Some nutcase (or several) are setting fire to cars parked in garages and carports of condo complexes and apartments all over West Hollywood and Hollywood, sometimes forcing evacuations. I think it's up to 40 different ones now since Friday night, the most recent on Sweetzer in the complex right behind the WeHo City Hall parking lot and adjacent to ( Read more... )

Went to the dentist Weds because I had a tooth that was  bothering me - my back  left molar.  Ends up it was fractured all the way down into the nerve  and there was no way to save it, so out it came.  Then I had to come home and try to hold ice packs on my face while working until 3:30 in the morning  to get ready for a 9:00 meeting with a new ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I was at the checkout with (amongst a lot of other things) a bottle  of that pre-mixed Gold Margarita stuff - you know, with a relatively minor amount of alcohol already in it?  The conversation went something  like this.

-    Checkout guy - ID?

-    Me - (not paying attention) pardon?

-    Checkout guy - taps on the bottle and says " ( Read more... )

I love, love, love this video.  I think I watched it about 10 times over and over the first day I found it a few months ago.

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Brought back memories to see this yesterday.   I remember going to see this movie combo as a kid with a big school group.  I guess it’s all about Harry Potter now.


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The minute I got to LA as a teen, I felt like it was home.  It fit me like a glove.  I have been trying to see if there's some place I think I could live in the Bay Area for a while - to be closer to my parents through their health issues, but I just don't feel like I *fit* anywhere up here.  I went to wander around San Francisco to see if I ( Read more... )

 Ha!  Some of them dressed live cavemen.

"The uncontrollable band of gay political glitterbombers that have been destroying the very fabric of good, American manners have pulled off their most daring feat yet: glitterbombing the reparative therapy clinic of famous Dr. Marcus "Pray the Gay Away" Bachmann. En masse, and in costumes!

Since Dr. ( Read more... )

 Looks something like this.


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I've been getting a flood of LJ birthday alert messages lately, so I thought maybe that was a sign it was time to post. So . . . . . .

Happy Belated B-day to

stlmark  (Mark)
mickey0801  (Mickey)
mblj  (Mark - again)  ;-)
yep_i_am_dennis  Dennis
And last but not least, angelo13 (Bryan)

If you ever log in her and see this (I rarely log in here anymore), I'm hoping you are all healthy and happy - ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone! Wishing you all a safe and Happy New Year. 2009 was a tough year for me and countless others, so can't get worse, right? Here's hoping ( Read more... )