Someone needs to make a Twitter-like microblog platform for reviews with character-count limits. Reviews of all kinds, not just of restaurants. One site with lots of micro-content prongs. Feel free to steal this idea. It would be a good mobile site. A micro city magazine. Yeah! I’d read that.
So many Yelpers write New Yorker-length essays […]
A band that feels like rainy days, heartbreak, digging through old photos, melancholy, and regret… and getting over all of the above. Like Nico, but male vocals and no German accent. Sample lyric: “Let me not be too consumed with this world / Sometimes I want to go home and stay out of sight for […]
There’s a lot more to write about my trip, all the reasons I didn’t want to come back home, but I want to get all the materialistic stuff out of my system first. You’ve been warned.
Something about traipsing up and down all those hills makes it really hard to gawk at people like you can […]
Last night, the moon hung so low, so close to the earth, that I lost sight of it as I drove through Encino on Ventura Blvd. It dipped behind the squat minimalls, this deep orange moon, some omen for the Valley.
Anyway. I found a good quote by a French mime (yes, very ironic), Etienne Decroux, […]
Tonight, watching Dariush Mehrjui’s newest film, Santouri, I thought my eyes would pop out of my head when I saw some Persian insults I always thought rather tame (naa-mard, for instance) subtitled “fuck-face,” “dickhead,” and “faggot,” among other choice terms.
Granted, the film is about a junkie, so these words captured the spirit of the dialogue, […]
At the Zen Buffet on Victory Boulevard, if you come late for lunch, they want you to check how much food they have left before they seat you. Everything looks fine, so we stay, and the hostess walks us to a booth by a window looking out onto the vast parking lot. I can see […]
I’m mildly obsessed with Mindy Kaling’s shopping blog, Things I’ve Bought that I Love. Take this gem about dressing up in winter, for instance, something to which I am totally relating right now because I am flying to New York for work tomorrow and have nothing to wear but ugly sweaters and jeans that don’t […]