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Pressing concerns!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

1.  So, apparently my bank will let me custom-design a debit card for free.  Like, I pick a picture, upload it, and they make me a debit card with said picture upon it.  So obviously the question now is:  what is the ridiculousest possible picture I could put on a debit card?  This is a [...]

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Dear Los Angeles: A love letter in three scenes

Monday, March 9, 2009

1.  On the bus today, headed towards Hollywood and Highland, I overheard the Jesus impersonator talking to the Haunted Tour of Hollywood tourguide.  There has been drama, it seems, amongs the people who dress as characters and pose for pictures with tourists in front of the Chinese Theatre.  There was once only one Superman, now [...]

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And also I fell and skinned my knee. Luckily, my heart is made of fourtanium

Sunday, February 15, 2009

1.  Dear my students:  the question about “which movement is this song associated with” was referring to a social movement.  Therefore the answer is not “the movement of swaying your hips.” 2.  Dear American Cinematheque:  Thank you for having a Valentine’s day double bill of Baz Luhrmann films about how if you fall in love, [...]

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Pretty good.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Things are pretty good.  I mean, yesterday I touched my favorite human being in all of history (ie:  David Lynch), today I am drinking Mexican mochas (most delicious coffee incarnation yet) and am productively writing a paper about Beth Ditto (fuck yeah), there is only one more week left of classes this quarter and then [...]

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TODAY I SHOOK THE HAND OF DAVID LYNCH.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

AND IT WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT EVENT THAT IT DESERVES TO BE ALL IN CAPS.

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Please can I spend the rest of the quarter sitting around, drinking tea, and listening to the Marvelettes?

Sunday, November 23, 2008

I feel like I have nothing good to say, but since it’s been a long time since I posted because everything has been so busy, I feel like I should say things anyhow. Hey, guess what!  I finally got to see Cute With Chris Live after all these years of trying to get tickets.  And [...]

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A Very Important Thing that I have just found out about!

Friday, October 24, 2008

The Lost Skeleton Returns Again is premiering in Los Angeles on November 9th!  And I get to work at the screening, which means I will get to maybe become best friends with the lady who plays Animala, which will be awesome.  Oh, my glamorous life as a Hollywood socialite. If you have not done so, [...]

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Midnight oil

Thursday, October 23, 2008

1.  Oh, I have had the best Halloween costume idea yet.  In fact, it might just be my best ever idea yet.  I’m not revealing the full details here yet.  It’s a surprise.  It involves a lot of makeup in a colour called “Hot Rod Metallic Green.”  And a laser gun.  And a pencil skirt. [...]

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Holy crap, it’s my apartment!

Monday, October 20, 2008

Inquiring minds wanted to know what my new(ish) digs look like – pictures are now on Flickr.  Here is a tantalizing teaser to show you just how fucking rad my bedroom is: Also, what you cannot see in these pictures is the epic amount of closet space that I have.  I have so much closet [...]

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Dear Santa,

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Is it too early for this?  No way.  It’s never too early to write to Santa. I’ve actually  been composing a blog post about how really upset the concurrent election campaigns in Canada and the US are making me (so upset that I have been waking up with weird stomach cramps) but I can only [...]

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