I think I understand why people say they don’t like a particular slice of culture, vampire fiction, for example, from the bookish point of view, or reggae, from a musical one, but it’s always made me a bit sad. By all means, bypass the crap, life is too short to read shitty science fiction, and [...]
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Referral Friday is part of an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! If comedians had radar, I’d be flying pretty far under Adam Carolla‘s. I’m old. I’m female. I’m a [...]
A huge part of my growth as a human being has been about getting down with how staggeringly, mind-bendingly uncool I am. If you’re silently protesting, don’t: I’m a dork, and I know it. I’m earnest, and I can’t hide it. My tastes run the gamut from lowbrow to middlebrow, with a smattering of whackjob. [...]
Yes, when Chief Nerd and Bottle Washer takes a day off, she engages chiefly in elective nerd activities. Yesterday’s project was a long put-off expansion and reorganization of communicatrix HQ, adding file cab #2 and getting the G5 back online at full operating power. This is notable for two reasons: First, nerds have unaccountable phobias [...]
My paternal grandparents, whose fireplace actress Bea Lillie is posed next to, led a very glamorous life pretty much from the time they hooked up. Gramps was a writer-producer in the Golden Age of Radio and (very much) enjoyed the attendent perks and privileges of such. Me? I liked the stories. Like the one about [...]
That goddam Brandon has already done it better than I could ever dream of (and on demand, no less), but a promise is a promise. And so I submit for your approval (or not) the poor little foundling post, dressed up and paraded before you like an awkward tween at the orphanage on Potential Parents’ [...]
After my recent stumping for the sisterhood, this is going to sound like a reversalist smackdown, but a story in this Sunday’s LA Times (I know, I know, but I like the ritual of fresh comics in bed) set me off. Big time. And I tried to ignore it, really, I did, but here I [...]
Today I auditioned for a spot I’d really like to book. The part is funny, the casting director is smart (meaning, the spots he casts are low in cheese factor) and, imagine, I could use the money. Casting directors often give a group explanation prior to a string of individual auditions to save time and [...]
I have no idea what Chris Penn really wanted out of life. I spent a total of maybe eight hours with him on the set of a small short film many, many years ago, and I use the term “with” loosely. He was playing an exhibit at an outdoor museum; I was playing a tour [...]
