Showing posts with label pants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pants. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Harry's Pants

Alejna has been posting about pants lately (check out her ghostly pants photo, and wish her a happy 4th Blogiversary!) and I have been rewatching Harry Potter movies in preparation for film 7, and got to thinking that the titles are pretty fun to PANTsify. So, Alejna, this is my blogiversary gift to you.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Pants (or, for you Canadians and Brits... Philosopher's Pants)
Voldemort is hiding behind Quirrel's Pants. In the movie, Quirrell is played by Jim Carrey, who has much experience making his butt talk.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Pants
A secret chamber filled with magical pants is unlocked at Hogwarts. When Ginny Weasley puts on a pair of the enchanted pants she finds herself falling under the fearsome power of Voldemort.

Harry Potter and the Pants of Azkaban
Harry learns that there is something worse than Dementors: the pants they make the prisoners of Azkaban wear. Truly scary.

Harry Potter and the Pants of Fire
The flaming pants help Harry win the Triwizard Tournament. Madame Pomfrey is able to heal his first degree burns, but expresses concerns about his future ability to procreate.

Harry Potter and the (Dis)Order of the Pants
Harry and a group of other wizards form a secret society. Their goal? To bring about the destruction of Voldemort by disorganizing their OCD closets.

Harry Potter and the Half-Pants Prince
Harry discovers a potions book full of secret potions and spells, the most dangerous of which casts a spell to half the wearer's pants. This proves to be nearly fatal in the winter at snowy Hogwarts.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Pants
Harry, Ron and Hermione set out to destroy the three pants of Death and restore peace to the wizarding world.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Bless You Boys

Hell may really have just frozen over. Not only did the Saints just win the Superbowl, but I watched a Superbowl from beginning to end, and even cheered out loud in my living room. I dressed in team colors.

I've never been a big football person. I'm married to one, but I've never really cared much.

But this? It goes beyond football. It goes beyond the Saints. It goes to the heart of this city that I have grown to love so much. It goes to the heart of the people of New Orleans. It's so much more than winning a game. It's supporting our city, our culture, our home. It's an extension of the never ending party that is living here. It's a celebration of the things we've come through together.

Before all this I read several things that say it so much better than I could dream.

Read Bayou Belle.

Read Cold Spaghetti.

Read this letter to the city of the Miami.

Celebrate with us.

Who Dat!

(and by the way, did anyone else watching the game notice how many pantless commercials there were? I had to write to Alejna, I found it so funny. Who dat say dey gonna wear no pants?)

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Today's Top Headlines: Monday Mission

Painted Maypole would have been better in the lead role
Director confesses that casting choices were political; Painted Maypole declines to comment

Single Parenting Sucks
Mom and daughter missing "Daddy" after a two week absence

No Rhyme or Reason to Roofers
4 estimates vary by a span of $5000

Looking for a Muse in all the wrong places
Blogger finds herself at a loss for words

Desk Discovered
While cleaning her home, woman exclaims "there really is a desk under here!"

Southern Arctic Freeze Finally Thaws
Locals once again venture outside without socks

Bed Sheet Pants
Our costume designer works stage magic with a bed sheet and some elastic.
(We make no claims on the attractiveness of the pants)






This post has been a Monday Mission. This week's mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a post in the style "Today's Headlines" (inspired by this Cold Spaghetti post). Please submit your top headlines to the editor by placing a link in the widget below:



And join us next week, when your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a post in the style of an instruction manual.

Monday, November 16, 2009

We sing a song in praise of pants: Monday Mission

dedicated to Alejna

We sing a song in praise of pants
We lift our voices loud and strong
Oh won’t you come and join our dance?

Oh ring the bell and bang a gong
A rat-a-tat and ding ding dong
Oh won’t you come and join our dance?

In skinny jeans and a sarong
Or worn out sweats, shirt from Hong Kong
Oh won’t you come and join our dance?

At home or work or play pants belong
So many styles you can’t go wrong
We sing a song in praise of pants.

We wear them short; we wear them long
Go cowboy style or with a thong
Oh won’t you come and join our dance?

There’s room for all so come along
Hop up, take part in our joyful throng
We sing a song in praise of pants
Oh won’t you come and join our dance?

______________________


This week's mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a post in the form a Villanelle. (A Villanelle is a type of poetry. Follow that link for an explanation of the "rules" of a villanelle. One famous example of a villanelle is Dylan Thomas' poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night) If you play along, please put a link to your post in the widget below:



And join us next week, when your mission is to write a post in the style of an Acrostic (you know, those poems they made you write in grade school where you wrote a word down the page, and then each line started with the letter... You could do a THANKSGIVING one, just like you did back in third grade this time of year, or you could come up with your own word)

Saturday, October 17, 2009

A Little Pants Music

Alejna tagged me for a little music in my pants... the idea is you're supposed to put your iPod or whatever on shuffle and add "in my pants" to the end of every song title. Well, all I've managed to load onto my iPhone iPod feature is Prince's greatest hits, and that's just TOO easy (Cream in my pants, Gett Off in my pants, Sexy MF in my pants... Prince seems to be made for this meme!). So I decided to do the meme for my New Orleans Music CD Mix (2009 updated version). Here's a little New Orleans in my pants...

Bap Bap in my pants - Bonerama
Shake Your Rugalator in my pants - Craig Klein
Marie Laveau in my pants - Craig Klein
Fever for the Bayou in my pants– Tab Benoit
Night Train in my pants– Tab Benoit
Crankin’ It Off in my pants– Billy Iuso
Ruff in Da Stuff in my pants– Billy Iuso
Iko, Iko in my pants- Amanda Shaw
Crescent City Snow in my pants - Susan Cowsill
Hell or High Water in my pants - Beth Patterson
Home in my pants - Eric Orlando (Barstool Logic)
Foundation Remains in my pants - Mark Adam Miller (Deadeye Dick)
New Orleans in my pants - Fred LeBlanc (Cowboy Mouth)
Foot of Canal Street in my pants– Paul Sanchez (Cowboy Mouth) featuring John Boutte
Treme Song in my pants– John Boutte
Tchefuncte/On That Day in my pants - New Orleans Night Crawlers


for more fun with pants (including Show Tunes Pants and Shakespearean Pants) click here




I invite you (and your pants) to join me this Monday for our weekly Monday Mission. Your mission is to write a post in the form of a Tanga or a Nonnet (each is a specific type of poem, click on the word for a link to a description of the poetry). Mission suggested, again, by the fabulous de at An Indigo Virgo.

Monday, August 3, 2009

White Smoke... at long last

Finally, FINALLY, I have figured out what I am giving as a 2nd blogiversary prize (since my previous plan was ruined) and so finally, FINALLY I can announce the winner.

Two winners, actually (it seems appropriate to give out 2 prizes 2 months after celebrating 2 years of blogging. I love nothing if not a theme!)

Mad and Alejna will be the proud owners of Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry.

Yes, I'm giving away a book with ME on the cover of it. Who ever said I was humble?

Send me your addresses to pntdmaypole AT yahoo DOT com and I'll send you the books. I MAY even sign them for you. Unless that's going a bit too far.

(unfortunately it's the unpublished show that has a really funny piece about PANTS in it... maybe I'll find it and send you a copy, Alejna)

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Baring it: Theatre Thursday

I'm still out hiking through the hills, so I will sate your Theatre Thursday lust with these gratuitous photos from backstage at Cabaret. When I auditioned I told the director that I would be comfortable wearing lingerie on stage, but that after giving birth (nearly 2 years prior) no one really wanted to see my bare stretch marked belly.
I'm second from the left. I LOVED those big fishnets, and wish I could find the guts to wear them in real life. Mein Herr. Singing in German and dancing on a chair. Good times.
Money makes the world go 'round. (I'm on the far right)

Oh! That reminds me about how I would practice the songs while driving in the van. The May Queen was about 20 months old, and would ask me to play Money over and over again... she loved the part when the EmCee would make the raspberry sound! She would giggle and giggle and do it herself and giggle some more!

Don't Tell Mama that I posted this picture a few weeks ago when I wrote about understudying.

There were some people from my church at the time... you know, the one my husband was a pastor for... who came to see the show. They were only mildly scandalized. After all, I had already done The Vagina Monologues, and was just getting them warmed up for Angels in America. I didn't bare much flesh in that show, but I did share a stage with a naked man.

(and may I just say that now I am singing "Money makes the PANTS go down, the PANTS go down, the PANTS go down..." Do the PANTS never end??)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Showtunes in the key of PANTS: Volume 2

PANTS! a singular sensation, every little step you take
PANTS! covering your legs, every move that you make
One try and suddenly no other PANTS will do
You know you'll never be naked with you-know-who

One day wrapped in her comfort and you can forget the rest
For the PANTS are second best to none, son
Oooh! Sigh! Perfect through the inseam
Oooh! My! The answer to my dream! They're the PANTS!


What good is sitting alone in your PANTS?
Invite a friend to play.
Life is a pair of PANTS, old chum,
Come to my pair of PANTS



O....Oklahoma, where the wind comes and sweeps you out your PANTS...
And the wavin' breeze blows right past your knees
And you hope you're wearing clean underpants


You work real hard
And the pay's real low
And ev'ry hour
Goes oh, so slow
And at the end of the day
There's no where to go
But home to Avenue PANTS!
You live on Avenue PANTS!
Your friends don't dance.
You own twenty PANTS
And you live on Avenue PANTS!
You live on Avenue PANTS
You live on Avenue PANTS

Come on babe why don't you wear the PANTS
and all that jazz
We're gonna hide those knees
under some stylin' PANTS
and all that jazz
Zip them up I know the perfect pair
that hide all your flaws
and your long leg hair
You'll look lean and tall
They make your waist look small
And all that jazz!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Showtunes in the key of PANTS

Hello PANTS!
Well, Hello
PANTS!
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
My @ss looks swell,
PANTS,
I can tell,
PANTS,
You still fit me, you're not stained
You're still goin' strong.



Some enchanted evening
You may see some PANTS,
you may see some PANTS
Across a crowded room
And somehow you know,
You know even then
That someday you'll wear them
Again and again.



At the end of the day you're a little bit stretched out
And that's all you can say for the life of the PANTS

You get spilled on, maybe torn

Then they throw you right into the corner

One more day lying about, what is it for?

One day closer to cut-offs.



Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
Two legs inside of me
look leaner yet
And though you turn in the mirror
to check your behind
The Phantom of the PANTS is there
Inside your mind




Who must know the way to fall across the hip,
and down the leg, and cross your bum?
Who has pockets so that you can cart your stuff,
Your license, credit cards and your phone?

The PANTS, the PANTS! Tradition!
The PANTS, the PANTS! Tradition!




Into the PANTS,
It's time to go,
I hate to leave,
I have to, though.
Into the PANTS-
It's time, and so
I must return to my house.

Into the PANTS
And from this bed
Though it's been fun,
Its must be said.
Into the PANTS,
and please don't tell
My very jealous spouse.



When you are PANTS,
You are PANTS all the way

From the first time you're worn

To your last dyin' day.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

more of Willy's Pants

"...From ancient grudge break to new nudity, Where civil pants makes civil pants unclean."

Oh, we laughed. I thought that Rosie was going to have a spazattack.

Miss Wilson was yelling, "Girls, girls, stop this silliness. Saying pants all the time is not funny."

It is, though.

- Stop in the Name of Pants, by Louise Rennison
pp. 237-238


When Mad left me a comment with a pants quote from "Much Ado about PANTS," well, I just couldn't pass up the chance to look at an incomplete list of the Bard's Pantsy Titles:

Monday, June 8, 2009

Shakespeare's Pants

I'm reading a little book called Stop in the Name of Pants and there's a Romeo and Juliet Pants reference, and so, in honor of everyone's favorite Pants Superstar, Alejna, I give you the sort of thing that keeps me awake at night:

Shakespeare's Pants

What PANTS through yonder window breaks?
-Romeo and Juliet

How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;
How low am I? I am not yet so low
But that my nails can reach unto thine PANTS.
-A Midsummer Night's Dream

To PANTS or not to PANTS, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The PANTS and KNICKERS of outrageous fortune,
Or to take LEGS against a sea of troubles,
-Hamlet

Out, damned PANTS! out, I say
-MacBeth

Once more unto the PANTS, dear friends, once more
-Henry V

All the world is PANTS
-As You Like It

If PANTS be the food of love, WEAR on
-Twelfth Night

If you PANTS us do we not BLUSH?
-Merchant of Venice

Lord, what PANTS these mortals be!
-A Midsummer Night's Dream

Two PANTS both alike in dignity
-Romeo and Juliet

Ay, now am I in PANTS; the more fool I
-As You Like It

SOME PANTS, SOME PANTS, my kingdom for SOME PANTS
-Richard III

Et tu, PANTS?
-Julius Caesar

If we PANTS have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended
-A Midsummer Night's Dream

What are your favorite Shakespearean Pants?

(by the way, in England pants are not the things that cover your legs, but rather, your underwear)

Sunday, February 17, 2008

The New Pants Network



All Pants, All the Time

We had such fun at Christmastime with our All Pants Christmas Carols, that we've decided to bring to you a complete lineup of Pants Television Programing. So pull on your Lazy Pants, park yourself on the couch... and enjoy!

The All Pants Lineup

News Pants
The Today Pants
Live with Pants
48 Pants

Game Pants
Pants of Fortune
Pants or No Pants
The Newlypants Game

Soap Pants
As the Pants Turn
The Young and the Pantless
Pants Hospital

Classic Pants
Leave it to Pants
I Dream of Pants
Lost in Pants
Everybody Loves Pants
Pants and the City

Comedic Pants
Desperate Pants
Ugly Pants
Saturday Night Pants
How I Met Your Pants
Two and a Half Pants

Dramatic Pants
CSI: Pants
Pants Anatomy
Cold Pants
Bionic Pants
Pants and Sisters
Dirty Sexy Pants

Reality Pants
Celebrity Pants
The Biggest Pants
Dancing with the Pants
Pants Swap

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This Post is part of the Monday Mission, which was to write a post in the style of another blogger. I chose the list-loving, Pants Patronizing Alejna of the fabulous blog Collecting Tokens. (Check out the link at the top of this post to see her list of Pants Christmas Carols!). Write your own homage to another blogger, and paste your link in the widget below:









And be sure to join us next week, when our mission will be to write a post in the style of an awards acceptance speech. You'll have just watched the Oscars (right? I mean, don't we ALL watch them?) and surely you've been practicing your own speech in the shower for decades. For the Oscar or whatever award YOU dream of receiving. Will you be humble or boastful? Who will you thank? Who will you forget to thank? Will the music cut you off?