shes 24.

born to a latina mamacita and a persian poppa, sarah is the perfect blend of both cultures.

shes funny and crude and sexy and sassy. shes an ‘sc grad so shes smart and shes an LAist alumn so she knows how to rock it.

when sarah first came to Metromix i used to have lunch with her so she would feel welcome at the times building and it has turned into a regular thing.

since then i really thought others would join us more and sometimes ali comes with but most the time its just sarah and i and its very nice. during lunch i try to find out which of her super hot friends shes gonna hook me up with and she tries to find out which one of my xbi superhero former marine buds will tear down her door and sweep her away.

i first met sarah when she was working for a pr firm that would pitch crazy things to me when i was at LAist. they wanted us to write about their stuff and her pitches were so good that i was all, if you really wrote those things, could you write about things that you actually like? and sarah ended up writing super personal very funny things for us at LAist and im glad that has turned into great success for her at Metromix and now Brand X.

happy birthday hot stuff, cant wait to party with you this weekend at our favorite bar with all your single ladies.

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:

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