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• Tony Hawk is trying to sell me Qunol

  October 22, 2024

  He‘s old. I’m old. I remember when Tony Hawk was the young skater, emissary of cool. On MTV. Now he‘s on cable news. Yes, the skateboard. But also the supplements and statements that have not been evaluated by the FDA. Sometimes it‘s Tony Hawk. Sometimes I‘m in the grocery store and they‘re playi...

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• Confusion is the enemy of drama

  September 30, 2024

  Several years ago I was in Calistoga and happened to meet Francis Ford Coppola - as one does. It was the fourth of July and he was attending the local parade. He'd been the guest speaker at the graduation for the film school where I teach so when our mutual friend introduced us I was…

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• This day

  September 11, 2024

  Twenty-three years ago, I had already been sent home from work for the day. I remember how it all started as I was getting ready for work. Even though I'm in LA, I had a very early start time of 7:30 AM. I'd already seen both towers collapse, and I guess, not knowing what else…

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• Condensation

  January 3, 2023

  Yesterday morning I was explaining why the windows inside the house are covered with beads of water in the morning to my husband. This lead to a discussion about the dew point and freshman meteorology. I rag on Florida but I really did get a good education between the Dade County Public School Sy...

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• Letter to self

  January 1, 2023

  I saw this thing yesterday when I was flying back to LA from Tampa. It was an article about how the world was better before micro-blogging. I think the issue with long-form blogging is it requires discipline and lacks the dopamine hit of scrolling through Instagram. I wish that humans were differ...

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• German house painter with an Italian name

  August 11, 2022

  Well after about a year of deliberations Dean finally selected a color. He ran out of runway. He hired a German house painter with an Italian name. Yet he still hasn’t finalized his selections. We’ve been looking at all the shades of taupe for months. I think hiring the painter was Dean’s way of ...

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• Fully adult human not clear on spontaneous generation

  July 29, 2022

  I don't have monkey pox. I wasn't worried in the slightest that I did. I know that to get monkey pox one has to be exposed to it and I, do very little exposing. It's been a handy dandy, bash the gays thing of late to say that gays get/spread monkey pox and isn't it…

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• So much fixing

  July 9, 2022

  I’ve decided to use my Covid as a permanent get out of jail free card. Don’t want to go to an event, “still recovering.” Don’t want to eat something, “I used to like that but Covid messed up my taste buds.” Need to get out of a meeting, “Hey, listen, I feel kind of covid-y.…

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• another mass shooting in america

  July 5, 2022

  Well, the details are rolling in about yet another mass shooting in america. This time on the 4th of July — which is probably the most American thing ever. It’s interesting to read how the family says there was no warning that this was going to happen. Listen, I know all too well how some…

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