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Monthly Archives: March 2008

I am working to uncover a conspiracy.

Friends, there is a dark, evil plot afoot. I do not know if this trend has made it to the rest of world, or if it is simply a California thing (although I do suspect that, yes, the world is going straight to Hades and this phenomenon is everywhere), but what the fuck is up [...]

Some vintage musical sexism for your Thursday night:

“J.C. Haddon once more discusses the question of women composers. He declares that the reason why women cannot compose great music is because they have been and are even yet are not allowed to devote hours the study of music, the time that is indispensable. But this is nonsense. Clara Schumann, Augusta Holmes, Chaminade and [...]

Wheeee.

Oh, man. Ok, so I went to the park. It was pretty great. Pictures are up. That’s all I have to say because I also went for Fancy End of Holiday Dinner at Citizen Cake and had some ridiculous $10 cocktail called a French 75 which was WORTH EVERY PENNY because I was at least [...]

Yum?

The vending machine in the hotel sells little packets of cheese-flavoured crackers that come pre-spread with peanut butter. This sounds like a disgusting idea. However, as I type I am suddenly having a flashback to that summer when I was 18 and living in Quebec city and how this one day for lunch, having failed [...]

On holiday, trala.

Vintage shopping in Haight-Ashbury has proven to be a wonderful way to spend a day and a lot of money. I managed to acquire a super-cute-polka-dotted-1950s-party-dress, a chartreuse slip, some amazingamazingamazing vintage deadstock brown seamed fishnets (amazing!) and some red peeptoe sandals, which the salesgirl informed I must wear out dancing. Also! I went to [...]

I did so many things today!

I went to the waterfront and I went to North Beach and I climbed hills and I went book shopping and I ate dessert twice and I watched movies of naked ladies on antique zoetropes, and I saw those famous parrots and I ate some really good Italian and I went to chocolate shops and [...]

Two things!

1. The other day, I was riding the number 4 bus on Santa Monica Boulevard, headed to my favourite communist restaurant, when we had to make an extra special stop in front of the L.A. County Sheriff’s station in West Hollywood so that the Sheriff’s deputy could inform the drunk homeless man that he would [...]

Two facts:

1. Sometimes even fashionable young ladies make poor life choices. 2. But everything will be ok, because tomorrow night, this fashionable young lady is going out for communist Chinese food with a game show champion! Bonus fact! Today’s Toothpaste for Dinner comic makes this fashionable young lady very happy!

In this post I have set a personal record for the Greatest Number of Links to Wikipedia Articles About Pretentious Theorists.

Today I was cleaning up my desk and I found this list, which, as I recall, I wrote about a month and a half ago, on my birthday: I present it here today as an important cultural artifact and because I think it is a hilarious example of how neurotic I occasionally can be. I [...]

Overheard at Cinefile, Los Angeles’ most pretentiously good video store:

Pretentious video store guy #1: “What are we watching?”Pretentious video store guy #2: “Sydney White.”PVSG #1: “Um…Ok..?”PVSG #2: “It’s like a modern day Snow White. With Amanda Bynes.”PVSG #1: “They should make a modern day Titus Andronicus. With Amanda Bynes. That’s something I’d want to watch.”