March is a bizarre month for holidays, both real and made up. I know, because I’m guest posting about weird commemorative days every Wednesday this month at Sweetspot.ca. If you’re sick of me blathering on about my trip to Hollywood and want me to get back to the funny, check out today’s guest post: Happy National Frozen Food Day.
Below is another, perhaps more significant, date to mark on the March calendar.
On this day in 1904, a baby named Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to German immigrant parents who, for some time, managed the family brewery. One has to wonder if Henrietta (Seuss) Geisel imbibed one or two steins while pregnant; this could partially explain Theodor’s invention of the Grinch, the Lorax, and the Brothers Bazoo.
In honour of Dr. Seuss (and to close the chapter on my trip to L.A.), I’ve assembled a Thing 1 and Thing 2 Go To Hollywood video.
But first, the back story:
My Seussian stuffies proved to be quite the icebreaker in Tinseltown. I’d take them out of my pocket, place them somewhere peculiar, and grab my camera; before long, onlookers would stop and ask, “What are you doing?” or “What’s the story with Thing one and Thing Two?”
Sometimes my sister explained.
Sometimes I said, “I have twins.”
Sometimes I said, “I blog.”
Sometimes I wanted to curl up in a ball on the sidewalk, start rocking, and say this:
But I refrained because I enjoyed the interactions with strangers.
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Without further delay, here are Thing 1 and Thing 2 in Hollywood, presented with a birthday nod to the great Dr. Seuss.
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Just caught up on all your posts! What a thrill. So sorry you didn’t quite make it into (or onto?) Mr Darcy’s LAP but sounds like you were very CLOSE!
Yea for Theodor 😉
O, the prepositional differences between into and onto…
I love this! I’ve never seen you do video and what a smashing success. Here are some of my faves:
The cop
The empty glass sideways
The Elvis impersonator
I can just see you whipping them out in front of people. Also, great selections on the Walk of Fame.
Yes, I’m having fun with iMovie, even if YouTube didn’t let me upload it with the original song, California Dreamin’. Sigh. Figuring things out. I have a plan for Ironic Mom TV. More on that later, much later..
how did you get the cops to be so nice to you? and how did you get them to SMILE?
It was the most bizarre thing: cops EVERYWHERE but super happy. It was a fantastic atmosphere.
Awesome video. I liked the shot of the police officers the best. What great PR. They’d probably like to have that photo.
I need to go back and read about 10 posts to catch up on this Hollywood thing. I’ve been out of the loop for a while.
Hope you had a great trip.
PS – Is that a gummy worm on Colin Firth’s star?
Not a gummy worm, but my wrist pass to Oprah’s shindig. Welcome back to blogdom!
Glad L.A. cops were so accommodating! Hey, did you like your In-N-Out? My kids favorite….
I did like In-N-Out: it was affordable, fast, and tasty, in that I’ve-been-traveling-for-hours-and-need-food-now way!
This is SOOO much better than one of those “My mom went to Hollywood and saw Oprah and almost sat on Colin Firth’s lap and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” t-shirts.
(plus, when I saw whose stars and footprints you chose to film, I loved you that. much. more.)
Awesome.
LOL at t-shirt comment. I put Colin Firth in the same category as Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck. Yummy.
Awesome video; made me long for the sunshine and warmth of CA (that’s California, not Canada). 🙂 And all the people must have gotten a kick being a part of your video montage…love the cactus and bamboo shots and the Police shot was the best.
I say more videos!
Thanks. More videos will come with time, I hope.
The police laughed. One said, “We pose for pictures all the time, but we’ve never been asked to do this.”
Love the video, Leanne…like the song in the background too! Did you see “Mad in Cleveland” last night? Betty White was using her dimples to get past security to see celebrities in Los Angeles…
I did three posts with an Angelina Jolie action figure as part of The Jolie Pez Project started by my friend Omawarisan…
http://writerwoman61.wordpress.com/the-jolie-pez-project/
Jim was lying on his stomach on the sidewalk in a park (in the winter) taking photos…we were getting rather strange looks from passersby…
Wendy
I love the Angelina action figure tour. I must get on that project…or start a spin off with Thing 1 and Thing 2.
“The Jolie” is doing her Canadian tour now…I think she’s on her way back from my friends’, Ian and Suzanne, in Nunavut…if you get in touch with Oma now, he’d probably add you to the list (tell him you’re my friend)! Just leave a comment here:
http://blurts.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-angelina-jolie-pez-project/
I don’t know if The Jolie has any Western Canada stops booked yet…would be cool!
Wendy
This makes me smile, and I loved the tune.
🙂
This was fantastic! And I’m still reeling about your Hollywood adventures — fabulous 🙂
Thank the Lord for Dr. Suess, hmm?
I share a birthday with Dr. Seuss! I never even liked Dr. Seuss until I was an adult. He creeped me out as a child.