Believe it or not, it’s been over a year since I’ve been on a stage. Yup, one whole year (and a summer) since Shane Nickerson organized the first L.A. blogger performance thingy I’d ever heard of, “Subject Line Here.” Since then, Leah Peterson of LeahPeah has taken on the heinous task of riding nerd herd [...]
Los Angeles
I know, I know, we live in a city. A big one. A humungous one, even, that affords many excellent niceties only a larger metropolis can offer. Still. Still… This week’s heat finally forced me to attack my most-loathed chore as a (rental) householder: the replacement of several slats of my jalousie windows with gigantic, [...]
Via email from Neil Kramer, a.k.a. Citizen of the Month, who brought the world-famous Sophia to last week’s premiere performance of Subject Line Here, an evening of L.A. bloggers reading their stuff out loud: Car ride home (well, actually to Canter’s) Me: “So, what did you think of Communicatrix?” Sophia: “For someone so skinny, there [...]
I’ve cranked on Los Angeles so much lately that I feel I owe a belated apology to my ex-husband, who was the biggest crank-on-L.A. resident Angeleno I’ve ever met. His reasons for hating L.A. (superficial, phony, ugly) were different than mine are (traffic, overcrowding, traffic, increasingly ill-tempered drivers and traffic), but the cranking is the [...]
A rare personal plug for a rare personal appearance onstage: Me. As Tanya, the Whore. THE STRIP. Satiddy night. Details posted at blogging.la. Be there or be a snatch-sniffin’, crank-smokin’, degenerate hillybilly sister-daughter. xxx c Photo by John Zalewski.
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 [...]
