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Why clubbing is still fun at 30 and beyond

Well, clubbing at the age of 30 and beyond is not really fun per se. This past weekend I made my semi-annual trip to a club in San Francisco. It was an early celebration for my brother-in-law’s birthday and it was a late celebration for my cousin’s birthday. It was also the first time my...

A Craigslist ‘missed connection’ showdown!

I LOVE it when people get into arguments on Craigslist! And it’s even better when it’s on the m4m missed connection portion – it’s so catty! In this particular public argument, two people go at it with such fervor: dear asshole checkout boy at rainbow grocery. – m4m (mission district) i waited the extra 10...

Singing along with the ‘Sound of Music’

Last night, I celebrated one of the final days of 2008 by going to a Sound of Music sing along at the Castro Theater in SF. I thought I would be annoyed by all the obnoxiousness, but I was more than happy to contribute to the obnoxious level by singing loudly and doing unnecessary harmonizing....

Shameless crosslinking: December 4, 2008

- Pantone picks mimosa as the color of 2009. In a close second was Sunny Delight orange. - Thierry Mugler is set to costume Beyonce’s tour. I am sure House of Dereon is extremely disappointed. - I finished reading Revolutionary Road and then watched a screening the next day. Besides being scared out of settling...

The art of picking your nose

For the past couple of weeks, I have seen more adults than children pick their nose and eat whatever comes out. I am totally not joking. In fact, I have seen ONLY adults pick their nose and eat it – mostly on BART. Why do they do this? Does it taste good? Does it evoke...

My week in review: Nov. 17-23

Monday: Acted a fool while inspiring young minds at the Academy and experimented with calamari cooking techniques, discussed Rosetta Stone and had Tagalog lessons with Trisha and Steven. Tuesday: Screening of “Milk” (Please, go see this movie. It is one of the best this year – and it was shot in SF!). Wrote. In the...

Random rant: Loud music on BART

Every time I step off the BART train into suburbia, I always hum the “Mad Men” theme song in my head – because I so feel like Don Draper commuting from the city to the burbs. But that’s besides the point. My rant of today is: Why the HELL do people insist on BLASTING their...

Week in review part 1 – Paris Hilton

The week is finally over and I can finally write something for myself – meaning, I can write on this blog that I have been neglecting. Sometimes I feel as though this blog (or any of my “personal” writing) is my child. It’s as though I gave birth to it and now I am so...

A red carpet moment with Jennifer Siebel Newsom

I have been doing TONS of red carpet coverage lately. First there was the ONEXONE event with Matt Damon, Wyclef Jean and Josh Groban, then there was yesterday’s Milk premiere with an avalanche of celebs like Emile Hirsch, Joseph Cross, Josh Brolin, Allison Pill, Diego Luna, James Franco and Sean Penn. Then there was the...

Estelle, playing darts, Halston and other stuff

As I sit here watching (but not paying attention to) a DVR’d episode of Heroes and worrying about a big Hayward fault earthquake (it’s the 140th anniversary of the famous quake – isn’t it morbid in how they celebrate that shit?), I am forcing myself to post because my brain is drained from writing all...

Guess who I met tonight?

Yes, that’s right – I met Mr. Vogue Editor-at-Large, Andre Leon Tally. He was at this Halston Retrospective at the Neiman’s in San Francisco tonight. He was very kind and when Cheryl (my colleague and boss at Academy of Art University) and I met him, he immediately knew what dress she was wearing and we...

The things I do for Anne Hathaway…

This evening, I just decided to put all my work aside and go to a screening of the Jonathan Demme-directed Rachel Getting Married (out in the Yay Area this Friday) starring Anne Hathaway as a girl who just got out of rehab who comes home to her sister’s wedding to spread more dysfunction amongst her...