9:59 pm PST: Let’s do this bitch.
10:02 pm: The wedding starts at 3:00 am PST, FWIW. I’m anticipating the need to pregame this pretty heavily.
10:21 pm: Time for my pre-royal-wedding exercise. To negate most of the pre-royal-wedding empty calories I’ll be imbibing.
10:29 pm: I’m watching My Bride is a Mermaid while I exercise, these days, so I’m learning to swear like pissed-off anime yakuza. I’ll be referring to Harry as fappy yarou this evening.
10:30 pm: Incidentally, I first referred to Fappy Yarou as “Henry.” That’s how much I pay attention to the British royal family.
12:42 am: Exercise and shower finished. I’ve just realized that going into this dehydrated is a poor decision on my part.
1:02 am: I was all set to make a snide comment about Brian Williams, but then I discovered the people who are actually covering this wedding. Barbara Walters? Time to crack my first beer; it’s going to be a long, long night.
1:13 am: Craig Ferguson is interviewing Magnum P.I. I am already tempted to stray.
1:20 am: Technical difficulties: my laptop isn’t connecting to the network. Need to drink: rising.
1:28 am: Beer #1 is a Widmer W’11 KGB Russian Imperial Stout. It’s a bit darker than I like (keep in mind that I’m a super-light drinker), but my irritation towards my laptop is making it go down easier.
1:29 am: Oh God, they’re breaking out the baby videos.
1:31 am: Apparently hat size is the British woman’s dick measuring contest.
1:34 am: In before “it’s not the size of the hat, it’s how you wear it.”
1:35 am: Mr. Bean looks vaguely constipated.
1:36 am: This woman is wearing a blue vagina on her head.
1:49 am: Oh man, I hope when I get married that people compare it against my parents’ wedding!
1:52 am: Let’s next talk to the woman who washed Prince William’s bedsheets when he was a child!
1:57 am: The Prime Minister of Australia is wearing her hat at a ludicrously jaunty angle. Imagine it on the side of her head, and then rotate it down a few more degrees.
2:03 am: Marin, in reaction to a woman wearing a fuckton of bling: damn, how many wars was she in?!
2:06 am: Prime Minister Cameron’s wife looks quite nice for not wearing a Fabulous Hat.
2:11 am: Prince William has emerged! USA! USA! USA!
2:19 am: Sorry, William, you just don’t have that much hair to rearrange.
2:24 am: Fappy Yarou looks one dominatrix away from bondage, courtesy of all the cords he’s sporting.
2:27 am: Marin: The king of Tonga looks like a Bond villain.
2:42 am: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE THIS MANY PRINCESSES
2:44 am: Man, Charles is looking old.
2:49 am: The Queen is still pretty darn cool.
3:01 am: In what world is a six-foot train “short”?
3:01 am: NEWS FLASH: Kate is not wearing a Fabulous Hat.
3:05 am: Guys, I know I’ve only been to a few weddings, but you’re supposed to stand for the bride, not the groom!
3:06 am: Looks like Kate is nipping out.
3:09 am: Fappy Yarou looks twice as nervous as William at the altar.
3:12 am: Barry and I sing better than these honored guests. Manalive.
3:14 am: Kate looks a bit haggard. I wonder if she stayed up until 4:00 am last night finishing The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer, like I did.
3:17 am: “William Arthur Phillip Louie”? How does anyone say that with a straight face?
3:22 am: A non-scientific survey of people watching the wedding says that there are only females everywhere except London.
3:22 am: Really not trying to be harsh, but the brides in every wedding I’ve attended have all looked more beautiful than Kate does here.
3:22 am: Seems weird to have Kate’s bro talking with his back is to the newlywed couple.
3:29 am: Castrating the entire boys’ choir for this wedding is a bit harsh. “You must sacrifice your balls for your country!”
3:30 am: At my goddamn wedding I’m hiring a fucking hot choir, not these pansy boys. Phat beats will also be required.
3:36 am: haha, the Queen fell asleep! (It’s OK; I’d fall asleep too if I had to listen to this guy in person.)
3:38 am: blah blah promise blah peril blah blah. I’m taking notes for everything I don’t want at my wedding.
3:39 am: William is twiddling his fingers, this thing is dragging on so long.
3:41 am: And now more castrated boy choir. I think I’d have substituted a conga line here. Maybe people doing belly shots.
3:44 am: Elton John’s in the audience. Can’t we give him a piano and have him save this thing?
3:46 am: Just spotted Wheelchair-kun and Wheelchair-baachan in the audience. Wheelchair-chan is still my favorite.
3:53 am: FROM EVERY MOUNTAINSIDE LET FREEDOM RING
3:54 am: I hope the garter toss comes next!
4:02 am: The wedding is pretty much over. On the downside, I am horribly short sleep. On the upside, I now know where Lady Gaga gets her hat ideas from.
4:06 am: Wait, they have their fucking kiss—their kiss on the balcony—scheduled down to the minute? The monarchy and I would get along for about five seconds before we murdered each other.
4:20 am: Marin: haha Harry’s stuck in the little kids’ carriage.
4:38 am: Sweet Jeebus, is it going to be another hour before the scheduled balcony kiss?
4:39 am: What I wouldn’t do for a zombie outbreak right now.
4:43 am: This Thor commercial is the most entertaining thing I’ve seen in the last hour.
5:32 am: William & Kate’s 20-nanosecond kiss was totally hot J/K, I think I’ve seen fat men licking their ice cream more passionately.
5:33 am: And it’s time to pass out. My brain beat my body to that by about five hours.
I won’t watch the wedding live but I look forward to reading your commentary tomorrow.
The hoopla starts at 1:00 A.M. PST, according to Brian Williams.
Righty-o, my good man! Gotta see which route the carriage takes to the chapel, eh?
Of course. There will be plenty of asinine TV commentary to mock.
What is going on in this blog? You can’t live blog without addressing fundamental issues first. Namely; are you staying up late, or are you getting up early. Also, where is your wet bar and what kind of gin is stocked in it?
Current plan is to stay up late, but I may have to adapt as conditions on the ground develop. (Alternate plan: power nap.) Wet bar is incredibly poorly stocked (rum and cooking brandy), but my fridge is still chock full of beer that people didn’t drink.
Nicely done. Without a doubt, this is the best post on this blog. I will be pimping this on facebook.
3:22 am: “Aww”… not that I watched the wedding, but comment still stands :)