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Monthly Archives: January 2009

ALL I EVER THINK ABOUT THESE DAYS IS THE BEATLES.

Because I am TAing for the Beatles class. Did you know that Ringo was the most popular Beatle?  He got the most fanmail of them all, which is a 100% true fact that I learned in school.  Ringo is also my most favourite Beatle because he is so awkward and floppy.  The only word to [...]

Shangri-Las! Puppets! Zeitgeist!

I arrived home last night to two pieces of fantastic news and one piece of fantastic mail.  The fantastic mail was a 45 of the Shangri-La’s Leader of the Pack b/w Never Go Home Anymore (!!!), so thank you Tanya for being the kind of friend who knows exactly what my heart desires. The fantastic [...]

No business like show business!

And then today I had the idea that I live in fucking Hollywood, so I should just call in some showbiz connections, and forget the one-woman show, I could make a feature film, right? And then I remembered that my showbiz connections are as follows: 1. I met two animators for The Simpsons at a [...]

My personal favourite is “stake driven through the heart.”

Hey, remember that time I got really depressed about boys and started quoting Sylvia Plath, like an angsty 17-year-old?  I promise it won’t happen again, at least not this month (note that there is hardly a week left to the month). But anyhow.  On to more important things, like… DJ mixing class!  So great.  It [...]

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

After all this time, I’ve figured out that the best coping mechanism is to just convince myself that certain things never actually happened. (I should have loved a thunderbird instead.)

And then I flew a rocket ship to the planet Marva.

Zarah and I went to the Pasadena Doo-Dah Parade, which, basically, is a parade for the mad.  And, in many ways, it renewed by faith in humankind.  Here are pictures!  And also, my new goal in life is to be a Lady in a Fancy Dress, Sitting on a Car, Waving at the Masses when [...]

Beards: The Universal Language

1.  I saw Angelyne today, for real!  She was driving her hot pink corvette down Sunset Blvd in front of Amoeba and it was totally fucking rad and all of my dreams have come true. 2.  I am thinking of embarking on a foolhardy, conceivably futile task.  No, it is not to find true love.  [...]

So, this one time, we went to Hawaii.

I was sustained by the transcendental coffee, delighted by the drinks made of fruit and rum and blue curacao, made vaguely uncomfortable by the culturally insensitive luaus, and seduced by the pineapples. And also I presented some conference papers.  And spent a respectable amount of time wearing leopard print.

A few quick items before bed

1.  Some things I forgot on the 2008 list below: – cardigans (which have clearly replaced blazers in my heart, sorry blazers, you were cute and snappy for a while but then I realized so many of you give me shoulders like a linebacker) – Meryl Streep (who is consistently super) – That time I [...]

A list of things that have been extremely significant in 2008

(In related news, my favourite songs of 2008 are here) Mascara It all started last Christmas, in the airport, when, as a result of a mad, irrational panic attack I decided to buy an overpriced tube of bright blue Diorshow at Duty Free.  Well, friends, it has changed my life.  I can’t leave the house [...]