Okay so I'm very insanely busy with the end-of-the-year rush, but I had this exchange with a friend today:

Her: OMG Frog Princess.
Her: Maaan.
Her: We soooo have to catch that on opening week at least.
Me: Um.
Me: I already have a date for opening weekend.
Her: HA!
Her: Rejected!
Her: Thwarted!
Her: Unloved!
Me: SO SORRY, BABY.

So head's up for dinglehoppers: WATCH OUT FOR SCARY JEALOUS GIRLFRIEND, SHE GONNA COME GETCHA. (I kid.)

• 21:07 Just saw trailer for How to Train Your Dragon. I foresee my heartstrings getting pulled in the near future. #

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• 23:01 One of my fav mermaid vids: bit.ly/17bmpv Check out that spin action! I crave a live-action TLM like whoa. #

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• 20:17 First free weekend in ages! .... And I'm going to spend it recovering from my cold. Yay, sleep! #

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• 09:17 OH HAI I GOT LINKED BY CINEMATICAL. bit.ly/35DoR #
• 09:19 @bohemianchick41 YES. Apparently Hades was supposed to be more sinister, but James Woods shmoozed him up. <3 #
• 09:23 @shadypines_ma Only if HSM had teen pregnancies and oblique references to blowjobs. #

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• 20:52 Am listening to Cheno + Matt Morrison's "Alone" on repeat. GLEEEEEEE~ #

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• 06:57 New Mary Poppins on Broadway casting news wot made me LE FREAK like a little girl. OH, BERT. bit.ly/3aMJKu #

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• 08:07 Watching Glee ep 3. Dakota Stanley = Whit Hertford = voice of Ollie & Red in The Little Mermaid tv series. It's 6 degrees of TLM! #
• 13:15 Dark/twisted art of Disney Princesses is common but this? This is gorgeous AND the Princesses are still recognisable. bit.ly/4EXbT #
• 14:41 Pencil Test Depot: www.penciltestdepot.com/ <3 #
• 16:29 Just watched the trailer for MJ's "This Is It". OH HI, KENNY ORTEGA. #
• 18:17 omg, for the Twisted Disney Princess art I'd posted a link to earlier, I JUST REALISED THAT ARIEL'S HAND IS A DINGLEHOPPER. #

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• 20:41 It's been a while since old-school animation has enthralled me this much in its use for storytelling. <3<3 vimeo.com/3985019 #
• 00:57 It's almost 1 in the morning and I'm high on two cans of Diet Coke. This is daft. I need to be awake in 4 hours. #
• 01:02 Voice casting for Toy Story 3! Warning: article has some possible spoilers. bit.ly/11tXaU #

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• 11:46 I think this is a new The Princess & the Frog trailer? movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809838280/video/15448549 #
• 14:03 *LE GASP* Laura Michelle Kelly might return to the stage to play Mary Poppins again. But on *Broadway*. bit.ly/GBMXR (scroll down) #
• 17:25 Oh this is just ridiculous, how can another week be over ALREADY? #

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Okay, I will not be able to watch this when it happens, but this news still makes me so stupidly excited. I love Laura's Mary Poppins first and foremost (sorry Julie, and don't hit me, joeytheteapot), thus I am so so so glad that she's getting to revisit the role.

Laura’s Poppin onto Broadway

Laura Michelle Kelly, the original stage Mary Poppins, will soon be ladling spoonfuls of sugar over Broadway.

The award-winning actress has been rehearsing with director Richard Eyre in New York. She will resume the famous nanny role on October 12 for a limited run.

Laura Michelle created Mary five years ago at the Prince Edward Theatre, London after try-outs in Bristol.

She won rave reviews for her crisp interpretation of the woman who swoops into Cherry Tree Lane to care for the Banks children. She was based more on the character as written by P.L. Travers than in the movie version with Julie Andrews.

When the time came to open on Broadway, Laura Michelle didn’t go with it. There were rumours of some terrible backstage row involving Laura Michelle and Cameron Mackintosh, who produced the show jointly with Disney, but no one can actually remember what the falling-out was all about.

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The bit about the row with Cameron MacKintosh (if true) does explain why Laura hasn't reprised the role when the other Marys (Scarlett, Lisa, Ashley) have crossed productions all over the place.

• 20:17 How am I supposed to get any work done when my new cat keeps attacking my feet? #
• 10:18 @dinglehoppers Smokey's happy to have a playmate. They're chasing each other now, which is good for me but bad for the furniture. XD #
• 10:33 Listening to Sister Act: The Musical now. "The Life I Never Led" -- oh WOW. Go, Sister Mary Roberts, go! #
• 12:55 Finished revamping the minor shrines, but can't upload them yet -- my video host is down. RARR. #
• 16:05 Surely I'm not the only Swan Princess fan who finds the transformation in the Princess & the Frog trailer awfully familiar. #
• 17:18 Hee. My favs: Iron Buzz, Big 4 F4 and Snow Hulk. bit.ly/mY7Ao #

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• 15:49 @bohemianchick41 Thank you! I'm most reorganizing stuff. The clutter was getting to me. #
• 16:03 Am listening to the Japanese Wicked recording. At the end of What is This Feeling, Elphaba goes WA! instead of BOO! I LOL'ed so hard. #

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• 21:02 @dinglehoppers lol thank you! It's like spring cleaning, throwing out unnecessary stuff and making everything neater. I hope. ^^;; #

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• 16:23 Currently planning to overhaul website. *excited* Watch out for dead links! I've put off streamlining for way too long. #

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• 21:01 Just looking at my website makes me want to overhaul the whole thing, maybe start again from scratch. But not today. #

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• 06:50 Nice article about Lasseter & Pixar. bit.ly/lY1VO #
• 18:26 @dinglehoppers Igor is pretty fun, I have to say. I'm considering making a minor shrine out of it, even. (If I ever get around to updating.) #

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• 19:27 Watching Igor. ( www.imdb.com/title/tt0465502/ ) John Cusack sounds a LOT like Albert Brooks. #
• 19:28 @dinglehoppers Ooo! Artemis Fowl? #

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• 13:32 Article has small error: there are THREE sequels to MGM's Wizard of Oz. The other two are animated, but they do count. bit.ly/eXQpa #

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• 20:25 Article about the Sherman brothers that made me melancholy: bit.ly/p7DSc #

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