Short conversations with my bride
This is the closest you’ll get to a picture of us in our pajamas
With god as my witness, I have never seen ‘Angela’s Ashes’
Hmm, ‘Angela’s Ashes’. Remember that?
No.
What do you mean, ‘no’? We saw it together.
I never saw ‘Angela’s Ashes’.
Robert Carlyle, poor family? [makes 'ringing any bells, dumbass?' face]
Since when does Robert Carlyle not play a character from a poor family? You’re thinking of ‘The Full Monty’.
I can remember the exact circumstances of seeing it. [Recounts, including specific items of furniture in the room and weather outside]
Well, I have never seen ‘Angela’s Ashes’.
[sarcastically] Yeah, you’ve never seen it.
NB: we have this conversation about every film
Memo to myself: two-year-olds are terrified by electric toothbrushes
I hope Adam will like this. Hey — maybe I should get an electric toothbrush…?
I don’t think so. Brushing your teeth is pretty much the only exercise you get.
They are working on a pill for misanthropy
Why were you late getting home?
Because of the bastards.
What bastards?
All of them out there. They’re all bastards. They don’t know how a roundabout works!
I love you.
On my weaknesses other than misanthropy
[Watching VH1]
Oh my god! Oh my GOD! This is the worst thing that could happen. Turn it off, turn it off turnitoff!
What is this?
What is it? It’s Phil Collins, “Against All Odds”. I can’t imagine anything worse than this. Just kill me now. This will kill me.
Could you turn it up a little?
…
See? This slides out and there’s a place to store an extra memory card and the remote control right inside the grip!
Oh my god!
Yeah, cool, isn’t it?
No, I mean, OH MY GOD, I MARRIED A GEEK!
On the miracle of life
You know, in Slovenia you have to apply if you want to get a vasectomy.
Well, I guess I can sort of understand it. They do have a problem with the population shrinking.
Yes, but you can’t force a man to deposit his sperm just anywhere.
That shows how much you know about men.
…
Whose idea was it to have two children, anyway?
It was yours.
I’m pretty sure it was yours.
Yours.
On malformed fruit
Can I eat this apple now?
Yeah, go ahead. It’s been photographed.
I laughed about four times while reading that. Good stuff.
Angela’s Ashes is on the very short list of films that I had to stop watching because it was so bad. The film itself was fine, but the story was so depressing that I just couldn’t take it anymore.
That’s why I stopped watching E.R. It’s a great show, one of the best dramas, but then a friend told me a story about how she was watching it one day and her husband came in and said, “You do realize that you finish each episode of E.R. sobbing, right? Why subject yourself to that?” Too true.
On a side note….your camera has a little place to slide in the remote control? AWESOME!!
Comment by Erik R. — Tuesday 12 June 07 @ 10.53 MDT+2.00
Glad it made you laugh. This is one of the things I love most about Magda, yet her particular kind of humor can be difficult to convey. She cracks me up every day.
The remote slides into the extra battery grip. Why do I need the battery grip? Because the remote slides into it.
Comment by sgazzetti — Tuesday 12 June 07 @ 12.35 MDT+2.00
Heh.
*starts work on Magda Fan Club*
Comment by Jane — Tuesday 12 June 07 @ 13.37 MDT+2.00
I want to join the MFC, Jane. Keep me posted. Especially if I get a membership card I can carry in my wallet.
Comment by Roo — Tuesday 12 June 07 @ 15.40 MDT+2.00
We have that movie conversation too. Paola can never remember films from their titles (or cast lists, or plot descriptions, for that matter). On the other hand if I tell her that I’ve seen a film that she hasn’t, she wants to know why she hasn’t seen it and who did I go to see it with when I could have taken her instead?
Comment by simon — Tuesday 12 June 07 @ 15.59 MDT+2.00
And I’m sorry to bang on about this, but I’m NOT in Luxembourg.
Comment by simon — Tuesday 12 June 07 @ 16.00 MDT+2.00
Simon: I think your ISP gets around. We’re not judging you, though.
Comment by Jane — Tuesday 12 June 07 @ 16.22 MDT+2.00
Thank you for getting that damn Phil Collins song in my head for the remainder of natural time.
In retaliation:
“We’re Not Gonna Take It”
“She’s an Easy Lover”
“Ebony and Ivory”
“Cum on Feel the Noize”
“Conga”
“Dancin’ on the Ceiling”
“I’m So Excited”
I think I’ve just shot myself in the foot.
Comment by Emily — Wednesday 13 June 07 @ 02.03 MDT+2.00
Awesome. “Cum on Feel the Noize.” Thanks, “Emily.”
Our 2-year-old loves his electric toothbrush. It has Superman on it, and he calls it the Superman toothbrush, even though it is the only knowledge and interaction he has ever had with the Superman character. How do kids do that?
Anyway, now that he has the electric one, he can brush his own teeth, which leaves me more time for my cocktails.
Comment by jdog — Wednesday 13 June 07 @ 08.04 MDT+2.00
Actually, jdog, since that conversation was recorded Adam has come around to the idea of the electric toothbrush. He doesn’t use it ALL the time, of course — he still retains the right to do it manually, just so he has ONE MORE GOD DAMNED THING to be choosy about.
We credit the little battery-powered drill that came with the Dr. Wackelzahn set for opening his eyes to the possibilities of power-assisted dental apparatus.
Comment by sgazzetti — Wednesday 13 June 07 @ 08.47 MDT+2.00
Mr. Sgazzetti,
While I find your posting as evidence of its usual concoctive excellence, I think I will focus on the photo’s caption and ignore the gift of prose you strung out after it, like smokescreen for a getaway.
You, Sir, have wussed out by posting this touching, even elegant, photo of your connubial bliss. Are you really thinking, seriously thinking I’ll add, that this softly lit photo of your wife admiring your navel will replace the silk/satin/velcro/sackcloth pajamas one that we, your readers and ballot box stuffers, now expect? Niii! Sir Niiii to that.
O.K., we’ll give you time to summer na Jadranu. Then, we expect a well-tanned body in the pj’s to be posted on this site. 1 month reprieve is granted.
Comment by DarkoV — Wednesday 13 June 07 @ 14.06 MDT+2.00
Emily: I see your “She’s an Easy Lover” and raise you a “Too Shy” (Hush hush, eye to eye).
Comment by Jane — Wednesday 13 June 07 @ 14.20 MDT+2.00
“No, I mean, OH MY GOD, I MARRIED A GEEK!”
That’s my war cry every other day, except I say “I’m with Geek” and I will shortly print it on a t-shirt to wear when we’re out together. Whaddya mean, there already ARE such t-shirts?? :PP
You must be an awesome husband, making Magda cry from laughter every day. Bless – both of you!
Comment by Idaki — Thursday 14 June 07 @ 12.31 MDT+2.00
She cracks me up every day too and I never even get to see her.
Comment by gaoo — Friday 15 June 07 @ 05.02 MDT+2.00
I am not going to react to Simon’s comment on the film stuff… But I have to say the exchange over the wonkey apple could have been recorded in this house any time!
Comment by Paola — Friday 15 June 07 @ 22.01 MDT+2.00
Ha! I am in Belgium! Should I worry about Simon? He said he was going to the cinema tonight….
Comment by Paola — Friday 15 June 07 @ 22.04 MDT+2.00
At least you have a wife who’ll WATCH a film.
Comment by SquamLoon — Saturday 23 June 07 @ 15.03 MDT+2.00