Comments on: poshdeluxe book club meeting #4 (?): steve martin

By: J

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:28:06 +0000

I like the passage about his “pot-freakout” during a screening of The Producers.

By: trish

trish — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:13:27 +0000

yay! I’m so glad you liked the books!
also, OMG YOU ARE FAMOUS!!!!!!! holy molar, cupcakes take the cake is Bigtime!

By: Nichelle

Nichelle — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:46:17 +0000

Glad to have you on Cupcakes Take The Cake. Thanks for reading!

Cupcakes are the best!

By: Henri

Henri — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:28:09 +0000

I don’t want to go to war, but that video did make me want to get a dog, then leave it for fourteen months. I don’t want to be cruel to the dog or anything, but that kind of excitement to see me seems kinda worth it.

I also don’t want to listen to Green Day, though.

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:11:26 +0000

1. I always meant to tell you (but promptly forget) that I really enjoy the font you use for the book club.

2. Steve Martin is fabulous for so many reasons, including, but not limited to: He dated Charlotte from SATC; He is an avid art collector; He is from Waco, TX (of which he says “it’s the only city whose skyline gives you the finger”- as anyone who ever resided in Waco can attest, it’s “skyline” is made up of one very tall building.).

3. Many chocolate & sprinkle covered congratulations on your feature on the cupcake blog! Nobody is more deserving that you, Miss Deluxe.

By: Matt S

Matt S — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:12:30 +0000

Congrats for being famous. All that dedication to teeny cakes is finally paying off.

I love Steve Martin. I think he is an excellent writer. I read half of Pure Drivel before having to return it to a friend and I really enjoyed it. He also does a pretty good job at making movies though I haven’t seen anything he’s done since Bowfinger (I am not talking about movies like Cheaper by the Dozen 1 or 2, or Housesitter, etc). Did you know that Meredith’s grandmother (Nanny, of lake house fame) was in Leap of Faith? Yep, it’s a fact.

By: erin

erin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:50 +0000

Sarah! You’re cupcake famous now!

Can I unrecommend a book? As in, “People, please do not read this book.” People. Please do not read Rhett Butler’s People. You may be compelled, as I was, to do so, based on the fact that Rhett Butler is one of your favorite fictional characters and also you maybe have this thing where you have to read sequels/prequels/completely-unrelated-but-kind-of-based-on-the-same-characters books that are connected to books you love. I implore you, do not give in to this urge. It will be met with ill. You may think you’re in for some fun, light-hearted fare surrounding the events of Gone With the Wind, but instead you’re in for tedious prose, ill-defined characters and an undercurrent of mysogeny which runs throughout the novel, making you wonder how a woman raised in the first part of last century is capable of writing strong female characters, but a man raised in the latter half of the same century evidently is not. (Except how the answer to that ponderence is: “She’s Margaret Mitchell. No further questions necessary.”)

Okay, that’s all.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:46:59 +0000

err, his prose is really compelling and poetic.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:10:10 +0000

OMG! Sarah! You are so famous! Even your FACE is on there! That is really exciting and long overdue. How cute are you?! Yay!

I’m finishing up Devil in the White City, a non-fiction book about the first US World’s Fair in Chicago and the genius behind it, Daniel Burnham. It’s also a chilling insight into the mind of H.H. Holmes, the serial killer who preyed on the masses of unknown visitors to the fair. Eric Larson writes non-fiction like a novelist–his prose