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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Alexandra’s Guide to Classiness – Number One in a Continuing Series

How to deter oneself from having a public breakdown/sobfest when one is in the midst of an inexplicable existential crisis: Wear non-waterproof mascara. The very idea of one’s dignity being compromised by great streams of black running down one’s face should be unappetizing enough to help nip that breakdown in the bud. Also, great gobs [...]

Attempt at Vegetarianism vs. In-N-Out Burger! Who will emerge victorious from this epic battle?

Oh, why do I even bother kidding myself?

Quotation du jour:

“The sad truth is there will always be people who recoil in horror when confronted with “teh fatt” just like there will always be people whose idea of heaven is a Rush album, two cases of Cool Ranch Doritos and a bong made out of a watermelon. We cannot fight them; we can only hope [...]

Things that fill me with premature holiday cheer even though they have nothing to do with the holidays:

1. Kate Pierson of B-52 fame operates what appears to be an amazingly wicked-cool motel somewhere in the Catskills! This makes me almost want to get married, just so that I can go there on my honeymoon. Although, personally, I would just prefer to go there for a secret tryst with an illegitimate lover. 2. [...]

Have we dislocated our right knee today?

Oh, probably.

Dear Santa,

So, the time is feeling about right for my sort-of-annual epistle in which I make unreasonable requests of you. And I have been working on this letter for three entire days, so I hope you’re impressed. Here is what I want for Christmas. And you better deliver. Um, please. I’ve mostly been sort of good, [...]

Things I saw today in Los Angeles:

1. A man on the bus taking a brick of cheese out of his bag, unwrapping it and eating it like a chocolate bar. 2. A child (approximately four years old) saying “Mommy! Will you buy me that?” while pointing to a ceramic bust of Chairman Mao. America, you are . . . amazing.

Coming soon to the top of the charts:

So, today I was at school, ostensibly doing some work, but what I was really doing was planning the concept album that I probably need to record and release. It would be an exploration of a question that has come up time and again in my life, namely: boys. What to do about them? Songs [...]

John Fluevog, we need to have a word.

Ok. John, you are the maestro of footwear as far as my sad, hobbit-like feet are concerned. But I have a bone to pick with you. You know, as well as I do, that the shoes in your Operetta and Soprano families happen to fit my feet PERFECTLY. Which is something that has never happened [...]

Superfantastic!

Rock on. I get to present my Rock School for Girls paper at a conference. Of course this means I now have the highly enviable task of somehow reducing a thirty five page document into a twelve minute presentation. (Twelve minutes = approximately six pages.) Maybe I will just talk REALLY fast.