and i went into an xbi building
because theyre always trying to eff with your head, it doesnt surprise me that here in this brand new building they have these elevators that only stop on every third floor
MAKING YOU get off and use the stairs to get to the other floors
very John Malchovician
very xbian
sorta funny when you least xpect it.
and yes i got paid in cash.
Jeff Twaddle is the early favorite of this year’s Darwin Award:
Last Friday, Twaddle was trying to entertain a group of about 20 elementary students when he put a bait fish in his mouth as a joke, officials said. The fish became severely lodged in his throat and Twaddle quickly lost consciousness, said Long Beach Fire Department Battalion Chief Frank Hayes.
Twaddle was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
you can read the rest on KTLA’s site.
Some say the kids will probably be traumatized but I think they learned a valuable lesson.
shes 23
i often call raymi the worlds greatest blogger but thats only in her dreams.
im of course the worlds greatest blogger, but raymi is my favorite one.
she does everything right. everything perfect. everything the way it should be.
she blogs every day, she shows you everything, she tells you everything.
she writes about being mad or sad or good or bad. she takes photos of just about everything other than her poop.
she videos herself cooking and cleaning and drinking and mixing drinks and dancing and stripping and riding in a car and lounging with sass.
raymis always up to something. shes always doing something.
her blog is in motion.
hyper motion.
its her secret sauce.
it makes it perfect.
it doesnt hurt that she can look great in anything,
it also doesnt hurt that her bf is an excellent photographer, and an absolute gentleman with excellent taste in music.
oh im sorry did i say boyfriend, i meant fiance.
its amazing that raymi hasnt become a reality tv star by now but thats probably because shes from canada.
americas toupee.
upon which raymi is the hello kitty barrette.
when he helped create Blogger.com he was just ev, but now that he helped create twitter he is @ev.
@ev is partially responsible for the busblog and one of the main reasons that i have stayed loyal to Blogger.
@ev is not just a really smart man but almost everything he has touched has broken
and then it turned to gold.
recently @ev went to washington to meet with our president of the united states @barackobama. i believe that one thing he was able to teach the president was how to deal with things when they are broken and breaking so that you can reap the rewards once it’s fixed.
anyone can create something good. but how many can create something thats good, that has flaws, that runs across negative issues, that can then come out victorious in the end?
not many.
our economy is going through that right now, and who better than @ev to coach @president about the @disaster.
one thing i like about @ev is he keeps his team small. the Blogger team was about a dozen people or less. currently, believe it or not, the Twitter team is just 25 people. i also like that he took a good chunk of those blogger teammates and had them work with him at Twitter.
i also like that he is leading this new thing and not some douche from silicon valley.
i trust @ev.
i think everyone does, which is why Twitter is secretly doing so well.
happy birthday @ev! thanks for blogger, which has gotten me everything in my adult life that i could ask for, and now its fun to teach these crazy people at the LA Times about blogging and twittering (two things i do a majority of my days.)
bottoms up!
update: just found this interesting video interview i did with @ev in November of ’06 when Twitter was just a few months old. for some reason it got edited poorly in the middle but its still cool:
being monday spaceland was packed because admission was free and there were two, count em two big bands fixin to play: nico stai and australias the grates.
grates took the stage first at 10pm which was a huge mistake for nico because Patience has a way of stealing a crowd and making you forget that there are any other bands in existence.
she woos the boys she woos the girls, she dances like a freak with ants in her pants, she smiles she jokes she is clearly having the most fun of anyone in the house and that joy is contagious.
silver lake and particularly Spaceland can come across as too-cool-for-school and judgmental and jaded and for the first half of the 45 minute set the crowd just stood there and watched. they may have had smiles on their faces but they didnt bop their heads they didnt dance they just witnessed their own baptism.
it wasnt until near the end of the set did they realize “oh, theyre good and these songs are instantly approachable and easy to get. fine, we’ll allow ourselves to party” and thats when the dance party started.
which was too bad for nico and his band of jersey boys because when a crowd peaks at 10:45pm on a school night and you dont hit the stage till 11:15 then once again the grates have won.
we know this in part because the grates’ merch sold out (except for Mens shirts, size small, perfect for the echo park hipster on your twitter feed) and there were plenty of crud from everyone else.
because i got there a tad late i got to see the entirety of spaceland entranced by Patience and it took a while to wend my way into the main rock area and then a few more song to get to the front row. no one was moving, no one was leaving to get beers, and no one was peeing. they all wanted to see what magic was inside this trio (plus their pal on keyboards).
that mystery remains but you can investigate it on their US release Gravity Wont Get You High, and their import only (get it on ebay) Teeth Lost, Hearts Won.
word from the band is they will return to the states in the summer so get ready to find a new band to totally love.
and check out the guest stars at the end
is that not one person who came from LAist has gone away
sadly that streak has ended with the lovely ali miller
the good news is ali is leaving on her own terms, to pursue a career in exotic modeling
we wish her well.
update: turns out ms. miller is not entering a “career” in said field (that was just a thank you image). in actuality she is going to be working with one of the leaders in the video game world, an area that she totally excels in. to a scary extent.
that’s right, the three bad brothers you love so well, the Beastie Boys.
tix on sale in may so save up
to see how she could hang
went to the other donut place in inglewood that has a donut on the roof
then had some delicious soul food at Berthas
bertha has a beautiful list of rules which we tried to obey
berthas kids run the front, her husband sits by the door and says “Yeah!” when you enter and when you exit.
we found some hair in the cornbread
and then in the chicken.
didnt stop me one bit, but the date was not at all impressed. more on her later.
the busblog hasnt asked much of you all in quite a while. used to be a time when id ask my lovely readers for money, or dates, or really outrageous things. but in the last few years, to be honest, i havent needed a damn thing.
today i need your help.
a few months ago i switched servers. it was a move that was seamless for most of you. i quietly moved from the sweet soft servers of Nothing Special over to the industrial strength love of canadas Media Temple.
all was well except for one thing – Google started indexing the busblog as if it was some new thing. and the search results that this 8 1/2 year old blog used to get naturally were suddenly not there.
the most damaging was the result for my name, tony.
so this is what im asking of you. lots of you link to me, and for that im indebted, big time. but many of you link to me as “tony pierce” or “da blogfather” or “my babys daddy” ect. and sometimes you link to my how to blog rules or to just tonypierce.com
all of those things are super nice, but lets try this one thing.
just link to me using the single word “tony”, and make the url http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/bloggy.htm
once there was a time when this humble blog would rank in the top 3 simply for “tony”, and even though im now in the front page of results for that word Ocassionally, if we organized who knows what might happen.
so if you could, and would, change your links that would be oh so swell.
gratzi, tony