A Little Assistance Please

Posted on March 6, 2008
Filed Under advice, writings | 17 Comments

I need your help today – on two counts.

One: You all seemed to have enjoyed the bit of fiction I shared yesterday and because I’m not sure where to go with it next, I’m interested to hear what my fair readers might propose as possible plot trajectory for my character and her love interest. Remember I’m not trying to write a romance novel so feel free to get all dark and moody with your suggestions. I prefer disappointment and distress but I promise to entertain ideas of love’s fulfillment if the circumstances are interesting. Please, discuss: How would you like to see the story resolved?

Two: I have heard this one song on the radio occasionally over the course of the past few years and I never seem to catch the name or the recording artist. I’ve searched iTunes with every possible title option I can think of and no results. So I’m going to sing it for you (please excuse the humiliating vocals) and hopefully one of you holds the information I seek.

The chorus goes, “All I want is to hold you in my armmmmms/All I want is to (pause) hollllddddd you in myyyy arms….

See and that’s all I can remember so it’s no surprise that vague iTunes searches using the words Hold You, Hold Me, In My Arms, etc. aren’t generating the results I need. It sounds like the song is performed by a Brit band but it’s not The Killers or Oasis. I’m stumped but intent on getting this one, so please, someone, put me out of my misery.

And lastly, can anyone tell me what the deal is with Idol’s David Cook. I really like him, he rocked the Lionel Richie this week and he’s by far my favorite male contestant. But then someone had to come along and tell me that he’s worked as an exotic dancer at a gay club. Is there truth to this rumor? Does it matter? I’m really only judging him on the vocals? Should I care whose lap he prefers to dance in? Since My Better Half refuses to watch Idol with me, I am forced to blog about it. I apologize.

And while this post is turning into something of a rant, I’ll also fill you in on the tooth fairy’s latest visit to the Madmarriage household. While O has become a doubter, he held true and steadfast in the face of temptation and didn’t spoil things for his little sister who happened to loose a tooth yesterday at school and came home all flush-faced excitement, anticipating the tooth fairy’s visit. O had a huge shit-eating grin on his face but several severe looks in his direction and he got all tight-lipped and serious, fully anticipating the extent of his mother’s wrath should he spill the beans.

While it’s a day of meanderings and mental wandering, I’ll share the best bit of trivia I unearthed today:

The Book of Lists’ 12 Most Unusual Items Sold on eBay as of 2001 all of which underscore the fact that there’s no accounting for taste, old food from fallen from a famous mouth is not just regurgitated spittle and, well, I’ll let number 12 speak for itself because it’s just better than fiction.

1. Pierre Omidyar (eBay’s founder) broken laser pointer (sold for $14)
2. Honus Wagner “T206″ baseball card (rarest, most valuable trading card in the world; sold for $1.3 million)
3. Gulfstream private jet (sold for $4.9 million which was, at printing time in 2001, the most expensive item ever sold on eBay)
4. Oldest known pair of Levi’s jeans (sold for $46,432)
5. Man’s entire life possessions (still for sale at time of printing)
6. Justin Timberlake’s partially eaten French toast (sold for $1025)
7. Britney Spear’s chewed bubble gum (sold for $511.04)
8. Grilled cheese sandwich with purported image of the Virgin Mary (sold for $28,000)
9. Woman’s deceased father’s walking cane – his ghost included (sold for $65,100)
10. Three tablespoons of water from a cup used by Elvis Presley (sold for $455)
11. Texas snowball – fell on X-mas day, the first time snow had fallen in Texas in 109 years (sold for $92)
12. Man’s forehead for advertising space (sold for $37,375)