Author: Pamie

  • 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…

  • (hee hee) x 3

    [scripty] Dana Happy birthday, Allison. Pamie Yeah, happy birthday. That food was so good. Allison Thanks. I love this place. Scott and I come here all the time. It’s kind of ridiculous. One time last week, we came in for lunch and dinner. Dana You must come in here a lot, because when you were…

  • went a little crazy

    The Ting Tings: We Started Nothing her space holiday: xoxo, panda and the new kid revival The Watson Twins: Fire Songs Murs: Murs for President Shelby Lynne: Just a Little Lovin’ Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed

  • very soon now.

    …And then possibly I can go back to some non-derby-themed topics. Forgive me for being so one-note with this upcoming bout, but I’ve been pretty much living at the track for the past month, working on the continuing saga of “Do I Suck As Hard As I Think I Do? (Yes, I Do/No, I Don’t/Yes,…

  • devouring both

    Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Sean Condon: My ‘Dam Life

  • Taken.

    About sixteen seconds after you finish your first derby practice you start to think about your derby name. It becomes pretty much an obsession. Every name you hear gets twisted into a violent and/or sexy pun. It might seem silly, but it becomes an all-consuming task, because you are essentially naming your alter ego. Your…

  • You Can Cover a Derby Girl’s Ass

    My Baby Doll Brawl team needs uniforms for our upcoming bout, so we’re looking for a sponsor. Sponsorship costs $500, and gets you (and your company): 1. Announcer mentions at the bout 2. Banner in venue (for that game only) 3. 1/2 page ad in program ($75 Value) 4. 4 VIP tickets ($100 Value) 5.…