viewing party (emmy awards show blog)
Someday, I shall invest in wireless. And a laptop that actually works. And on that day, I shall be able to live-blog the Emmys from the comfort of my living room.
As it is, I'm taking notes, and I'll run upstairs to my study so I can share my exclusive little Emmy party with y'all. It's not really a live blog, but live-blogging is more difficult when I don't have access to the AP wire.
Quote of the evening so far, from Amy Norkus (writer, business analyst and one of my lovely Emmy-party attendees): "We're eating our way through the Emmys." And we are: It was Boca-brand "Chick'n" sandwiches and Newman's Own chocolate sandwich cookies to start, with chocolate bars and potato chips free for the grabbing. Later on, for the main event, it'll be organic vegan pizzas and all-natural fruit sodas.
Yeah, at my shindigs, it's all about class.
So! Thoughts so far about E!'s red carpet coverage:
* I hate the new "stiletto cam." But that could be just because I hate stilettos, especially peep-toe stilettos, and I don't want to see them any more than I absolutely have to.
* I hate the telestrator thing less than I did last time -- but maybe that's because the E! hosts are being way less obnoxious about it than last time.
* Jennifer Morrison has some weird fringe thing going on with her dress this evening. And I'm not sure about the blonde hair.
* Joely Fisher's sparkly sequin shoes are some of the most hideous I've seen in a long, long time. They look like the shoes you find in the girls' dress-up kits at toy stores.
Of course, my own ensemble is basic and oh so chic: blue flannel pajama bottoms with bright yellow ducks and a UMass history department T-shirt I got at a thrift store. And a semiprecious bracelet I made myself, and my filthy pink hiking watch, and old socks with hearts on them. And messy, frizzy hair, because hey -- I hiked six miles today, and I'm not on the red carpet, so I can afford to be lazy.
* Actually, Sandra Oh's hair looks a lot like mine tonight. And I don't mean that as a compliment, poor thing.
And now I should go, because I'm missing things -- I just had to run downstairs twice (once to see John Krasinski's interview, and again to see Jenna Fischer's, which was followed by Hugh Laurie's), so I think that's my cue to get back down to the party.
I'll be back with more in a little while.