Everyone who doesn't come from the same religious and cultural background she does.

I posted a longer response, but it got really surreal and probably too political for MF guidelines.

I went to a Korean spa the other day. They have different steam and sauna rooms. I was a bit surprised to find that about 70% of the women there were not Korean. Anyway, all the women are nude because it's a bathhouse. I notice one woman iis doing leg lifts while lying down in the steam room. Then she goes to another room and does V-ups, then scissor exercises...um, she's totally naked and her legs are near the door.

Ann Coulter, who's whole existence and popularity I find pretty surreal, writes:



Because laminated doughs are an 11th century invention.

Funny, Rancho Gordo is listed in a new book called The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Chef.
Funny odd or funny ha ha?

Was she wearing make-up? Was she coiffed? Would passerbys find her looks offensive? 30% Korean attendance in a Los Angeles cauldron does not seem too shabby.

Smoooooooooooth and subtle, Miguel.

You should have seen the look on Mr Scream's face when I told him about it.

Genetics I would think. Congrats to Mr. Scream. Admirable.

Although they haven't yet tackled surrealism, my daughter's first-grade poetry class has moved on from concrete poetry to haikus.

OK, this may be moving from surrealism to an annoyance. Wacky ex-boyfriend who sent me the slightly creepy letter left me a message over the weekend saying he had 'just happened' to be in my neighborhood and had 'checked out' my building and thought it pretty nice.

My former neighbor just called me and said she just came upon a package in the lobby of the EV building where I used to live and she still does addressed to me from guess who. So he sent the letter to my current address but the package to my former one? Which place does he think 'pretty nice'? My former apartment was real cute but the building is sort of crummy-looking which leads me to believe the current dwelling was the one 'checked out'. My conclusion: he is crazy, but also disorganized and scatter-brained.

My ex-neighbor who I have now told the whole story to said the package was of a size and shape that 'could possibly' contain a human head.

Ah, probably a football.

Phil Schaap.

"I may have emphasized these points to tedium. In fact, beyond tedium I may have angered some of you."

Not at all. I now have the personnel line-up changes of Charlie Parker's 1947-1950 quintet committed indelibly to memory: Parker and bassist Potter don't change, drummer goes from Roach to Haines, trumpet from Davis to Durham (sp.?) to Rodney, pianist from...oh someone to Al Haig. Damn. Run it by me again, Phil?

Is David Fincher* your ex?

* I just checked IMDb - his next project in development is called "Torso".

I just logged into my Netflix account and if I peruse the Movies You'll Love tab, all of the recommended movies are "Because you enjoyed [either] Taxi Driver or The Royal Tenenbaums".

Example:

ACTION ADVENTURE
Reservoir Dogs
Because you enjoyed:
Taxi Driver

Pulp Fiction
Because you enjoyed:
Taxi Driver
The Royal Tenenbaums

The Warriors
Because you enjoyed:
Taxi Driver

COMEDY SUGGESTIONS

Little Miss Sunshine
Because you enjoyed:
The Royal Tenenbaums

The Graduate
Because you enjoyed:
Taxi Driver
The Royal Tenenbaums


The Big Lebowski
Because you enjoyed:
Taxi Driver
The Royal Tenenbaums



It goes on and on like that and I have NEVER rented either Taxi Driver or The Royal Tenenbaums from Netflix!

But you did enjoy them, didn't you?

Someone with my name is VERY into professional body building.

Googled yourself??

You should ask here what kind of sports bra she wears.

I'm guessing synthetic body hormones replace real breasts with something... else?

this?

A pretty face. She just needs to let her muscles, well, relax a bit...

Yeah, but... but... but....

Okay, so it's not exactly my everyday life, but this is pretty amusing:

Cameron Diaz: "If a woman who's a successful actress weighs 300 pounds and has warts, nobody ever asks her, 'Do you think you made it because you're ugly?' So why should there be prejudice against someone who's had some success in films and looks a little better than average."

She is no logician, is she?

Yeah! What about Fiona? She's done 3 pictures already!

Today I saw a spiffy white van with ladders stacked on top driving through the town where I work.

Big dark green letters on the side panels described the owner's business:

NUN PAINTING

You see one nun painting, you've seen them all.

Ah, yes, but have you ever seen a painted nun?

Painted nun.

Now, I have.

The Mark Rothko painting that David Rockefeller purchased for $10,000 and out up for at auction at Sotheby's sold tonight for $72,840,000 (USD). Wow. The art market is insanely frothy. A Francis Bacon artwork also sold for $52,680,000. I believe both are records for the artists.

With prices like these, museums had better ramp up their security.

I find this woman annoying because she has her own ideas about other cultures and asks questions looking for the answers (you find what you are looking for) she wants to hear. And she is persistant about re-phrasing.

We all have those "oops, maybe I should have phrased that differently or not said anything at all" moments. But she doesn't seem to realize that there are things that people don't want to talk about or they start to talk about and they don't want to continue because it is too painful. She's especially interested in pre-industrial societies. She romanticizes them in ways that maybe people from those cultures don't because they bring back memories of colonialism, war, famine, and so on.

She's an ass really.

I didn't look so I still ain't seen nun.

A woman I know told me today that she met a real life masai warrior in Los Angeles. He was dressed "like a masai too!"

I asked her if he was here to promote tourism. And she asked, "how did you guess? He had brochures and they're budiling hotels and resorts".

did he jump?

Didn't ask. The conversation turned to Tuareg artisans and tour guides I know who get dressed up for events. One of them lives in Arizona with his American wife. He usually wears khakis and a t-shirt when he's not giving tours in Niger.

Witnessing an undercover police operation at the local Starbucks.

Was it in the Starbucks or was Starbucks just the staging area? I ask because there always seem to be cops and/or fire fighters in LA Starbucks. Probably not the best place to skirt the law.

Skirt the law... well, admittedly the only reason I noticed was that a good looking woman in a very short dress (and only that) who was sitting at an angle behind my interviewee was somehow involved. I'll write more about it tomorrow, but really you don't expect 15 people hanging around an sbux in this neighborhood to be plain clothed cops.

Is x-ray vision among your super powers?

Were the baristas diluting the latte, or skimming the tip jar, or....?

Doesn't sound like there was much under cover after all.

New Warhol record: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6664623.stm

Manchester's Chief Constable volunteers to be shot with taser. (Includes video.)

They ought to bust the fuckers for using precious terms like Brazil Ipanema Bourbon and Colombia Nariño Supremo.

Reverend Billy does.

The drive-up ATM at my new bank has instructions on it in Braille.

Hey, if they make it that far in a car, they're entitled to some money.

Well, you're right I suppose.

There are diaper-changing stations in the rest rooms here, too (a large public library filled with large public people), and there are Braille instructions on those as well. The diaper things, not the large people. Odd to think about juggling a baby, reading the instructions and managing the changing station all with two hands.