Year: 2008

  • Black Bean Soup?

    It’s still keeping me up at night, so if you have any ideas, Dave and I would love to hear them.

  • doping.  just not me.

    doping. just not me.

    Taylor’s pre-game ritual. [courtesy of ab chao’s derby pics.]

  • bam.

    Oh, like you don’t do this on your weekends? I’m working on my Roller Derby Debut entry. But until that’s finished, there’s this. Pamie Creates a Pile-Up from Glark on Vimeo. I’m the girl in the blue helmet, rounding up the back, slamming to the rail causing my teammate (sorry, Kiss M’Grits, I stepped in…

  • “I’M LIZ FELDMAN’S FUNNY VOICE!”

    She hates my impression of her, I know. But I cannot hear this voice she uses without thinking of being by her side on a stage in Aspen, hearing a crowd break into applause over how funny she is.

  • Thank you, Senator Obama

    For the first time since the Nixon Administration, my mother has registered to vote. My mom, who actively tries to avoid knowing news because it upsets her too much, has HAD ENOUGH. She is voting for change and is on my sister’s ass to get registered by tonight’s deadline so they can vote for Obama…

  • tomatoes are good for you. (and you!)

    Yay for Sarah Bunting’s Donors Choose drive, which is almost at $100,000 raised for over 16,000 students. How cool is that? You can help– …send a field trip of 130 Los Angeles 8th graders to the Museum of Tolerance… …keep a New Orleans school’s student-written newsletter up and running… …fund the supplies needed in a…

  • get up (again)

    Oh, it’s early. With the amount of people that will be in this living room in thirteen hours, I had to wake up before dawn. Coffee. Writing. Coffee. Writing. Writing. There’s never been a better example of Los Angeles’ hurry-up-and-wait-then-everything-hits-at-once policy than this weekend of script deadlines, out-of-town guests and my first game in the…

  • Get Up

    [I was asked to write a script for the Baby Doll Brawl trailer based on my “coming out” entry where all the skaters in the Baby Doll Brawl would share a monologue about why we skate. In the end, someone else had cut together the All-Star reel to use instead (and we’ve been so busy…