A friend of mine just signed a lease on a new concert venue and gallery in Silverlake. For those of you not living in Los Angeles, this city's neighborhoods are divided into little puzzle pieced neighborhoods, each with its own identity and culture. Silverlake and Echo Park are like the Brooklyns… Read full post »

I've been going over and over in my head how I was going to reveal this information on my OS blog. I couldn't quite find the words. Blogging is such a funny thing. These are incredibly personal stories we're telling, and we want to tell them just right. But in certain… Read full post »

I find myself in Hawaii, where I was raised, for this holiday season. Boy did I get the bum end of the stick. Let me tell you about some of the horrible things I’ve been subjected to while I’ve been here.

First of all, the weather is perfect. Isn’t that… Read full post »

I just finished my second session of monthly volunteering for a program called Reading to Kids. It reminded me a lot of my college work study that was a tutoring program for a local elementary school. So much of teaching tends to be behavior management, so it seems. It's hard to… Read full post »

After reading this post, I felt the need to write a similar letter, considering I've been running into such interesting characters recently. Maybe it's because I've been hanging out with a friend of mine from Chicago and through her curious and open eyes, it's easier to remember the things that… Read full post »

This morning I woke up and it was 30 degrees Fahrenheit. I would have been depressed about it, except that I looked out my window and it was insanely beautiful. In LA, after it rains, all of the smog disappears and from the poolhouse I'm sleeping  in, you can see all… Read full post »

As part of my quest for finding more meaningful activities, building more loving friendships and being a better human being in general, I offered to babysit for a friend of mine who is a stay-at-home dad tonight. Mommies and Daddies work so hard, I think its only fair to offer my… Read full post »

*Pretty quick new post on the heels of my last one I realize, but I had to put this down before I forgot*

So tonight was my first very exciting night volunteering for the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition. Here are my impressions.

• Everyone working in the kitchen were very
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When I was a teenager, I was convinced that I was going to graduate from high school and all of that shitty shit during those awkward years was going to go away. All of that pining and wishing for acceptance- the whole "fitting in" thing that I could never figure out… Read full post »

So say you're sitting in a bar. It's one of those new bars downtown, on top of an office building and the entire city can be seen below. You're meeting some friends for drinks. You've just had a glass of Jameson's on the rocks, and you didn't realize, a month ago,… Read full post »

Once upon a time, this assistant had a lover. He wasn't a daytime lover, he wasn't even a Friday night lover, he was just a boy that gave me many an impassioned kiss in the dark. He made me forget the insecurity that I felt as an assistant, a mere minion… Read full post »

I have impossible crushes. It's an easy thing to do in this city as it is chock full of triple threats: looks, charm, talent. Yes, you can find these men and women in any town in America, but the caliber in Los Angeles, as well as in New York, I'm sure,… Read full post »

'Tis the season, after all.

 One of my twitter friends has been making note of all the signs that the holiday season is officially upon us; specifically, Christmas Tree lots even if it's not Thanksgiving yet, and Hunky Santas at the Beverly Center. I'll take a Hunky Santa any day of… Read full post »

I just watched the Diane Sawyer interview with Rihanna. I admire Rihanna for going through with this interview. She didn't need to say anything. She could have kept this part of her life to herself, she could have kept silent and I would have still admired her for surviving, for being… Read full post »

The last vacation I took was to go to a table reading of an upcoming episode for the next season of the Sarah Silverman Program. It was the happiest day of 2009 thus far.

Tomorrow, I'm taking another day off and traveling to Frisco. A friend of mine is celebrating the… Read full post »

It's surreal.

Everything is dark, murky, black ink. Swirls of light, like tendrils of smoke, begin to illuminate the room where I am. I am walking through a tunnel of some sort. No. A hallway. I can't find my way. I need help. I need to send an email to my… Read full post »

Eating strawberries and drinking chardonnay that I got from Albertsons for a good deal. Who wants some of this?

Douchebags. Douchebags everywhere. I'm lookin at you Jay Leno.

The guy on Fox News 11 has an asschin.  And he's surrounded by boobs. I guess that means he wins at life.… Read full post »

Love, for me, is spelled F.O.O.D.

Luckily, they sell that at the restaurant I went to last night, called Desert Rose. This wasn't just a regular dinner at a newly discovered Los Feliz restaurant, no sir. Any and every time I leave the house something strange and unusual seems to… Read full post »

As much as I love this town because it is interesting and twisted and strange and dark and genuine and quirky and hard to define and sprawling and adventurous and optimistic and gorgeous, there's one thing it is that I will never be able to enjoy or avoid. Cocky as fuck.… Read full post »

If you're going to get shoes repaired, Arturo's in Beverly Hills is excellent.

For birthday gifts for grown ups, wine and liqour from Wally's in Westwood or one of the Vendome stores, particularly the one in Studio City is where you want to go.

For dry cleaning and minor tailoring, take your garments… Read full post »

I do a lot of driving. I drive to pick stuff up, I drive to drop stuff off, I drive around in circles waiting for something to be ready to be picked up, I drive to Sherman Oaks, Hollywood, Burbank, West Hollywood, Century City and beyond. That means a lot of… Read full post »

This blog contains some slightly inflammatory comments, so if you don't want to hear me get up on my high horse in regards to this blog post, please keep browsing. 

Some lady posted an argument on how racist the show Community is and her self-righteous blog got on the cover. So… Read full post »

I will not tell you who I work for. That's it. I used to do it when people would ask me what I did for a living and saying "I'm a personal assistant" wasn't good enough. So quit asking me, I'm done.

I know it's pretty cool to work for someone… Read full post »

The golden years of my twenties are now dwindling away and I feel like I have to take advantage of being young and fun, even though my body is telling me that I have to take better care of myself if I want to continue behaving the way I do.

Yesterday,… Read full post »

Thought: Listening to this adorable singer on the 3rd St. Promenade - she's making a toothless man smile. What a great day to be alive in this absolutely optimistic city. I might have bills to pay, and I might be alone, but shit, if an adorable street singer can make this… Read full post »