It’s Furious Balancing

I am going to admit to being in a bit of a rut.

Looking over my blog posts for this month, it seems that I have been dragging myself from LOLCat Friday to LOLCat Friday with some grumbling (and a lot of knitting) thrown in for good measure. I’m not going to confess to being tired of winter — because I would much rather have snow up to my kneecaps than have to deal with a nasty Michigan summer filled with ghastly 90 degree days and 105% humidity — but I am definitely tired of something.

I have been feeling uninspired, and the No Yarn, No Books, and No Meat on Friday Lenten diet is beginning to wear on me.

Thankfully, there are compensations. The first being Easter candy you eat:

and the second being Easter candy you torture:

If you Google peep microwave you’ll uncover the horrors of which I speak. There are many pedestrian versions of “What happens when you put a Marshmallow Peep in a microwave?” For a more erudite treatment of the subject, I highly recommend the scholarly article Fear Response in Peeps. For a less erudite treatment of the subject, The Washington Post sidebar article on Peep Jousting fits the bill.

Actually, tooling around on the Innernets, one can find all sorts of disturbing/hilarious things concerning the ubiquitous Marshmallow Peeps. Unsettling indeed is the “factory tour” at the Official Peeps Web Site (WARNING: Plays obnoxious music!) Actually, most of the Official Peeps Web Site is unsettling, now that I think of it.

If one looks long and hard enough, one can find a Peeps 2008 Wall Calendar; a yellow Peep Costume (adult size)¹; a recipe for Peep Crispy Treats from a blog that had good amount of knitting content and a homemade bookshelf project I would love to emulate; and a March 2007 newspaper article from the Topeka Capital-Journal citing the poll result that if a Marshmallow Peep came to life, the female celebrity it most likely would be — and there’s no surprise here — is Jessica Simpson.²

Still, my all-time favorite Peep show is the Flickr photoset collection Peeps for Passover.

Whew.

I’m stopping the blog post right here, right now with my Friday LOLCat. I’ve given myself a remarkable headache with this Perspective of Peeps on the ‘Net, and have found myself well-nigh stunned and overwhelmed (in the best possible way) by a Peep-less candy diorama of The Battle of Helm’s Deep. How in the world did I wind up there? But my, those gummy Urak-Hai look tasty…. Forth Eorlingas!

Dear God, they did the Battle of Pelennor Fields, too.

Where was I? Oh, yes, LOLCat.

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1. Now there’s a fetish I don’t care to explore, and I am remarkably open-minded [↩]
2. If it were a male celebrity, Will Ferrell wins the award, such as it is. [↩]

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