June 30, 2003
Potent Quotables
Boyfriend's Quote of the Day...
"If you made a movie with a gay coming of age theme where the character is in a wheel chair and can only move his left foot and the love interest is a jewish girl who is dying of cancer and her grandmother had been in a concentration camp - you've got it made".
Random Quote of the Day (As if that wasn't random enough)
I was walking across the intersection of Sunset and Fairfax today on my way to my obligatory afternoon visit to the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf where I passed the only other pedestrian around. The average, not too crazy looking guy of about 48 years, says to me as he passes, "I'm suing you". Well, I thought, thanks for the warning.
June 29, 2003
PAWS/LA
I have been invited to donate one my dog paintings in this years PAWS/LA auction which will be on November 9th. "Pets Are Wonderful Support" provides assistance for people with terminal illnesses and their pets. Haven't decided which painting I will donate - I may not have painted it yet....
June 27, 2003
Novice Blogging
As I am learning my way around the language of blog, I will attempt to share some pictures from my recent visit to Napa Valley. Yountville, California to be exact, where I house and dog sat for my friends Cooper & Baumann, otherwise known as Nick and Nora - not to be confused with this Nora. Anyway, I spent a weekend enjoying a life one only dreams about. Clean air, beautiful house, beautiful landscape, fine food, painting al fresco and a funny little pit bull named Alyosha.
Thanks, Brian Flemming for your help with html and the rest of your computer expertise....
June 26, 2003
1st Entry
I was asked a few days ago by someone that used to live in Los Angeles and is moving back after fifteen years - "Do you still like LA?" I've been here going on 21 years. The guy questioning me didn't like the place the first time around. My immediate answer to the inquiry was that I hate the things about LA that I've always hated and those things will never change except get worse, like traffic, nobody returns phone calls, everybody is flakey, etc. I've been pondering the conversation ever since. I think everybody here gets burned out very quickly. For some reason that's not a good enough reason to leave. In fact it's most likely why we stay - to feel like we're on the cutting edge of what's happening RIGHT NOW and discarding yesterdays news/celebrities/restaurants/movies, etc as if we've been there, done that. Just the other day I was attempting to go pick up my boyfriend from work but I couldn't. Just around the corner from where I live they were holding the BET awards at the Kodak theater. That might have caused some slowing of the traffic but not until Snoop Dog's bodyguards got caught with weapons did traffic come to a hault all over Hollywood with helicopters hovering over my building. It took me twenty minutes to drive around one block and go right back into my carport. Yesterday's news, but I was there.