Lethal and Young (at Heart)
When I was young and frisky, I could stick a dozen large marshmallows into my mouth without swallowing or gagging.
To celebrate my 38th birthday, I decided to test the elasticity of my cheeks (and my glossopharyngeal nerve) once again.
Enjoy.
(And just so you know, the background tune is Lethal and Young by Hawksley Workman. Look him up and buy his stuff. I think you'll like it.)
((Happy Birthday to both Sweetney and Kat, too! And Burt Bacharach!))
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Kelli
at 5/11/2008 8:22:30 PM- I just had the worst day and you made me laugh til I almost peed.
WOW! You are amazing.
Happy Birthday and Happy Mother's Day.
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Karen T-H
at 5/11/2008 8:51:58 PM- I'm sitting here wondering what kind of day you had that would leave you able to perform such a feat of daring do!
Also, how you were able to end the performance without highspeed regurgitation at the camera? THAT, my friend, is the kind of self control born only of being the woman who could have refused to smile for the birdie in "Angela '88."
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Karen T-H
at 5/11/2008 8:53:31 PMAnd another thing: how the hell could you look so lovely while ingesting those things?
Happy Birthday, A!
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amy
at 5/11/2008 9:16:18 PM- you are so freaking rad.
I loved that so much. I might video challenge you to 15.
Happy day beautiful lady
Submitted by
Nicole Beck
at 5/11/2008 9:22:37 PM- I didn't think this would make me laugh. Delurking to say it did... a lot.. =)
Submitted by
Carroll
at 5/11/2008 9:33:25 PM- Too funny! Do you realize what a video treasure-trove of memories you are creating for future generations of Pudding Pops? I can *so* see your grandchildren watching this one someday! :-)
I too, however, was left wanting (very much!) to see the inevitable marshmallow explosion that must have followed this very sedate performance.
Maybe next time.
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FP
at 5/11/2008 9:37:40 PM- Thanks, Everyone!
Karen T-H and Carroll--Less than ten seconds after waving to the camera, I was standing over the trash can doing a very lovely projectile marshmallow purge. (I would have done it on camera, but I was so afraid of getting gunk on the keyboard.)
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MeL
at 5/11/2008 10:09:20 PM- You just confirmed it: my girl-crush on you is now official.
I haven't played "chubby bunny" in years, but I may have to try it out again now just to entertain the small humans. And maybe to entertain my husband, but then again it would likely give him ideas, and we can't be having that, now, can we.
Happy Birthday!!!
Submitted by
dr.dave
at 5/11/2008 10:27:08 PMWell... umm... that makes ONE of us who isn't gagging.
{gurk}
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LOD
at 5/11/2008 10:30:08 PM- I love how you look up so insouciantly while you're at this, as if your Adult Brain is indulging your Juvenile Hand and waiting patiently for it all to be over.
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melissa
at 5/11/2008 10:45:34 PM- Happy Birthday!
Thanks for the laugh, that was just too funny!
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Shamelessly Sassy
at 5/11/2008 11:03:01 PM- Happy Birthday. You are a talented lady. I think I just peed myself from laughter. That's just a secret between us, by the way.
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Rachel
at 5/11/2008 11:45:50 PM- Happy Birthday! Think of how efficient you could be if you combined this talent with eating fire.
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LizRM
at 5/11/2008 11:57:31 PM- Happy Birthday! I am duly impressed and truly amused.
I love Rachel's idea, BTW.
Submitted by
Robin
at 5/12/2008 12:27:05 AM- Are you trying to give your mother a heart attack on Mother's Day/your birthday? Are you? Because I'll bet you nearly did!
I was really hoping for marshmallow projectiles at the end. Regardless, that was awesome and dangerous and all kinds of delightful. I hope you had a wonderful birthday!
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Amelia
at 5/12/2008 12:38:55 AM- Completely and utterly impressed!
Happy birthday to you.
Oh...and advice? audition to be the next member of the Blue Man Group. They love the marshmallows almost as much as you do.
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barbara
at 5/12/2008 2:00:27 AM- I do believe that was the mellowest fetish video EVER. And you were luminuous, as always.
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kelly
at 5/12/2008 5:08:46 AM- awesome. Happy Birthday! I didn't do anything nearly so acrobatic for my birthday on Saturday. But I turned 41. Drank a dirty bird martini.
man, your skin is so incredibly gorgeous!
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erika
at 5/12/2008 6:45:44 AM- Wow! Happy Birthday! I agree with kelly - your skin is amazing. Also, I love your haircut and I might just copy it.
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blackbird
at 5/12/2008 6:51:25 AM- I just adore you, my little buckethead.
I'm sitting here smiling so hard - I hope you had the happiest of days.
(My father could do that with Canada mints. It's a rare talent. And difficult to watch.)
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You can call me, 'Sir'
at 5/12/2008 7:10:32 AM- I've said it before about your ability to shock and awe and I say it again now:
Hott. Two 't's.
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Mizmell
at 5/12/2008 7:25:40 AM- I knew you could do it! And I loved watching the steadfast determination. Happy, happy birthday.
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Alli
at 5/12/2008 8:42:39 AM- That was like porn for the Stay Puffed Marshallow Man! Happy B-day!
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Courtney Watson
at 5/12/2008 8:44:42 AM- Happy mom's day and happy birthday!
Your marshmallow madness amazes me!!!
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Amy in KC
at 5/12/2008 10:06:40 AM- Happy birthday! You are delightful. And I want your hair.
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Amy in StL
at 5/12/2008 10:31:55 AM- Happy Belated Birthday! That was so funny, if it was in black and white I would have sworn I was in an old movie theater before the talkies started!
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FP
at 5/12/2008 10:37:18 AM- Amy in StL--You're actually right on time. Today is the day!
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Badger
at 5/12/2008 11:03:45 AM- Happy birthday!
That is the single most awesome thing I have ever seen. Especially since you appeared to be completely sober throughout.
I thought I was a badass because I can do that thing with the cherry stem, but I bow to your superior skillz, Madam.
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Carroll
at 5/12/2008 11:59:56 AM- Well, then Happy Birthday today (!) and (belatedly) Happy Mothers' Day -- both of which I forgot to tack on to my comment yesterday, so stunned was I by all the marshmallow magic :-)
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Erin
at 5/12/2008 12:54:36 PM- You have beautiful eyes. And I'm thoroughly impressed. Happy 38th! You don't look a day over 28:)
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schmutzie
at 5/12/2008 1:27:40 PM- Happy Birthday!
I saw Hawksley Workman live in concert for free, because I volunteered as a ticket taker. It was nearly religious. I can't listen to his albums because he is so much better live.
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jon deal
at 5/12/2008 1:54:57 PM- I have no words.
Simultaneously awesome and unnerving.
Happy Birthday!
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Sinda
at 5/12/2008 2:27:47 PM- NOW I know why I read you obsessively - we have the same birthday! Happy happy!
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teresa
at 5/12/2008 2:31:52 PM- Happy Birthday! You are a force to be reckoned with, for sure. Marshmallow-y goodness all around!
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sweetney
at 5/12/2008 2:43:24 PM- you're 38 today too? we were born the exact same day? woah. explains a lot, yanno?
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Willow
at 5/12/2008 2:46:29 PM- Happy Birthday! and has anyone ever told you how much you look like Posh? It could be all thr marshmellows or the not smiling, but you hsould see David Beckham would notice the difference. I submit that he would not!
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kristen
at 5/12/2008 3:55:33 PM- Truly the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I'm amazed at how pretty a person can look whilst systematically shoving marshmallows in their gullet! Happy Birthday!
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a birthday haiku
at 5/12/2008 4:17:35 PM- Win the fluffy dare.
Althaea officinalis
proves youth near you still.
(And yes, I'm counting "Althaea" as a two-syllable word. Not three. Screw you, Indian Household Medicine Guide!)
Happy Birthday from Springfield.
Submitted by
Megan
at 5/12/2008 6:02:04 PM- Happy happy! Thank you for giving us this gift!
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Summer
at 5/12/2008 8:09:55 PM- I became nauseated halfway through, and thus had to look away from your marshmallow mouth. Which is when I noticed your lovely eye make-up! So pretty.
Happy birthday, FP.
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Neil
at 5/12/2008 8:23:37 PM- That was amazing. I can't wait to come to this blog when you are 100. Happy Birthday.
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~moe~
at 5/12/2008 8:35:58 PM- Happy Birthday! That was the best. And my friends thought I was amazing when I would stuff my mouth with mini marshmallows and pretend I was a snow blower. That was nothing next to this. You rock!
Submitted by
dee
at 5/12/2008 9:43:36 PM- Wowee! Fluid Pudding has mad skillz. Mad hamstah skillz.
Happy Birthday to you! And a belated happy mom's day.
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caroline
at 5/13/2008 12:42:59 AM- Delurking to wish you a very Happy Birthday (sorry I'm late!) and tell you how rad that video is. Will have to watch it many more times- and especially when feeling a bit down! Thanks for being so awesome!
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Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah
at 5/13/2008 1:24:32 PM- Wow.
Wow.
Happy birthday and wow.
I feel fairly certain that I could not do that.
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Erin
at 5/13/2008 4:22:57 PM- Happy Birthday!! You're my hero.
For some reason it was Marshmallow #9 that really got me laughing.
Submitted by
magpie
at 5/13/2008 5:04:11 PM- that was divine. i particularly like thinking that #11 was the last one, and then #12 came along.
happy birthday!
Submitted by
melinda
at 5/13/2008 10:15:46 PM- Yes, but what I want to know is where those marshmallows ended up as soon as the camera was turned off! (And, why, oh why is my confirmation word "buckethead?!")
Happy Birthday!
Submitted by
dana
at 5/13/2008 10:18:31 PM- I've never seen anyone as gorgeous as you are, REMAIN gorgeous while totally stuffing your face and grossing me out! Happy birthday marshmallow cheeks!
Submitted by
Carole
at 5/13/2008 11:43:53 PM- Still impressive, but can you pick up a tiny piece of paper off the floor with out using your hands or triumph in Indian leg wrestling matches? Now that would be total validation of lethal and young. And that would also make for some awesome video posts!!
Happy Birthday, 38 looks great on you!
Submitted by
blogversary
at 5/14/2008 10:02:41 PM- Hmmm, new reader here. I feel blessed that I found your blog so soon after you found the courage to stuff mallows in your mouth.
Thank you and Happy Birthday!
Submitted by
Susan
at 5/15/2008 2:05:31 PM- Happy Belated birthday and Mother's Day! I can't comment on the vid (it's blocked for me) but I will take everyone's word for it that it was a feat to behold!
Submitted by
srah
at 5/16/2008 7:39:20 AM- Excellent! Happy belated birthday!
(Here via Five Star Friday)
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Suebob
at 5/17/2008 7:53:54 PM- You know you are totally wack, right?
Happy Birthday, you nut.
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Krista
at 5/19/2008 5:19:31 AM- Happy Belated birthday--glad I got to still see the performance! You are a piece of work. And I love the 1980's senior picture? What were we thinking?
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Lara
at 5/24/2008 12:13:42 PM- You're my hero! That was totally funny and totally impressive! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!! And wow! You did that.
Again.
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