June 27, 2008
How do you know your famous??
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847925/
I name drop to my daughters friends that my nephew works for pixar...
it's pathetic, really
. It's not a Cleo, but I'm proud of you buddy
June 24, 2008
He done did it
Last week (my first week off since I finished at Tippett) my brother graduated from Brock. I posted some pics up on flickr if you want to see them.
We all probably remember the pensive 'what am I going to do with my life' emails that Justin has posted in the past. Little does he know that those questions don't stop now that you are out of college - actually they just keep getting more and more layered.
Who knows what they are going to do with their lives yet? I think Rob just paid off his house - maybe he is the closest one of all of us to figure that out.
June 19, 2008
HEY BRETT...
does wall-e suck? b/c i've heard that it might and that makes me sad because he's soooooo cute. i think i want my own wall-e. he'd be much more dedicated than my damn cat (which is not really my cat anymore - again). work on that for me, will ya?
fill a sister (and the rest of talblog) in...
sincerely,
possible wall-e lover
June 9, 2008
The Nerve...
i love pie.*
a few weeks ago my friend noticed a banner at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica advertising a PIESTA & PIE BAKE at the Bev Hills farmers market this past sunday. did you say PIE-ESTA?!?!?! greatest name EVER for a pie festival.
MARK. CALENDAR.
i can absolutely wake up early on a sunday for pie. all sorts of pie. cherry pie, apple pie, mixed berry pie. i was ready.
sunday morning rolled around, finally....i picked up the girls, drove to 90210, parked at my office and walked the few blocks to the farmer's market. we entered right into the middle of two pie booths and a kiddie pie playdo station thingy. next to that was a pie judges judging booth and some chairs lined up for spectators. this is great! let's go find the rest of the pie. hmm, a kettle corn booth, no. fresh crepes booth, no. friggin pony rides, NO. we walked in horror as we realized that the rest of the booths were all regular farmer's market stations selling the usual flowers, veggies and fruits. WTF?!? no seriously. i dont understand.
yep, there were only TWO PIE BOOTHS. TWO. one sold only apple pie slices, but the second one had at least ten different types of pie, they looked so good. "i would like a slice of the cherry pie" .... DENIED. "sorry, these pies are for the judges only." what do you mean, but there are no other pie booths!!! G*DDAMNIT, WHERE IS MY F*CKING PIE??? we had envisioned scenes from southern bake-offs and something worthy of the big cakes in "Pollyanna." this was supposedly worthy of a BANNER on a major intersection and all i get is this.......
sorry excuse of some pie. $2 bucks i'll never get back.
to add insult to injury, the "entertainment" began as i begrudgingly bought produce and honey from local farmers (when in rome...). this barrel of laughs consisted of a middle aged man juggling knives in front of 15 geriatrics seated in folding chairs. i only know this b/c he started freaking out over the microphone system when he successfully sliced a banana in half mid-juggle. they weren't even machetes. "DID YOU SEE THAT! I JUST SLICED THE BANANA IN HALF WHILE JUGGLING THE KNIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" i choked down half a slice of mediocre apple pie (who puts oatmeal in their apple pie?), then we bailed when Bozo moved on to juggling fire.
i was so disappointed, that i was back at the car before i really realized i had bought a pound of cherries and THREE pints of strawberries to make myself feel better. SOB. (i have spending problems). so i said F you to the pitiful attempt at a pie festival and made two big, fat strawberry pies for me and my friends that afternoon. and they were damn delicious!
someone forward this to the city of beverly hills...no matter how much money they have, they totally suck at throwing parties.
*(disclaimer: not so much peach pie)
June 8, 2008
Check out this crazy japanese business
wtf is that! I hope this starts me posting some real stuff again.
June 6, 2008
Rocket Man flies on jet-powered wings
This is seriously bad-ass. An old pilot made his own jet powered wings and flew around for a bit. Innnnnsanely cool. Hopefully Lorens seen this.
Rocket Man flies on jet-powered wings
Man that's cool.
June 5, 2008
Coldplay & one dedicated fan
well it's about time we get a-postin on this thing again...thought i'd share a super big highlight of my year...it's taken from a mass email i sent out on wednesday:
so i wish i had made this a much more hilarious email, and intended too, but ran out of time. my apologies to you all...
coldplay was in town this week, finally announcing their ONLY show date in southern california (tix go on sale this saturday and i'm freaking out b/c there aren't many tickets avail).....SO, after their radio interview they were set to perform on jimmy kimmel monday night (airing wednesday - 12:06am EDT/PDT - ABC) and i couldn't handle the fact that they were in town and i wouldn't be there so (like a nut), i drove to hollywood after work on a fanatical whim. my friend cara used to work for capital records and her friend still does and was on the list...so, knowing i wasn't on the list, i figured i could catch some of it from across the street (on the other side of the fence). luckily, i knew the concert was happening in Kimmel's back parking lot which is small. as i drove up, i noticed a civilized line of street rats outside the back fence, waiting to get into the concert area...drat! must think of another plan. so i parked, frantically changed clothes in my car, crossed over hollywood blvd, and walked through kimmel's back alley where i ran square into a black SUV. there were a few people surrounding it, but i didn't care, i had to get to the man with the clip board 50 feet ahead. well, suddenly magic johnson unfolds himself from the vehicle...UGH, YOU ARE NOT CHRIS MARTIN...but i did marvel at his hugeness, as i was only as tall as his rib cage.
luckily jimmy kimmel's security is pretty much at the pre-9/11 standards so i walked right up to the guy with the list (past magic johnson who was IN MY WAY), put on a really pretty smile and gushed how i was sorry i was late, but that i was my friend's plus one and she was already inside etc etc....the guys made small talk with me and couldn't even find cara's friend on the list but just handed me back my ID and said, "OK just go to the other side of the stage." it's times like these when i thank God that he made me a pretty girl b/c that's the ONLY reason i got in.
i ran/walked right into coldplay rehearsing and there were only about 25 people there at that point. IT WAS F**CKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i felt so bad though b/c cara was supposed to be there and couldn't get out of work....so i basically took her spot. i found her friend and we stood around for 2.5 hours b/c kimmel was taping two shows worth of bits, but it was so worth it...coldplay ended up playing six songs (four new ones) and i was so close, chris martin was sweating on us...gross, but so cool. the jokes/banter in between the songs were probably the best part...at one point kimmel made a comment about f**ing ben affleck and chris martin retorted with something along the lines of, "as someone's who's wife used to f**k ben affleck, i take there very personally jimmy." ha!
i PRAAAY i'm not on camera at all b/c i was a total lunatic and was in the second row, stage right. i'm serious, at one point i waved at the camera like it was my first day of kindergarten and my mom showed up with cupcakes. sooo embarrassing. i was wearing a short sleeve button down with a blue vesty thing, no make up and psycho eyes. watch for me! (UPDATE: half of my face was on screen for about four seconds during the original broadcast, hooray! i'm still trying to find the rest of the performance on the website.)
it definitely improved my week...actually the only highlight of the week...ugh i'm tired.
reporting live-ish, not really, actually "previously recorded",
Missy
