Ilya, Phoebe and I took Ken and Katie up to Joshua Tree yesterday; a sort of coup de grâce to complete their week-long visit to Los Angeles. As we departed from Echo Park the sky was cloudy, and I silently wondered whether the day would bring any good opportunities to look out over the desert [...]

Who would have thought a day in Santa Monica would actually be somewhat fun (just kidding, beach denizens of Santa Monica!)? We decided to postpone our plans to drive to Joshua Tree with Ken and Katie for one day, and instead drove down I-10 to the crown jewel of…I don’t know, it’s one of the [...]

Here’s a funny thing you should read. Fans of the heavy metal band Machine Head debate my Top Ten Pick-Up Lines on their messageboard. My favorite is the person who used the “Zzz” emoticon to show how bored he was by my writing. That guy’s a total dick, and for that he can call himself [...]

In case you’ve forgotten, Futurama returned today. Bender’s Big Score is now available on DVD at your local big box store, I imagine. Here’s a cool interview I found with David X. Cohen, which sheds a lot of light on the process of making the feature-length epic, as well as details about how Comedy Central [...]

October, 2007
Harmful or harmless, careful or careless. Snakes wrap themselves around withering branches on rotting trees. Coiled like lovers who never know coldness. It came again last evening, or the one before, I don’t remember details anymore. So much passion and mumbled words between melding lips. She and I were soldered and unbreakable, but already [...]

I feel like such a waste of life. I got absolutely nothing accomplished this weekend. This is like a dead zone or something. Ken and his lady-friend Katie have flown out to LA from Jersey and are here staying with us for about a week, but all we’ve done is thrown a big party for [...]

This article from Men’s Health is supposed to read like a warning, but instead it is more like a wet dream. The twenty worst foods in America have been compiled into one list, and I kind of want to try them all. Foods with names like “Macaroni Grill Double Macaroni ‘n’ Cheese” and…wait one God [...]