May 31, 2007 | Filed under: la famiglia, misadventures
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We continue our exploration of Planet Nana with a journey atop the planet’s surface. The terrain is somewhat rocky, bound on three sides by a turbulent sea. If one ventures too close to the shore and is not careful, there is the possibility of either getting caught in a riptide or having their body smashed against the jagged jetty, or both.
You shouldn’t travel to the Planet Nana without appropriate safety gear. The range is wide: you may need as little as a life-jacket or as much as full titanium body armor, depending on the thickness of your skin. Please choose accordingly.
12:07 pm
May 31, 2007
@ 1:12 pm
I have been waiting for this video since your Twitter comment:
“Sooooo apparently there’s a perfectly good reason we haven’t visited my Nana in 10+ years: she’s freakin’ mean!”
Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us!
May 31, 2007
@ 1:34 pm
I like how you’ve chosen the circus music as Plant Nana’s theme.
Tell you mom that all your internet fans think she did a nice thing in planning the trip!
May 31, 2007
@ 1:55 pm
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May 31, 2007
@ 3:24 pm
And now for a ‘very special episode’ of Planet Nana… can’t wait for the remaining hours!
May 31, 2007
@ 4:07 pm
Oh my god, I thought my Nanna was bad, and all she does is repeatedly tell my dad that my mum is perfect and turn up two hours early for dinner. Is there any way of avoiding insanity when you get to that age?
May 31, 2007
@ 5:58 pm
YIKES!!
I miss my Nana and although she was a master of Irish wit she would NEVER dis her own family…
…I guess that was me you were speaking to on the phone towards the end of your video you sure are pretty and smart just like your Mom..
…looking forward to making your Mom cry too…on our wedding day…
May 31, 2007
@ 9:30 pm
My mother-in-law sure knows how to push my wife’s buttons. Total f’ing drama queen.
June 1, 2007
@ 6:34 am
Your ma is wildly pretty. So sad to see her so sad.
June 1, 2007
@ 7:48 am
Family. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t kill ‘em.
June 1, 2007
@ 4:01 pm
maybe your nana and my dad could hook up? like Bev said….”family”….yep good o’ family….
June 2, 2007
@ 11:41 am
Okay. My family is normal! Thanks for the reality check. XO
June 2, 2007
@ 11:54 am
i love how ian eats stolidly while the estrogen swirls…
June 2, 2007
@ 7:06 pm
And it really surprises you that your few trips to see Nana are short, and far and few between?
Sounds and looks like my dysfunctional family. I wonder what my family would do if I videotaped them and put it up on blogger?
Hehehe………
June 3, 2007
@ 11:43 pm
reality tv, kinda, sorta
hang in there, this is great, real stuff.
thanks so much for putting your life (really our lives) out there.
June 6, 2007
@ 4:49 pm
My grandmother knows how to push my mother’s buttons too. I told her to ignore it but there’s only so much you can ignore. I hope the rest of the trip wasn’t so bad.
June 7, 2007
@ 6:37 am
Just dropping by to say hello! It’s been awhile!
July 8, 2007
@ 10:43 am
Your mama did such a nice gesture for your nana..and for your family. it is good that you all went even through the painful stuff…nana is old and in her own world now and it is a confused yet brave world.
Bravo to your family!!!!!!
December 2, 2007
@ 6:41 pm
[…] olf Nana is just too much. She’s sweet and sassy and ornery and funny and can at times be bitingly cruel, but damn, that old broad can […]
July 9, 2008
@ 4:57 am
How come I missed this one?! An absolute classic.