I don’t know if this is about disillusion or just hitting a new point on the learning curve, but yesterday I realized that 99% of the people I admire, I don’t actually admire. That is, I admire the things they’ve accomplished, but I’m not necessarily into them as people. It is unfair to them and […]
I never thought I would even think those words, but the California DMV has me totally impressed with its very web 2.0 website. You know how most government websites are like Internet versions of Word documents? Not this one!
I just renewed the registration for my car and it took about 1.5 minutes. And there are […]
Half an hour in, and I am slumped forward in my seat, cradling my head in my hands. Five more minutes and my brain is pulsing against my skull from all the off-key notes.
I was led to believe this would be a dance recital. But there is one six-minute dance number and the rest is […]
I had a really bad day, one that started in a courtroom and ended in urgent care. Don’t even ask, everything is more or less okay now.
After urgent care, I curled in a ball on the couch in an attempt to relax and made things slightly worse by 1) flipping on the TV and watching […]
I don’t really get the concept of valet parking at all, because I don’t ever want someone else to drive my car. At the LAX Hilton, where I went to the opening of a film festival last night, they make it next to impossible to find the self-parking lot, so you get suckered into a […]