and he’s making a nice little living as an artist
AND as a winemaker. a double threat as the ladies call him.
anyways every day i get a gaping void cartoon of his in my inbox
and this one made me smile.
check out his blog and sign up to get his cartoons in your inbox too.
and if youre into buying prints, you can buy his art. i think this one is $125.
now im torn. should i see that or Kick Ass tonight?
so many decisions in life.
how did the indians do it?
and yes that is katy perry with her below
taylor did two really interesting covers. one was of justin timberlakes “what goes around”
and the other was of perry’s hot n cold where the spunky santa barbaraian popped up and did a duet with swift on the very stage where taylor was ridiculed for dueting with stevie nicks.
none of the 19k screaming girls cared about anything other than having fun. which made it fun.
taylor flips her hair around awkwardly. she struts around on cue. she raises her sparkling guitar in the air and holds each pose as if she needs to catch her breath. all small details which the 20 yr old will iron out as she continues to headline tours.
but whats most important is she can write a pop song that her audience can relate to.
only question i had was, hows she supposed to write about those no good boys who break her heart if shes locked in her ivory tower while on the road?
the weirdest tune was the finale “Should’ve Said No” which brought up images of Blue Man Group and Flashdance because of the banging on the garbage cans ending in a drenching of water to end the gig.
cuz everyone knows the shows over when the hair and makeup are ruined. 🙂
yes i will see her again.
its not fair that the evil people in life appear more interesting than the good.
its not fair that the crappy parts of our lives get more press than the sweetness.
it sucks that the radio waves will forever be filled with victim songs of sorrow
and diary pages are loaded up with longing and sadness and fear.
the busblog has always tried to keep it positive, not because im so sticky sweet or optimistic or wonderful, its because i spent so much effort writing bitter sad scary poems that i found it a waste of time because evil begat evil.
which isnt to say that ridding myself of that bile wasnt helpful. any time you seriously can evacuate yourself from poison is a fruitful exercise, just beware of being in a constant mode of exorcism.
and it was hard. no doubt. this blog launched a month before 9/11, youre telling me it couldnt have easily developed into some negative paranoia of hate and deceit? of course it coulda. and it woulda been easy.
the lie is that easy is good. the fib is that its harder to change.
yes it would be slightly harder for me to go to the gym every day. but not that much more. this is hollywood, there could be worse places than being a single man in a hollywood gym filthy with aspiring model and actresses.
the fact that those types do nothing for me also shouldnt be a deterrent, for it would be easier for me, thus, to get my gym on.
hard is not that hard. change isnt that intense.
life isnt that long.
thats my problem with gyms. id like to live a little before i tap out. what good is spending so many hours in a gym? how come treadmills arent wired into the Grid? all the iron being pumped, wheres that energy going? thats my problem with it.
i got problems with everything. who doesnt. id love to write a book with all of them in there. then id like to burn em.
id like to drive around the country and go to book signings where afterwards we go out back and light em all on fire.
id call it bring marshmellows and it would start off with something like this is a song about a superhero named mary.
Headlines mean so much to a newspaper as for the most part people scan the heds and the pictures and read the captions on the photos before they dive into the stories.
Most people don’t realize that the writers rarely write the headlines, that duty goes to the Copy Editors. This morning our copy desk, for the second year in a row, won the top team headline prize from the American Copy Editors Society.
Here are some of their award-winning headlines:
Dave Bowman
In the
world
of tag,
he’s it
Street artist Mister Cartoon has found his scrawl space: movie
billboards, custom cars, video games. He gives them all ‘cred.’
Blake Hennon
The tie that binds them
Players from 1968’s Harvard-Yale classic, with its
29-29 final score, reminisce in a winning documentary.
Paul Ybarrondo
Two wings and a prayer
All 155 on board survive as jet loses power, lands in Hudson River
Laura Dominick
Nice
work if
you can
avoid it
The ‘funemployed’ — jobless, mostly single folks in their 20s and 30s — are opting to hit the beach instead of punch the clock.
Jennifer Karmon
Group of 20 summit may
give Obama 19 headaches
Dave Bowman
Pageant rocked on its high heels
Miss California USA organizers say Carrie Prejean
hijacked the event to spread her views on marriage.
Jennifer Karmon
Obama
backs
off to
move
ahead
His concession on a public insurance option boosts
the chances for his overall healthcare effort.
Dave Bowman
A circuit
bard for
Silicon
Valley
Computerese isn’t the only language in the capital of high tech.
Today, the ‘Hollywood for engineers’ unveils its first poet laureate.
Laura Dominick
Nevada is checking under the mattress for cash
A lawmaker wants to legalize brothels in Reno and Las Vegas.
Kevin Leung
Thanks, see you earlier, Leno says
Now go subscribe to the paper and support your local blog editor.
but whatevs. Guest asks “how do i get Coachella VIP tix?”
coachella is fun, but its so much funner to pay twice as much and get to sit in the shade
and have access to a full cash bar, and drink and dance and pee next to celebs.
or just pose for pics with them
or tell them how much omg you love them and your mom loves them and omg
theres a few way to get the VIP wristband for around $300, but probably the safest is to get ur butt over to Glass House Records in Pomona.
if i were to go to coachella again, only way to fly is VIP.
id nominate kristin pony for supreme court justice
why not.
you know why the economy is coming back? cuz the kids like obama. they feel part of the process. the president tweets. you know what that means to young people?
plus he was born in kenya. they love that the most.
so here you have this guy. might be good, might be bad, but the kids are suddenly interested in government and politics. so the other day when the president was indoctrinating the school children and people were all, omg thats terrible, the young people were like what IS it about this black man?
and when he spoke he said hey everyone lets turn around this economy
and they ran out and threw all their money into the stock market, and now look at it.
so what you do is you appoint someone almost exactly like kristin to the supreme court
and you tell me that the kids wouldnt instantly be in to blind justice.
and start to be good. and produce quality music.
and maybe then she’d bring back her blog
and now that i have them again
and you in my life
and a great camera
i can now die peacefully in my sleep.
hell awaits, true, but
AS IF!
yesterday the LAPD honored one of their own who had fallen in Afghanistan. apparently the 20 yr veteran was in a vehicle like this when it ran over an IED and the explosion killed him.
the marine who drove this vehicle up from oceanside said that its not a tank, that its a light armored reconnaissance vehicle. he says it weighs 14 tons and can go 80 mph. i said man you must have gotten here in an hour. he said, “no 5 hours, we went during rush hour.”
since i dont know squat about military stuff, i just said, “cool grenade launchers” and thanked him for protecting america.
since it was a funeral it meant that you could park in the streets. but only if youre a cop.
and they said it wouldnt last.
brand x is motoring away and today they celebrate their first anniversary.
so proud of the young women and men who put together this weekly celebration of insightful features, profiles, news, and reviews that reach a slightly younger demographic than our flagship paper.
if only you knew how hard these folk work.
lemme put it this way, lets say its 9pm. lets say most of the building is gone. lets say youre walking through the second floor. there will be a Brand Xer or two plugging away. it might be Ali (above), it might be Deb, it might be Alex… you get the point
lemme put it another way. lets say its 6am. odds are Richard is blogging away for the blog. well before the dawns early light. well before yours truly even awakes. and sometimes he’s rockin before that time.
which all makes it not one bit surprising that their content is so solid and their success is consistent and sure. i heart them all.
the busblog approves of this birthday.