Panty-poachin” party people: I know the Head Counselor’s cabin has been a bit dark and quiet lately, but I assure you that the Campers did not finally catch me unawares in my bed and set me on fire (or eat my face, which is what I think the kids are doing these days?).
I won’t bore you with the details, but since January Andy and I have been spending every waking moment (and many unwaking moments, Blair Witch 2: Book of Shit-style) on trying to buy our first place. We don’t need much – just a matchbox of our own. A fence of real chain link. A grill out on the patio, disposal in the siiiiiiiiiink…
No, forreal. It’s been crazy and exhausting and it has driven us as close to murder/suicide as the time that we watched that Prom Night remake.
But all is not lost.
Chris Meloni in American Psycho True Blood
As you may have heard, this Sunday True Blood returns for its 5th season on HBO. I honestly am not sure how I feel about the season based on the previews and the spoilers I’ve been hearing, but I am of course extremely excited to hop on the Crazytown Express back to Bon Temps (which is French for “Pretty Secretaries”, by the way).
After recapping the show for years, my pal Steven Frank over at AfterElton has hung up his wooden stake and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to pale by comparison when I start recapping the show for them every week this season. I’ve been recapping shows steadily there since October (American Horror Story, Shameless, Game of Thrones) and it’s really nice to be back with the fellas. The decision to commit to a recap back at the place I started covering the show to begin with was an easy one to make in many ways, but a tough one for one major reason: It will make it markedly more difficult for me and Andy to produce our criminally entertaining Blood Work! vlog recaps.
But yet again, all is not lost.
Against our better judgment and the advice of certified medical professionals, we are going to give it our best, kids. Who knows – the burden of a full-time job, lots of writing on the side and producing a very time-intensive vlog might prove to be too much for me. And if we do end up buying a place soon, we may be completely overwhelmed with moving chores for weeks right in the middle of the season. So I hope that everyone will understand if we miss a week here or there or simply drop dead in the middle of an episode, our souls spent and our cats instantly orphaned. I just hope the tape runs out before they eat our faces. (Sorry, that’s two face-eating jokes in one post … too soon?)
In the meantime – prepare thyselves, bitches. ‘Cause it’s time to get back to Work.
(To catch up on our Blood Work! vlogs, head on ovah heah.)
YAY!!! I will forgive you and Andy if you miss a few episodes, but it’s always the highlight of my week watching/reading your thoughts on True Blood. I am beginning to feel like abandoning the show, it’s gone so askew.
Thanks! I think a lot of people are feeling that way, to be honest. But the buzz I’m hearing about the first few episodes is really good, so I’m still holding on to hope!
Moving in NYC… just did it, so I understand. It feels like the sentence “I’m just trying to find a place to live” can sum up all of New York life sometimes. I hope me knowing in which city you reside comes off in a loving fan sort of way and not a I’m-living-in-you’re-attic sort of way (that would be ridiculous. Who has an attic in New York?) I also loved your Little Shop “Somewhere That’s Green” reference. I hope you do find the time though, if only to rag on how ridiculous the show might be. I suppose there is such a thing as too many jokes about cannibalism, but I don’t think you’ve even gotten near the quota in this post.
Thanks Zoe! Congrats on your move. Why is it so hard these days to find a nice, affordable brownstone with a blind priest in the attic that wants to make you the next sentinel of the gate to hell? (With a city view, of course.)
I am so happy for you and Andy. Hope you guys can find your dream home. Have you try to see if Marcy have an office in the east coast. Maybe she have some listings in her bumpit.
I can’t not wait for your recaps on Ae and for whatever craziness (or as I call it a holiday with the family) that you are bringing this season.
HA! OMG I would love to work with Marcy, even if things didn’t go so well for her last gay clients. Thank God we don’t have a fireplace.
I really hope that Tim Treadwell scenario doesn’t pan out, and also that your new home is free of demon-pigs, Ju-ons and blind old Bette Davises squatting in the attic room.
I’ll look forward to the AfterElton recaps, and if you guys do manage a few Blood Work episodes, that’ll be the cherry on top.
Thanks, spazmo! It’s so awesome to see your avatar again….
It will all work out, moving makes people freak out till it’s over, don’t forget to take B-complex for energy and um, blood werQ!
A picture out of Better Homes & Gardens Magazine, and other voluntary obligations should not come in the way of your fantastic Vlog. It’s one thing I look forward to as much as True Blood every week. I’m glad to still you’re going to makes go of it! Maybe the alien faeries will bring you some bath salts to help get you both through it all.