PSA
I can't go, but Lynda Barry and Matt Groenig are speaking for free at the Hammer on Thursday. deets here
View ArticleBox office mojo for Milk
Mojo, indeed.Per screen average of over 40K, while the number one movie had 9K. Love it.
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Today's pictures
I don't have many pictures of myself, so a guy at work took these with his eye phones (OMG--I meant iphone and just saw that I typed that, but it's too hysterical not to keep in). I figured it was a...
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Anita O'Day
I borrowed the Anita O'Day doc from moroccomole and I can't quit listening to her. This Georgia Brown rendition is amazing. I guess she says it's the biggest thing that happened in her career. It's a...
View Article1969
Check me out over at the Supporting Actress Smackdown for 1969. Goldie HawnSusannah YorkCatherine BurnsSylvia MilesDyan CannonAnd once I find the cable that connects my camera, I can post the photos of...
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The Quilt
So I made my first quilt from upholstery sample books for my amazing grandmother, and here it is. I gave it to her on Saturday.Before the tying:Full finished version:Close up:And the monkey fabric,...
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Go see this!
Yesterday, I went to see The Little Dog Laughed at the Kirk Douglas theatre. Go if you can before it closes next week. I'm not kidding. Go. The play is about an agent who is trying to get her main...
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Natalie Toaster
So, I did an event a while back at this great old theater in Santa Barbara that was recently renovated. Their innaugural show was Natalie Cole. And I guess there was no paper or poster around, so Nat...
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....And we're back
Just in NM to visit my friend Brian and his partner Michael. They have a great new mid-century sixties house/complex near the University. They both had work deadlines, so I had much time to read and...
View ArticleGnerd
Sadly, It looks like Gnerd is already taken, meaning a geek and a nerd. I was thinking it would be more apt as a gay nerd, as in "You just got HD so you could watch the re-release of Sleeping Beauty?...
View ArticleSmackdown 45
Check out the 1945 Supporting Actress SmackdownAnd to prime yourself, watch the hysterical Carol Burnett parody
View ArticleGraveyard Book
Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book that just won the Newberry Medal The excerpt is great. More!!!
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Article 10
I friggin love Maira Kalman, and this art blog post "Inauguration at Last" in the NYT is so great. If you haven't read her book "The Principles of Uncertainty", you should--it's really wonderful, and...
View ArticleNobody Loves a Fairy
Today I thought "I'm forty". Not dramatically, but more like, "huh" and a small "eep". And then this song popped into my head For years a fairy queen I've been For years I foiled the Demon King But...
View ArticleInterviewer
I think this is like that 5 questions meme that was going around (was it 5?), but this is in response to the Interviewer meme that I volunteered for. And check out the recent profiles about this year's...
View ArticleClogs!
The Clogmaster is coming to town! Yippee!This is like the guy in NY who used to come in from Hong Kong once a year, take measurements, and then make fitted shirts for $35 a pop. How nice to have things...
View ArticleValentine's Day Poetry
I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day, but it put me in mind of this poem by ee cummings, which is probably my favorite poem ever, notwithstanding my strange HS Freshman obsession with The Hollow Men and...
View ArticleBlossom
Oh, sad. Blossom Dearie has left the building. I saw her at Danny's Skylight Room in Danny's Grand Sea Palace on 46th in 2001. So wonderful.
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