CAKE FOR BREAKFAST but it's a cupcake
What if I do mini-newsletters where I talk about one single thing I consumed? And instead of "CAKE FOR BREAKFAST" it's "a cupcake for breakfast"?? Is that anything???
First, are you free tonight at 6 pm CST? Oops, I meant you are free tonight at 6 pm CST! Tune into your local internet to see me read an excerpt from my book for the Satire & Humor reading live stream! It's free but you can donate money to benefit Caveat theater in NYC. Here's a link to the YouTube live stream that airs today (Saturday, March 28) at 6 pm CST. I will be showering and wearing a bra for the first time in a week for the occasion! Okay, now for some dessert.
In what I can only describe as a cry for help, I recently watched Bridget Jones's Diary for the first time. I went into the movie only knowing a handful of things: Playboy bunny costume, Renee Zellweger does a convincing British accent, and can a woman with—get this—body fat find love?!? If you're wondering whether it holds up the answer is half of Bridget's personality is "I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT!!!" and then we find out she weighs 136 lbs. lol and furthermore haha. Diet culture is a prison.
I could write a dissertation solely about the music cues throughout this movie. During a post-breakup montage, we see Bridget exercising and shopping and other pseudo-liberating things to the tune of "I'm Every Woman." Incredible. There's a fight between Bridget's two love interests, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, who is like if you made Hugh Grant less horny. That scene is set to the chorus of "It's Raining Men" performed by — and I can't stress this enough — Ginger Spice. J'adore.
To prepare for the role of Bridget Jones, a character who works at a publishing house, Renee Zellweger apparently had a brief stint at an actual publishing house. For context, that'd be like Channing Tatum preparing for Magic Mike by shadowing a carpenter. Bridget's job in publishing had so little to do with anything. She could have just said "I'm Tiny Editor at Big Magazine!!!" when asked about her job and it would have changed next to nothing in the movie.
There is one scene in particular that made me pause the movie and immediately check the internet for any kind of cultural commentary: blue soup. BLUE SOUP. bLuE sOuP. Bridget, in her manic-pixie-adjacent silliness, ties up leeks with blue string and boils them for soup. Then, uh oh, soup turn blue. Everyone at the dinner party makes a face about the blue soup but...it looked...kinda good...to me???
It's the imaginary food from "Hook" but make it British rom-com! It's a Kitchen Oopsie but make it Instagram. Blue soup is fashion to me and, honestly, I'm only a few days in quarantine away from recreating it.
Stay safe and hungry and inside. And stay tuned to see if I make blue soup. (I probably will.)
Mia
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