I've been struggling not to let the cold weather shrink my world: it's so easy to come home from from my day's ladypose, rip off my false eyelashes and stick them to the wall, boil up some rooibos with cut-up ginger, and collapse into bed with a piece of the dogshit British "chicklit" library I have amassed (and oh god, that is a bleak genre. If ( Read more... )

The more I learn of idiom-rich but neologistically resistant Mando, the more I think, like, this language is not as expressive or precise as English. But my beloved Russian ex-roommate Nellie used to dis the shit out of English, claiming it was not as expressive or forceful as Russian ("I would never say to Eugene 'I love you.' In English, it has ( Read more... )

Are there any current or erstwhile McDonald's employees reading this? Are McDonald's restaurants supplied with real eggs, like, in shells, or are the breakfast egg pucks achieved by unnatural means ("pour 100mL of chilled albumin slurry into poach-hopper. Titrate yolk slurry with micropipette until egglike yolk:white ratio is achieved. Do not ( Read more... )

I'm back from Xiamen. The job was wack: concerned that we wouldn't finish with the eight hours of shooting in time for our 9:00pm flight (ridic!), the client made my call time 4:15am ( Read more... )

Appallingly, I realized this morning that I've read three of the five books I brought with me to Shanghai. I need to have a set of pages to turn at all times, so I forced myself to examine the literature left behind in the models' apartment ere I cash my personal book stash. An archaeological excavation of the layers of left-behind shit in models ( Read more... )

Boss quiff, Winnie. Or is that your brother Lonnie?

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One down, nine to go.


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Imagine the planning session that preceded this expedition. If you have access to a good mental cholo (I mean, if there's a cholo in your head who can perform the dialog, not a fleshly cholo who is "mental" in the British sense), ask him to read it to you. That's the accent I'm imagining ( Read more... )

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