Hi Toast-friends, how was your week? Mine has been fun, a week for reconnecting with old friends — on Monday night I got together with my friend Amy, who I had not seen in so many years that we just agreed from the outset not to even talk about it/how old we are now, and tonight I’m hoping to reunite with a friend who left the area for school and has since returned. It was also a wonderful week here at The Toast; you remember it well, I’m sure, but let’s relive it together:
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“It’s unfair for sure that it is a more loaded situation for us as actors of color. But being an actor is such a weird job already.”
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I really, really loved Liana Finck’s gorgeous comic about a visit to the Museum of Modern Art following a breakup.
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“Lovers have come and gone over the years; parents have rejected and broken our hearts. But we are family, and we will never be alone.”
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If Serena Williams Were Your Girlfriend
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“When people ask what’s wrong with you, be cheeky. ‘I have Dead-On-The-Prairie Syndrome’ or ‘I’ve got the vapors’ or ‘My humours are out of balance.’”
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I know The Butter is its own glorious entity, but if I may suggest a pat of Butter along with your Toast Points? You should definitely read Kemi Alabi’s “The Names of Things” if you’ve not already.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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How to Tell if You are in a Shakespearean History Play
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And echoing o’er the cracked tile, the clunking whine of a Weazel Ball
Caged before the Kay-Bee Toys, forever tumbling.
O Weazel Ball, tumble on! Bold weasel, never canst thou clasp thy prize!
—“Ode on an Abandoned Shopping Mall”
Tags: meta, toast points
weasel ball! so many good memories from weasel ball. we used to have one of those my house. my older siblings and I used to love it, but it terrified my younger sister. we liked to put it in her crib while she was napping, turn it on, scurry out on silent feet, shut the door and stand by doing nothing as she screamed and screamed and screamed.
she still hates us and i don’t blame her.
ROOM 101!
WEASEL BALL
I have never had a cat who was not either terrified of or contemptuous of Weasel Ball.
Emu vs Weasel Ball https://youtu.be/eHpYBwzlfTc
That video is everything I never knew I needed. My life is enriched now.
WEASEL BALL!
My friends and I all got matching weasel balls on a class trip about two decades ago, named ’em after Sailor Moon characters, and tormented the rest of our classmates for the remainder of the trip with those furry, stare-through-your-soul-with-their-beady-plastic-eyes rolly little banshees.
I still have Serenity the Weasel. She, like cockroaches, will outlive all of us.