the second best day of the year

clearly, halloween is the best day of the year. the second best day of the year is the sunday before halloween, that's when the Long Beach Dog Parade takes place. this year over 600 dogs strutted their stuff in the parade. here are a few highlights:









not technically a dog but still top-notch couture

what does Obama have in common with fabric strips?

a whole heckofalot at the Marinello Spa Academy - where they wax your legs with the little spoons that come with ice cream sundaes (look in the bottom left corner) and they let McCain supporters go crazy with the label maker.

Visiting the house of Jackie Treehorn

i am a HUGE fan of The Big Lebowski. i am also a huge fan of mid-century design and architecture. so i was simply jazzed to see, while perusing gossip site D-Listed a few weeks ago, that the Armand Hammer Museum in LA was offering a tour of the John Lautner-designed 'Sheats/Goldstein Residence' on October 12.

in The Big Lebowski, Jackie Treehorn (known pornographer and producer of Logjammin') lives in the Sheats/Goldstein residence. the movie makes it look like it's in malibu - which it is not. but other than that, it looks EXACLTY like in the film. lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.

here are some pics. and proud i am of all of them.


the man in this photo is Jim Goldstein - he lives in Treehorn's house.


the Dude sat here

an ever newer adventure in hair removal

i'm pretty much broke (thanks to THAT ONE, i guess) and that lends itself to creative thinking in the hair removal department. shaving, which is free, is not an option.

therefore, i just made an appointment for a full leg and underarm wax at the Marinello Spa Academy on fairfax. even if they're students, they have to be AT LEAST as good as the lady in the back room of the nail salon, right?

OCTOBER 20 - POST-MARINELLO VISIT. I WAS WRONG. OH SO VERY WRONG. I LONG FOR THE BACK ROOM OF THE NAIL SALON. (See new post above).