April 20, 2004

Mimi Smartypants is afraid the opera will call her at 2am, drunk. Mimi Smartypants is not new, but her writing is terribly funny and fresh. She has an 18 month old adopted baby named Nora. Something that *is* brand spanking new is that she is participating in a weblog with others about their experiences with a particularly expensive ($38/bar!) brand of face soap.

Mimi on the opera: "All of this mental drama with my magazine subscriptions reminds me of my tiff with the opera. The opera has not been calling as much lately; I have only seen their name on the caller ID once or twice in 2004. I am waiting for the phone to ring at two in the morning and it's the opera, and the opera is drunk, and the opera just wants me to know that it thinks I'm a good person. Okay? Can we just, like, be okay? Or maybe the next chapter in the story is that I will be at a party and OH SHIT, the opera is over there in the corner, and I will pull the symphony aside and hiss you didn't tell me the opera would be here and the symphony will say look, the opera has been my friend for a long time, what was I supposed to do? I will decide to suck it up and stick around, and everyone will take note at how well I am handling the opera's presence despite our unpleasant history, and only my good friends will notice how I am laughing a little bit too loudly and drinking a little bit too much whenever the opera is looking in my direction." I love you, Mimi Smartypants! Good luck with the soap!

posted by onlyconnect 20 years ago
  • Nice find! I like Poundy even better! Post more! Have an exclamation point, on the house!!
  • Oh great, just what I needed, another time-sucker! Let's see *checks clock* yep, I just lost a good 35 minutes on something I was going to quickly check out before I checked out. It now has a home in my favorites. Thanks, onlyconnect.
  • There is the frozen banana of grown-up resignation... I'm just like putty in the hands of a girl like you.
  • Mimi Smartypants is the wittiest person on the Internet, and I am torn between wanting to recommend her to everybody and wanting to keep her to myself. Anyone here read the book? I was disappointed by it; the publishers packaged it as a piece of Bridget-Jones chick-lit, and a lot of the freshness and originality got lost somewhere along the road from weblog to print. (From scattered remarks on the weblog, I get the impression that Mimi herself is slightly embarrassed about the book.) But the blog is an unfailing joy and delight. Long may it continue. I wish I could write as well about anything as Mimi writes about everything.
  • You know, it's a lot harder to hide my obsession with Mimi if y'all go posting about here like this. She's part of the reason I decided to go to grad school. If you have about 20 hours to spend, I highly recommend starting at the beginning of her archives and moving forward.
  • 35 minutes on something I was going to quickly check out posted by Darshon at 06:24AM UTC on April 20 Count yourself lucky, I lost 4 hours on that sucker.