a big event

even before we bought our apartment in may of 2006, there has been ongoing construction at the end of hayworth (our street). a parking lot that used to serve as overflow for the Director's Guild of America (the dga) is becoming a 4 or 5 story mixed-use building, retail on the bottom floor and loft-style apartments on top of that. we have not had a sidewalk on sunset blvd between our street and laurel (where the cpk and the gym is) since we moved in here. we've perilously walked in traffic risking our very lives for a neopolitan-style white pizza or an eyebrow wax by tommy at apple nail.

until this week! finally, the scaffolding is gone. the sidewalk has reopened, only better! there are planters and cobblestoney-type brick inlays. it's a whole new paradise.

i made good videos of this but am having trouble posting them. so instead, here are pics of handicapped chihuahuas who use little scooters to get around. try looking at this and not smiling.

getting there...just 20 years too late

one of the best things about my santa monica library card is that i can check out 5 dvds for a week at a time - free of charge! lately i've been watching some eighties classics that either 1) i never saw as a kid or 2) i saw once as a kid and not since.

the film festival thus far has included:

valley girl - josie cotton as the prom entertainment singing of 'johnny are you queer?'. how did they get away with that? oh, right. it was 1983. in 1983 i took a breakdancing class at cochise elementary school where i learned a dance called 'the fag'. scary.



heathers - i saw this once in 8th grade at jen garber's house and not since. until this morning. the line "swatchdogs and diet cokeheads" has been with me all day.


sixteen candles -had never seen it the whole way through. xenophobia (nice gong sound!) plus what ben describes as 'one of the great rape scenes of our time' - when jake ryan puts his girlfriend in the rolls royce with anthony michael hall really got me larfin'.

Caroline: Who's he?
Jake: That's me.
Caroline: Who are you?
Jake: I'm him.
Caroline: Oh, ok.

man, that cracks me up.



thank god MAD MEN will be on in about 20 minutes! A little misogyny, homophobia and bigotry doesn't seem so bad coming out of the hot curves of joan holloway and the dapper coif of don draper. i LOVE that fargin' show.



joan, you could fire me any day of the week.

in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room

after two wonderful wedding expeditions it was delightful to spend a weekend at home. but first...



viva and james - boulder, colorado. august 31, 2008

to see how the incredible sergio captured the magic
http://www.sergiophotographer.com/vivienneandjames

and


vini and raj - phoenix, arizona september 6, 2008
the biltmore might never be the same

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8IcsnDNyzaNLS

back in los angeles...

after a quick trip to ventura (about 1 1/2 hours north of la) on saturday ben and i stopped into the Tonga Hut - which is purported to be la's oldest tiki bar. it was pretty rad. they had carved easter island-style heads - ok - night at the museum style heads, (dum dum wants gum gum), and fruity bevvies. i had the "squirrel of paradise" which is guaranteed to make you squirrelly - per the menu. i biffed my jukebox selections by not realizing you have to pause between inputs - which resulted in some creepy trash metal interspersed with what i intended - sergio mendes and duran duran. the rockabilly lady at the bar was unpleased.

check out this coach

it's the OBAMA-MOBILE! driving to the convention to pick up his vp

someone i love has a blog

i just found out tonight that one of my very best and favorite friends has a blog too. she might not have a kicky pantsuit (yet) but she does have her own URL


www.brownisthenewblog.blogspot.com



no, not toothless abe lincoln. it's nats!

and a video

pippa's wedding in 8 photos

pippa married kyle a week ago and it was a wonderful weekend for everyone. she walked down the aisle to bright eyes' 'the first day of my life' and showed us that a wedding is not a party until you bring out the argentinian in everyone.