Deborah Lipp

Be still, my heart.

I am so excited to be going to this event. I had a good time last year. In fact, I had a great time, despite sore feet from all the walking.

This year, the “weekend” (Friday through Monday) will be a Carnival Fascination cruise. Saturday will be the Death March through Nassau (and in August, I imagine it will be genuinely deathly). The rest of the time will be shipboard. My only disappointment is that some of the wonderful friends I made last year won’t be able to attend this year.

I am so thrilled. Arthur is joining me. The ship has a spa, pools, nightclubs, dining, lots of amenities, and an entire teen program with a lounge, video games, and (best of all) other teens to hang with. I’ve always wanted to try a cruise, and I loves me some spa time.

I have an evening gown, new shoes, new Death March shorts, and my costume is just about together. Can’t. Frickin. Wait.

Okay, here’s the totally official trailer. In English.

I am too thrilled for words. It really is a wonderful snippet of film. Oh, Gods, she says “blunt instrument”! I love Fleming references.

I mean BIG.

So big.

Teaser trailer is out. It’s in French but Oh. My. God. I’m drooling.

And as if that’s not enough, I have new wallpaper.

Oh, happy day to be a Bond fan.

Update: Nevermind.

Via CBn comes this fabulous review of the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage. It’s not like I’m ever going to buy a $150,000 car (or even know anyone who does) but the review is so well-written, so entertaining…here’s an excerpt:

Now I don’t mean to boast, but after a couple of minutes of brushing my electric toothbrush automatically switches to an intermittent buzz to stop me wearing my teeth down. It’s quite useful for those days when you might all too easily stand semi-comatose in front of the bathroom mirror all morning, and I can’t help thinking they should fit something similar to the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage to stop you frittering away entire afternoons gazing at it in a similar dribbling trance.

Like those Michelangelo sketches at the British Museum or that photo of Sienna Miller in February’s Vanity Fair, this car is hypnotically, intoxicatingly divine.

Go read the whole thing.

I love this quote:

“His teeth are fine, his driving is fine, he doesn’t have heat rash and he’s not afraid of the water.”

CBn has a good summary of this Variety article, interviewing co-producer Barbara Broccoli on the new Bond movie and Daniel Craig.