Apparently, I'm about ten years too old and two limbs too mobile to make it in Hollywood.
My friend Lauren is a spirited, intelligent, movie-loving young lass who's already planning to take Hollywood by storm. (As pictured at right, she is in talks with a group of ducks to option their life story for two sacks of breadcrumbs and a pretzel.)
I met Lauren when I was working at the Starbright Foundation, a nonprofit that helps sick kids. Thursday night, she was a guest speaker at a fundraising dinner for Starbright.
Her charms know no bounds because as this article shows she has scored a friendship and future working relationship with none other than Steven Speilberg. With nothing more than a wheelchair and a wink, she's already catapulted past most aspiring filmmakers in this town.
So bravo to Lauren, I say! Hoorah and hooray! Move that wheelchair aside so I can start kissing your ass - you'll be running Hollywood before I know it.
--opus
posted by opus at
9:19 AM
I was poking around a site when I noticed an add for earphones which was addressing me by name. I started to get a little pissed off - what security loophole had I overlooked that allowed these guys to actually figure out my first name and automatically insert it into their adds.
To research further, I went over to their website in order to figure out who these bastards are and how they got my personal information.
Turns out they're just a nice company who named their earphones "The Opus Earphones.". Now I feel like maybe I should buy some. They're already personalized.
--opus
posted by opus at
1:09 PM
Sunday morning, I woke up and heard the vague thumping of house music in the distance. Better than the accordian-straining tex-mex that sometimes gets blasted from passing cars, I mostly ignored it.
Then I walked out my door and saw, over on Santa Monica, some sort of fair. I bemoaned the fact that I was already late, because I enjoy fairs. And cotten candy.
Then I began to walk to my car. That's when I noticed there were gay men EVERYWHERE. You may ask why I assumed they were gay men. I usually am not a person for snap judgements, but when you see a team of fellas walking towards you, each wearing assless chaps and a black leather vest with no shirt, holding hands... well, if they were straight, they were extremely comfortable with their sexuality.
I did not have my camera with me, so imagine the ducks pictured here are very very gay men.
I moved from West Hollywood, a city that has a pride rainbow as part of it's flag, to Silverlake, where I live a few blocks from a gay bookstore. So I'm completely comfortable with seeing gay guys walking around. But what confused me is why, suddenly, on an otherwise sleepy Sunday morning, there were hundreds of them, roaming gangs of gay guys, strutting their fabulousness in every direction I could see.
Later, as I was driving away, I noticed a poster on a lamppost. It was an ad for the "2005 Los Angeles Leather Street Fair."
I'm glad to live in a city where even leather-loving homosexuals get their own fair. Now when is the 2005 Nerdy Tie-wearing Heterosexual Boy Street Fair?
--opus
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11:34 AM
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