tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83702094053143641242024-03-13T08:36:56.250-07:00Live from the Penis GalleryI'm Nikki Darling and You're Notpasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comBlogger443125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-14420109391353560002012-06-07T15:49:00.001-07:002012-06-07T16:19:34.758-07:00I Was A Willow Last Night In My Dream: Fire Walk With Me<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4gpNqB4dnT4" width="420"></iframe>
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Dearest friends and loyal readers for whom I know there are still a few - that stat counter never ceases to amaze me!- As it has become abundantly clear I have been a sporadic, at best, blogger over the past year. I tried in vain to keep this going but after six years I think it's time to bid adiu. I probs spelled adiu wrong, but whatevs, but not whatevs. I live in a world now where autocorrect has taken my slanguage and corrected it without asking and correcting it back seems to take more time than just letting autocorrect do it's thing- which honestly is kind of hilarious and at times weirdly sexual, apple people why does everything autocorrect into filth?- so that it actually ends up taking more time to fight against the grain than it does to go with the flow. I have spent the past 32 years doing it as that old dead horse of a song says, My Way, truth be told my way has often not been the smoothest or wisest course of action. Last night while watching a horrible Sandra Bullock movie on Netflix, her character a funny alcoholic forced into rehab is asked by my boyfriend Steve Buschemi, whose playing a drug councilor, <i>Do you deflect everything serious with humor?</i> Sandra had some thinking to do. Well, I've done thinking and I've done work and I've done work and I've done work and I've done work and I've done work and I've made some tough choices this year. I think though they are all in line with me clearing my true path to greatness. That's right I said GREATNESS. I'm through fighting. I'm getting out of my own way, I'm not listening to the inner voices anymore. I'm taking my dragons burning my way out of Quarth and heading straight for Kings Landing. Anyone who says I can't I say, FUCK YOU.
And I guess those will be my final parting thoughts: You can to. Grab your dragons and as the great Joseph Campbell said: Follow your bliss. You can do it. We all can. We each have our own purpose and light. Let's put King Joffrey's head on a stake, send that bitch Stannis packing, throw Arya on our dragon's back and DO THIS THING. You can make out with Jon Snow and Robb Stark and pity screw Theon Greyjoy before you do though, that's allowed.
I am writing a novel, a book of short stories/creative non fiction essays, and a screenplay. I need to put all my efforts into those things and really follow through and quit distracting myself with smaller time consuming projects. I am a firm believer in verbally articulating goals.
This blog has been the most fun fun thing for so long and I've changed and grown so much in the past six years. When I started I honestly just wanted to make my own version of Amy Kellner's amazing now dead blog Teenage Unicorn, which I read obsessively on my bed in Williamsburg Brooklyn while looking outside my window at the projects across the street. This blog has also brought me one of my greatest professional achievements yet, the 2010 Best Music Writing<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkshUC_Ee0OR5WLkk6ThX99NY6YZPZ0qtPaxu5GGoWxbDHx0QFXfKF37e-RwB6dSN2iB7P_IEJ7rnWQ86BLVQKeL8QYLBb095Gm5cRZm5N_nxCbeEvOkRd8aaXFpSOZ3ZfLzl7-bU7BE/s1600/BMW2010.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkshUC_Ee0OR5WLkk6ThX99NY6YZPZ0qtPaxu5GGoWxbDHx0QFXfKF37e-RwB6dSN2iB7P_IEJ7rnWQ86BLVQKeL8QYLBb095Gm5cRZm5N_nxCbeEvOkRd8aaXFpSOZ3ZfLzl7-bU7BE/s400/BMW2010.jpeg" width="266" /></a> for which I will be forever grateful. In line with that it has also put me in contact with strong amazing women like Ann Powers who I feel so blessed to know, and Daphne Carr whose advice and kindness has helped me more than I could ever say in the past two years. Both were gifts of just getting myself out there on the interwebs and saying what's on my mind.
Writing for you has been an honor and a blast. Thanks for letting me share my life, however inane it might have seemed at times.
I am a feminist, womanist, transcendentalist, universalist unitarian. I believe in love, the universe, Henry David Thorou, Elizabeth Taylor, Gloria Anzaldua and Rudolph Steiner. I believe in people. And I believe in you.
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He grew up on Carroll Street, in a rundown apartment. They’d come over from Canada, the part that’s above Washington. They were French, Spanish. The last name changed somewhere along the way. Became Darling. Can’t tell you how exactly but I’ve made up tons of fun stories. Spread them thick around town. It’s a thing do when people ask. But that doesn’t matter anyway because my grandpa’s family never talked about before California. They’d cut that part out like a cancer. We burned the tip like a shoelace, made a hard gnarled new closure so the past won’t unravel.<br /><br />This I do know, here’s the truth and you’ve got no choice to believe me but I’ll tell you what, I wouldn’t lie about it anyway because I think it’s cool. Were in the social registry. When Junipera Sera and his long lineage of Padre’s took off down the highway of old news and Pio Pico rode into town with his books and architecture my great, great grandfather stood in line to record our shit. We exist. I’ll tell you that. <br /><br />Alta California, my girl. My woman. Queen. Open your legs and give birth to this dirty nonsense. This muck rucking nest of black magic and flickering film reels. You unforgiving greedy plot of flowers. You empty desert. You cotton ball dipped in sand. My history lies with you. I’ll make hands to that. I’ll spray paint my name across a slip of a boy to claim you. A stocky rod. A silver, shining, sad, eyed boy. Brown. White tube socks in Nike chanclas. Tiny pin pricks up and down his mocha arms. Yellow crust around the outsides of his mouth. Thick tongue trying to moisten up. SGV scarred and scabbed blue into the skin. Old English. Let’s take him. Let’s eat him alive, you and me.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08-wA4sT78bxrUv_KzydcH-ri0YHFV_JT2GkaQy_4TVObdXkyzS3NFLdT2rhobQdh5TkydRkdbVPW7mq-vBjiTU9D34YXawwG9Ci2z1hS83IpT16OLhQ5CE5ENm_-wZ7H6ysgkTEPtds/s1600/167548_440878187699_511937699_5002484_2870747_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08-wA4sT78bxrUv_KzydcH-ri0YHFV_JT2GkaQy_4TVObdXkyzS3NFLdT2rhobQdh5TkydRkdbVPW7mq-vBjiTU9D34YXawwG9Ci2z1hS83IpT16OLhQ5CE5ENm_-wZ7H6ysgkTEPtds/s400/167548_440878187699_511937699_5002484_2870747_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732221814793268338" /></a><br />1995<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOHOLxelMKRkAoG-XPMUDkR7jQa-1zmriaWam7ODUF7wqHdw9sGzxIS6-3CPnmb1QIpSRkkPutHdUDFpb6w9zNQkVBXBPPBS1lsopVU_Zi0JQ9JyoVhKaufhaqpyN27njOJYsZPkDrMM/s1600/Lydia-Lunch-5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOHOLxelMKRkAoG-XPMUDkR7jQa-1zmriaWam7ODUF7wqHdw9sGzxIS6-3CPnmb1QIpSRkkPutHdUDFpb6w9zNQkVBXBPPBS1lsopVU_Zi0JQ9JyoVhKaufhaqpyN27njOJYsZPkDrMM/s400/Lydia-Lunch-5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732216272287755058" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8wA_bY5iljmZAAYQ06VdCGC8Je37hfNvVs_2BBUkJjHekfEHNkofJ9GRM5wVGxSZ09hrv4p-FzcmOl9Rn1SDv1XOVBTfGnOf8c7LqwiqnPf7rs_QNcJ3fN2tg-m-7_T7RWrQFYZiHMII/s1600/janes_addiction_reunite_nme.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8wA_bY5iljmZAAYQ06VdCGC8Je37hfNvVs_2BBUkJjHekfEHNkofJ9GRM5wVGxSZ09hrv4p-FzcmOl9Rn1SDv1XOVBTfGnOf8c7LqwiqnPf7rs_QNcJ3fN2tg-m-7_T7RWrQFYZiHMII/s400/janes_addiction_reunite_nme.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732216663225952850" /></a>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-52277553616850578442012-03-20T21:29:00.015-07:002012-03-20T22:31:35.293-07:00Amore!<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z5dEjaJ6Mrw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />It's Spring! 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2dQVFCnF-xmL3omSY6yRWQjra7at5aSoTM21wAKNLB3vd7TIjR4P0JWk8MTL0esVcppl-AipTf15-8JcyASN1js8FvGlY_jG1mp7j91OXUiHttdX1YKbhK6P8b4T_DQPzX6yEk34GBBk/s400/tumblr_ltnkwwEky91r5xsw9o1_4002.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722209016321884194" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlU4G9m1nKmjTKj-fY1pFq95agFEytivBclbPfnClz-9Rqya3PrBkrsSGWfGeYbjXGXlKffvUM_fz8KmWh4SFq8i5IUMY9Ualh9JfGAqHRS9bIhgKlzMC1tvkP4zjiqKxXAPfQXTJRZFk/s1600/Corbis-BE077979.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlU4G9m1nKmjTKj-fY1pFq95agFEytivBclbPfnClz-9Rqya3PrBkrsSGWfGeYbjXGXlKffvUM_fz8KmWh4SFq8i5IUMY9Ualh9JfGAqHRS9bIhgKlzMC1tvkP4zjiqKxXAPfQXTJRZFk/s400/Corbis-BE077979.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722218676504136402" /></a><br />If you got it great. If you don't, meh don't sweat it. You're probably having a lot more fun anyway.pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-87505829790260862342012-03-06T12:57:00.005-08:002012-03-06T14:49:33.499-08:00The Artwork of Nicholas Katzban<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n5lnFEGu6i0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Makes me feel like this Abba video. Oh, and a nice photo of us.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iGmkYO00kJMVAxi1O8wqONnI_gH-9jvKbmCAtyOnwnYhutTbj2u6L0faT8ApJXaoOGYApb-q-UWDfbg-eHjXSbj3xMhgRY6EsDA7mgALd-XzEaV2EX0qpBMiXUWsyCmGJpQerj5LOoY/s1600/417215_3426003166929_1175786083_33609297_1223309561_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iGmkYO00kJMVAxi1O8wqONnI_gH-9jvKbmCAtyOnwnYhutTbj2u6L0faT8ApJXaoOGYApb-q-UWDfbg-eHjXSbj3xMhgRY6EsDA7mgALd-XzEaV2EX0qpBMiXUWsyCmGJpQerj5LOoY/s400/417215_3426003166929_1175786083_33609297_1223309561_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716891619314411570" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOO278oWgFS2h7kMz-vR-iKNW3G07ANUJ7s2TRD3AY5ykTQIVYTEaiiZcy2FeBfhBlr7tNJMDStFK0XNDxY-i6z_FPuij3QOJM2pqvFmxItllEqverDfI1JyqdT-XxMN4LqVUdWkU7_VY/s1600/200123_10150114220722700_511937699_6222175_3824077_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9_93XecShhtLjh7CC_5cNbPthmj3_xAnWQZCOc9NbRkN_a94a7EgBJ9j9MpaQxtOUu7BH2Y2nVPJTerSq_O8bkI3BTxq4g-uqGQHopr0AdNfbXlyBFxWXro2fJWI53ebIH2_oe4R2RE/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715382085297561410" /></a><br />I fall at my knees and worship at the alter of Sinead. Brian Wilson, Roky Erikson, Daniel Johnston. Right. Oh what a penis can do for one's mythology.pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-4451880216074170772012-02-07T11:52:00.000-08:002012-02-07T13:00:42.939-08:00We Want The World And We Want It Now<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cw7DLV7oL1U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1EAmtuU6LCU7BMcaQX56JY5iCAJVKaN9N-EtcsR_ve2KB6aDQ2Tz8DYga8zwy8b71bvTuWVI5j5S8Q0TRVDXD_eqTa0KXPvBSCWv8VdFiWONGBrlyPOtaZ8QfEHPk8CwLvSzGyR85vEM/s1600/IMG_1581.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1EAmtuU6LCU7BMcaQX56JY5iCAJVKaN9N-EtcsR_ve2KB6aDQ2Tz8DYga8zwy8b71bvTuWVI5j5S8Q0TRVDXD_eqTa0KXPvBSCWv8VdFiWONGBrlyPOtaZ8QfEHPk8CwLvSzGyR85vEM/s400/IMG_1581.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706486334677977058" /></a><br />Apologies for not having blogged in one plus month. I've been writing like a mad person. The mania of a new project has settled on my shoulders and I'm blazing through it at lightning speed. I've started a new novel! My second ever. I think I'm kind of writing the one I've always sort of been dancing around writing and now just was like, fuck it. Male Americana, lets do this. Maybe this can make its way into the world? Who knows, still waiting to hear back on the first. I've also had some writing work deadlines- also very exciting things on the musical horizon- So that's where my head has been and probably will be for some time.<br />Masculinity! I am in it. I am deep in it. I'm riding the snake that leads to the mystic river. My chariot is Sophocles and my guide is Han Solo. If you love them, desire them, no need to whisper it softly, they know, they're men! <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinSnJMTqGkWKka7GosZefkGXPXTCp5KheYSl1qQfxYu3QADS9Qm9KAOUiZn92JH7_HcfG0B-iBpJkE5Q7fA52AN3KchQ0kth99DM26CLtje-X3bPsPaMCm_LMY42jeJYJ1iDiLU4Eaiv8/s1600/979AEN_Laurence_Fishburne_001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinSnJMTqGkWKka7GosZefkGXPXTCp5KheYSl1qQfxYu3QADS9Qm9KAOUiZn92JH7_HcfG0B-iBpJkE5Q7fA52AN3KchQ0kth99DM26CLtje-X3bPsPaMCm_LMY42jeJYJ1iDiLU4Eaiv8/s400/979AEN_Laurence_Fishburne_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706490178811543666" /></a><br />A boy, an actor.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NkUn5zz2e2Wdio0yFvDcXvRJ5h-vxJUCbuvRUpc_TEUGMOOUEsxKFpBptfORe3BQVy9UJq1595IrsHcwEoD8dOiFaEvmr5RCf4yv4d6CrJOgpfcjycSvgsz1ruopbIPgekegniQUbyk/s1600/achilles.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NkUn5zz2e2Wdio0yFvDcXvRJ5h-vxJUCbuvRUpc_TEUGMOOUEsxKFpBptfORe3BQVy9UJq1595IrsHcwEoD8dOiFaEvmr5RCf4yv4d6CrJOgpfcjycSvgsz1ruopbIPgekegniQUbyk/s400/achilles.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706489250927746962" /></a><br />Thebans and thespians. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlxDXwfXBWZkZtWpH5Lh-nUPmZ_Fwf5Vpmc6475feMA7yRNchApPYCCTBN0MroSDANUAD5gJefbvpzeJ0s-kFH5aUFQzA0-z7xTuowfgZQTNaUEJ_X39PJq3NFx6rxLvdY2xFi2mKctfY/s1600/ford-nickdrake-nb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlxDXwfXBWZkZtWpH5Lh-nUPmZ_Fwf5Vpmc6475feMA7yRNchApPYCCTBN0MroSDANUAD5gJefbvpzeJ0s-kFH5aUFQzA0-z7xTuowfgZQTNaUEJ_X39PJq3NFx6rxLvdY2xFi2mKctfY/s400/ford-nickdrake-nb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706489254306018210" /></a><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/My-EI4IkeVs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />A man, an archetype.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tvxt81xg4scKfKMbuKpIQGltZQmPeqxiaCii51QzaEj3soE45aWmsX5w_2S0ZhvbT0Q8YKDQeJrgaYokilM1UKdT0nsEEps4r5h45lp5AotH-DNBCtZbGMu_Wob7hn-S-TTnX9-F42Q/s1600/tumblr_lxynr1KWma1qz82gvo1_500.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tvxt81xg4scKfKMbuKpIQGltZQmPeqxiaCii51QzaEj3soE45aWmsX5w_2S0ZhvbT0Q8YKDQeJrgaYokilM1UKdT0nsEEps4r5h45lp5AotH-DNBCtZbGMu_Wob7hn-S-TTnX9-F42Q/s400/tumblr_lxynr1KWma1qz82gvo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706492300917827746" /></a><br />George Lucas filming American Graffiti. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KmYfaPPSV9l4BAkbk0KnEMk7dtbDWY-zZqZt5jWhR2rc828Qihecwt7vuKZtL3Psk5h4Sz9QoIouC53zSWlCcxHXbsPDri_m2aSXBb_mo4ZmRnQ5fHHPoeTMoN-JvSClMKQhZxQiLz0/s1600/tumblr_lvg08xa0m81qgjofgo1_500.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KmYfaPPSV9l4BAkbk0KnEMk7dtbDWY-zZqZt5jWhR2rc828Qihecwt7vuKZtL3Psk5h4Sz9QoIouC53zSWlCcxHXbsPDri_m2aSXBb_mo4ZmRnQ5fHHPoeTMoN-JvSClMKQhZxQiLz0/s400/tumblr_lvg08xa0m81qgjofgo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706493478023031010" /></a><br />A mad man.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPA4t5YjF8-hlkTnoC1dHJM4u9P0LBA6qDQWX9ZkX5G8L8jriBl8lqHYkIN_YVjqZbd4Xkb7BJ4Lvjp-Suh5JIWZOkJOefPb5fN1t8DHKRdF2FATQxGRcChwUOCazZIvTfs2CCEsUisI/s1600/tumblr_l1o2nboQSa1qazfmdo1_400.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPA4t5YjF8-hlkTnoC1dHJM4u9P0LBA6qDQWX9ZkX5G8L8jriBl8lqHYkIN_YVjqZbd4Xkb7BJ4Lvjp-Suh5JIWZOkJOefPb5fN1t8DHKRdF2FATQxGRcChwUOCazZIvTfs2CCEsUisI/s400/tumblr_l1o2nboQSa1qazfmdo1_400.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706493941770791522" /></a><br />An act.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8wjUsSScdlalIQPuu_GzREUTYkfH2HkyShiAHf2LrzJbl8SYW1QXFQ4G2P0vp819HQEOyVNK9OHr867qe3aoREztsauRGMDn32vTclWj_jE-GvcOBqIk_SJdHYRymQgPvf-26RO6JAU/s1600/IMG_1582.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8wjUsSScdlalIQPuu_GzREUTYkfH2HkyShiAHf2LrzJbl8SYW1QXFQ4G2P0vp819HQEOyVNK9OHr867qe3aoREztsauRGMDn32vTclWj_jE-GvcOBqIk_SJdHYRymQgPvf-26RO6JAU/s400/IMG_1582.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706494676933588002" /></a><br />My father.<br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bsPtOkaQKww" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-64785257011193534942012-01-04T14:24:00.000-08:002012-01-04T15:06:33.965-08:00One of Us<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdjCjkOEOM2CcyyGZBoP_-KMFfVW8xZJ_TJjI6Cc3j6-339SZ3Jy6KnW0Xee3uf54egwha8afI_XwzmzaPKguJOtypRtE5P-Si8yekwrV1tOnIj-5glKyrbPBxVsctxF_iFvXY5CYKT0/s1600/tumblr_lx6m3eJu1Y1r9vvqto1_1280.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdjCjkOEOM2CcyyGZBoP_-KMFfVW8xZJ_TJjI6Cc3j6-339SZ3Jy6KnW0Xee3uf54egwha8afI_XwzmzaPKguJOtypRtE5P-Si8yekwrV1tOnIj-5glKyrbPBxVsctxF_iFvXY5CYKT0/s400/tumblr_lx6m3eJu1Y1r9vvqto1_1280.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693910367014957698" /></a><br />Image of Esme taken from <a href="http://esmeandyou.tumblr.com/page/2#3">http://esmeandyou.tumblr.com/page/2#3</a><br /><br /><br />On New Years morning twenty-nine year old Esmeralda ‘Esme’ Barrera was killed after returning home from a New Years Eve party. Esme was a counselor at the Austin Rock Girls Camp, a special needs teaching assistant at a local Austin elementary school, and record store employee at Waterloo Records, a popular Austin record store. Police found her body at 3 am on the 3100 block of King Street, not far from the party she had just attended. In the same small block radius that evening two other women were attacked. According to reports a friend discovered Esme’s body at 2:45 badly injured, she phoned 911 but Esme died shortly after of her injuries. New details are still being released.<br /> <br />On the afternoon of January 2nd I signed into Facebook and saw the news of Esme's death in fellow journalist and friend Jessica Hopper's newsfeed, I looked below her status update and saw that my best friend from college, social worker, music lover and San Antonio native Heather Mockeridge had posted the same link. I opened the story and my heart sank. I knew that at that exact moment another good friend, feminist filmmaker and first wave riot grrl Cathy De La Cruz was on an airplane toward LAX, returning from visiting her family for the Holidays in Texas. I knew that Cathy most certainly was at the very least an acquaintance of Barrera. I also knew from looking at her last Facebook update since leaving Texas that she had not yet heard about the murder.<br /> <br />There is no making sense of Esme’s death. Her tragic passing is, in the words of Hopper, an ‘unfathomable’ loss to her close friends and family, it is a loss as well to the feminist, music community. I did not know Esme, in fact we had never met, but she was as important to my spiritual life as De La Cruz or Mockeridge. Across the country a network of women is mourning Esme, not just for themselves but for the women and girls she inspired, for the work she had yet to do that will not get done and most of all, as a soldier in a small yet growing network of women whose main objective is to elevate girls and women to a position of self empowerment. Women like Ann Powers, Daphne Carr, Erika ‘EMA’ Anderson, Erica Flores, Cathy De La Cruz, Sara Marcus, Tobi Vail, Christene Kings, Margaret Wappler. I mention their names because their names are important. They are just a handful of the hundreds of women who undoubtedly felt an unspoken connection to Esme’s purpose and life. Writer and queer activist Raquel Gutierrez posted that Esme’s senseless death reminded her of another tragic loss almost twenty years earlier; Mia Zapata of the punk band The Gits, who was also killed walking home. The get home safe project, Home Alive, which advocated women learning self-defense was created in the aftermath of her death. Gutierrez noted that ‘Rad women shouldn’t die before their time. Period.’ Someone else made an insightful comment underneath speaking to the self-defense classes Home Alive encouraged, “This is tragic. Self-defense classes yes, but another kind of self-defense: making sure children are raised to respect women on all levels.” <br /> <br />The fact that Esme died in a manner which she was working to eradicate, and almost twenty years after the death of Zapata, in an almost identical scenario is a chilling reminder of exactly how important the work that Esme and the community she belonged to is doing. If only her life could have been spared. Her death was useless. Her life was necessary. My heart goes out to her family and friends. <br />To make a contribution to help pay for funeral expenses for Esme’s family click here. <a href="http://forouresmeb.blogspot.com/">http://forouresmeb.blogspot.com/</a>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-69570376163581434192011-12-31T14:40:00.001-08:002011-12-31T17:23:07.325-08:00A Very Unhappy Birthday To You (Planet Earth)! aka, the list to confuse all lists (Demolish)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2JuSpdbJ7gQoSQRWazWYYiFiG7fKpI3_vLu-N0bBpAuR2peJpgEt9LGWiocNakQ3X8CwOxS0xGTNbHLi1JW-bG-IwsvdX5WarKkc6iO3gYy3H9NY16JKlttwM5h4KwJ2WgZbjCx0tGg/s1600/2012%2521.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 351px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2JuSpdbJ7gQoSQRWazWYYiFiG7fKpI3_vLu-N0bBpAuR2peJpgEt9LGWiocNakQ3X8CwOxS0xGTNbHLi1JW-bG-IwsvdX5WarKkc6iO3gYy3H9NY16JKlttwM5h4KwJ2WgZbjCx0tGg/s400/2012%2521.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692459256839374994" /></a><br />this Walt Whitmany image courtesy of Jessica Hundley.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibbYyIOmT5DEN7Mxv-zAZZsZjTTjWy8M4EMolpVj6Bh78xnox2zHSRYUrJnKlLnN6qzZ2j0FUSYXCDZJPRSZyUrwffqTqlKw0iXTWHaAkcxUF4r5FPrG2LjxP56afis-rdxshbPfEYimQ/s1600/Full.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibbYyIOmT5DEN7Mxv-zAZZsZjTTjWy8M4EMolpVj6Bh78xnox2zHSRYUrJnKlLnN6qzZ2j0FUSYXCDZJPRSZyUrwffqTqlKw0iXTWHaAkcxUF4r5FPrG2LjxP56afis-rdxshbPfEYimQ/s400/Full.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692459434151454002" /></a> Pinkman blows away 2011!<br />2011 was a pretty strange year personally, not great, not terrible- I will come to view it I believe as the year I was in between- waiting for folks to get back to me, for me to apply for things, for hard work to crystalize into something substantial. Maybe 2012 is the year all this, what seems at times endless work and waiting, comes home to roost? In any event, as usual and how I suppose most of you as well view the day to day, I don't experience life as a series of newly unfolding events, many things I discovered for the first time were in fact old to the world, as Thom Anderson says in Los Angeles Plays Itself, the present is a combination of the future and past come to rest. Here is a list in no particular order of what I enjoyed the most for the first time in 2011.<br />Crazy Band<br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rwcughZ_p1I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />After waiting for things to happen, 2011 might go down as the first year since High School I didn't go to that many shows. In fact most of what I discovered music wise came from reading other critics I like instead of just seeing bands live. This was weird but also strangely normal feeling. I'm more worried that my creaky old lady styles aren't bothering me more. I love music but this year I let it take a backseat for the first time in a long time. I don't know what this means to me personally except that I hope to see more music in 2012. I'm back in the saddle at the Weekly so perhaps that will move things along. I think I experienced a depression or weird kind of PTS surrounding music last year that made me question my work in a way that was frightening. I might now just be lifting my head above ground to sniff out whats new. In any event, I really liked this short video snippet by Crazy Band.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbQ9EwwF6adh4AxJCsmP0aIAL835ArvkWdMsw_f0QJIldqoGar3IBt2FxZU_tBw28KSiJ_cZT07x1XOGYah-4yiwUnLww5Lxs07DOf8HnLNqKmA0182ME8Ti8WUXWNG6akdtJdz_ln1Y/s1600/Plenty-Ottolenghi-Yotam-9781452101248.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbQ9EwwF6adh4AxJCsmP0aIAL835ArvkWdMsw_f0QJIldqoGar3IBt2FxZU_tBw28KSiJ_cZT07x1XOGYah-4yiwUnLww5Lxs07DOf8HnLNqKmA0182ME8Ti8WUXWNG6akdtJdz_ln1Y/s400/Plenty-Ottolenghi-Yotam-9781452101248.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692438811493028930" /></a><br />Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty and cooking!<br />Have you seen Yotam's vegetarian cookbook Plenty? It has completely revolutionized my life. I literally cannot express the joy I have from looking at it's luscious pictures. This year I got a nice wok, a super duper blender, went to the Framers Market regularly, gardened a few small but vital veggies and renewed my commitment to a mammal free diet- I eat seafood, dairy products and eggs- and continued to try new recipes. 2011 was the year I cooked. And I'm not ashamed to say that a few things I made were AWESOME.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVFtOiZ1gTKP_llGL9_vcUyPDraW8UeFIGiwiq6Ct5emOCwX4GfVG2yJxiV-0Yj4-_iWSSgzSL1yGgsByPY6yOIDNXvScU1Fex7hBIdSyRvZyLoqqALIsqae9nnns4B5t27LbO4ohRqE/s1600/IMG_1558.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVFtOiZ1gTKP_llGL9_vcUyPDraW8UeFIGiwiq6Ct5emOCwX4GfVG2yJxiV-0Yj4-_iWSSgzSL1yGgsByPY6yOIDNXvScU1Fex7hBIdSyRvZyLoqqALIsqae9nnns4B5t27LbO4ohRqE/s400/IMG_1558.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692438807031856754" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hEQGRjaW1AE1uYJgF-G78Zhlt6CRynADJnhhSACcSbhWWsvmdBMDXhdTQp9_3K3G2mMiq9NZ3OvqqJTc7_8enXcUBbH0LIWCAoYVWGooRi1VPoZ7QT1KMOz4gSCP-cdxSr3atrNeCM0/s1600/IMG_1095.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvj_-hO8_Z9_Hc6YiGPtQZfx4fNasBEH0T23-QYXGwdK6GALBVBtJreRBfxXRKXxDcc61j-4rOqmAFKeScio0exjXdLLWlLvQwmlK2lLY40TGaEaFFNB3Bdmtd__swfVDmM-Rm3OJfcU/s400/IMG_0823.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692437400360194306" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar7rgLH8_SURkE6RKtwhQovltE5vNodED3I5BRF0BDzhDjmNq01ssPqN3YHLvjSPp08Esn9NrV276xYvucsabBqWNcE_YIQQssbpcSC6Qzn8F3ySZwZYvKdU66T2EzDOaqEResS576O8/s1600/IMG_0844.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar7rgLH8_SURkE6RKtwhQovltE5vNodED3I5BRF0BDzhDjmNq01ssPqN3YHLvjSPp08Esn9NrV276xYvucsabBqWNcE_YIQQssbpcSC6Qzn8F3ySZwZYvKdU66T2EzDOaqEResS576O8/s400/IMG_0844.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692437409176389938" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEqUZOT8GGDctZ7NyRRb5pUI5VBdaJ1eZpFRGNLlk9O4073SxdXDaO_FzH_wrzcLiDjCPogi8XVrDuUEXrDoAfO9z8nwEdufltq13cLkedncBhyoN4AFxskVoQ4DAy7ZqURFeBkPyoynA/s1600/IMG_0984.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEqUZOT8GGDctZ7NyRRb5pUI5VBdaJ1eZpFRGNLlk9O4073SxdXDaO_FzH_wrzcLiDjCPogi8XVrDuUEXrDoAfO9z8nwEdufltq13cLkedncBhyoN4AFxskVoQ4DAy7ZqURFeBkPyoynA/s400/IMG_0984.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692435428865566914" /></a><br />Los Angeles Plays Itself<br />Speaking of Thom Anderson if you haven't seen his 2004 film essay Los Angeles Plays Itself, do yourself a favor and see it. It is liquid brillz.<br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K-DWcJLrSuU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />LA Plays Itself,<br />Not to dethrown the former but it's predecessor LA Plays Itself by Fred Halstead is no less incredible. I saw it this year too and it blew my mind. No pun intended. Maybe a little. Here's a snippet of it.<br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s_9TejlVjOQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Movies:<br />I saw Drive and LOVED it, I love this a little more: <a href="http://thehairpin.com/2011/10/drive-an-illustrated-response"> click here for maximum awesomage</a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhKedAfYc-p0oFHbadD-g-q6BHbSJPoS_8SXrOkUyJEbSPXqASSrNxlRyC_3jg_Eorqy4SerkhKOizHeztykvLguOCSKLPYu8FbIA6gfiRC5JsIFGwJ1o4tfZboBmetMISOVO3xzP7xA/s1600/Drive9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 379px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhKedAfYc-p0oFHbadD-g-q6BHbSJPoS_8SXrOkUyJEbSPXqASSrNxlRyC_3jg_Eorqy4SerkhKOizHeztykvLguOCSKLPYu8FbIA6gfiRC5JsIFGwJ1o4tfZboBmetMISOVO3xzP7xA/s400/Drive9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692442381423167266" /></a><br />Which led me to The Thief with James Caan, Michael Mann's first and only good movie. Holy snakes this shizz was good. The soundtrack is by Tangerine Dream.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrMK0tUNdVYPJkx0Gbo0JLI9dnU3YfX-2naTC4J2-wwnWwtXDKaLl6Yn8nn94Nwo6BpjeYQuVXOBQgxsThRkuQqekvcrhtvfnvIX1p54Aebl15QOSYYHi6aQqPFDzyCZvYDJXMiPpAjmU/s1600/269459_1020_A.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrMK0tUNdVYPJkx0Gbo0JLI9dnU3YfX-2naTC4J2-wwnWwtXDKaLl6Yn8nn94Nwo6BpjeYQuVXOBQgxsThRkuQqekvcrhtvfnvIX1p54Aebl15QOSYYHi6aQqPFDzyCZvYDJXMiPpAjmU/s400/269459_1020_A.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692443162630338354" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho51hl-2aPj5UEoJmKKJ_D9QecsxT6Nrl2wv6V9iT3rXOJrWbQ8i5U-6_6C2X_Tnt1ZNg1Wk3RhxK4EUpAZdHvlHE29BUwSjONhED_CTXAE7Db2Cti8hjt9rnvB2iT4cAMjhonmZYsNXM/s1600/bridesmaids-movie-cast.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho51hl-2aPj5UEoJmKKJ_D9QecsxT6Nrl2wv6V9iT3rXOJrWbQ8i5U-6_6C2X_Tnt1ZNg1Wk3RhxK4EUpAZdHvlHE29BUwSjONhED_CTXAE7Db2Cti8hjt9rnvB2iT4cAMjhonmZYsNXM/s400/bridesmaids-movie-cast.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692467740168083762" /></a><br />Bridesmaids!!<br />Im a broken record:<br />EMA best of best.<br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BacPDrDeY8U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Best thing I missed but wished I could have seen:<br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32604427?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/32604427">Cowboys and Angels</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/machineproject">machine project</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br />my tape recorder was in the show though! The same one I used for our LA Times interview. Google it if you're interested.<br />New new new not broken record faves:<br />Zola Jesus, Ke$ha, Austra, Men:<br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4MTrPZIN03c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Off our backs was my second most played record of 2011<br />Adele/ Man, I loved Adele something fierce this year. <br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/087GBZN15cU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Game of Thrones!!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9Zg93kCz7K5Pp-NtsQhelTPdYhQZbFpsG8rncWUIAhKLjxJMnhhvKdXo8YelIi1tV1IiNaXvq5nTfTNor9SBdLJVOoCvS7shgtcOeQLbdhcVyw-cU_7OvQGxfG_XosLWsjFYUxHni-4/s1600/peter-dinklage-game-of-thrones.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9Zg93kCz7K5Pp-NtsQhelTPdYhQZbFpsG8rncWUIAhKLjxJMnhhvKdXo8YelIi1tV1IiNaXvq5nTfTNor9SBdLJVOoCvS7shgtcOeQLbdhcVyw-cU_7OvQGxfG_XosLWsjFYUxHni-4/s400/peter-dinklage-game-of-thrones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692450508439112930" /></a><br />I watched the entire first season in three days.<br />Also, Breaking Bad!!! Jesse Pinkman is my new TV boyfriend.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha61T_614gfiGgOozovT4Fc26NPU8sY4CYZ6NkbUv6h3h0vcql9UP-13QdNJIRoKe6dj3EXpyep_iCCkyQ__HlEU_PV7pI-rCXisroWUWbHs9ugo2-Fx1U0EFB2oIY0niUE6MmrvL7QC4/s1600/TL11-11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha61T_614gfiGgOozovT4Fc26NPU8sY4CYZ6NkbUv6h3h0vcql9UP-13QdNJIRoKe6dj3EXpyep_iCCkyQ__HlEU_PV7pI-rCXisroWUWbHs9ugo2-Fx1U0EFB2oIY0niUE6MmrvL7QC4/s400/TL11-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692453282807880914" /></a><br />The murals of Ramona Gardens. I rented American Me from the library because I was bored and couldn't find Double Indemnity and also because I hadn't seen it since elementary school. It was as schlocky as I remembered but the DVD version came with this amazing documentary put together by EJO about the White Fence and Hazard gangs of Boyle Heights in the early 1990's, arguably when they were at their most active. Afterwards I did a little research and came across Ramona Gardens, the oldest public housing project in Los Angles and one of LA's most dangerous areas. Literally hundreds of people have died in it's confines since it opened in 1954. What was remarkable to me however- aside from being half Latina and having a vested interest in it's subject matter, also as an Angeleno- was the incredible art that proliferates there as well. The murals are famous and have been living and breathing for almost as long as it's walls have held inhabitants. More are panted all the time, the old ones are restored annually by local artists and for the most part left tag free. There is a culture of respect within Ramona Gardens to keep the murals safe and intact. They are in some small way, East LA's version of Watts Tower. Folk art created to uplift and brighten the community. The documentary was by far superior to the movie.<br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iljGdRCACAk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zgdSHoI_2gZwjnAmvkGEXqpmk20eoshgKXR5U9hoWx1YOad6_AVnf7OMK1Iu6P1BUKMyY9KSUp9L1FDJt1ARZ-brMFMwLA1algjFenhtdYvAo126cuZyAY4vRjORzTYWD37Kuyp13gg/s1600/TL11-11g.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zgdSHoI_2gZwjnAmvkGEXqpmk20eoshgKXR5U9hoWx1YOad6_AVnf7OMK1Iu6P1BUKMyY9KSUp9L1FDJt1ARZ-brMFMwLA1algjFenhtdYvAo126cuZyAY4vRjORzTYWD37Kuyp13gg/s400/TL11-11g.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692456229053730082" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBX7bmf7FoVk0vKq3mbs3MJptz4-RsILWHiHmkyWMKxpMVL6FVYe1GBNx1K8SpDO05Dloo6tV-5O_jZgGcwS6hpnOvzgR3Y7k4yMPRB-k_uEeMVz4H6hccdg0_oZ2w8VAVRnJAHvgBiWw/s1600/TL11-11e1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBX7bmf7FoVk0vKq3mbs3MJptz4-RsILWHiHmkyWMKxpMVL6FVYe1GBNx1K8SpDO05Dloo6tV-5O_jZgGcwS6hpnOvzgR3Y7k4yMPRB-k_uEeMVz4H6hccdg0_oZ2w8VAVRnJAHvgBiWw/s400/TL11-11e1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692456223034943218" /></a><br />It then led me to this amazing short film made by the LA Times about this exchange program that happens with Homeboy Industries and a Pritchard Alabama church group. <br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BrebUbOeA_Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />These documentaries really got me thinking about my role as a feminist. While intellectually I know that the treatment of women in this world depends on both sexes I have primarily to this point been female focused; focusing on their self esteem, sense of bodily self worth, and their autonomy as individuals. These documentaries for the first time really opened my eyes to the fact that reaching men in a healthy way and filling them with the same feelings of importance, devoid of violence and entitlement is equally as important. That men cannot simply be asked to comply, but must also be shown compassion and understanding. I will try to be a better human to all people in 2012.pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-53510289797314090402011-12-17T18:08:00.001-08:002011-12-17T18:18:44.934-08:00Sir Didymus<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fi1A9s6WTiw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Clearly I should just change the name of this blog to "I wish I was still 12 years old" because looking back at the last few posts I have some sort of early life yearnings happening. Maybe it's the Holiday season? Who knows. In any event, Sarah's room was always a place I wanted to be. It's so cozy looking.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrVPXkgodwxYylfx74_JkI85m-7hEWRFBpLACQqX-0XkrQjdqe1ILFsi5kUG5zsnEG1N3HsnGAsfm3IAGmrBRYvViD_yPRQE-sSyGURX5B8McOlyUpcWZyDDi5-MtlsOmH04D7cfCdJk/s1600/Sarah_room.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrVPXkgodwxYylfx74_JkI85m-7hEWRFBpLACQqX-0XkrQjdqe1ILFsi5kUG5zsnEG1N3HsnGAsfm3IAGmrBRYvViD_yPRQE-sSyGURX5B8McOlyUpcWZyDDi5-MtlsOmH04D7cfCdJk/s400/Sarah_room.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687285565368024338" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFVMExtQUOnzE0ebQoVNOpyhZFsKIGrcPqBT6yBTwFMTiTfQ4eQ3Rs2w1cO_wrD9uc57zARrBzBxqCVe0kdPv52n9sRlh9PB5lrULkX-ov1oXCEekVzwY09EGXY9QH7hwq1y-gJe-ruI/s1600/images.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFVMExtQUOnzE0ebQoVNOpyhZFsKIGrcPqBT6yBTwFMTiTfQ4eQ3Rs2w1cO_wrD9uc57zARrBzBxqCVe0kdPv52n9sRlh9PB5lrULkX-ov1oXCEekVzwY09EGXY9QH7hwq1y-gJe-ruI/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687285561167610226" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnXjxLixOnj4rX3jqyU3wCbqUuOucfZPi0ayqTlSWW0Qa3ayfftGsqf4pXorvWVJ74Jj2AMNw_g_1rviF_fRxq29VusaEAQPsIYCBV75OK67-Pdgfia_RctIJnPH1qYV0QI-wLMb9bnc/s1600/sarah053.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 177px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnXjxLixOnj4rX3jqyU3wCbqUuOucfZPi0ayqTlSWW0Qa3ayfftGsqf4pXorvWVJ74Jj2AMNw_g_1rviF_fRxq29VusaEAQPsIYCBV75OK67-Pdgfia_RctIJnPH1qYV0QI-wLMb9bnc/s400/sarah053.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687285562099964930" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_0E09ZxUqo8fH0i2aTEYCk97Z1NTZSIqvdKtTYx3WO4D9VAMZtaHp69BY47qpO0ir5ITks0FL2lFzOVZnyS8P2Cy0-5_Q19puEoMYq1Apkt3nNyQiQbU_MU972b2Ybt6hY9s1I3vrKI/s1600/labyrinth-sarah-doll.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_0E09ZxUqo8fH0i2aTEYCk97Z1NTZSIqvdKtTYx3WO4D9VAMZtaHp69BY47qpO0ir5ITks0FL2lFzOVZnyS8P2Cy0-5_Q19puEoMYq1Apkt3nNyQiQbU_MU972b2Ybt6hY9s1I3vrKI/s400/labyrinth-sarah-doll.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687285558730398786" /></a>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-28305061655390676602011-12-10T18:34:00.001-08:002011-12-10T18:59:31.217-08:00You're What the French Call, "Lazy, Imcompetant"<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CK2Btk6Ybm0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />One of the greatest movies ever made.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7KJW6iQ_bQzRFMetRdHQKkEqjibtUb7wxWqErketJ-Qe8U94ud8NySw024iAEJ-dmk4tla6c_s8ah6Ah51ryOhZCNz2Mz8z0MdfjeWXCPFvx0gOLIu8dVQ37hHMhyphenhyphenePhDotMwaVqjcQ/s1600/IMG_1442.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7KJW6iQ_bQzRFMetRdHQKkEqjibtUb7wxWqErketJ-Qe8U94ud8NySw024iAEJ-dmk4tla6c_s8ah6Ah51ryOhZCNz2Mz8z0MdfjeWXCPFvx0gOLIu8dVQ37hHMhyphenhyphenePhDotMwaVqjcQ/s400/IMG_1442.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684694070999463330" /></a><br />Casa De la Nikki. I might have a Home Alone/Christmas Story double feature sometime soon. Bake some cookies, curl up with the cats, make some cider and enjoy the the Holiday spirit. Everything is better when there's no one there to pester you.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrE4GRUbWLAPRmOreQ1QJcMICkgR3R7za8xvKRjj3zmhjJlFaiq2IJgxydvaCJmzN59xeYZFtNRqWtjAQT418mWgtBzPlEq8zm7r-UnQDpDmYg36evaZa9HE_X84yTRZodsXdwNdcvxng/s1600/grinch.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrE4GRUbWLAPRmOreQ1QJcMICkgR3R7za8xvKRjj3zmhjJlFaiq2IJgxydvaCJmzN59xeYZFtNRqWtjAQT418mWgtBzPlEq8zm7r-UnQDpDmYg36evaZa9HE_X84yTRZodsXdwNdcvxng/s400/grinch.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684699908503472498" /></a><br />Mozel!pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-51515735527329897692011-12-10T13:15:00.000-08:002011-12-10T13:25:35.686-08:00Exsqueeze me, but are you blue?<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-9hFCHxYApo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFGtQ9i_Yb6SpdZVHCGNZEsDGXGVjSfmzZEomFxGL-2U_nNivzHR00kTt22yPC0Q_cBWroV3MyRQRuyJ6hmrjSMkgGSkqhz4HWh2qii0AZHWFrPwGGyAicEq-0AL4UednQMk9aSELbFU/s1600/Tate+Langdon+American+Horror+Story.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFGtQ9i_Yb6SpdZVHCGNZEsDGXGVjSfmzZEomFxGL-2U_nNivzHR00kTt22yPC0Q_cBWroV3MyRQRuyJ6hmrjSMkgGSkqhz4HWh2qii0AZHWFrPwGGyAicEq-0AL4UednQMk9aSELbFU/s400/Tate+Langdon+American+Horror+Story.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684612930303940226" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5E-BelGz4Ixr-AUBA2c7qd-OkEtkRoVuA-9PdRhmKa0D9s1g_PX22KW5J1dkaLBiNqg-nJAlCbWJJhTXFDsg46kbbL9ebpofDdFQpGZXYTsalCr_4jt0B9dRycIa52hMIR-ISlxy-8Vw/s1600/weneedtotalkaboutkevin1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5E-BelGz4Ixr-AUBA2c7qd-OkEtkRoVuA-9PdRhmKa0D9s1g_PX22KW5J1dkaLBiNqg-nJAlCbWJJhTXFDsg46kbbL9ebpofDdFQpGZXYTsalCr_4jt0B9dRycIa52hMIR-ISlxy-8Vw/s400/weneedtotalkaboutkevin1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684612932142602674" /></a><br />Actors Evan Peters and Ezra Miller should start a band called Daughter Bang and their first album should be called Too Cruel for School. That or Columbine Coffee, Freshly Ground.<br />Apparently it's taken 11 years for mass school shootings to become en vogue. Once again, Gus Van Sant was ahead of his time. Too bad Elephant sucked donkey ballz. I like to pretend that GVS and Tim Burton's careers are like the Godfather 3, after a certain point in each they just don't exist.<br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZLRgAe2jLaw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Also, this movie was the biggest bummer EVER. It was goodish, but man, it was bummtown USA.pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-15757381725666395022011-12-05T21:23:00.000-08:002011-12-05T22:38:37.843-08:00Fantastic Voyage<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AMAKwFHXU2o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />This used to be my favorite band and this was my favorite song and I was at this show. We lived a few blocks away and walked to Maccaren every weekend those two summers to see the free shows in the pool.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib3eoaZ0weMVxt-okH1VPiqXvrH5hkC8_Af7zsWWLgW0Z5iWpJHXWPqNnUZRkKk38Ad4Kh6bcoVUYd-1MSGCLfcdl-mYFKDc61VxhkqXwnUlFIcFrxzw8VzA1DsfkJJMNquCk4KMzB1XA/s1600/25592391465_large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib3eoaZ0weMVxt-okH1VPiqXvrH5hkC8_Af7zsWWLgW0Z5iWpJHXWPqNnUZRkKk38Ad4Kh6bcoVUYd-1MSGCLfcdl-mYFKDc61VxhkqXwnUlFIcFrxzw8VzA1DsfkJJMNquCk4KMzB1XA/s400/25592391465_large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682892469087506578" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MUPm_HsqgJhDSLu1FAxCJ6pAVU4n3Jve3JYgaGDfF_sQpJc2C6C9cr6mIzzDhz8fivADO6fHKGfUsEQBv8N17AhsK_liZMmcHc_RQt1P_alCp1ukZtDpC5dVvp8JrzHrYBedOK9DyfE/s1600/IMG_1412.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MUPm_HsqgJhDSLu1FAxCJ6pAVU4n3Jve3JYgaGDfF_sQpJc2C6C9cr6mIzzDhz8fivADO6fHKGfUsEQBv8N17AhsK_liZMmcHc_RQt1P_alCp1ukZtDpC5dVvp8JrzHrYBedOK9DyfE/s400/IMG_1412.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682892473067099554" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7TTriu3j8_E0TXAtof0PN-2xqL6tUi95HdT51NJdaJ2kPqAjZ8mA3Y3hNii-GBr7XuN6yEl0RJvQ219LcB7KLccdnxgJQilJqIeiWzxWRsjVDerJ2qDpMmRccMhshDXjvKDL7Fhhpjs/s1600/IMG_1419.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7TTriu3j8_E0TXAtof0PN-2xqL6tUi95HdT51NJdaJ2kPqAjZ8mA3Y3hNii-GBr7XuN6yEl0RJvQ219LcB7KLccdnxgJQilJqIeiWzxWRsjVDerJ2qDpMmRccMhshDXjvKDL7Fhhpjs/s400/IMG_1419.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682892477317830434" /></a><br />As a young woman in my teens and early 20's I had fantastic tits. In fact I had a fantastic body, and I say that with all humility. I was thin as a grasshopper, had long legs, large C's and high cheekbones. I never exercised or dieted and was just, thin, I guess. I was a total obnoxious dick about it. I was so vain and nobody stopped me, I thought I was the most beautiful person in any room and I had white teeth. I faked stupid and unaware until my head fell off. I tried briefly to be an actress, had head shots, talked with a few agents, made the rounds. I did it as a kid too, with my mom, being lugged from banquet rooms in Hotels by LAX and down to small Hollywood bungalows that had been converted into kiddie casting offices. I had mild success. I often feel like I've lived a hundred lives. I've been rich, poor, brown, white, a chola a snob, the worst kind of white girl, a drug addict, an alcoholic, a New Yorker, a Brooklynite, a hippie, an only child a sibling an outsider a friend, a slut and a liar. I've been an asshole and shithead. A poet, a patient and a beginner. A name dropper and girlfriend. I've been a chronic cheater to a fat girl with no sex drive, I've been a prude and a pursed lipped workaholic. I've walked away from five friendships and have had more than six best friends. <br />Things I know: I will never be a wife, I'm in love with a woman I can never love fully because I have the sad misfortune of being a heterosexual, my best friend is Nick, but for how long? Till what? Maybe nothing, maybe he's the next long time. I've been the same person more or less for the past five years, boring, a go getter, getting fatter, happy, regular. I don't skip down alleys anymore splashing in midnight puddles or run through Washington Square park trying to buy heroin from homeless guys selling AJAX in plastic bindles. I don't try to fashion syringes out of baby droppers or hang out with girls who have babies and remember working in Texas roller rinks when they found out their first boyfriend's sister died in Waco with all the other crazies, their big pregnant 16 year old belly pressed against the roller rink glass. I got out of that place, I was never in that place actually, it was just a story i heard one day when that girl and I were smoking weed in the backseat of my car in a parking lot at PCC. She visited me when I moved to NY. Her parents were rich and there was a big article about her and a bunch of her best friends from high school that had been involved in a heroin epidemic at their private Texas high school. Her parents had put her on a plane to Sweden to go to some fancy rehab. She dropped acid as the plane took off and shattered a glass in her hand and bled the entire flight over. We went to Washington Square park for her. She slept on the floor next to my bed. She's a lawyer now. Sometimes when you've been sick and then you get better you feel like you've been through a long selfish war and you miss that part of yourself and you say, hey, that wasn't so bad. I've always been cursed with wanting to crawl back and hide in the past.<br />None of this was about me, by the way, so don't get the wrong idea. I'm just the same ol' person you've always known.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5xhb7yVQz9-PFdBs9Q-FKMi8DD4oo5xshLiexJCzCZ_uyUvLOFHsBsAeP0mGFfhocrtJIukECAg7QFwsvE9hcEmFz0fpvQDKsf7dablRx5R_uA4ATfXy3U-4s7NWuINTEEXYYkFjQ46M/s1600/IMG_1424.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5xhb7yVQz9-PFdBs9Q-FKMi8DD4oo5xshLiexJCzCZ_uyUvLOFHsBsAeP0mGFfhocrtJIukECAg7QFwsvE9hcEmFz0fpvQDKsf7dablRx5R_uA4ATfXy3U-4s7NWuINTEEXYYkFjQ46M/s400/IMG_1424.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682892505850695042" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDps7fjvH8_8Wu0oIqvfhtTKh3AVl5Zm5gapKEUz4HMPIk7e4U4CrFVysJNmq3lx5EOZcyGaCUadE-j0QxR49sYVjUR_zK1q_3p02nFEfLCsGAK3ZEy0AnN_4A5asL-r0HEt-M5zzEt8/s1600/IMG_1415.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDps7fjvH8_8Wu0oIqvfhtTKh3AVl5Zm5gapKEUz4HMPIk7e4U4CrFVysJNmq3lx5EOZcyGaCUadE-j0QxR49sYVjUR_zK1q_3p02nFEfLCsGAK3ZEy0AnN_4A5asL-r0HEt-M5zzEt8/s400/IMG_1415.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682892511380211858" /></a>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-2373543431633754302011-11-23T16:56:00.000-08:002011-11-23T18:34:38.686-08:00Ressless Energy<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r2ozuCXpVJY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />How cool would it be if Justin WAS the father?!<br />How much more exciting would the world get if Christopher Walken actually did it?<br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MviKyYxKvKI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />I am better than my best self ten years ago, and that's still not saying much. I am lazy and filled with fear and stuff. Procrastination creeps in on every corner, debilitating me from every angle. I get it done but it takes the involuntary flexing of each toe a thousand times an hour, the stranglehold of my own fist by the other, the biting, gnawing and chewing of my inside cheek until the metallic taste of spoons mingles with my spit. I will stuff it in my mouth, I will heat it up, spit it out, lean down on my one bum knee that is spongy and numb until it is not and then it's a violent searing pain of a thousand needles racing toward my shoulder blade, and puke it out. It's teeth grinding in the middle of the night and two hour stare-a-thons at my blank TV wishing I had invested in the free box. It's checking e-mail, creating user ID's, baking cookies, making chili, taking holiday portraits of the cats. The closer it gets the tighter I wind. My mom was a long distance runner, marathon winner, athletic get up at six in the morning obsessive compulsive make sure the ovens off weirdo. Now she drinks champagne in the morning and walks on the treadmill while eating dinner. I can unflex this muscle all day long but I know it will get done. Don't ask me to do anything in the meantime, I'm paralyzed and not so much the good person you're hoping for.<br />Here is some delightful internet gristle.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGjVR4Klwi1eKX8PPYCOBL_xehMb_zMSJEOpst1oDmEs7Q99NEeumqgF8C7W88BWCdXEK5IFwpUdjR5QRNLWWlV5i3hUeMQgMOG96lm24hi7Tl0ENJc03s-htFdcqLEVZRSgh5XsKeEo/s1600/600px-Jubjub.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGjVR4Klwi1eKX8PPYCOBL_xehMb_zMSJEOpst1oDmEs7Q99NEeumqgF8C7W88BWCdXEK5IFwpUdjR5QRNLWWlV5i3hUeMQgMOG96lm24hi7Tl0ENJc03s-htFdcqLEVZRSgh5XsKeEo/s400/600px-Jubjub.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678369501108201026" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOYoWxlNjeHp6AI1j6t2ycwmhm8XMKpJn8uo9fIVLl-bNAQDw0ExHD4RfQ9vK29jozkTE8lw4YAm9OwvGuN6fD9RIhYOpGD7rUq4xrFvn_-0s7fpcncjiSNKRQRPqC-UELg_T_jHauNc/s1600/maggiedance.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgquNQEku3B_zKuhl_3NcdrvQNjaxSG71UxkQU-1djZ9NwH4CVDVADgQ3RVzs1Iu2KkCpYgOTgzhZ9vNU59Qo16De59QXKV2SAVly2Ctm7BBBLOITvev_GbTbhwcB2V-Nz1PcMn4xVZjd4/s400/funny-pictures-balogna-first-name-nom-thumb-500x374.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678368191688746898" /></a><br />Blog highlight: Video Deathray has taken an exciting new direction and it's being taken there by the wonderful Nicholas J. Katzban. Don't you wish you knew what the J stood for? <a href="http://videodeathray.podbean.com/2011/11/15/welcome-to-vdr-phase-ii-written-by-nicholas-katzban/">Clicka me</a> and <a href="http://videodeathray.podbean.com/2011/11/23/video-deathray-movie-review-brain-damage-1988-written-by-nicholas-katzban/">and me</a> for the first two. If you like this Ahnold commentary you will like Deathray.<br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hBmcbkxqL6w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />My sister got married and we stopped in Joshua Tree on the way back. Oh sunset, oh underwater wasteland, beautiful mountains turned to a fine thin powder, you entrance me so.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7TSy8YdEp5ZR5XTr6aKFu18TmUmEsNvhJlOwszRUrCUgHaHd555g7WgaKmqnfjTNXBqBZlzM_fEGQwLwreyD_80kiwWrZCCsjWRJRtJkSnvwV6ZDvCfXYWrHji_VlhoECRLr9cDFF3U/s1600/IMG_1249.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7TSy8YdEp5ZR5XTr6aKFu18TmUmEsNvhJlOwszRUrCUgHaHd555g7WgaKmqnfjTNXBqBZlzM_fEGQwLwreyD_80kiwWrZCCsjWRJRtJkSnvwV6ZDvCfXYWrHji_VlhoECRLr9cDFF3U/s400/IMG_1249.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678378440267858930" /></a><br />Monkey suits.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQPP-SvjQZcQCiidkSqPeqjdIiwK2jtpOetBejQxvMSjSQMJ246OFoueqdz675P9bfCMRkd2PZRwTcjvc58WvjqChnXevb6w0FWofulQuq-Qg21mnwH0n-qs-V25OY3v1Nljd7ujJxp4/s1600/IMG_1244.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQPP-SvjQZcQCiidkSqPeqjdIiwK2jtpOetBejQxvMSjSQMJ246OFoueqdz675P9bfCMRkd2PZRwTcjvc58WvjqChnXevb6w0FWofulQuq-Qg21mnwH0n-qs-V25OY3v1Nljd7ujJxp4/s400/IMG_1244.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678376675078988706" /></a><br />My sister and her maidens. True story, the first time i ever went bra shopping I was 11 and with my mom at Macy's. We were in the dressing room and she was trying to harness me in. A sales girl came by and asked if she could get us anything else from the floor. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLFDT0Pd2WkxEha_qspqDKGgrAkhzOwnLty9oOLAnxItqJuP2psrcgOISh59IhCbpWUbh2tAYoqnOenwDGUa5i2i-Mo3h8G1S7XkIiK-TzDt91eHHAe4hJV3xnBgcG3yfAP7WLpABuJkI/s400/IMG_1395.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678369504719166914" /></a><br />The portraits in question.pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-718361985855868292011-11-06T21:23:00.000-08:002011-11-07T17:53:59.722-08:00Debbie Does Daylight Savings<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iQL-b0Bp_9E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Holy guacamole. Satan on a cracker. Two snaps and a butt plug, well look at this here. It's been two months since I blogged. What can I say? I lost interest, had developed a loving following of supportive grownups, well, grownups about thirty years my senior- see below post- and honestly, I couldn't drag myself into the place where I wanted to wait ten minutes for one picture to upload at a time. Even right now I struggle to finish this sentence. All I've had the stamina for these past few months is my internet boyfriend Michael K over at Dlisted, my TV boyfriend Jesse Pinkman over on AMC and TV links and Gawker to snort and half smile at Kimmy K's divorce and Baby Bieber's baby mamma drama. But why, you ask- no, I know you really don't- well, mostly I've been working on this PHD application that is like pulling my brain out of my ear, you know, like the Egyptians with the brain jars and the mummy organs? Like that. So that's that. I will now proceed to post random images and share with you the rainbow slide show of what you've been missing (nothing, I promise). Also, my computer says it's 9:30 but it feels like it's 10:30. Just when I thought i couldn't feel any more ancient.<br />First up is Halloween. I was Chairy and Nick was Larry. We were Larry and Chairy. <br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4RBqzTclk-M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCXjrl3dfHqTnDn_5O_83lv41g4TTIdJq2uppVuLdSmqTcDpsnYPiEx4MzNQxIrxjwrxrQBomDnqTlHWuWf2rpXSedZ5NeaB6Aqs7fMfmIAh3MENCjyL-MFO5IUDUx97qbEbOoNYR9Dvw/s1600/IMG_1171.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCXjrl3dfHqTnDn_5O_83lv41g4TTIdJq2uppVuLdSmqTcDpsnYPiEx4MzNQxIrxjwrxrQBomDnqTlHWuWf2rpXSedZ5NeaB6Aqs7fMfmIAh3MENCjyL-MFO5IUDUx97qbEbOoNYR9Dvw/s400/IMG_1171.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672128902529335362" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtVX9J9rCQw-D_ZErxsqa2v6eB4sPue_EryxrDvVxSkKH5p_S4dNLmcdt4acKiKiFh4hU3BEu9uLwFK_p6bSv9RowjrphbOIsn_SmYircAiUl22RTyh0ZZGqu5A6cwXdHvxeKmYGLFAM/s1600/IMG_1168.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtVX9J9rCQw-D_ZErxsqa2v6eB4sPue_EryxrDvVxSkKH5p_S4dNLmcdt4acKiKiFh4hU3BEu9uLwFK_p6bSv9RowjrphbOIsn_SmYircAiUl22RTyh0ZZGqu5A6cwXdHvxeKmYGLFAM/s400/IMG_1168.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672128906624992162" /></a><br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZUOVRJ4wJ7g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />I painted my yard chairs blue and have been working on my garden. It's a peaceful endeavor. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH0N_cAbTVr0HxuFFGg6wuC6mXUDCIw7uU0jv4S-A5htjtajLIuTVrDeAYJXma08VG1qBNBG-eMC1YdlHetXMF88MBYGlAr-PjAJ04y1weMQ1zgVpvha6vPm5hGT-6wVkDgTD0nfKr5t4/s1600/IMG_1167.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH0N_cAbTVr0HxuFFGg6wuC6mXUDCIw7uU0jv4S-A5htjtajLIuTVrDeAYJXma08VG1qBNBG-eMC1YdlHetXMF88MBYGlAr-PjAJ04y1weMQ1zgVpvha6vPm5hGT-6wVkDgTD0nfKr5t4/s400/IMG_1167.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672134002394583938" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCatFml6HJLnoj23z_1YLmYfo6_UWMLrYFZg_bmAdnyATZ_QyIkKRkGuPU49HcHpl8lqWuKDq_wLllnJmpbonpAWX1y1d1c-yuvagHcKx_7WdWNXfMHZrr0MrOpS9GVAHMcxiFVpMqv2E/s1600/IMG_1162.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCatFml6HJLnoj23z_1YLmYfo6_UWMLrYFZg_bmAdnyATZ_QyIkKRkGuPU49HcHpl8lqWuKDq_wLllnJmpbonpAWX1y1d1c-yuvagHcKx_7WdWNXfMHZrr0MrOpS9GVAHMcxiFVpMqv2E/s400/IMG_1162.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672134011827057874" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23YcybL_7I2cYKrJgbHYV1win9oflbQilHzjol6uPwSYqVaLt_f0mqFU7Qhb-cDhRznud_U2lxc9dPk0hTb9Xmv6uKUyYBwbuJ78VrM67cXIpdr2ukmJcM72Gz1jKNZWK_cRkA8PbODE/s1600/IMG_1163.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23YcybL_7I2cYKrJgbHYV1win9oflbQilHzjol6uPwSYqVaLt_f0mqFU7Qhb-cDhRznud_U2lxc9dPk0hTb9Xmv6uKUyYBwbuJ78VrM67cXIpdr2ukmJcM72Gz1jKNZWK_cRkA8PbODE/s400/IMG_1163.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672134005818416770" /></a><br />Nick's friend Alex came into town because his movie was screening at the AFI fest and omg it's soooo good. You should definitely go see it. It's called the Color Wheel.<br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gOtO8JBtxpE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Biz had a birthday! xoxox <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMatEAUxpC5D_k_Ivw-iJoTKWd-u0Yl1yQElCfziaYqPppJZoxkXHK1S2K7uTc4vbj-6YzKQeCNrcYSK_Eihk5JOcqnzm8aCVEp9M-L_SRlKSSvevZHViD3dfl0PC8uEOsKP8TYFFN8k0/s1600/IMG_1099.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMatEAUxpC5D_k_Ivw-iJoTKWd-u0Yl1yQElCfziaYqPppJZoxkXHK1S2K7uTc4vbj-6YzKQeCNrcYSK_Eihk5JOcqnzm8aCVEp9M-L_SRlKSSvevZHViD3dfl0PC8uEOsKP8TYFFN8k0/s400/IMG_1099.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672143129966620290" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZVg4niCNxUf9Vyj-qHBsADj18XXDiNAok9Ab-64gdsV7aFdUYYG3u_ulP-ixBmHXnOhAD8enbThe8brBptl9cSUQ8JpADZuX3YNQT5vw1VqElOt5YL8NzKXa35_7LGUjggsBEZ9iNbg/s1600/IMG_1096.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZVg4niCNxUf9Vyj-qHBsADj18XXDiNAok9Ab-64gdsV7aFdUYYG3u_ulP-ixBmHXnOhAD8enbThe8brBptl9cSUQ8JpADZuX3YNQT5vw1VqElOt5YL8NzKXa35_7LGUjggsBEZ9iNbg/s400/IMG_1096.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672143124541931682" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObwPNTLDIoRcutRg0zP42EZZw4ZVsoxjuD7my6YZhBjN00I8cBZ09lpcLscQf9b4aEtWkd_TudPYWN2GAOE8YTOoTl_mgDvIhRiS_YUR9kq-NaVem7t59QsVuSZMZP-XGBP0RkYhY0iQ/s1600/IMG_1108.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObwPNTLDIoRcutRg0zP42EZZw4ZVsoxjuD7my6YZhBjN00I8cBZ09lpcLscQf9b4aEtWkd_TudPYWN2GAOE8YTOoTl_mgDvIhRiS_YUR9kq-NaVem7t59QsVuSZMZP-XGBP0RkYhY0iQ/s400/IMG_1108.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672144107417322258" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDwrwkOy_hsuMpuzto4EXfgX8XVKnmRCTo8UntfGdXz8CPnRlWE0Hv5JQQlgLCci2gffastsYcJ-x6zr3uljfT0zcKz4uy7uRwEZqQy0uHqtFp1QH8BPlZtBaB7a2b-RfRmBJRCIHtAQ/s1600/IMG_1098.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDwrwkOy_hsuMpuzto4EXfgX8XVKnmRCTo8UntfGdXz8CPnRlWE0Hv5JQQlgLCci2gffastsYcJ-x6zr3uljfT0zcKz4uy7uRwEZqQy0uHqtFp1QH8BPlZtBaB7a2b-RfRmBJRCIHtAQ/s400/IMG_1098.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672143161858437442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZUim2McvffCe-7RvVAQpVxfQ0KPzUxYQdMOrWKr7KoCjWnCOufPT2XvJOdmABq9Zx5yj5FmVdH8H2xvrUrB_Am4TO0OX1krEeKpydx4C0LDqgcBVNe7BRgq98sNEYVSbtC1bWj4gA13g/s1600/IMG_1105.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZUim2McvffCe-7RvVAQpVxfQ0KPzUxYQdMOrWKr7KoCjWnCOufPT2XvJOdmABq9Zx5yj5FmVdH8H2xvrUrB_Am4TO0OX1krEeKpydx4C0LDqgcBVNe7BRgq98sNEYVSbtC1bWj4gA13g/s400/IMG_1105.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672143143632194370" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXWaa3HN8qJqKPLK5vd8YIyaKNXhUwKl_FrinJkyImKEOXTOg0OYnajEL-ChrVZJpGH0de0RQaGb8AUVPFkoGKzEW3XceTLSwfKMIQrHndk9iB7FLEHP-KxsI7JAfyJbvXRXIU654cbhE/s1600/IMG_1100.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXWaa3HN8qJqKPLK5vd8YIyaKNXhUwKl_FrinJkyImKEOXTOg0OYnajEL-ChrVZJpGH0de0RQaGb8AUVPFkoGKzEW3XceTLSwfKMIQrHndk9iB7FLEHP-KxsI7JAfyJbvXRXIU654cbhE/s400/IMG_1100.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672143136532574306" /></a><br />And so did Daniel! (he's in his Halloween costume)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaHuh71Bt5PaoL9cfRFh433oUZJRsyI20o5cJmcRDLDutGcU4LVU16IQ_reLE3MWqLn6NQSkrvQssMJBV-yRRdxaVGI9WwDdlylXft8sP6l-5xsMmPAauTH67-kMPA3HYThK6lQaeKgY/s1600/IMG_1181.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaHuh71Bt5PaoL9cfRFh433oUZJRsyI20o5cJmcRDLDutGcU4LVU16IQ_reLE3MWqLn6NQSkrvQssMJBV-yRRdxaVGI9WwDdlylXft8sP6l-5xsMmPAauTH67-kMPA3HYThK6lQaeKgY/s400/IMG_1181.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672144744267667874" /></a><br />Kate and I started the fourth season of 5 Points and this Sunday is the second reading in! Come by and check it out:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEomyqSYX6qp-2_HGT4x-e4nsDROtEkrJ15Rt8HLntRvlED_7dlz6Q_pK6kxju4v4XOF27ROTZPl2KTcH53s-ACXNN2Lh1dqN9oZYYy2oOw3kfKe7lS2uyTmRU5oMRdDoCQFGxMhYwUY8/s1600/B_revised_web-600x450.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEomyqSYX6qp-2_HGT4x-e4nsDROtEkrJ15Rt8HLntRvlED_7dlz6Q_pK6kxju4v4XOF27ROTZPl2KTcH53s-ACXNN2Lh1dqN9oZYYy2oOw3kfKe7lS2uyTmRU5oMRdDoCQFGxMhYwUY8/s400/B_revised_web-600x450.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672145618609549986" /></a><br />Halloween friend update:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDK2YYYMyJjtXr20QJnxdyDWKmtqjAiXYqa-Hnxm-PfUo8uiA2HmEDauTYmjrh1nkfcFAZNPL3HIFCSr7HuxoN4LlxIsQgcZA0S4p0zaWY3oMB-X9pzcysdBC-xEA7XzjATXYNr2GMmc/s1600/309070_10150337250897541_511762540_8464163_768013158_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDK2YYYMyJjtXr20QJnxdyDWKmtqjAiXYqa-Hnxm-PfUo8uiA2HmEDauTYmjrh1nkfcFAZNPL3HIFCSr7HuxoN4LlxIsQgcZA0S4p0zaWY3oMB-X9pzcysdBC-xEA7XzjATXYNr2GMmc/s400/309070_10150337250897541_511762540_8464163_768013158_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672149228625860642" /></a><br />Heather killed it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmgYYL1iz6PPSjfrcc6D6Uurm3Iu2cd9o_N78Uv2P5QH6EObeurn0XYxUsBcnM_Nx2wCdsgkE9e4dR6dikv9gqd4v0VCyv4VC3z2fJJg3o0DycnB0Ul7VVJpF8lcvlNw6V_I_z7Al9_Tc/s1600/390433_10150348246239843_698259842_8348070_145818850_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmgYYL1iz6PPSjfrcc6D6Uurm3Iu2cd9o_N78Uv2P5QH6EObeurn0XYxUsBcnM_Nx2wCdsgkE9e4dR6dikv9gqd4v0VCyv4VC3z2fJJg3o0DycnB0Ul7VVJpF8lcvlNw6V_I_z7Al9_Tc/s400/390433_10150348246239843_698259842_8348070_145818850_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672150160637481106" /></a><br />Also, also, could Charlotte and her man friend BE any cooler? I am so in love with this woman. Tejas I'll see you soon.<br />Okay, goodnight sweet internet prince. I'm back? Let's never be torn apart again!pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-86755589420343180732011-11-06T19:02:00.000-08:002011-11-07T17:52:14.503-08:00All My Friends Are Dead- A message from our sponsors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKd1TtrD8pmAGD0I5jlaSqoM6NrTgVF29Ujc7vWBTqIZQZ3lcgiJHHel6yG7KvXfLWFdJMBUQIjzxFSZ1ybqFLtwNWRcxRUUBbi2ia3X4-B8U1Cyt0ohuPpC_FCl-NAhalro7kXrGfHVE/s1600/1318263789782_National_Lampoon_s_European_Vacation_Overlay_590_295.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKd1TtrD8pmAGD0I5jlaSqoM6NrTgVF29Ujc7vWBTqIZQZ3lcgiJHHel6yG7KvXfLWFdJMBUQIjzxFSZ1ybqFLtwNWRcxRUUBbi2ia3X4-B8U1Cyt0ohuPpC_FCl-NAhalro7kXrGfHVE/s400/1318263789782_National_Lampoon_s_European_Vacation_Overlay_590_295.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672097162399994546" /></a><br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mQZmCJUSC6g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Hi! Howdy! How goes it, mom, grandma, pops, boyfriend's mom, mom's best girlfriend, family members and other various oldsters? How were the sixties? Pretty great, huh? Yeah, I had some dreams, but they were just clouds in my coffee. Oh you guys get that reference, don't you? Of course you do, it's Carly Simon, she wrote kids books you bought me in the 80's and sang songs you saw in person with dad and you know, she's great, huh? I know you and Nora and Gail and Tom down at the golf course yuck it up about the good old days quite a bit. What about that time you all took the kids to Tahoe and got drunk on that bottle of red wine Barry brought from Mendochino? Man, he was so smug on that trip because he had just done that small walk on part in Thirty Something and remember no matter how hard you tried to get the kids to pass out so you could all hit the hot tub they just wouldn't? Gee, that was a good time. Amy kept coming downstairs to say she was thirsty, oh man, those were the days. Miss those early 80's, yup. Oh, I'm sorry, what am I doing here on Nikki's blog? What? Oh how did I get here? Wow, sorry, I must of been in a fugue state where I thought she took the 'Stay Out!' sign off her bedroom door. Whoops, my bad, I'll just mosey on out of here because I'm an OLDSTER.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyze7bTu8JszKVSXxNCD0OedtrtCaMv0MPxB5TvKpS2ry1yZJM_Tcc0MqwXqszOTkD1Vq5K0f09B1X3-m_pGdFZC1sQPGgXNLiAtIaFQlychyphenhyphen-mrSvFFc5KDWue-NDkgeuBJpnarviiLk/s1600/internet_meme_and_you02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyze7bTu8JszKVSXxNCD0OedtrtCaMv0MPxB5TvKpS2ry1yZJM_Tcc0MqwXqszOTkD1Vq5K0f09B1X3-m_pGdFZC1sQPGgXNLiAtIaFQlychyphenhyphen-mrSvFFc5KDWue-NDkgeuBJpnarviiLk/s400/internet_meme_and_you02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672098554186489890" /></a><br />Look, I get it, I'm an adult, but seriously, if you're in your 60's and at one time in your life you screamed at me to shut up, put my seat belt back on, and then handed me a bottle of water and a zip lock bag full of grapes PLEASE, STOP READING MY BLOG!!! New rule, if you were born between 1945 and 1955 and you've met me in person, please, visit The Hairpin, or perhaps, Rookie, both fine blogs that the hip kids read. Lots of jokes and tokes.<br />This goes for Facebook too. Don't you get it mom and dad? Your kids don't want to be Facebook friends with you. STOP ASKING. It's not because we don't love you, it's because we do. Look, the internet, it was ours first, obviously you're welcome here, but until a few years ago it was a bit like being under the bleachers and smoking a joint. It felt big and small at the same time and it was inclusive and safe. We could be ourselves and we didn't have to watch our back because you were watching Masterpiece Theatre and yelling at me to get a job. Now it feels like the PE teacher is trying to climb under the bleachers with us and is telling lame jokes and lighting the pipe with a gag lighter shaped like a dildo, its weird and uncomfortable, because you know, he's the PE teacher. That's what this is like now. Before grandpa sent me horrible political forwards and mom didn't know what an e-card was. I could be a public person because no one knew me on the internet. My blog started in 2006 in my Brooklyn bedroom and it was me and million strangers. I didn't give a crap about who read my blog because there was no chance in hell I would ever meet them. I appreciate that it has a large following and has grown over the years- no matter how much that continues to baffle my mind because it still feels like the majority of what I post is inane navel gazing, lady versions of he's hot and fart jokes- this thing also sort of acts as my website now, maybe it's time to get a real one of those, who knows. But that's kind of the other point, this lil bloggy blog is how I present myself to the world, editors and such, it's written in a <span style="font-style:italic;">persona</span>, dontcha know? <span style="font-style:italic;">Even this post!</span> Talk about meta, right? And I don't want to have to worry about offending you or embarrassing myself because no matter how much you say you do, you really don't know what that means. The whole persona thing. It's the same reason you aren't allowed to read my fiction, dad, because you automatically think it's about you. Even when the character is a twelve year old blind girl with tourettes. And that's the entire point on top of a bagel toasted point, I don't want to have to think about thinking about you when I'm you know, creating or whatever. It's great that writing from this here lil blog has even been anthologized. I love it! But mom, dad, it's kind of like my internet journal. Nothing on here is private, but boundaries, yo. It's seriously made it less fun and I feel kind of dorky and embarrassed having to hear that other members of my family and or spiritual extended love ones, recent and otherwise, read it. I mean, Schadenfreude, <span style="font-style:italic;">doods!</span> ever hear of it? Obviously I can't stop you from reading my blog, no? But maybe I can stop you from talking to me about it? Possibly? That's the other thing, guys, the internet, it's sort of like those Vegas commercials, you know the ones, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Yeah, like that. No one actually talks about their blogs face to face. You talk about blow jobs, new tea at Whole Foods and trying to save money to buy a vintage couch on Craigslist. So you know, shhh. <br />The internet is littered with the carcasses of dead blogs, sad lonely blogs aging in the wind. I will bet dollar to doughnuts I know why.<br />Love- really, honestly, tons of love-, bratty brat face, who do I think I am, ungrateful smart alek, too big for my britches, narcissistic, you're no spring chicken yourself Miss 31 and getting older, Nicole<br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TRsZrE6-gz8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Here, this ones for you guys, I know you like the Willy J.<br />Actually, an amendment. If you can name the person below without doing a google image search, you can still read my blog. xo<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEHTyrTsI5RqgIGXIfEjfTy5gvkkbUlpr3NelQoEiQxcxYvwrsYNo7c5jVsEMIznHSUwlr4BccCjlZWby8zew5kmn43dTxfyz9XxTEe-DRDAk4H9kiqS4S1JopJViwb3Nhx5-_2kCGNj4/s1600/lil-wayne-gq-2_jpg_630x856_q85.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEHTyrTsI5RqgIGXIfEjfTy5gvkkbUlpr3NelQoEiQxcxYvwrsYNo7c5jVsEMIznHSUwlr4BccCjlZWby8zew5kmn43dTxfyz9XxTEe-DRDAk4H9kiqS4S1JopJViwb3Nhx5-_2kCGNj4/s400/lil-wayne-gq-2_jpg_630x856_q85.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672100952890005490" /></a>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-80401500981584012662011-08-25T23:15:00.001-07:002011-08-25T23:33:27.622-07:00Dillatude<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ILRe9dHyby8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<br />This is Gena the Crocodile, from a Russian children's show created in 1969. "He sings about celebrating his birthday, regardless of the rain because birthdays only come once a year." Thanks Nick for introducing him to me!
<br />After the hippopotamus <a href="http://imnikkidarlingandyourenot.blogspot.com/2010/04/flight-of-fancy.html">click here!</a>, my favorite animal is probably a lizard followed close behind by crocodiles and alligators. I just love their little fancy faces and dilla-tude. Plus they are just unbelievably cute. Look at this little fellow:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tSN15HoUeBztloWBbq8HM0HKxnT9xCoUfnlIx28esHR5W1oH0BxjosKrH5jNHKyxzIzU_yblw3VDUvLi2b7Be78rPuH5SP7L1I7vMRuVmXr_zVTAQx2cJAgUoAolwPrZxZiAwmcTFO8/s1600/baby-crocodile-farm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tSN15HoUeBztloWBbq8HM0HKxnT9xCoUfnlIx28esHR5W1oH0BxjosKrH5jNHKyxzIzU_yblw3VDUvLi2b7Be78rPuH5SP7L1I7vMRuVmXr_zVTAQx2cJAgUoAolwPrZxZiAwmcTFO8/s400/baby-crocodile-farm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645045229760675602" /></a> Why hello!
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<br />Lyle, love! <3
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<br />This is my favorite alligator at the LA Zoo. I think he might be the only alligator at the LA Zoo actually. He was rescued from an alligator farm in Florida. Photo by Davida.
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<br />Sneaky sneakers! Hide your hippos!
<br />pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-26047155707636335172011-08-13T00:28:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:11:19.893-07:00Fiesta de la Sausage 2011!OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE IT HOLY CANOLI ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!!! That's right, it's sausage fest. That inane tradition I insist on keeping alive despite the fact that probably no one reads it. Actually I have stat counter now you little devils and I know that a lot of you do! Which continually surprises me. In any event, to visit past sausages click <a href="http://imnikkidarlingandyourenot.blogspot.com/2010/08/fest-ala-sausage-number-four.html">here (2010)</a> and <a href="http://imnikkidarlingandyourenot.blogspot.com/2009/09/third-annual-sausage-fest-2009.html">here (2009)</a> and <a href="http://imnikkidarlingandyourenot.blogspot.com/2008/08/and-god-created-men.html">here (2008)</a> and here <a href="http://imnikkidarlingandyourenot.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-u-look-like-these-men-give-me-call.html">here (2007).</a> Well without further adieu, let us begin with this years Fiesta De La Sausage! Enjoy!
<br />John Cameron Mitchell!
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<br />Look at this adorable face. I want to eat it.
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<br />I can quite honestly tell you that if I had been at the above concert and seen that performance I would have died or fainted or been sobbing so uncontrollably that people would have thought it was 1964 and I was watching the Beatles. That is how much this clip blows my mind. In fact as I was watching it just now it made me cry again. It gets wacky ridiculous at the two minuet mark.
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<br />This year's first honorary sausage goes to John Cameron Mitchell. A true story: I don't get star struck, I get goofy or excited if I see a sort of famousy person I really admire- I usually just make a fool out of myself and say something embarrassing, but I very rarely am so struck by someone, so afraid of them based solely on who they are as an artist that I tremble with fear at ever having to meet them. John Cameron Mitchell is one of the few I feel this way about. Last year at Workspace he came to an event and I was so frightened of him that I just left. Daniel laughed and tried to get me to talk to Mr. Mitchel but it was all too much and I got very serious and ran away, I think in turn sort of freaking or weirding Daniel out. Anyway, JCM's voice is one of the most heavenly sounds on earth- I could listen to it every day, it's powerful and confident yet reassuring and warm- and Hedwig is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. I sat in the theatre and balled my eyes out. I thought, if there's a man out there that can write this most thoughtful story about the universal human condition then art has a purpose. Dork! Party of me, it's true, but really this retired theatre nerd misfit fell in love. Truly, honestly, I feel sort of weird even making him a sausage. He is such a truly beautiful human. Check out my 'poopy day' link in the blogroll. Another true story: I once took a package to Cyndi Lauper at her home in Los Feliz and I couldn't look her in the eyes.
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<br />Donald Glover!
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<br />Donald Glover is liquid sexy. Actually he's the holy trifecta: smart, supper funny and hot. He was a writer on the three funniest seasons of 30 Rock and won an Emmy for the Funcooker episode. He left the show though to do Community. Maybe the best show on TV. If you haven't seen it yet all I have to say is this: Paintball. Watch it and you shall understand. Anyway, the entire cast is littered with the best kind of sexy beasts; the ones with brains and timing. It already stars former sausage and patron saint and protector of the blog, Chevy Chase and our very next sausage who you will be introduced to shortly below. Here's to Donald Glover!
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<br />This interview was done right before he started shooting Community and was still just a network writer NYU funny guy nerd. ps, Those dudes were always so annoying and at the Grey Dog coffee shop hogging up all the tables and talking about how they almost got into Yale and where they were going to do standup that weekend and gossiping about Conan O Brian like they knew him. Or old SNL's or how Chris Parnell is underrated or some shiz. They are probably in my estimation the New York equivalent of the Los Angeles struggling actor.
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<br />Sweet Delicious Joel Mchale!
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<br />I first fell in love with Joel Mchale while I was a nanny in New York around 2005. Often I would get called to evening babysit which basically consisted of eating other people's food and watching their cable on their nice expensive couches. It was on one of these nights that I first discovered The Soup, Mankini, Lou the chihuahua and Clip of the Week. Joel Mchale continues to be one of the sexiest things on two legs and makes each episode of the Soup and now Community, the funniest things on earth. He's almost been a sausage the past two years but always was pushed out by someone else at the last minute. Not this year, this year Joel, your sausage shall shine.
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<br />Handsome, stoic Gordon Mcrae!
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<br />I've been thinking about Gordon Mcrae a lot lately. One of the characters in my novel is sort of based on him- in part, him the actor in Hollywood, and him his characters in his Rodger's and Hammerstein movies.
<br />Anyway, I always felt there was something kind and understated about him. His voice is also up there with some of my favorite male voices- I was a musical theatre major at my art high school- in the 90's btw and I do not like Glee, so don't ask- Anyway, when I was little my mom was weird and instead of letting me watch current cartoons like a normal kid she bought the entire Rodger's and Hammerstein collection, old 1950's Disney Mickey Mouse cartoons and Little Lulu's and Felix The Cat cartoons. So I blame her mostly for making me an old timey weirdo. Anyway, Gordon was one of my first little kid crushes. Look at his face. Doesn't his face just look <span style="font-style:italic;">warm?</span>
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<br />Literary sausages! These two men have had the most influence on my novel aside from Margaret Atwood. I've reread their classics in the last two months trying to dig inside their brains.
<br />Henry David Thoreau
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<br />"I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone."
<br />The most philosophical of sausages.
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<br />Nathanael West!
<br />The greatest novel ever written about Hollywood:
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<br />Getting serious with an actor on set. I can't decide what's cooler about Nathanael West, the persistent myth that he died in a car crash on his way to his good friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral- he did not, he died a few days earlier but it's such a great Hollywood rumor- that he wrote for Hollywood during that brief but splendid period when other writers such as William Faulkner, Fitzgerald and James M. Cain worked there, or that he was a terrific dandy AND slob. I don't know. I love Nathanael West.
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<br />Cary Fukunaga!!!!!!
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<br />Sweet Jebus this man is hot. He's a writer and a director and if you haven't seen the Jane Eyre that came out in 2011 SEE IT! It's the best Jane Eyre ever made and stays true to the book, capturing all the gothic greatness that earlier versions didn't convey. Also his first film Sin Nombre was about Mexican immigrant gang members. Can you say swoon? SO IN LOVE.
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<br />this intervierer is pretty dense but he looks hot.
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<br />Adorable Diego Luna!
<br />Homeboy is just cute. And I love his movies. Milk, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Mister Lonely.
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<br />And rounding out this years sausages, who better than the entire Clash!? You know what guys? I too am so bored with the USA.
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<br />pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-31091922554505559632011-07-31T20:27:00.000-07:002011-07-31T20:31:15.156-07:00Network Interruption<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZS_6-IwMPjM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />I will be bz for the next few weeks and blogging erratically. I will be back in full force at the end of the month with the 2011 winners of this years Sausage Fest. In the meantime, warm your heart to this little ditty here.<br />Namaste.pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-7704728232224135012011-07-28T10:15:00.001-07:002011-07-28T10:19:54.210-07:00Author Photo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYPB8x7Lzm6Tdy9nVr90rJ0a6BOYP_mYb3dFWEBbcefDoMFrUcdio34z0GyO2Wlr8CnObeewI4xHIX_4kd52DxcxpzazxBPkdCRwMe7UdlI5K1TSvjPuN4MhVsLQeR1mMptyos5dT5bMI/s1600/DSCN0670.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYPB8x7Lzm6Tdy9nVr90rJ0a6BOYP_mYb3dFWEBbcefDoMFrUcdio34z0GyO2Wlr8CnObeewI4xHIX_4kd52DxcxpzazxBPkdCRwMe7UdlI5K1TSvjPuN4MhVsLQeR1mMptyos5dT5bMI/s400/DSCN0670.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634453501502658370" /></a><br />seriously, isn't this such a good author photo? all you need to know about katzban is in this pic. now someone, publish his book!<br />Also, if you would like to follow the poetic adventures of katzban, you need only click <a href="http://importantthingsyouown.tumblr.com/">here.</a>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-40313227007460185202011-07-24T02:18:00.000-07:002011-07-24T02:27:21.483-07:00The Bluest Eye<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/k5CltsEN8DQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSPgAlUC0ljqkdyfOq9MHcqp9vhKo-utm0DNVQsWxiaU_jEky_sXUTAY68v6G06d1tZpykKHmtR2sVPn-VbxVxv5NmREZZztZAEEaSKlhvi-jMq_BoVmaR5hr64iwT7nwhs76ndFqlqM/s1600/gatsby.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSPgAlUC0ljqkdyfOq9MHcqp9vhKo-utm0DNVQsWxiaU_jEky_sXUTAY68v6G06d1tZpykKHmtR2sVPn-VbxVxv5NmREZZztZAEEaSKlhvi-jMq_BoVmaR5hr64iwT7nwhs76ndFqlqM/s400/gatsby.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632846177317137010" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD93STm_F8BRFsJER6R9_Ds7oPG3jCvWVlyOq1ozzV1pjRXriBxhTfsYHscsfS3a-dfTxjlHWKiyaZMcLbD12TVp7DGEIomugQJS75PrzRc50KyyRHkxMsA3jsU48cJEAuIS0mlcZLokc/s1600/eyes-without-a-face.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD93STm_F8BRFsJER6R9_Ds7oPG3jCvWVlyOq1ozzV1pjRXriBxhTfsYHscsfS3a-dfTxjlHWKiyaZMcLbD12TVp7DGEIomugQJS75PrzRc50KyyRHkxMsA3jsU48cJEAuIS0mlcZLokc/s400/eyes-without-a-face.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632846174369042626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj36AH0u1sWkXhtcT0euh5aiuc-A5yUK8HQVWVIfVwd5nY6TKx-ev40ybWoOwknygtSsKxfW7JT2951J2Pvk9PB3r_wZXa1EkbI9qqNrvkbpIJjwr0A1OpVlf2gx9VQa4DA5MRzl08KNvo/s1600/tumblr_ll7n7xOplA1qanj38o1_500.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj36AH0u1sWkXhtcT0euh5aiuc-A5yUK8HQVWVIfVwd5nY6TKx-ev40ybWoOwknygtSsKxfW7JT2951J2Pvk9PB3r_wZXa1EkbI9qqNrvkbpIJjwr0A1OpVlf2gx9VQa4DA5MRzl08KNvo/s400/tumblr_ll7n7xOplA1qanj38o1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632846177159092210" /></a><br />Who said you could talk so much?pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-25104189937092807852011-07-18T09:51:00.000-07:002011-07-18T10:24:38.388-07:00Bad Habits<iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QcmJnNYAkFI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Now instead of stealing clothes from my workplaces in elaborate trash bag involved schemes and getting stoned all day by the dumpsters behind my various stores of work, biting my nails so I could go out at night and forget whatever it is I did once I got there, I now spend my days doing yoga, trying Pilate's, riding my bike by the river, taking long walks only to come home and eat a giant massive burrito the size of my head and slowly eat an entire plate of sage cornbread. It seems I am never able to just, chill, without a bit of the ol' self descructo rearing it's ugly head. I'm also fond of staring off into space thinking about all the things I should be doing and then instead laying on my back and listening to songs play on youtube. I need to get back to work. My idle mind is a lazy, hungry, money spending, exercise obsessing, too old for these shenanigans place.<br />In other words, I'm fine, how are you?<br />In the meantime, have you heard TuNe YaRds, yet? They are INSANE amazing. I'm posting them doing BIzness live and not the music video because watching her bust out those sounds from such rudimentary non fancy computer type looking instruments is awesome.<br />On a side note, it's been awesome having Busy in town. Things that have happened to her lately that don't happen to normal people: Sitting in the audience of a movie you've never heard of and hearing one of your songs used, or try this one: a teenage boy contestant on So You Think You Can Dance, uses one of your songs to dance to. The actual performance can't be embedded, but here he is doing it at some talent show, the actual video is on youtube. This kid is amazing, no? Ah, to be alive in the modern age.<br /><iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wQKcv5xdGKQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />And for good measure, the real thing live:<br /><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CacKN4gFUKU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-19269864214507402802011-07-14T15:52:00.000-07:002011-07-14T16:25:44.104-07:00Axe To Grind: Erika Anderson and Her Stratocaster Go Solo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSXh7j2AzZxwwKCP2ZWGocTFl0HP0SO4Qk00_Yq-9u8br8QYFPoIQiUPefDmaJyB_IedI5nw5B9aRQ-3Cqhu9CbjEX1Z9RL1f834SiX_WSoa6szb9uLn-201vbcOJl8smv7niUN6lRZg/s1600/EMA_carliguitar.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSXh7j2AzZxwwKCP2ZWGocTFl0HP0SO4Qk00_Yq-9u8br8QYFPoIQiUPefDmaJyB_IedI5nw5B9aRQ-3Cqhu9CbjEX1Z9RL1f834SiX_WSoa6szb9uLn-201vbcOJl8smv7niUN6lRZg/s400/EMA_carliguitar.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629347240226149026" /></a><br />Six months after writing this piece and searching endlessly to give it a good home I realized today, that duh, to despair is foolish, it's proper place was here the entire time, where I had editorial control. Whew! That's one long sentence! Enjoy. <br /><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZrKAR32WKU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Axe to Grind: Erika Anderson and her Stratocaster go solo<br /><br /> With a bowl cut of bleached blond hair, piercing green eyes and standing six feet tall, the word demure doesn’t come to mind when describing South Dakota native Erika Anderson, lead singer of the now defunct drone trio, Gowns. Her blog, cameouttanowhere.com, cites her as a direct descendent of Erik Blood-Axe, “the ruthless Viking warrior.” If you are familiar with Anderson’s technique: guitar destroyer, this makes perfect sense. <br /> Gowns quietly gathered acclaim from the beginning, Pitchfork described them as “one of the most jaw-dropping live bands on the American DIY underground circuit.” And if that weren’t enough, “If you never saw them live, commence to kicking yourself.” The band consisted of Anderson, former Mai Shi member, Ezra Buchla and Corey Fogel, a regular in the Los Angeles, Machine Project gallery folk scene. In 2007 they released their only album, Red State, a searing critique of post 9/11 America, the cover featuring a rendering of a Manowar jellyfish. The album attracted the attention of the blogosphere but even as they garnered cult status they remained a mysterious outfit, eventually breaking up onstage last February in what could be described as too band blowup perfect to be real. “That final show was crazy,” says, Anderson, who after the breakup finally hunkered down in her Oakland apartment where she had been making music and commuting to Los Angeles from on a regular basis since the mid 2000’s. “I haven’t thought about it too much since it happened but I just remember it sounding awful. We had just played two really great shows. It was my birthday and I think I just said something like, ‘It’s my birthday, sorry,’ and walked off. We all have really strong personalities and those guys are so talented and just focused and good at what they do, but everything we did was real, it was up front. That was the thing with us; we could never phone it in. In a way we needed the fear of God to make it come alive. It makes sense that that’s how it happened. I had some fears about stepping out and taking it pro, but like with Red State, it was important to me that I say something. So when I got a phone call from this woman a week after we broke up saying, “I saw you play three years ago, you blew me away, have you ever thought of going solo? I kind of went, ‘actually…’”<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfLpWpS1O5mXEBVGX6-A5M1dGXoB9eyR1mLyoOalpsZ2TmN-MBvMUUivZGKzsRzBYFE6skiGyc27V6CPbFtFwlFjw1Z3c6AsukAzR7f_npVVM1WyamtYEVZ4XcDqPdigVHooREyHkx81c/s1600/EMA_frusciante2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfLpWpS1O5mXEBVGX6-A5M1dGXoB9eyR1mLyoOalpsZ2TmN-MBvMUUivZGKzsRzBYFE6skiGyc27V6CPbFtFwlFjw1Z3c6AsukAzR7f_npVVM1WyamtYEVZ4XcDqPdigVHooREyHkx81c/s400/EMA_frusciante2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629347121640022882" /></a><br /> With the May 10th release of her debut album, Past Life Martyred Saints under the moniker EMA, Anderson is eager to tackle issues she couldn’t address as a member of a democracy. “A lot of this album is about homesteading, about my Norwegian ancestors coming to America and just going crazy in the middle of the prairie, how my grandpa was in world war two and my mother worked all the time so we could get by and about me moving to California and trying to make my way. I think about that, has my mother worked this hard so I can be a musician?” <br /> Anderson resists using condescending language when discussing the Midwest and takes personal offense to people like Sarah Palin who have turned ‘folksy’ speak into a sign of authenticity. “It’s such a cop out and is so insulting to the people who live there. It completely undermines their complexity as people.”<br /> If Anderson’s lyrics in Gowns reflected a political, and societal response to coping in America, then her new work speaks to music making itself and the power it holds over those who not just create it, but consume it as well. “I got really into the idea of production. The song Butterfly Knife is the first thing I ever mixed on my own and that’s why it sounds crazy. Eventually I had someone come in and explain the things I could and couldn’t do when mixing a song and now I know. Being in charge of your music is powerful. It’s not enough for girls to pick up instruments, they need to pick up Power Tools and not be afraid.”<br /> Waiting for Anderson inevitably will come the endless questions about holding a guitar beneath her breasts. “I don’t mind being asked about my gender, it’s the way I’m asked about it that bothers me. It’s always brought up like, ‘oh, look how good she can play. Or, ‘isn’t that special she’s a girl who plays guitar.’ I want to talk about it, but I wish people would talk about it in a real honest way. I’m terrified to say what I’m about to, but ladies, why aren’t you killing it? I don’t know if girls don’t feel comfortable onstage because there are so few things to emulate? Boys think, ‘I want to be like him and jump around.’ Girls I think realize that as soon as you get onstage people are looking at you, and think, ‘oh, be sexy’ because that’s what you see everywhere, women being sexy, even Blondie, is, I don’t know, ‘hot.’ They don’t seem confident even when they’re good and girls have to be the ones to change it. So I don’t mind talking about it because the way I play isn’t that difficult, tons of girls are better than me. The hard part is the entitlement. Women don’t want to be rude and take up space and I deserve to take up the whole stage. Let’s talk about that. I’ll talk about it forever.”<br /> Anderson who went on tour opening for Throbbing Gristle last summer remembers the guy who booked her for the tour, “I’ve never told anyone this but he was like, ‘I thought you were just going to have a little electronic set and use your voice.’ I think a lot of times my rebelliousness gets me into trouble, because I went out there and was like, I’m going to play a twenty-five minute rock in roll destruction song for these industrial heads. And the guy who booked me was really taken aback. I played louder, longer and took up the stage, I was like, I’m going to rip it up man. Afterwards though people were blown away, they loved it!” <br /> Watching Anderson tear apart a guitar leads one to wonder the last if ever time they saw a woman play the way she dives into her work. “I’m always worried that I’m going to be discredited and I don’t even want to deal with it. I think part of that is because of where I grew up. In high school my band was called Man Hater, I cringed at the name, but we were the only band with a girl in it. I always put it up front, made it so big and said the worst thing possible before they could. I mean, man hater, what can you call someone after that? It was like, you’re not going to fuck with me. Like with Gowns, the boys had less to prove, I not only had more to prove, I have something else to prove. Maybe that’s why I push myself so hard.”pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-1953427620717426952011-07-11T10:33:00.000-07:002011-07-11T10:44:22.072-07:00Ghosts on the Prairie<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26081737?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uuDekGbEoq-dnhzgA8qt-Heeh9uBKe5uzjb7cXgXVZUGwmZJVyezdCyudbEWevI9ab9WWIRnWzdiHTUspSxkl2OOWEpqQeI-Oi8C_8TYFDJLCda6Jr5uC08GyxirmorJ-Ryb1FfZSIA/s1600/MW-0100.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uuDekGbEoq-dnhzgA8qt-Heeh9uBKe5uzjb7cXgXVZUGwmZJVyezdCyudbEWevI9ab9WWIRnWzdiHTUspSxkl2OOWEpqQeI-Oi8C_8TYFDJLCda6Jr5uC08GyxirmorJ-Ryb1FfZSIA/s400/MW-0100.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628150657555084866" /></a><br />photo by Marianne Williams.<br />Emily is going to be at the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis performing her greatness. Past performers have included Laurie Anderson and Patti Smith.pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-65463352573417503732011-07-06T13:42:00.000-07:002011-07-06T17:24:02.108-07:00Hot As Fudge<iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GxhaRgJUMl8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />I've been a lazy blogger. Apologies. It's hot and I've been outside and then sick and then busy, Here is a smogasborg of the past few weeks. <br />4th of July with Biz in Lincoln Heights. The city was poppin. It was trancelike. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv09IrmAhIpKKt3OqfZu5iaHRJdQSNlMyCu5FpjEud41GbyyUH0T3ke_37ByCvNpAk-S_dKP0xuk0kKfZfRcBaZWn-CpdJl5774adbwodwPrgXIFn509VtD7bxe_S3V_uKE2IfN0kyt4U/s1600/IMG_0931.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv09IrmAhIpKKt3OqfZu5iaHRJdQSNlMyCu5FpjEud41GbyyUH0T3ke_37ByCvNpAk-S_dKP0xuk0kKfZfRcBaZWn-CpdJl5774adbwodwPrgXIFn509VtD7bxe_S3V_uKE2IfN0kyt4U/s400/IMG_0931.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626390904708967058"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCGFOqMWVl6rImtexjfj1mQ5B_mcCu2yuHWKHlEWqT73L4iAIDC_iJe3JPiK43n2Njf8dOJ01KVI1fL6lihQnSPGdAvP78E6zgH5ubnZwCer6x3xn7sOeTp52FgjiADEv9yBu6do78MuQ/s1600/IMG_0935.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCGFOqMWVl6rImtexjfj1mQ5B_mcCu2yuHWKHlEWqT73L4iAIDC_iJe3JPiK43n2Njf8dOJ01KVI1fL6lihQnSPGdAvP78E6zgH5ubnZwCer6x3xn7sOeTp52FgjiADEv9yBu6do78MuQ/s400/IMG_0935.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626390897760043570"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxQtCe6sOs2xD7CwOIUAoedYfn6qjGMh4c0ahlpSbY6RL4yRWzdR0jgw90ieeiIk_HmRyI3uYF5sHY8U2aDO4ouIQNPjDx6xV9RlMYYTypj3aAGun2n0h5Oq6rPFOonxnW1nptWjt_lI/s1600/IMG_0933.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxQtCe6sOs2xD7CwOIUAoedYfn6qjGMh4c0ahlpSbY6RL4yRWzdR0jgw90ieeiIk_HmRyI3uYF5sHY8U2aDO4ouIQNPjDx6xV9RlMYYTypj3aAGun2n0h5Oq6rPFOonxnW1nptWjt_lI/s400/IMG_0933.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626378452834589410"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDnjStaYjJZi-J2FebIGG6ivdvI4TRpq0hc9UE_iPk0M1d9_Yf3JdW1sJDINfeGHXOtCUk6s_dH152_O7W_9mGiUqXizb0GAb6de3j1S2FIoju_PH2o-2bX32Z9wmPjM9ErOzwz9eI6s/s1600/IMG_0947.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDnjStaYjJZi-J2FebIGG6ivdvI4TRpq0hc9UE_iPk0M1d9_Yf3JdW1sJDINfeGHXOtCUk6s_dH152_O7W_9mGiUqXizb0GAb6de3j1S2FIoju_PH2o-2bX32Z9wmPjM9ErOzwz9eI6s/s400/IMG_0947.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626390908791321474"></a><br />I made my first cake ever! Bun in the Sun, the theme of Nick's Palm Springs b-day getaway.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-u1yHr44Ednl4klI2z3LppBMZQfEOrIjGIX4pXM1PikTqEqtJ9IbQ_ZO_PyMxkRK0Tlf5CHhYOITHGDRxnGRgupVT9zCA4zpWRwuv9AFHEhOVWB18mEQ_cxQppPfUfVa5vjxYrJPs_wg/s1600/IMG_0812.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-u1yHr44Ednl4klI2z3LppBMZQfEOrIjGIX4pXM1PikTqEqtJ9IbQ_ZO_PyMxkRK0Tlf5CHhYOITHGDRxnGRgupVT9zCA4zpWRwuv9AFHEhOVWB18mEQ_cxQppPfUfVa5vjxYrJPs_wg/s400/IMG_0812.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626374863660344258"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvN-WBVfkr9BKI7AyUHZImPB0izLbQr1W9tTIdh2iTeCCXGw8B5qlq3gg5zMfpJ11kiVMR3cLWlpkhQy5Ji_rtnYULxZRnZSbMnKsqlP1D_a189MomQKmTzCvgbYBrzchcx7wr47EY-d4/s1600/IMG_0815.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkWced4McD0iFCRxjpLtmV_kCw-yORTpCMetuHmMTnQIyGSjY1MEehBOlBhHxW1Th_KfhsImEN1DK695t9Jk2tbrTiQ78z_tgyZ5AwRlIKf1CQ1zUeLhgw4XhXdwFamnQ2UlhUIkZyaA/s400/IMG_0917.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626344866284518114"></a>pasadoughnutshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788733496143252436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8370209405314364124.post-58684613718627640192011-06-24T19:39:00.000-07:002011-06-24T19:59:07.099-07:00Happy Bautismo Bitrthday, Athena!<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kO8p9Xvi_90" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Athena is essentially the funniest person alive. She is comedy central, they just can't pay her enough so she left. That's why it sucks now. Except for John Stewart but that's because Athena's sideways brain writes his jokes. And boobly bah! New York weeps for this creatures absence every night. As do all who have left her presence, forever yearning for her sunny light. I love you womyn. 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