Tag: Los Angeles
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happy friday.
Last night. I was sound asleep. Then I heard screaming. A man, screaming, “I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU!” I bolt up in my bed and stare at the window. My heart is racing, but my brain is not quite fully awake, but Wonder Killing: No, you know that…
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A Letter from Alicia Fox, librarian at Children’s Institute
[This letter was in response to asking if she needed help unpacking/sorting/shelving/etc.] [readermail] Hi there! Thank you! I will need help sorting or labeling but I’m not sure when. I’ve been obsessed with opening the boxes each day and condensing them into the bigger boxes. If I didn’t I would run out of room! I’ve…
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2007 Strikers Guide to LA Studios
This is the funniest thing to come out of the strike. When searching for your ultimate picketing destination, don’t leave your home before checking Jonathan Schmock’s Essential Strike Guide.
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Two You Tube Finds and Ray
First: everything you need to know about the strike, with Neal Pollack and his five-year old son Elijah. Then, another from the series Strike Life. This one features friends Laura House, Jason Allen and Liz Feldman. And for those of you wondering how to one day find yourself semi-naked with Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman,…
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Day Four. Updates.
Let me see if I can paint the past week for you really quickly. OCTOBER 29. Monday. We get to work knowing it’ll probably be our last week of work. We are frantically writing what will be our final script. Pencils down is coming soon. We are hoping against hope that a strike will be…
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Calling All Los Angeles Cool People
Finding yourself with a little free time and a burning desire to feel like you’ve done something important with your day? 826LA is in desperate need of drop-in tutors. You have no idea how much a little bit of your time will help someone else’s life, and make you feel pretty good in the process.…
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fun with mom. (snippets from the cell phone)
[scripty] PAMIE Mom. Mom! Richard Grieco just walked into this coffeeshop. MOM Who? Oh. From 90210. PAMIE 21 Jump Street. MOM Which one was he, again? PAMIE Booker. He’s the one who was not Johnny Depp. … Which I bet he hears all the time, including in his nightmares. He had the spin-off, remember? Booker?…
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It’s Not You, It’s Me.
No, I’m not still reading that book. And no, I’m not still listening to the Violent Femmes (thanks Delphine and Dave for your concerns about my iPod’s state). I can’t even really blame the job, but I will anyway. I’m working, and AB’s here, and life is hard and I’m trying to get this year’s…
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do you want to know a secret?
I just wrote three hundred words of the next novel, so you know it’s time to procrastinate with so many more words over here. Because it’s easier, okay? Leave me alone! I’m trying to be an artist! So. The Festival of Books. Yeah, yeah. I know. It was a month ago. Let me see if…