Lebowski Fest 2009 - A Natural, Zesty Enterprise

Last week Ben and I attended night one of Lebowski Fest Los Angeles 2009. The fest featured lots of people dressed as The Dude, plenty of Walter Sobchaks, a screening of the movie and of course, the white russians were flowing. It was so much fun to be around people who love the underappreciated cult classic like I do. We did not attend night two, which was the bowling party and costume contest. However, our costumes did make onto a couple of LA websites.

http://la.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=23509254&event=748853&CategoryID=34141


click and scroll down for a very good photo of ben as The Big Lebowski and me as Brandt
(could not get hyper link to work! - it's worth a cut and paste in your browser)

http://www.la2day.com/nightlife/la2day_at_lebowski_fest_09

and now for a few photos of Dudes


Duder


El Duderino (if you're not into the whole brevity thing)


This Dude brought his Lady Friend (do not call her his Special Lady)

Further Adventures in Hair Removal

anyone who reads this knows that hair removal is one of my top discussion topics, hobbies and research subjects. get a group of friends together, add a few drinks, and hair removal talk is inevitable. to that ongoing conversation, i add my experience from yesterday.

as you can see in photos, i cut my hair very short about five months ago. while i do love having a look somewhere between pink, sally bowles and rod blagojevich, i am plagued by hairline growth in my neck/nape region. ben has gone at it with our clippers, and i've taken a razor to it while in the shower. but it leads to stubbly regrowth and a yucky five o'clock shadow.

when i last got my hair cut, crystal rose said "you should get that shit waxed!". surely she must be joking. i didn't think it possible. but yesterday while getting my eyebrows and mustache did, i asked ina, my waxing lady, what she thought.

"oh sure, honey. i have done for girls before. we try it. if you like it we keep doing." she said in her soothing russian accent.

so we did it. and it hurt but not TOO bad. and the results undeniably beat the pants off either
1. as-is hairy neck or
2. shaved stubble neck.


comic attempt at trying to photograph my non-hairy neck.


maybe if i hold the computer upside down...


this is the best it's going to be for showing purposes. i have on a headband so my herr looks janky anyhow.

San Fran Friends Tour April 29-May 3

thanks to all my san francisco hosts for a fabulous weekend!


Sarah, Nate and Vanessa at the VIP reception for Roger's event at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.


Roger's exhibit 'Jews on Vinyl' at the Contemporary Museum


Roger's exhibit: detail


Justin in the Longwillow's radical yellow 1973 Corolla. It might be a '71. Not sure but I do know it RULES.


Gio is CNE and Lynn's 5 year old son. Heavenly.


CNE ponders all the goodness that is Tsunami - Asian Tapas, Sushi and Divine Cocktails.


Rebecca and Justin Longwillow. Rebecca's smokin' hot hairdo .


Lynn makes a culinary dream come true by bringing me to Tommy's Joint for Brisket! Long ago I saw it on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network.


Sarah has her hands full at Nate's 40th Birthday party - Georgia 27 months, Hank 11 months.


Jeremy and Sara recently moved to Palo Alto after 15 years in Cambridge, Mass. Their son, Eytan, will be 2 in June. He calls me 'Carrot'. To die for.