Estelle is such a fool. She acts like Wilbur is a great catch. Well, if you're into boorish, conceited, drunken men, I guess he is a catch. What gets me mad is that Mary is encouraging her to be with this toad. It makes me wonder what poor dead Jimmy was like.
Is this week with Estelle, Mary, and Libby simply KM tap dancing in time while she tries to come up with another plot (using “plot” loosely - this IS KM, after all)? If so, it had better be free of Westons and Beedies. Any hint of Dawn and/or any reference to “doing long distance” will drive me bonkers. Isn’t it time for Mary to take a trip?
“I’m glad for both of you” is Worthspeak for “you’re both equally horrible in your own unique ways, but at least by pairing up you’ll save two ordinary, innocent people from having to date you” — it’s like a passive-aggressive version of “aloha”
@KitKat, exactly! We’re going to have several days (at least) of establishing that Estelle and Wilbur are great, Iris and Zak are great, etc. I look back fondly on the cruising Hoosiers and Evil Entertainer Esme. Even the saga of Arthu(e)r was more engaging.
Considering how passionate Estelle was about Arthu/er before he turned into Mr. Hyde, it's pretty clear she has lowered her standards significantly in order to accept Wilbur's behavior. Or maybe she just wants to get Mary off her back.
Wilbur does have at least one excellentl quality, which has been referred to at least twice (once by Wilbur and once by Mary)—he’s rich! And it’s much harder to fall out of love with a rich man than a poor one.
I won't restate others' comments regarding Wilbur but I will posit the question that I'm sure has already been asked many times before:
When Mary subs in for Wilbur on his advice column, does the quality of advice go up or down, or, are the (assumed) readers able to tell the difference?
Michael Beaumier - Samuel Butler's remark "It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing" seems to fit Estelle and Wilbur quite well. Except perhaps the "very amusing" part (it's only mildly amusing when Wilbur gets sloshed and not at all amusing the rest of the time).
What is the source of Wilbur's income, anyway? He didn't buy that condo with the proceeds of his stupid little advice column, which doesn't appear to be syndicated and half the time isn't even written by him anyway. Is he living off some kind of trust fund?
@fauxptof at 8:57 a.m., KM’s muse (ha!) must be on a permanent sabbatical since the glory days of Evil Entertainer Esme and the Cruising Hoosiers. Now we’re stuck with “Iris has thyroid problems” and “Mary buys a gift for a weird cat” - holy cow. BTW, I bet a dollar to a doughnut that Mary found that heat mat in the close-out aisle at Aileen’s.
@meg at 10:46 a.m., you’re channeling Jane Austen.
TimP at 10:46 a.m., “quality of advice” is a foreign concept to “Ask Wendy.” However, that’s not a problem because the column has no readers.
We will soon see Wilbur in his bathrobe and house shoes holding a 4-pack of wine coolers lazing on Estelle's couch watching another boxing documentary on Netflix. Wilbur is great!
KitKat@12:23- Puh-leeze! Jane Austen stole every good idea she ever had from me. All her fans would me Meg-ites if they knew the truth. (PS. Have you been watching Sanditon on PBS? She was going to call it ‘Sandy Town’ until she peered over my shoulder in middle school English class.)
@meg at 3:31p.m., I was much taken by Sanditon and watched the final episode last night. It knocked me for a loop - !!!! No spoilers from me if you are still in the midst of it.
There's a real Jane Austen? I thought that narration I hear was just in my head.
If Wilbur is wealthy, I suspect Dawn's mother gave him a large divorce settlement to tell Dawn he's a widower.
TimP, the primary difference in the Wendy columns occurs when a reader writes in about an alcoholic acquaintance. Wendy Weston says it's all the reader's imagination. Wendy Worth calls alcoholism an endearing quirk.
KitKat: Spoilers? You mean the giant tsunami that washed Sanditon away, or the sounder of feral hogs that ravaged the town just after the casino had its grand opening? Jane never feared crude and melodramatic events when struggling on her own to plot a novel. In the first draft of ‘Pride’, Mr. Darcy actually got drunk and drowned in his lake, dragged down by the weight of his sodden poofy shirt.
@meg, now you’ve got me picturing Colin Firth sinking into the depths. Maybe KM will steal that idea and have Wilbur drown in that glorified mud puddle by Charterstone.
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Estelle is such a fool. She acts like Wilbur is a great catch. Well, if you're into boorish, conceited, drunken men, I guess he is a catch. What gets me mad is that Mary is encouraging her to be with this toad. It makes me wonder what poor dead Jimmy was like.
Is this week with Estelle, Mary, and Libby simply KM tap dancing in time while she tries to come up with another plot (using “plot” loosely - this IS KM, after all)? If so, it had better be free of Westons and Beedies. Any hint of Dawn and/or any reference to “doing long distance” will drive me bonkers. Isn’t it time for Mary to take a trip?
“I’m glad for both of you” is Worthspeak for “you’re both equally horrible in your own unique ways, but at least by pairing up you’ll save two ordinary, innocent people from having to date you” — it’s like a passive-aggressive version of “aloha”
@KitKat, exactly! We’re going to have several days (at least) of establishing that Estelle and Wilbur are great, Iris and Zak are great, etc. I look back fondly on the cruising Hoosiers and Evil Entertainer Esme. Even the saga of Arthu(e)r was more engaging.
Gosh Wilbur is swell! He's in to lots of neat stuff, and we both like to read Tiger Beat!
Considering how passionate Estelle was about Arthu/er before he turned into Mr. Hyde, it's pretty clear she has lowered her standards significantly in order to accept Wilbur's behavior. Or maybe she just wants to get Mary off her back.
Wilbur does have at least one excellentl quality, which has been referred to at least twice (once by Wilbur and once by Mary)—he’s rich! And it’s much harder to fall out of love with a rich man than a poor one.
I won't restate others' comments regarding Wilbur but I will posit the question that I'm sure has already been asked many times before:
When Mary subs in for Wilbur on his advice column, does the quality of advice go up or down, or, are the (assumed) readers able to tell the difference?
Michael Beaumier - Samuel Butler's remark "It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing" seems to fit Estelle and Wilbur quite well. Except perhaps the "very amusing" part (it's only mildly amusing when Wilbur gets sloshed and not at all amusing the rest of the time).
What is the source of Wilbur's income, anyway? He didn't buy that condo with the proceeds of his stupid little advice column, which doesn't appear to be syndicated and half the time isn't even written by him anyway. Is he living off some kind of trust fund?
@fauxptof at 8:57 a.m., KM’s muse (ha!) must be on a permanent sabbatical since the glory days of Evil Entertainer Esme and the Cruising Hoosiers. Now we’re stuck with “Iris has thyroid problems” and “Mary buys a gift for a weird cat” - holy cow. BTW, I bet a dollar to a doughnut that Mary found that heat mat in the close-out aisle at Aileen’s.
@meg at 10:46 a.m., you’re channeling Jane Austen.
TimP at 10:46 a.m., “quality of advice” is a foreign concept to “Ask Wendy.” However, that’s not a problem because the column has no readers.
How do you "talk out" alcoholism ?
We will soon see Wilbur in his bathrobe and house shoes holding a 4-pack of wine coolers lazing on Estelle's couch watching another boxing documentary on Netflix. Wilbur is great!
KitKat@12:23- Puh-leeze! Jane Austen stole every good idea she ever had from me. All her fans would me Meg-ites if they knew the truth.
(PS. Have you been watching Sanditon on PBS? She was going to call it ‘Sandy Town’ until she peered over my shoulder in middle school English class.)
@meg at 3:31p.m., I was much taken by Sanditon and watched the final episode last night. It knocked me for a loop - !!!! No spoilers from me if you are still in the midst of it.
There's a real Jane Austen? I thought that narration I hear was just in my head.
If Wilbur is wealthy, I suspect Dawn's mother gave him a large divorce settlement to tell Dawn he's a widower.
TimP, the primary difference in the Wendy columns occurs when a reader writes in about an alcoholic acquaintance. Wendy Weston says it's all the reader's imagination. Wendy Worth calls alcoholism an endearing quirk.
KitKat: Spoilers? You mean the giant tsunami that washed Sanditon away, or the sounder of feral hogs that ravaged the town just after the casino had its grand opening? Jane never feared crude and melodramatic events when struggling on her own to plot a novel. In the first draft of ‘Pride’, Mr. Darcy actually got drunk and drowned in his lake, dragged down by the weight of his sodden poofy shirt.
@meg, now you’ve got me picturing Colin Firth sinking into the depths. Maybe KM will steal that idea and have Wilbur drown in that glorified mud puddle by Charterstone.
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