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I've previously prattled on about my love for Disney's most magnificent bad girl, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/black-magic-woman.html\"\u003EMaleficent\u003C\/a\u003E, so to avoid repeating myself and in no particular order, I'll run through some of the other wicked women that tickle my fancy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EBellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter Series\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ByOZ8cso6DM\/TXVWp60LUWI\/AAAAAAAABSs\/Mkq3U3uR3Bg\/s1600\/bellatrix-lestrange.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ByOZ8cso6DM\/TXVWp60LUWI\/AAAAAAAABSs\/Mkq3U3uR3Bg\/s400\/bellatrix-lestrange.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581462591358325090\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be fair, at least The Wicked Witch of the West had an understandable reason to have it in for Dorothy. If some dozy redneck flattened \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003Eyour\u003C\/span\u003E sister with a house, you wouldn't take it too well either. In Bellatrix's case though, she's actually just a demented lunatic, hell-bent on fucking up Harry Potter and his mates, played with delerious glee by Helena Bonham Carter in the series of films.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EUrsula\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E(The Little Mermaid)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OLHIsg_qUso\/TXVW1Ig51SI\/AAAAAAAABS0\/DKs1oQj3Q7o\/s1600\/Ursula-The-Little-Mermaid.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OLHIsg_qUso\/TXVW1Ig51SI\/AAAAAAAABS0\/DKs1oQj3Q7o\/s400\/Ursula-The-Little-Mermaid.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581462784014144802\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInteresting fact - and by interesting I mean mostly pointless - the proper name for a half-octopus person such as dragtastic Ursula here is a cecaelia. (Which is awfully similar to my middle name, although I'm mostly certain that I'm not part octopus.) Try to work it into a conversation today. I dare you. Anyway, Ursula is a fantastically camp breed of sea witch, representin' for the big girls and going strapless in quite a bold move for a lady as meaty as her. Then again, who's going to tell her to do otherwise, when she's the kind of woman who'll take a foolish mermaid's voice and keep it as a bitchin' accessory without so much as batting a giant false (presumably waterproof mascaraed) eyelash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6f3OERWHqMk\/TXVawFyvq6I\/AAAAAAAABS8\/gH3nrzkVdeU\/s1600\/ursula-vanessa.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6f3OERWHqMk\/TXVawFyvq6I\/AAAAAAAABS8\/gH3nrzkVdeU\/s400\/ursula-vanessa.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581467095430835106\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe's also dynamite at makeovers, transforming herself into the sexy Vanessa in order to screw Ariel out of marrying Eric. Take that, princess.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EChristine\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E(John Carpenter's Christine)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FWaPZ2b3Z0Q\/TXVfePwMWXI\/AAAAAAAABTE\/qhn85FG5vm0\/s1600\/christine.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FWaPZ2b3Z0Q\/TXVfePwMWXI\/AAAAAAAABTE\/qhn85FG5vm0\/s400\/christine.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581472286424979826\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlright, yes, this one is in fact a car. A possessed Plymouth Fury to be exact. But still. She has a girl's name and she KILLS PEOPLE, so for the purposes of this list she counts as a villainess. When my brother and I were younger, Dad was trying to get us into horror films. One evening he rented Christine on tape for us all to watch, confident that his memory of it was that of a great scary film. Unfortunately, nostalgia must have warped and rose tinted his memory, because it really wasn't. I think we laughed for almost the entire thing, sure the premise alone is pretty hilarious as it is. To be fair, it does contain some spectacularly entertaining swearing, such as Christine's nerdy owner Arnie Cunningham being referred to as \"Cuntingham\". Lovely, shiny, evil Christine gets points for being an unusual sort of baddie, seeing as she's an inanimate, albeit waxed and demonic object.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EMargo Black\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E(Sweet Valley High Series)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-wN4ASFA2JHI\/TXVnodqZqII\/AAAAAAAABTU\/vCd3oVUkNkE\/s1600\/team-margo1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-wN4ASFA2JHI\/TXVnodqZqII\/AAAAAAAABTU\/vCd3oVUkNkE\/s400\/team-margo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581481258050496642\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EShe's not Elizabeth at all! LIES!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI've actually mentioned the delightfully and completely deranged Margo before in a Sweet Valley High \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/valley-girls.html\"\u003Epost\u003C\/a\u003E, but I just couldn't leave her out of a list of lady evil-doers like this. To recap, Margo is a total psycho who just so happens to look \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003Eexactly\u003C\/span\u003E like the Wakefield twins, Jessica and Elizabeth, who are gorgeous, blonde and generally awesome at life. Crazy Margo randomly sees a picture of Elizabeth in a Texas newspaper (even though the twins live in California) and promptly decides to kill her and take over her life. As you do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-jQa79wGv0hI\/TXVmvYBb02I\/AAAAAAAABTM\/TZImwPWHdAk\/s1600\/crazy-margo.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-jQa79wGv0hI\/TXVmvYBb02I\/AAAAAAAABTM\/TZImwPWHdAk\/s400\/crazy-margo.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581480277283951458\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EAh God, I love these Sweet Valley book cover paintings. The DRAMA! Marvelous.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer plan ultimately fails though, and she gets pushed out a window by Lila Fowler, after a bit of standing over both twins, being all demented while caressing a butcher knife. But you just can't keep a good villainess down, and Crazy Margo makes a comeback with yet \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003Eanother\u003C\/span\u003E Wakefield lookalike in tow. \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ECome on!\u003C\/span\u003E This time the diabolical wench plans to kill BOTH twins and with the new doppelganger, take over BOTH of their lives. Unfortunately, the new girl (who I think is actually Margo's twin sister...ah the complexities of a Sweet Valley story arc) mistakes her for Jessica and kills her in some haze of confusion, because to be fair, there are now FOUR identical girls running around Sweet Valley. And so Crazy Margo meets her demise. For now anyway, bitches.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fredlemonade.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fsomething-wicked-this-way-struts.html\u0026amp;layout=standard\u0026amp;show_faces=false\u0026amp;width=450\u0026amp;action=like\u0026amp;colorscheme=light\u0026amp;height=35\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 35px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5495332851002164918\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/something-wicked-this-way-struts.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5495332851002164918"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5495332851002164918"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/something-wicked-this-way-struts.html","title":"Something Wicked This Way Struts"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ByOZ8cso6DM\/TXVWp60LUWI\/AAAAAAAABSs\/Mkq3U3uR3Bg\/s72-c\/bellatrix-lestrange.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-6030689479108545145"},"published":{"$t":"2010-07-31T17:52:00.022+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-04T16:14:53.927+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drinking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Holiers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jessica Fletcher"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lists of stuff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Parties"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Bear"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vidjoe"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dutch Gold"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Amsterdam. Quite the delightfully crazy bitch of a city. The craic quota was well and truly through the roof for our week of mischief. It was just me and the Bear for the first four days, with the rest of the twenty-seven strong group arriving for the weekend with the excuse of a birthday loosely holding together the idea of a massive session in ye olde Amsterdam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFRt3xuShCI\/AAAAAAAAA0Q\/pDtc9Xv1Mek\/s1600\/DSC09115.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFRt3xuShCI\/AAAAAAAAA0Q\/pDtc9Xv1Mek\/s400\/DSC09115.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500141849933939746\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAntics included:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Being generally amazed at the gorgeousness of the canals, narrow streets and the demented angles that all the buildings seem to lean at.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Trying to decipher what flavour the bright blue ice cream with \"smurf\" in its name was. We never did figure it out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Finding it really quite difficult not to stare at the particularly hot lingerie-clad ladies in the neon-lit windows as we ambled past. And equally difficult not to stare at the rather more robust ladies that take the Sunday morning shift.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Giggling our way around the Sex Museum, which really just amounts to a badly organised collection of things with naked people on them. Good for a laugh though, and true to form the man on the ticket desk made sure he got a good look at my boobs on the way in. In fairness to them they had some nice cheeky advertising for their 25th anniversary, when the Bear came across this coin in his change at one point:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFRytvXxx2I\/AAAAAAAAA0Y\/hPpZXQKeACs\/s1600\/DSC09123.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFRytvXxx2I\/AAAAAAAAA0Y\/hPpZXQKeACs\/s400\/DSC09123.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500147175062095714\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Learning a total of five Dutch words. Kangarooballen, slagroom, aardappel, bioscope and winkel. Which mean space hopper, whipped cream, potato, 3D and shop, respectively. Needless to say, I wasn't exactly engaging in any Dutch conversations during my time there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Waking up to find that both the Bear and I had been playing host to a mosquito orgy over the course of the night, as our arms and legs became the new Amsterdam hotspot for them to party down at. The tiny winged bastards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Cycling in a wobbly and momentarily terrified manner (as I've been cycling in or about four times since I was thirteen) to the Anne Frank House. Whilst queuing, the Bear asked me if I had read the book, to which I replied; \"No, but I know the story. Y'know, from the bit with Peter in Family Guy.\" I kid, of course.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"385\" width=\"480\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5jgbepxBgZk\u0026amp;hl=en_GB\u0026amp;fs=1?rel=0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5jgbepxBgZk\u0026amp;hl=en_GB\u0026amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Screaming our collective tits off on the mental rollercoasters in Walibi World, a former Six Flags park about an hour outside the city. There's nothing quite like being flung upside down and hurtling through a corkscrew bend before breakfast.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Commandeering the couches by the window in the somewhat crack den-like surroundings of Hill Street Blues, as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/deadliest-jumper-in-world.html\"\u003EDeadly Jumper Boy\u003C\/a\u003E asked me what the story was with my Jessica Fletcher obsession. Seeing as he's as yet unaware of this here blog, this was based solely on my Facebook updates. He doesn't know the HALF of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Fisheye tomfoolery courtesy of the Lomo camera that Santa was nice enough to give me last Christmas. It was my first go with it, so the results aren't exactly spectacular or anything, but it was certainly fun to use.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR9nz6uJjI\/AAAAAAAAA1Q\/JDyEIXzG2To\/s1600\/FISH1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 358px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR9nz6uJjI\/AAAAAAAAA1Q\/JDyEIXzG2To\/s400\/FISH1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500159167831090738\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR1Iu-jlZI\/AAAAAAAAA0o\/JAhhIuhP7ms\/s1600\/FISH3.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR1Iu-jlZI\/AAAAAAAAA0o\/JAhhIuhP7ms\/s400\/FISH3.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500149837836031378\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR1Upaw3xI\/AAAAAAAAA0w\/v920Q0Me26c\/s1600\/FISH4.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR1Upaw3xI\/AAAAAAAAA0w\/v920Q0Me26c\/s400\/FISH4.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500150042502160146\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR1p-YdVlI\/AAAAAAAAA04\/61SQ1Gx3Cs4\/s1600\/FISH2.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR1p-YdVlI\/AAAAAAAAA04\/61SQ1Gx3Cs4\/s400\/FISH2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500150408906888786\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR16MlQ4BI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/aXd7rAziTCk\/s1600\/FISH6.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR16MlQ4BI\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/aXd7rAziTCk\/s400\/FISH6.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500150687596601362\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR2CHSj9rI\/AAAAAAAAA1I\/82cJvHPfiVQ\/s1600\/FISH5.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFR2CHSj9rI\/AAAAAAAAA1I\/82cJvHPfiVQ\/s400\/FISH5.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500150823614936754\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6030689479108545145\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/dutch-gold.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6030689479108545145"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6030689479108545145"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/dutch-gold.html","title":"Dutch Gold"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TFRt3xuShCI\/AAAAAAAAA0Q\/pDtc9Xv1Mek\/s72-c\/DSC09115.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-5204483198803646066"},"published":{"$t":"2009-11-17T13:50:00.008+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-26T12:40:50.232+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Films"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lists of stuff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Random facts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sweet Valley High"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Valley Girls"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"So it appears that one Diablo Cody is set to make a Sweet Valley High movie. Internet folk seem to be divided in opinion that this will either be amazing and clever and a 1980s-set \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EClueless\u003C\/span\u003E, or that it's going to be a complete disaster and travesty, quoting the fact that \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EJennifer's Body\u003C\/span\u003E made all of $40 (give or take) Stateside as a reason.  I for one am in the excited-and-think-it-could-be-awesome camp. I haven't seen \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EJennifer's Body\u003C\/span\u003E, but I've read the woeful reviews it's gotten and reckon I'll give it a shot when it's out on DVD. Or download, if I'm to be honest. And I am, see? It might even be a pleasant surprise since terrible reviews tend to remove any expectations you have for a film so that if it makes you laugh even once you'll think, \"Hey that was pretty good, actually!\". Such was the case for me with \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\u003C\/span\u003E anyway. Despite Shia LaFuckface.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SwKtzp9EeVI\/AAAAAAAAAlA\/9rkxYb_gQk4\/s1600\/zz0481457c.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405073605744949586\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SwKtzp9EeVI\/AAAAAAAAAlA\/9rkxYb_gQk4\/s400\/zz0481457c.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI really like Diablo Cody's writing style, I loved \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EJuno\u003C\/span\u003E (like everyone else in the world, pretty much) and her book Candy Girl, about her year spent as a stripper. So all this coupled with Sweet Valley High? Yes muthafuckin' please!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGrowing up, I loved the Sweet Valley Twins series, and graduated to the High School books at the wise old age of whatever I was in 6th class or thereabouts. Ah, Jessica and Elizabeth, the supermodel-hot twins with eyes the colour of the Pacific ocean. Every time, the books would start with lengthy descriptions of the girls and their \"long tanned legs\", \"peaches and cream complexions\" and always with the eyes the colour of the flipping Pacific ocean, Alright, they're sexy, we get it! And Lila Fowler, remember her? What a bitch!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SwK0gO9YynI\/AAAAAAAAAlI\/3EBZGQUwpqg\/s1600\/HeartBreaker.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405080968662403698\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SwK0gO9YynI\/AAAAAAAAAlI\/3EBZGQUwpqg\/s400\/HeartBreaker.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 319px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EJust look at the big delicious Eighties heads on them.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI think someone needs to tell Jessica that Bill is more likely to break\u003Cbr \/\u003EHER heart when he reveals that he prefers to have sex with men.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFantastic story lines though. The first great one that comes to mind is one that ran for a couple of books about some mentalist called Margo who just so happened to look EXACTLY like the twins, and had a nefarious scheme to KILL ELIZABETH AND REPLACE HER! The diabolical bint! Thrilling stuff it was. And perfectly realistic too. After a quick Googling it turns out that this was far from the only outlandish plot line in the series, oh no. There were elements such as:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* The twins battling a werewolf in London. Could happen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Jessica falling in love with a vampire. My, how very Twilight!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* The twins and friends being chased by escaped criminals in Death Valley.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* A former classmate of their mother Alice's luring them to a beauty spa with the intention of stealing Alice's face via a face transplant. WOW! I did NOT come across this one in the local library at the time. I'll bet it was before Face\/Off and everything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Elizabeth receiving at least three marriage proposals before age 20.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Jessica having at least five boyfriends who died in the series. She must be riddled. Get checked out, woman!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SwK075K6PLI\/AAAAAAAAAlQ\/UcFeTdyzL9U\/s1600\/svh5.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405081443849878706\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SwK075K6PLI\/AAAAAAAAAlQ\/UcFeTdyzL9U\/s400\/svh5.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 241px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EChrist, Jessica is at it again. The question here really isn't\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Is Jessica as grown up as she thinks she is?\",\u003Cbr \/\u003Emore like \"Is her Freddie Mercury tache-sporting boyfriend\u003Cbr \/\u003Eas straight as she thinks he is?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnswer: No.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo there it is. Any one of those story lines could instantly make a movie. And it appears that some already have, albeit with different characters and settings and whatnot. So bring it on Miss Cody, I think it could be great."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5204483198803646066\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/valley-girls.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5204483198803646066"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5204483198803646066"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/valley-girls.html","title":"Valley Girls"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SwKtzp9EeVI\/AAAAAAAAAlA\/9rkxYb_gQk4\/s72-c\/zz0481457c.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-2461949164320864740"},"published":{"$t":"2009-09-29T13:32:00.010+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-03T12:27:01.878+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drinking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Films"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lists of stuff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Random facts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Dead Flags"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Glen, Vampires and a Table Quiz"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Things that happened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003E Got demented drunk on Arthur's Day, my new favourite pretend occasion. T Cup and I managed to procure tickets to the South William to see David Kitt sing songs in a corner and I tried to give the illusion that I wasn't totally excited that Glen Hansard was drinking right next to us outside Grogans for the remainder of the night.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SsH_kh9aYCI\/AAAAAAAAAi0\/7elvRcgl9sY\/s1600-h\/glen-hansard-1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 390px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SsH_kh9aYCI\/AAAAAAAAAi0\/7elvRcgl9sY\/s400\/glen-hansard-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386867632368148514\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EHi Glen! No, over here Glen! Gleeennnn!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003E Woke up the next morning with an enormous mystery bruise on my elbow of all places and not the faintest idea how it got there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003E Attended the outdoor screening of Nosferatu in Dartmouth Square on Friday night, a live band were playing the music for the film but I couldn't see the Engrish subtitles of the German intertitles what with all the heads in the way. Also, the two reincarnated meerkats in front of me didn't exactly help matters, springing up as they did every twenty seconds to read said subtitles and block my view in the process. If they were real meerkats it probably would have been all cute and endearing but in real life it was just a blonde bird getting in my damn way everytime. The film was quite good and still rather spooky, what with the mad scary head on him and all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SsICBh7GxgI\/AAAAAAAAAi8\/0B-VdQFrtuw\/s1600-h\/nosferatu2.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SsICBh7GxgI\/AAAAAAAAAi8\/0B-VdQFrtuw\/s400\/nosferatu2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386870329597937154\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003E Managed to soak my phone in cheap French rum (damn you Tico Tico Rhum Brun!) on the way to an outdoor \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thedeadflags.com\/\"\u003EDead Flags\u003C\/a\u003E gig in Ranelagh Gardens on Saturday. It's still a bit hungover and threw quite a few tantrums but I *think* it's almost back to normal now. Phew.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003E Came 32nd in the Ray Darcy Show All Ireland Table Quiz last night with Team Dreamy Sleepy Nighty Snoozy Snooze (consisting of mise, T Cup, Miss Dizzle and Mazatron). Met lovely \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thenationallottie.com\/\"\u003ELottie\u003C\/a\u003E, ate lots of free wine gums and learned that Frankfort is in fact the state capital of Kentucky.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SsIFw1vUaqI\/AAAAAAAAAjE\/eeQyzgAowP4\/s1600-h\/Picture+1.png\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 192px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SsIFw1vUaqI\/AAAAAAAAAjE\/eeQyzgAowP4\/s400\/Picture+1.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386874440905943714\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe end.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:webdings;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2461949164320864740\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/glen-vampires-and-table-quiz.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/2461949164320864740"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/2461949164320864740"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/glen-vampires-and-table-quiz.html","title":"Glen, Vampires and a Table Quiz"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SsH_kh9aYCI\/AAAAAAAAAi0\/7elvRcgl9sY\/s72-c\/glen-hansard-1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-8783008255112260121"},"published":{"$t":"2009-09-08T16:04:00.011+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-03T12:27:01.881+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drinking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Electric Picnic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Films"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lists of stuff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Music"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Parties"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Teddy Bears Picnic"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqZzXIib8EI\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/kSFtGUkviIE\/s1600-h\/STA73670.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqZzXIib8EI\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/kSFtGUkviIE\/s400\/STA73670.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379113646206742594\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaBtJiS-iI\/AAAAAAAAAhU\/IBzHqtYWXZo\/s1600-h\/STA73655.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaBtJiS-iI\/AAAAAAAAAhU\/IBzHqtYWXZo\/s400\/STA73655.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379129417594501666\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaDuZzZ9II\/AAAAAAAAAhk\/KxHqpYPdKdY\/s1600-h\/STA73628.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaDuZzZ9II\/AAAAAAAAAhk\/KxHqpYPdKdY\/s400\/STA73628.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379131638164354178\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaE-bb6gWI\/AAAAAAAAAiE\/5lRYK-eqwog\/s1600-h\/STA73644.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaE-bb6gWI\/AAAAAAAAAiE\/5lRYK-eqwog\/s400\/STA73644.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379133012992229730\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh Electric Picnic. Fun despite the freezing cold wind and welly swallowing mud and sideways rain. It went something like this...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Shouting \"He's behind you!\" at an unsuspecting onscreen Linsday Lohan during \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EI Know Who Killed Me\u003C\/span\u003E in the Cinema Tent. Which, by the way is the most awesome terrible movie I've ever seen, it's destined for cult status and should be screened like a panto with designated crowd actions, à la Rocky Horror. The Bear decided it was the second worst Lindsay Lohan movie he's seen, in which she plays a twin of herself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- A can of cider and muffins for breakfast? Don't mind if I do!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- The Bear taking part in a sack race in the Village Green, and managing to wangle himself a yellow 3rd place rosette, even though he ended up getting a face full of Stradbally mud in the process. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Bopping my face off in the Crawdaddy tent to the amazing Miss Imelda May while drinking Southern Comfort and apple juice with ginger beer, which incidentally is tasty as fuck.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Catching a bit of Jape, more so to see the guy in the band who apparently looks EXACTLY like the Bear. He really does, as it happens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Spotting Aisling O'Loughlin off Xposé, who then put on a hat and sunglasses after she caught me looking at her. One pint of get over yourself, please.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Being told by a random guy called Dave (I think) that I reminded him of Florence, she of the Machine, although that was undoubtedly more to do with the fact that I have a fringe and was wearing a glowstick headband and sparkly things on my face at the time. And he may not have been entirely sober.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Frolicking through the lovely forest to find Tucan playing on the Salty Dog shipwreck stage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Realising that 2 Many DJs are in fact AWESOME-O.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Being delighted with myself for choosing a chicken pie with mash and gravy from PieMinister because if food could taste like a hug, I believe this would be it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- The Sugarhill Gang playing Billie Jean as a Jacko tribute and saving Rapper's Delight to the end, amazing!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Being jealous of kids who managed to get a hold of the giant yellow balloons from the Flaming Lips set. Which was fantastic, trippy and superfun.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaBLg8iH1I\/AAAAAAAAAhM\/DJ4XERRP5-A\/s1600-h\/STA73700.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaBLg8iH1I\/AAAAAAAAAhM\/DJ4XERRP5-A\/s400\/STA73700.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379128839763009362\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaEB6OG24I\/AAAAAAAAAhs\/s-FXcChD450\/s1600-h\/STA73667.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaEB6OG24I\/AAAAAAAAAhs\/s-FXcChD450\/s400\/STA73667.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379131973283797890\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaENkRoGQI\/AAAAAAAAAh0\/99Efe_El3sk\/s1600-h\/STA73685.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaENkRoGQI\/AAAAAAAAAh0\/99Efe_El3sk\/s400\/STA73685.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379132173551409410\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaEvcQ4EgI\/AAAAAAAAAh8\/CoOg_Ah31Rw\/s1600-h\/STA73682.JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqaEvcQ4EgI\/AAAAAAAAAh8\/CoOg_Ah31Rw\/s400\/STA73682.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379132755516330498\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo...back to real life then. HA! I think not, eloping as I am to France for a week on Saturday with the Bear to attend his friends wedding. Hooray! Suck on that, reality!"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8783008255112260121\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/teddy-bears-picnic.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/8783008255112260121"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/8783008255112260121"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/teddy-bears-picnic.html","title":"Teddy Bears Picnic"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/SqZzXIib8EI\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/kSFtGUkviIE\/s72-c\/STA73670.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-1680532371682502367"},"published":{"$t":"2009-08-19T17:06:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-08-12T21:29:33.878+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jessica Fletcher"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lists of stuff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Work"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Professional Avoidance"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Watching far too much Murder She Wrote.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaking Rice Krispie buns.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReading, nay, LOVING The Princess Bride book.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpinning around in my lovely anchor dress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaking orange flavoured Rice Krispie buns after having a dream about them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnything to avoid looking for a job."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1680532371682502367\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/professional-avoidance.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/1680532371682502367"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/1680532371682502367"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/professional-avoidance.html","title":"Professional Avoidance"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}}]}});