Typical conversation these days
“So, how are the revisions going?”
“Next question.”
“What do you do when you’re stuck?”
“Watch Top Chef reruns, make vegan chocolate chip cookies (I’ve finally perfected the recipe), make another batch of hummus (my husband claims I excrete garlic through my pores now–sweet!), hope someone sends me a funny video–”
Which brings us to this! I especially love the look of the scruffy little dog. I’m not a drinker, but I am a big fan of these commercials. There are some very clever people out there.
Enjoy!
[Updated to add these, which just about made me swallow an adenoid:]
[Updated again. I really need to get to work.]
And let me just say, if any of you link to this post, I’ll be very, very disappointed in you. Obviously the book I’m writing right now is very high-brow and intellectual, because why else would I need to unwind with such immature humor? But I know you’re all better than that.
Technorati Tags: Writing, Publishing, Procrastination, Writing Deadlines, Revisions, Avoiding Revisions
June 21st, 2008 at 11:21 am
those bud light commercails (?) are really funny but the dude one wasn’t so much. It makes me think drinking is even more stupid.
I hope you finish your book soon!!!
June 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
sorry i forgot to say one thing
I read the Host and i loved it (sorry) but it’s my new favorite. Not that your book wasn’t great. I just go through a new favorite book every month.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:27 am
Ha, those were great! The really bad dancer one was dead on.
June 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Hi, Gretch-a-sketch, welcome to the blog! And I have to confess, I probably dance even worse than that guy.
Carli, of course you loved The Host. Dude. (See, that’s another proper use of “dude”–which is why we need that instructional video, even if it wasn’t your favorite of the bunch.)
June 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hey, and isn’t anyone going to give it up for Mr. Silent Killer Gas Passer?
June 21st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Robin, you made my day!! Laughing so hard I choked on my gum. You have permission from the universe to distract yourself by whatever means to get through the ‘revisions’. I didn’t say it outloud, only a whisper.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Thank you, MJG. You know I’m a big fan of permission.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Sooo…
How are peace talks in the middle east going?
June 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I had to drop out of those. We just weren’t getting anywhere once that new Adam Sandler movie came out.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
gosh, Robin, I don’t know what you’re talking about. When I am revising, I put on my tweed three-piece suit (like always), sit down (with perfect posture), work for six hours, stopping only once for a cup of tea. Then I cook a four-course dinner, entertain the pope, and do another six hours before I finally go to sleep, hanging upside-down like a bat. And I work in my sleep, too, so I wake up knowing exactly what I need to do that day. And I simply do it. In fact, it is God that tells me, in my sleep, how to do my revisions. And he tells me in blank verse.
Okay, whew. Not so much. Haven’t been out of the house in WEEKS. Feel like when I close my laptop I should just put my head inside it too. God, I hope I’m done soon!
June 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Laini, you just made me laugh as hard as those commercials did. I raise my coffee mug and toast you.
Why don’t these books just fix themselves? Why????
June 21st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
The Host made me cry, but it made being the passenger in a car for 9 hours bearable. (With tissues, of course.)
And brocolli can give you gas? Who knew.
(P.S. If Robin replies to this it means she is not working.)
June 21st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
(I can’t spell.)
June 21st, 2008 at 8:06 pm
B-r-o-c-c-o-l-i
June 21st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Chopping broccoli…
(Guess who else isn’t working?)
June 21st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I wasn’t going to answer, Heather, but then you got me with the “chopping broccoli.” *snort* How many people know what she’s talking about?
But really, I’m working! Bye!
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:15 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2Dpb1Sdik
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 am
I was just saying to my BFF that I miss too much good pop culture not watching the TV. Thank goodness for the Internet.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Well, the dog nerd in me insists on pointing out the irony that Fergus is also a purebred dog–just a scruffier breed (a Border Terrier). So Mr. Everyman in that commercial isn’t quite as Everyman as he wants to come across.
Ahh, revisions! Don’t ask me about mine, either.
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Patrick, thanks for always being ON IT.
Adrienne, if people don’t send me stuff, I have no idea it’s out there. So looks like we’re both cave people.
Katie, of course you, the dog expert, would have that piece of information. I had no idea! And as for your revisions and mine and Laini’s and anyone else out there slapping our books around, let’s just make it clear that:
1. We LOVE our jobs;
2. We LOVE our books;
3. The revision stage sucks mice;
4. When we finally finish revising these things, they will look like they were always supposed to look, only we didn’t know that until we got them right. Right?
June 24th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Soo - How is the battle of wits against a Sicilian when death is on the line going?!
June 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Patrick, that’s just spooky. How could you possibly know my new novel is entirely an homage to The Princess Bride? I think you’re going to win any battle of wits, dude (and I mean that in the appropriate “dude” way, as shown above).
June 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Odd. I’m reading The Princess Bride for the first time. I’ve only been a fan of the movie until now.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I love the book even more! It took me a while to read it, too, but that thing is hilarious–in ways familiar to us from the movie, and unfamiliar as well. William Goldman is a genius, and I don’t mind saying it early and often.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Hummus is tasty, as are vegan chocolate chip cookies!
June 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Yes, Little Willow! Solidarity, Vegan Sistah!