PICTURE BOOK - A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss

Presented by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Illustrated by E G Keller

2018 Chronicle Books

HC $18.99

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  4.75 - 9380 ratigs

My rating: 5

Endpapers: Marlon Bundo's bowtie and Wesley's glasses

 

1^st line/s:  "Hello.  My name is Marlon Bundo, and I am a bunny."

My comments:  Oh my gosh, this is wonderful!  Never mind that this gay bunny is owned by our current Vice President (Pence!) but he wants to get married to boot.  Lots of wonderful issues are treated  clearly, fairly, and with wonderful fun... and every cent earned goes to a charity that helps with better treatment for the LGBTQ community.

Goodreads:  HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a picture book about a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny.
          Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa, Mike Pence - the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon's life is about to change forever...
          With its message of tolerance and advocacy, this charming children's book explores issues of same sex marriage and democracy. Sweet, funny, and beautifully illustrated, this book is dedicated to every bunny who has ever felt different.
          100% of Last Week Tonight's proceeds will be donated to The Trevor Project and AIDS United.  

MOVIE - This Is the End

R (1:47)

Released 6/12/2013

Viewed Century Gateway (Kolb) with Sheila 9/24/2013

RT Critic: 84 Audience: 80

2 - it was okay/ crazy/ silly/ stupid/ funny

Directed by Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen

Sony Pictures

Actors: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill

Rotten Tomato summary: The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

My comments:  The actors were "acting" at being themselves, stuck in James Franco's home during the beginning of the apocolypse (complete with hugely-dangling-penised monster).  There were some really funny parts...actually, the whole thing was quite funny, although the whole time I was sitting there I was asking myself, "why?"  Definitely entertainment-only spoof of life in the Hollywood Hills.....

Astronaut Stopping By a Planet on a Snowy Evening - Jon Sciezska

Astronaut Stopping By a Planet

      on a Snowy Evening

Which world this is I do not know.

It’s in our solar system though.

I’m thinking that it may be Mars,

Because it has that reddish glow.

But you know it could be Venus.

And if that’s true, then just between us,

It might be wise to leave before

Any locals might have seen us.

Could be Pluto.  Might be Neptune.

Don’t they both have more than one moon?

I’m running out of oxygen

I’d better figure this out soon.

Yes, space is lovely, dark and deep.

For one mistake I now do weep:

In science class I was asleep.

In science class I was asleep

                        ~Jon Sciezska