Best Late-Night Text From A Mystery Number:

Heard on news someone checked into the psych ward wearing just a thong & riding a goat. I'll come get you BUT THIS IS THE LAST TIME!


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The whole Jews:guilt::peanut butter:jelly thing was getting old - and plus I got my ass kicked tough-love style by a close, long-time friend - so at the end of the year in San Francisco I hauled myself to one of those meetings designed to aid those of us with issues of codependency. I am not much of a support group joiner, but I had reached a point ( Read more... )

is one of my least-favorite review conventions. Because it's always about the othering. You know, like "You don't have to be a black lesbian to enjoy the films of Cheryl Dunye." The writer is essentially saying I, A NORMAL PERSON, JUST DISCOVERED THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE TO RELATE TO THE HUMAN CONDITION! Nobody ever says this ( Read more... )

I think of myself as a dessert warrior, food sensitivities be damned. With enough digestive supplements, I will tackle whatever postprandial delights you set before me. No Cookie Too Rich has been my motto. Until now.

I just got taken out by one of these:


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And so it begins. Three to four months' worth of bone-chilling 50-degree weather and three to four days' worth of rain that mark this season here in Los Angeles. Yesterday, displaced Angeleno creepingivy told me she declined to answer my call because that would mean taking off her gloves in Kansas windchill negative 10000000. Thirteen years in California has ( Read more... )

And all it takes is three little letters!


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I'm in the devil's playground that is Bed Bath & Bath & Body Works, smelling some thing or another, and I hear this loud voice announce:

Mexicans LOVE vanilla!

I'm all ?? and look up to see this older white lady lecturing her rapt grownup children about how "They have a THING about it, all the cab drivers blah blah whut." And my mouth opens and I ( Read more... )

A broken parking meter is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, especially when it looks like this. Thank you, fellow Angeleno!


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ETA: The rep I spoke to at the SOS office told me they are required to count all ballots. I think it does not hurt to keep the pressure on. So, pick up the phone plz.

According to the office of the California Secretary Of State, PROPOSITION 8 HAS NOT BEEN CALLED. They are still counting ballots...and they will not know the results until DECEMBER ( Read more... )

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