saltzman): "Ben Platt singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow as Judith Light talking about Jews escaping to America and the song being composed by Jewish refugees, and about the Wizard of Oz coming out less than two months after Kristallnacht."
* Henry Winkler talking about Moses interspersed with Billy Porter singing "Go Down Moses"
* Debra Messing and Richard Kind telling the Passover story. Funny-schticky in parts 1 and 2, and then genuinely moving in Part 3 -- the parting of the Red Sea has never seemed so real to me
* Harvey Fierstein riffing on "Next year in Jerusalem" and asking why we couldn't have taken over Berlin instead.

Cast includes Idina Menzel, Josh Groban, Bette Midler (as Elijah!), Stephen Schwartz, Jason Alexander, and what seemed like dozens of other Broadway stars.
https://www.saturdaynightseder.com/

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The subject line's from Foster the People's "Helena Beat," which is currently at the top of my working mix at home.

Things I could have done without this week: dog digestive trouble, I-24 as a parking lot, various aspects of this year's physical (nothing to be alarmed about; it's just Not Fun).

Things that have gone well: other aspects of this year's physical (phlebotomist, vaccinator, and radiology tech all very good).

The comedy that is my life:

Me to the BYM: So my internist was laughing at me this afternoon, just like you were the other night.

The BYM: That's because you're funny.

Me: Uh-huh. She was tapping my knee to test my reflexes -- and then, just like you, she was like, "Is that ...whiteout?"

The BYM: [snickers]

(Last Friday, a splotch of correction fluid fell on my knee. I guess it doesn't come off when one keeps falling asleep in the bath instead of scrubbing... *sheepish*)

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Also:
* I sowed zinnias in the planter that failed to yield any radishes.
* The asparagus I overcooked tonight is still a decent carrier for leftover aioli.
* The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup! Seeing snapshots of the celebrations reminded me of being in the city when the Bulls won their first championship. Nashville's where I belong, but I do sometimes miss that Windy City energy.

Over on Twitter, several friends needed a moment -- as did I -- when Toews handed the Cup to Timonen:


https://youtu.be/9txLgEO2sfQ

I'm writing a thank-you note to my friend Sue, who treated me to a Predators vs. Sharks game eleven years ago:



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