Month: August 2005
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first LA job stories, you say?
Rule #1 on the long list of rules governing when it’s a good time to leave New York, the city you grew up in, and move across the country for the first time: try, if you can, not to complete that move on September 4, 2001. Your first week will be bad. Your second week…
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Apoplex, Please!
Hey, here’s a bad idea: watching this week’s episode of Six Feet Underif you’ve ever had anyone in your life die. Jesus Christ, that was painful. Work went late tonight. Had to cancel dinner plans. We’re officially in production now. One of the things I do miss about my pre-television life is my lunch schedule. Every…
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Am I Typing What Is the IS THIS THING ON
HI IT’S FUN TO HAVE A NEW BLOG IM DAN AND I LVOE WRITING!! I HOPE Y’ALL LIKE THE BLOG IT’S GREAT TO HAVE A BLOG I’M GOING TO WRITE ABOUT ALLM SORTS OF THING LIKE BOYS AND STUFF LOL!!!!
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do not curb appraise
Running through my neighborhood today, I passed a sign outside a house for sale. Underneath the three signs with phone numbers and information about the realtor, there was a tiny sign dangling from the bottom, on hooks. It said: “I’M GORGEOUS INSIDE.” In Los Angeles, even the houses need validation.
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Green Day: American Idiot
song: “Give Me Novacaine” Green Day is the boyfriend you have your sophomore year of high school, the one who likes to talk about poop and thinks it’s funny to push you to the ground and fart on your head. You hate Green Day, but you love Green Day. And one day you decide you…
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Look How Pretty!
Sweet, smart, beautiful Anna Beth Chao made this pretty website with her two bare hands. So tell her she’s wonderful, because I couldn’t be happier with pamie.com’s new digs. Also, I’d like to give a very special thanks to my boy JD at Myrmid Hosting, who keeps this enormous site up and running when all it wants…
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“and some days they last longer than others.”
Friday morning. No sleep. Have to get to the airport. My bones ache and I’m sure I haven’t packed everything I need. I don’t have the strength to think. I make it to the shuttle. I turn on the iPod, loud. Shuffle plays cruel tricks.
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Dan hopes Casey likes his twelve year-old mix
In 1994, I found an unlabeled mix tape buried under the passenger seat of my car and named it “The Other Mix I Made For Casey.” Casey was — and continues to be — a dear friend and one of my favorite people on the planet, and we discovered that our relationship was able to…
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Dan is stuck on the 405
Dear drivers of Southern California: The exit to Ventura Blvd. off the 405 North is closed. It has been closed since June, and will not be reopened until September. Look closer. There’s a sign a full three miles before the (closed, by the way) exit that reads, in no uncertain terms, “VENTURA BLVD. EXIT CLOSED.”…