Monday, May 14, 2007
Book Club Food: Bunny Tales
Yes, yes, I know. "Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors of the Playboy Mansion" by Izabella St. James was our "off" month after some intellectual heavy hitters. We wanted to have a gossipy, junk food meeting and bring our guys, so why not?
Exciting it was not. There's a whole chapter literally "behind closed doors" involving house layout, furniture, carpet quality, and bedroom design. Sure, there's a little backstabbing dish on the Current Girlfriends that you see on The Girls Next Door on E! and reveals about party nights, but mostly there's a lot of whining about rules and reassurances that they are all wonderful, intelligent people that are totally not sponging off of an only somewhat rich old man who is such a drag for not letting them have other boyfriends, too. *yawn*
If you want to give it a try and just have fun with it, hand out red pens with each copy: The copyeditors obviously fell asleep at the wheel, because the grammatical and typesetting errors are truly egregious to the point of hilarity. Too bad for a book attempting to assert the author's legitimacy as a non-dumb blond with a law degree.
Food mentioned in the book:
Chicken Fajitas
Salmon
Penne & Alfredo
Cheeseburgers
Skinny Fries
Chips & Guacamole
Fried Chicken
Pork Chops
Edamame
Oh Henry bars
English Muffin & Strawberry Jam
Lipton Chicken Soup & Crackers
Apple Sauce
Peas
Haagen Daas Strawberry Ice Cream
Thin Crust Cheese Pizza
Cabernet
Shiraz
Coffee
"Famous" Mansion Cookies
Daquiris
Jack & Pepsi
Mai Tai
Muffins
Hot chocolate
Champagne
Apple Martinis
Red-headed Slut
Served:
Turkey Burgers & Cheese
Cheese & Crackers
Chips & Salsa
Edamame *
Veggie Plate & Dip
Skinny Fries *
Chocolate Chip Cookies *
Haagen Daas Strawberry Ice Cream *
Exciting it was not. There's a whole chapter literally "behind closed doors" involving house layout, furniture, carpet quality, and bedroom design. Sure, there's a little backstabbing dish on the Current Girlfriends that you see on The Girls Next Door on E! and reveals about party nights, but mostly there's a lot of whining about rules and reassurances that they are all wonderful, intelligent people that are totally not sponging off of an only somewhat rich old man who is such a drag for not letting them have other boyfriends, too. *yawn*
If you want to give it a try and just have fun with it, hand out red pens with each copy: The copyeditors obviously fell asleep at the wheel, because the grammatical and typesetting errors are truly egregious to the point of hilarity. Too bad for a book attempting to assert the author's legitimacy as a non-dumb blond with a law degree.
Food mentioned in the book:
Chicken Fajitas
Salmon
Penne & Alfredo
Cheeseburgers
Skinny Fries
Chips & Guacamole
Fried Chicken
Pork Chops
Edamame
Oh Henry bars
English Muffin & Strawberry Jam
Lipton Chicken Soup & Crackers
Apple Sauce
Peas
Haagen Daas Strawberry Ice Cream
Thin Crust Cheese Pizza
Cabernet
Shiraz
Coffee
"Famous" Mansion Cookies
Daquiris
Jack & Pepsi
Mai Tai
Muffins
Hot chocolate
Champagne
Apple Martinis
Red-headed Slut
Served:
Turkey Burgers & Cheese
Cheese & Crackers
Chips & Salsa
Edamame *
Veggie Plate & Dip
Skinny Fries *
Chocolate Chip Cookies *
Haagen Daas Strawberry Ice Cream *
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