Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Well, one of 90210's weirdest cameos got hitched: Kerri Strug.

Surely you remember the awkward exchange between Kerri and David at CU's registration desk? "What do you have to do to register for classes around here, win a gold medal?"

"It doesn't hurt!"

"Wait a minute... You're... Kerri Strug!" said David, in case some of us didn't watch the 1996 summer Olympics.

The whole thing was weird. However, I HATE football. Yet boyfriends are always shocked when I'm like, "Oh yeah, Steve Young is super! And Vince Lombardi is/was a great coach." I guess, in the same way, Kerri Strug is my favorite gymnast. I don't hate gymnastics, though. I'd sacrifice my entire childhood and spend hours in the gym, not for a gold medal, but for the chance to do a guest spot on 90210.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Lovefool

Last weekend, one of my friends invited me over to play some kind of karaoke game, Lips. A singer I am not. As everyone else scrolled through the songs and sang their hearts out, I was pretty much unwilling to join in. Eventually, everyone had sung 8 songs to my 0. So I agreed to sing "Lovefool," explaining to everyone that they had performed on Beverly Hills, 90210. No one cared AT ALL for this fascinating background detail, so I added more.

"Bill Taylor hired The Cardigans to play at Kelly's college graduation, just before he went off to prison!"

Well, one of the people at this party was 22, and had shamefully never seen 90210. My act was wearing thin. So I grabbed the mic, explained The Cardigans were "direct from Sweden" and did my best Swedish accent, but helpfully added my own song lyrics, like: "I can't care about anything but you... And Donna Martin!"

And the episode with The Cardigans is on RIGHT NOW. It's like they knew!