{"id":25181,"date":"2014-04-06T17:02:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=25181"},"modified":"2014-04-06T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:02:47","slug":"the-week-in-review-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-week-in-review-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s what was on the blog this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/noah-mrb-and-the-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Noah<\/em> and my own personal weatherman<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/no-fooling-i-have-emoji-rings-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emoji rings<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/jewel-of-the-month-bull-and-bullfighter-maneater-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">The official debut of my Bull and Bullfighter Maneater ring<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/throwback-thursday-wearing-vintage-in-dublin-in-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wearing my Lillie Rubin coat in 1997 and 2014<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Friday:<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/just-david-letterman-retiring\/\" target=\"_blank\"> I&#8217;m going to miss David Letterman<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since Letterman announced his pending retirement, I&#8217;ve been unable to stop watching his classic clips.\u00a0 In 2012, Vulture helpfully put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2012\/02\/david-letterman-clips-chris-elliott.html#\" target=\"_blank\">19 of them for this slideshow<\/a>. Check out Letterman tormenting customers at a Taco Bell drive-thru, one of my old favorites. &#8220;I am one Taco Supreme away from being employee of the month!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LPzewwQz4w0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the clip featuring Dave&#8217;s phone buddy, book publicist Meg Parsont, has been taken down. Meg worked in a windowed office across the street when Letterman was on NBC. She appeared on the show more than 20 times. In 1991, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20115597,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">People reported a typical on-air conversation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dave: &#8220;How are things over there in the Smith &#038; Wesson building?&#8221;<br \/>\nMeg: &#8220;It&#8217;s the Simon &#038; Schuster building.&#8221;<br \/>\nDave: &#8220;Things going okay with you and your boyfriend Timmy?&#8221;<br \/>\nMeg: &#8220;It&#8217;s Tony.&#8221;<br \/>\nDave: &#8220;Okay, Meg, now will you open your window and toss some stuff out for us?&#8221;<br \/>\nMeg: &#8220;Well, I guess so.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She was paid $100 for her appearances, which often ended with a gift being sent to her office. Her favorite, People reported, was the Valentine&#8217;s gift of actor Billy Dee Williams bearing roses, perfume and a six-pack of Colt 45 malt liquor. Others included a live turkey and Samoan fire dancers. There&#8217;s a cute interview with her <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=a7X5VtdN7-0C&#038;pg=PT58&#038;lpg=PT58&#038;dq=Meg+Parsont+letterman&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=yC9GwzguxP&#038;sig=w9AjcvkDdzQsloNamwtXigt7mZo&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=wL5BU5NrieLYBffhgOgD&#038;ved=0CIcBEOgBMAk#v=onepage&#038;q=Meg%20Parsont%20letterman&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, in the 2009 book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Daves-World-Unauthorized-Guide-Letterman-ebook\/dp\/B0034DGP3G\" target=\"_blank\">Dave&#8217;s World: The Unauthorized Guide to the Late Show with David Letterman<\/a><\/em>. (&#8220;I don&#8217;t really find any sexy about him,&#8221; she said, when forced to answer questions about whether she found his hair or gapped teeth sexy.) <\/p>\n<p>Now I need to waste a couple of days looking for my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mujibur_and_Sirajul\" target=\"_blank\">Mujibur and Sirajul<\/a> clips. I better get cracking! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s what was on the blog this week. Monday: Noah and my own personal weatherman. Tuesday: Emoji rings! Wednesday: The official debut of my Bull and Bullfighter Maneater ring. Thursday: Wearing my Lillie Rubin coat in 1997 and 2014. Friday: I&#8217;m going to miss David Letterman. Since Letterman announced his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-week-in-review-23\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,598],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv","7":"category-week-in-review","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}