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I have officially declared this summer the Summer of Romantic Comedies Made Between 1960 and 1965

Monday, July 27, 2009

You should start with these: Where the Boys Are – which I just finished watching five minutes ago.  It is the greatest film I have ever seen.  Connie Francis is in it, she plays a hockey player.  We don’t get to see her playing hockey, though, because the movie is set in Fort Lauderdale.  There’s [...]

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Dear Intelligentsia Coffee,

Thursday, February 19, 2009

It is very nice that you are opening up a pretentious new location in Venice with fancy hydrolic pods or something, but please will you open a store in West Hollywood in the empty storefont near my house. I will give you hundreds of dollars.  Thank you. Love, Alexandra Dear office computer, It has taken [...]

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

Monday, January 19, 2009

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 [...]

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It’s Christmas: time to get serious.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

1.  So, it hasn’t been a very good month or so, for those of us who, um, have rather specifically nerdy tastes in rather specific areas, for we have lost three of our greatest Grand Crazy Ladies:  Yma Sumac, Majel Barrett Roddenberry (wife of the late Gene Roddenberry and voice of the computer on numerous [...]

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Example of how grad school enables one to become completely disconnected from reality.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

The other day, in a restaurant, I saw a news item appear on the TV screen with the  headline “DEATH OF AN AUTHOR,” and I thought to myself, “How interesting!  CNN is doing some kind of piece on Foucault, or perhaps Barthes!” Of course this was not true.  CNN was doing a piece on Micheal [...]

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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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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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In which everything is awesome and I say fuck a lot

Thursday, September 18, 2008

So, this nice lady I volunteer with at the Egyptian tipped me off to Charles Phoenix, who is a sort of local eccentric/author/quasi-celeb who has published some books on mid-century modern culture and kitsch (which, you may have gathered, are things that I heart very much) and who collects people’s old slides at flea markets [...]

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