First:


Birthday wishes go out to ninevah, hope it's a good one!


Second, something I referenced earlier and didn't elaborate on:

On Saturday night, rubywednesday had me absolutely undone. VH-1 was running old "metal" videos for an hour or so...and Ru made a few observations that were quite astute beyond thirteen years (I've included visual aids for the humorless):



Upon viewing Accept's "Balls to the Wall":

(stammering)"Is this a joke? This is...this...is this Judas Priest Lite?"



White Lion*, "Wait":

"Ohhhhhhhhh. This is sooooo whiny. That girl is making a Zoolander face...

Right there! She did it again! What is UP with that?
(Ru sees the lead singer's spread-legged stance and gleefully quotes Blackadder)

Ooooh! Here are my genitals, please kick them!"



Dio, "Mystery":

"...going grocery shopping with Ronnie James Dio would be so awesome...

(Ru leaps off the couch- drops into a rock lunge, makes emphatic hand gestures and scrunches nose up with teeth bared and wails the following to the tune of "Rainbow in the dark":

'I need SOUR CREEEEAM-uh! And a LOAF of dark, dark BREAAAAAD....'

...and I could hand him stuff..."



*ok. I know White Lion is not metal. But they don't have an hour long program called "Whiny stuffed-crotch hairfest", so I guess it lands there.