Celebrate Today By Eating A Potato In A Bowtie While Complaining About Private Health Insurance Companies!
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Happy Saturday!
Today, according to one of those websites that tells you what holiday it is, is National Potato Day, International Bowtie Day (bowties are cool), National Soft Ice Cream Day and National Patient Advocacy Day. Fun fact, my mom was the first patient advocate at Boston University Hospital back when that first started being a thing, which is why I am afraid of getting a flesh eating bacteria from a Jacuzzi and losing a leg and also why I hate private insurance companies and love single payer.
Also, fun fact, soft ice cream is stressful. You have to eat it too quickly or it melts. Milkshakes exist! Just have one of those.
Your present this week is the very first episode of the New Kids On The Block cartoon show, which also features a commercial for the NKOTB dolls (I had the Jordan one) at the beginning.
Thing I just found out just now: Brian Stokes Mitchell did the voice of Danny Wood (the Not Hot One). Like, Tony Award-winning Broadway actor and gloriously resonant baritone, with whom I am very much in love, Brian Stokes Mitchell, who was apparently doing this while starring in the all Black revival of the Gershwin’s Oh, Kay!
Like, this Brian Stokes Mitchell.
I cannot describe to you the amount that this is breaking my entire brain right now, although according to his Wikipedia page, he actually did voices for all kinds of Saturday Morning Cartoons and was even in an episode of Alf. Huh!
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A reminder, tonight's WMN is Airplane! I was just watching the trailer and laughing my ass off because all those stupid jokes and prop humor are still hilarious. (get it, "prop" humor?)
https://youtu.be/07pPmCfKi3U
https://ziggywiggy.substack.com/p/wonkette-movie-night-aug-19-airplane?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
OMG I was able to eat some pizza! I think most know I am in the middle of a dental adventure, I have had all my teeth removed and am in the process of having dentures made, followed by 2 implants that they will attach to. I currently have an old upper partial denture that I can still use, mostly for looks but it helps a tiny bit with eating. I have put off trying to eat pizza because I wasn't sure I could do it and I didn't want to be disappointed. I figured if I tried it cold(can't chew the chewy melted cheese) I might be able to have some of the super thin crust NY pizza that I have been missing so much. It was messy, a little hard on my gums, and I wouldn't do it in public but I got to have that taste I had been missing for two months. Yummy! 🍕😊