Comments on: Nudity and WiFi

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:56:56 +0000

Blogged about this post. Interesting!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:10:34 +0000

Surely there must be a way to make that list longer…

By: Nick Scholl

Nick Scholl — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:23:53 +0000

“Lack of access.”

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:35:10 +0000

I can’t wait to hear more of your impressions of Los Angeles nuttiness! That place is bonkers! If they’re not giving you The Face, they’re all, “Oh my God how ARE you?” and not meaning it, sashaying around in their giant sunglasses.

By: Tiffany Fung

Tiffany Fung — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:36:07 +0000

what a tomata

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:42:11 +0000

Nico- Re “the face” – One doesn’t get it much in Vermont- but then one doesn’t get much of anything here in Vermont- other than Vermont- which as you know is plenty, kind of. My theory is that “the face” is simply dumb people who are being asked to think.
Yes, To think about you. Your reservation, your parking- whatever. That’s why they have celebrities- Celebrities allow them not to think. Oh it’s Brittany -she must have a reservation. Pamela Anderson right this way ( she still alive?). Read- “You’ll Never Lunch In this Town Again” Before next trip to LA.
About Stravinsky- yes off course and those idiots asking for Beethoven structure are the ones making money feeding the idiots (like me) who watch their conventional narratives. In Painting Cezanne did the same thing- non- hierarchical structure ( Phil Glass of course who took it from plumbing- despite the waste line being seemingly more important than the feed line it’s really not- no I think he took it from Indian festival music and modernism- and minimalism) Stravinsky with all over compostion Joyce and Wolf in literature- i.e. modernism ( why my last series of ptgs were neo-modernist- because modernism now
has to be an affect- since it’s “over”.
What is with this benefit for the Main st. museum? I didn’t even give to Dr.’s w/out Borders this year! The only Luncheon benefit I went to was for Landmine Survivor’s Network fopr the Narchios Stavros awards at Chelsea Piers. Epatha Merkeson or whatever her name be there
as MC- but the real point speaking of girlfriend is that the Guardian was saying that these Opera folk were taking their fishmongers to the Opera- which of course is the thing to do in these days of oil crise
and escalating food prices- If you DON’T
take your fish monger to dinner you won’t have fish. Ask your mother how she got the stolen trout we et? huh? She snuggled up to trout thief. And in future my dog and I would prefer if possible not to be referred to as “another homosexual and his dog!”
Andy & Boss or if you need to accentuate
my queerness-Queer Andy and his Bi- dog
Boss. I couldn’t even handle the Religious
gay thing- makes me too crazy- good for you for digging in there. Saw a nice gay- aids movie called The Witness, last night by Techine- who did The Wild Reeds.

By: Aeijtzsche

Aeijtzsche — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:45:03 +0000

I am also an LA apologist.

The whole driving/parking anxiety is something I dealt with a lot when I lived in LA.

The great thing is, everybody in LA expects themselves and you to be late, so there’s really no reason or excuse to be early.

And the key to dealing with weird parking issues is, I concur, to be very mellow, loose, and meekly confident. You have to act like you’ve gone through the procedure hundreds of times before. If somebody gives you a hard time, you have to act like they’re a little kid you’re playing a game with. Lots of gentle laughter…

LA is a good place, for me at least.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:31:34 +0000

I wonder how often that face has been mine? It is my face, not my voice, that gives people their first sense of what I am like.

“It’s alright. I’m meant to be here,” is a truly inspiriting idea. Now, if those of us with faces could convey “It’s alright. You’re meant to be here,” the world would be ok.

By: UI

UI — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:29:26 +0000

I’m in Lagos now, and you’re right of course. I’m curious — when were you in Lagos, and what were you doing here?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:35 +0000

I, too, am staunchly opposed to the FACE. I actually had an entire BODY and VOICE to go with the FACE last night at a gas station. Horrid. Especially considering all I wanted was to pay for some petrol.

By: Daniel Wolf

Daniel Wolf — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:24:01 +0000

As a native Angeleno, I must come to the defense of the ways of the Southland. The first rule of LA is that, in every new encounter — unless you’re repossessing cars or dealing real estate — is that you have to get yourself totally mellow inside and radiate loose confidence outside.

The best way to prepare for any encounter is to waste large quantities of gasoline: hop into a large late model car late in the night, crank up the music of your choice and transit freeways randomly until you achieve either oneness with LA (see also “flow, go with the”) or get some serious munchies, which can be adequately answered almost anywhere at any hour in LA except, of course, for that place in Westwood with toasters at every table.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:01:52 +0000

But has the GPS lady seen you naked? She might not be so officious …

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:52:53 +0000

In its variety of nuances for the expression of rudeness, LA rivals even England. Come home from these bad places.