Category Archives: Life Stories

I’ve had my fair share of people talk to me on public transit.  As a fact gatherer and a storyteller, I care more about hearing the lives of other people, about letting stories themselves unfold from random conversations.  And as a girl, I’ve also had my fair share of such people possibly hitting on me, so I try to be brief about the details, generally honest, and generally only pretend to be engaged if the story might save me (that juvi-ex-con story is for another day).

Okay, so if you follow my twitter, among my randomness, you would have seen this tweet:

If you look at this image closely, you would have seen that Chef John Rivera Sedlar created this menu for the Los Angeles Magazine’s 50th anniversary party to which my lovely friend Katie invited me.

While on one hand I have to admit I feel a little ashamed; on the other hand, I have to say – “How could I not?”

They were appetizer samples and I tried:

• Cobb Salad (a blended gazpacho style shot glass or 2)

Saturday night.  Hollywood Boulevard crawls with tourists and locals.

Cameras flash at Madame Tussauds – faux celebrities are almost the real thing, right?

Pass by Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, compare your footprints with them – celebrities who walked on the air of fame past and present.  How do your hands compare against theirs?  How do your feet?  If they match, is your joy because you are almost like them or that you see that they are more like us – who exist on the fringe of red carpets and lit ceremony?

For my breakfast study break, I would like to take this moment to be geekfantastic.  I am wearing my Star Wars Celebration IV track jacket. I love this jacket and generally it is worn for my own benefit, but today it’s for a first grader named Katie.  And in addition to that, I’m wearing it today  because it’s fantastic to be exactly who you are. 

This moment is for my fellow girls growing up who played more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than Barbies in the sandbox.

This moment is for my Star Trek friends who sojoured on in days before it became a movie with Chris Pine, Zachary Pinto, and Zoe Saldana. 

Does it make me a hipster to make a Venn Diagram?

…even if supposedly making that declaration might make me one (MFA Confidential – Jessie Morrison noted in her “Am I A Hipster?” post that denial is a sign that you are).