my father tried to talk to me yesterday about the importance of not getting pregnant. bless him, but that was très awkward. thanks dad

speaking of fathers, i greatly enjoyed this: http://mydadisafob.com/2011/08/07/danger-game/

death ride

bagel left for his 270-mile bicycle death ride from los angeles to las vegas almost 2.5 hours ago. if you see him en route within the next 18.5 hours, please give him a catcall. if you see him stranded on the side of the road, please mail him back to hollywood.

pastry fingers

buca says every new graduate's life is currently sucking post-college. even the people with glamorous-seeming lives. so...don't let 'em fool you.

mask face

i'm using mrs. tuckersman's cucumber peel-off mask and i feel like i just rubbed crazy glue all over my face. looking forward to recreating the poltergeist scene where the man rips his face off

home theater

mom: i think that dog movie i watched this afternoon was for children!!!
me: well it was called COOL DOG.
mom: that dog could drive! it wasn't even believable!

poltern

i just watched poltergeist. it was terrible.

my mom says that my grandmother used to say that when you're moving, you should never say out loud where you're moving to, or else the ghosts in your home will come with you.

vegan dinner

last night at a vegan restaurant in echo park joshua taught me to never leave behind the customer copy of your receipt because the server can misreport your tip (add five bucks or so) and you would have no documentation as to otherwise

afterwards we went to a lesbian bar in WeHo where i ran into khenkel as well as a girl with whom i worked in the usa pavilion office in china. lesbian bar is where it's at.

thinking about lots of people in different places all doing the same things, snacking, feeling bored, worrying, lounging, missing their friends

labor day weekend

labor day weekend bagel and i sampled korean, deep-dish pizza, and hamburger cuisines and melon and moon cake and i had my first black and tan and we napped and watched the borgias and other scripted television and slugged around and went morning bicycling at the rose bowl. i bicycled twelve miles on my new swobo, nina. we took the wrong freeway home and ended up at the foot of a very dramatic mountain wildfire, with big black plumes of smoke. it reminded me of niu mowang (牛魔王), the bull demon king from the classical chinese story journey to the west, who lives on a mountain of fire (火燄山). The flames that can only be put out using a magical fan which is in the possession of Princess Iron Fan.

isolation doesn't make things better

so many hugs and kisses you're like stop already, luca

i'm reading dave eggers. what is the big deal?

i had my first strawberries and cream frappuccino from starbucks yesterday. it was disgusting.

dippin dots

i used to be, like, really patient.

now, if it can't be done in an hour i'm over it