Pamela Ribon

Tag: Los Angeles

  • lattes of the rich and the famous…

    The constant social disconnect that is Hollywood can be fun, but it can also get frustrating. I’m at a Starbucks staring at a man who is either: A) Someone I met recently and had like, a single conversation with, which means I met him at a party, or I had a meeting with him, or…

  • Dreamlike

    I just finished watching Waking Life, which in itself is a trippy-floaty experience, an animated fantasy that explores our dream life compared to our waking life, asking what happened before we got here, what’s going to happen to us when we’re gone, and how has our process of evolution changed as we’ve become more aware…

  • Tanned In the Place Where You Live

    I’d like to think I’ll try anything once. (Here’s the point where stee shouts “Woo-hoo!” jumps up from his computer and starts making a list of all my female friends, ranked in order of hotness.) So when Hilary called a couple of weeks ago to ask if I’d be interested in getting a fake tan…

  • A Night with the Other One

    Last night ended with three of us laughing and gasping in an elevator. I said, “Well, this is the strangest night I’ve had in a long time.” The other two quickly agreed. I ended up at a bar with a new friend, who happens to be a very pretty girl. Now, listen. I’m aware that…

  • Pretty Pits

    Do you like the new redesign? It’s all because Anna Beth is a good friend who hates looking at an ugly webpage. She did it all herself while I sat on my ass going, “I don’t like that color.” “Fix that.” “Make it work in Netscape.” Anyway, I love it, and I love her for…

  • “This One Time? At Journal Camp?”

    If everything went well, right now Anna Beth just walked into Master V’s arms a thousand miles away from me. I certainly hope so. Asking a mom to spend five days away from her family is asking quite a bit. I had a blast having my friend here for so long, but I knew she…

  • Bizarre LA Moment #437

    Bizarre LA Moment #437

    “Aliens are outside. Did you see? Did you hear?” I’m standing in the lobby of the Second City building, waiting for the show to start when the commotion begins. People are walking out of the building, craning their necks to the left and staring into the dark night sky. “Come see the U.F.O.,” he says…

  • Pep Talks

    To live in Los Angeles, you must have a thick skin. Just about every single day someone is going to turn you down. Someone is going to reject you. Sometimes entire companies take a quick glance at you and say, “No.” You want to know why. The truth is, there’s no real “Why.” Sure, they…

  • “Burn, Glendale, Burn?”

    “Burn, Glendale, Burn?”

    There are good days, and there are bad days. Yesterday was assy. There’s a fire going on just outside my window. The hills have been on fire since noon yesterday. It’s a pretty big fire, and now they’ve been working on it for almost twenty-four hours. It’s not that the fire’s close enough to threaten…

  • “She’s So LA.”

    Ugh. I did that thing where you get yourself all worked up to work out and then you over workout trying to be a bad ass and you feel bad for the rest of the day. Where I live there’s a reservoir with a track that runs around it. I guess it’s about 2.5 miles.…