its 225am

i should get to sleep, but before i do, heres a lil roundup o love

– leah is young, talented, married, a home-renter, and rad, and now she takes great engagement photos like it aint no thang

– krista takes pretty damn great pictures too. check out the one of her cats creepy mouth

– speaking of… someone you know just got his first photo credit in the LA Times dot com

flagrant and the pants havent posted in two weeks

danielle haint posted in damn month

– sonic youth’s daydream nation painting on sale for the low low price of $5 million. um.

this dude will do stuff for money for your ass

– yes Kareem is still blogging (almost every day) for the Times. yesterday he answered more questions from the fans via video including one where someone asked him when was the earliest evidence of African Americans in North America. his response: 700 AD, yo.

– its sorta awesome when the owner of your company is wilder and crazier than youve ever been ever (even though you went to UCSB)

xTx wrote the best poem you’ll read on the interwebs all week

– and for the ladies: semi nude pics of the female screenwriter who brought us Juno

sign of the times

when i first interviewed at the Times i wanted to make sure that they were truly committed to blogging. i was curious as to whether they believed (as I do) that blogging was a cornerstone of present (and future) online communications, and fit into the vision of the newspaper as a whole.

when i met with my prospective boss, Meredith Artley, i asked her as respectfully as possible “has the sleeping giant really woken, or does it just have one eye open?”

she said that the giant is awake and rubbing its eyes in regards to blogging.

that made me happy and confident.

if you drive around LA today you might see some electronic billboards advertising some of our blogs.

i see it as the giant stretching and yawning.

or maybe it’s putting on slippers.

photo of an electronic billboard hyping L.A. Land, one of our fine blogs

big brother hypocrisy

when hypocrisy stems from elected officials, its not cute

when it comes from cute babes in reality shows, its not just cute

it’s sorta adorable

above you will see chelsia yelling at my girl amanda for running about with her booty out, and then you will see chelsia doing lapdances, letting a dude lick her, and then making out with the stripper i mean hooters girl i mean bikini barrista.

is this what people mean by catty?

hey tony what were those girls dancing to

at the fondue party?

the ting tings “thats not my name”
not available on american itunes – so dont try it!

the ting tings are like the white stripes except the dude plays drums and the chick is blonde and gorgeous and just sings on the hit, but plays guitar occasionally. it’s a modern miracle. her name’s katie white and shes almost rapping but not even. he’s jules de martino and they’re from salford, uk. nme put them in their top ten last year.

going to sxsw? you can see the ting tings at the KCRW showcase at buffalo billiards

they’ll only be in the US for 7 little shows, one of them being in nearby echo park

3/9 @ Vera Project, Seattle
3/10 @ Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco
3/11 @ rec centre studio, echo park ($10)
3/18 @ Great Scott, Boston
3/20 @ av-erie, Chicago
3/21 @ le royale, brooklyn, New York
3/25 @ KCRW SHOWCASE @ BUFFALO BILLIARDS, AUSTIN

killer waves in LA today, bra

20something foot waves in some parts, mere 15-foot swells elsewhere.

Joe Bailey, a Seal Beach lifeguard captain, said most inexperienced surfers were staying out of the water.

“When it gets this big, most people know their limitations,” he said. “You can feel the power of the waves just standing on the beach.”

But that power didn’t discourage Dorin Buchanan, a 16-year-old boogie boarder from Seal Beach. “Sunday was death, just a wall of white water ripping hard toward the pier,” he said. “Today was a lot more manageable. It was really fun out there.” – LA Times

sweet photo gallery here, rest of the story here

big brother last night was probably the hottest, dirtiest, most loving thing ever on cable ever


it started with a strip show of some sort


which turned into a massive semi nude makeout session in the pool and hot tub


they even ganged up on the dude whose gf just got kicked off


while the makeout sesh happened, the three girls who didnt participated gabbed about it all


and the make outters called them names and made out more


the saddest/funniest was when the fake boob girl kept getting denied
and when the dude from the gay films and huge dong jumped out to do his thang

one reason ryan seacrest is a failure

is because he doesn’t know how to handle a good thing when it’s friggin tossed right in his friggin lap

gary busey graciously gave seacrest something interesting during another lackluster three hours of “omg hi” and “omg what are you wearing” and instead of taking the bull by the horns and riding that bad boy bareback, he turned positioned himself nervously behind two women as a human shield.

joan rivers is a million years old, is as petite as anyone in hollywood, and if busey had tried to bum rush her show she would have either kneed the buddy holly star in the family jewels or traded jokes with the man.

but seacrest is the epitome of phony baloney and doesnt know what to say unless its either written on a card or whispered into his earpiece.

your life is fucked and youve outted yourself on national tv when you sheepishly shriek for the aid of affleck from the current milf of the week.

stay off my carpet and go get your tips teased next year, seacrest, or we’ll send anonymous after your ass next.

karisa had a few people over for fondue last night


and whaddya know i was even invited!


earlier in the day we had sushi together and all was well until she explained to me that her cell phone wasn’t doing her right, so maybe for her birthday in a few months she might find herself with a new iphone? btw, all the pics in this post were taken with my iPhone.



believe it or not but this was my very first experience with fondue in all my years.
we had beef, chicken, shrimp, and later chocolate.
karisa has three fondue set ups.


we also had hella champagne which helped make the ladies dance.


the kids started talking about 2 Girls One Cup which Dave and Abdi had never seen


the girls freaked out, but dave hung in there


for a smidge

so then i said, hey have you ever seen goatse.cx?


apparently they hadnt


karisa had to go in for seconds.


thanks for popping my melty cheese cherry, rockstar!