Cannes Lions

This is going to be a really short post, but it's a fun post. Therefore by the end, you will be happy you stumbled upon it anyway.

These were two of the commercials from the 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival. Such a good time. You should have been there :)

A Fly's Tragedy

      I’m propped up on my hind legs, slowly rubbing the ends of my front two legs together. My wings flap, excitedly, as I spot the window, which is opened ajar. I must have been buzzing around this room for hours, I think, seeing as the sky has now turned a heavy grey.

            I leaned my body forward, my wings preparing themselves, and then I zip right. Then left. Then forward. Then I spin in a circle. I zip down. Then up. Then down. Down. Down, until I land underneath the curve of the table.

            I quickly waddle over the edge and onto the flat surface. Almost immediately, my senses burn with such sweetness and such tartness that my eyes begin to water. My wings flap and I hover above the table, letting my nose guide me towards the scent. I drop down at the edge of the large pool of orange juice. I lift up on my hind legs and rub my front two legs together. My abdomen shudders.

            I dive headfirst into the liquid, burying myself. I close my eyes, the juice tasting lukewarm and rotten as it slides silkily down my gullet.

            Then my wings twitch.

            I open my eyes, annoyed, and look up. A red, crisscrossed rectangle is hovering above me. My eyes flash to the orange juice- then I zip forward. Then right. Then left. Then forward. Then I spin in a circle. I zip down. Then up. Then down. Then up. Up. Up, until I land on the refrigerator door. I cock my head to the right and then to the left. I do this a few more times.

            I see the human now. He has a large swatter in his hand. Behind him, I see the orange juice, and behind the orange juice I see the window. I want both.

            I lift off of the refrigerator door, and fly at a leisurely pace well above the human’s reach. All I know is that if I don’t acknowledge him, he won’t acknowledge me. However, I feel the human following me with his eyes, the swatter ready at his side. I tremble.

            I pass the orange juice, keeping my nose held high, but its nectar tantalizes me, and my mind becomes hazy. I loop around, suddenly, and down I go, spinning like a leaf to the ground.

            My wings extract, stopping my descent. I focus on the dark sky, knowing it’s where I must go. I zip to the right, and then to the left. Then forward. Then I spin in a circle. I zip down. Then up.

            I don’t know where I’m going. I’m zipping up and down, right and left, forward and backward… It’s like I’ve already been swatted. All of a sudden, I find myself on the tip of the human’s nose. My eyelids are drooped, and my smile dreamy. I lift up on hind legs, rubbing my front two legs together.

            Then the human jerks back. I shoot back and then up. I land upside-down on the ceiling. I’m facing the window now and watch the human open it even further. He rolls his eyes and walks away.

            Have I won?

            I fly forward, a cool, damp wind covering me. I zip forward into the abyss when I hear a loud, sharp crack. The world becomes an electrifying white, my wings stop, and the sky falls away from me. 

               THE END

Melted Cheese: it's for you to eat

Love, love, love

A friend told me in class, "I used to just put a piece of a cheese on a plate and put it in the microwave for ten seconds and eat it."

Another friend, on Facebook,  remarked that all she and her friend could see on the Salisbury menu was "cheese", which I corrected to "melted cheese."

That comment was liked and got me thinking about how much of a staple melted cheese is in someone's diet. There's melted cheese in grilled cheese, on cheeseburgers, pizza, nachos, French onion soup, and of course homemade macaroni & cheese.

Adding melted cheese to your meals is imperative as well. No one ever enjoyed FOS because of the bread and gratuitous amount of onions. They expect that thick layer of cheese melted on top, which some restaurants choose to be stingy on. I've had this happen, and the FOS was effectively ruined.

Of course, melted cheese isn't the healthiest aspect of one's diet, but you forget, because it's so damn good. It's like a cheese blackout and when you come to, it's like "what happened? Oh my, God."

And then you're like, "whatever, it was good."

Melted cheese is also an art.

Although, you can mess this up quite easily if you're not careful. Like not letting it melt enough, or melting it too much. This is serious. If you burn it, you have less cheese. You lose.

However, if you don't melt it enough, you just have a warm piece of cheese and that's gross. Ew.

Therefore you need to monitor that cheese like a child: checking on it every few seconds, examining its faculties to make sure nothing is wrong, and eventually removing it from the situation entirely.

Seriously.

Some excellent cheese suggestions, if you'd like to spicing up the experience, I would suggest a piece of bread, pesto, and melted white cheddar cheese. It's relatively healthy- if you use whole wheat.

Also, melted cheese sauce on broccoli. Replace pasta with broccoli and you have something a dietician might let you get away with. Us cheese lovers know where to cut corners when it counts. It's important to sustain our cheese-tastic lifestyles.

Melted cheese is the pinnacle of life. It makes a dish immeasurably better, especially if there's wine. It's going to be an amazing party.

"Jiminy cricket, he flew the coop!"

"Moonrise Kingdom" came out a while ago.

However, that doesn't stop it from being one of the best (if not the best) movie to come out in 2012.

For the first time, I watched the movie last night and I'm truly disappointed in myself that I didn't make the time to see it earlier.

"Our daughter's been abducted by one of these beige lunatics!"

Moonrise Kingdom is about a young boy and girl who run away and fall in love on the New England island of New Penzance. The parents of the girl, a Scout Master, and Police Captain all proceed to find the children (and in some cases forbid them from seeing one another again) during the film.

Edward Norton is great as the quirky Scout Master and Bruce Willis is sympathetic as the Police Captain who's having an affair with a married woman (who just happens to be the mother of the runaway girl). However, the two young actors who play the runaway couple: Sam and Suzy (Jared Gilman and Kara Haywardare, respectively)  are the real gems of Moonrise Kingdom. 

Gilman and Haywardare play their characters with a precociousness and naivety that reminds you of the simplicity of love. 

"We're in love. We just want to be together. What's wrong with that?" - Suzy (AWW) 

Sam and Suzy, in a lot of ways, have a better and more mature understanding of what they want out of life, which is a treat to watch. The adults on the other hand, well, they're just learning.

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