Scott had to draw "Savings & Loan," so he drew a scene from It's a Wonderful Life. His Pictionary partner totally got it, too.
Co-Conspirators
September 08, 2008
August 03, 2008
comic-con 2008!
So I went to Comic-Con and took gobs of pictures.
July 31, 2008
mark and charley got hitched
Mark and Charley are more than just friends to me; we're pretty close to achieving some kind of crazy symbiotic relationship like those trees and fire ants in the South American rainforest. But with sock puppets. Yes.
Anyway, Mark and Charley got married on June 17 -- the first day that same-sex marriage licenses were issued in California. I was their witness! Their extremely weepy witness.
July 17, 2007
b-list jeans
Things I Have Learned About Kelly Osbourne:
1) Despite what the gossip columns say, she is not overweight in the least.
2) She has (had?) a penchant for striped jeans.
3) Really tight striped jeans.
The other night my friend handed me three pairs of designer jeans. "Take them, they were Kelly Osbourne's." Kelly is a friend of my friend's aunt and gives her all her cast-offs. I tried on all three pairs and immediately took them off because jeez, I don't know where they've been. They're alarmingly skintight but kind of great as long as I don't sit down or think too much about the cooties they might harbor.
May 08, 2007
so far so good
OMG my Shaolin martial arts class is so awesome. Right now we're learning a set of moves called "Continuous Fist." Yes! I will know how to do something called Continuous Fist! I can't wait to pound an evil-doer with my fist! Continuously.
The Shaolin monks are kind of otherworldly; they move in ways I don't understand. They can dislocate their own hips to strike certain positions, for instance. They could probably unhinge their own jaws if they wanted. Once one of the monks was demonstrating a move but he had his back to us so we couldn't see what he was doing. The interpreter asked him to turn around and the monk laughed and said something. The interpreter said, "He forgot we can't see through his body."
!!!
My fellow classmates are mostly hardcore martial arts doods with shaved heads and no sense of humor. Two of them were trying to impress each other by comparing their kung fu backgrounds; it was all bagwa this and bagwa that. I said, wow, there's a martial art called foie gras? and neither of them laughed. They both just looked at me and one of them said, "No." Comedy gold, people, COMEDY GOLD.
There are like three hardcore Hong Kong movie fan dorks of which I am one and we are extremely enthusiastic but woefully, unspeakably uncoordinated. If I dislocate my hip it's going to be because of a freak accident.
The monks dig me and regularly try out their English on me. Last week someone taught them the phrase "so far so good" which they found completely hysterical. When I got to class they were all, Hi, how are you? and I was all, Good, how are you? and they shouted SO FAR SO GOOD and exploded with laughter. It ruled so hard.
Yesterday when I arrived the monks were all, How are you? and I said SO FAR SO GOOD and again: peals of laughter. You guys, it's my first Shaolin inside joke!
Can you tell which monk is the splashier one?
February 06, 2007
arterial sclerosis has never been so tasty
Instead of watching the Superbowl, my friend JoAnne and I did the poutine tour of Los Angeles. I earnestly documented our day and made a Flickr set.
