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WatchComing out of self-imposed Tumblr retirement to reblog Dannon Tears! At last!
You laugh, we cry, everyone wins!
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Here is the video runner from our last live sketch show LADY PARTS featuring some of our friends and directed by Dustin Bowser.
December 2010
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Minutiæ + News: Progress has Arrived →
What do Odysseus and evolution have to do with one another? Read the newest issue of Minutiae and find out!
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Minutiæ #5 Progress is now available for download as PDF. In this breathtaking revolutionary issue:
A Good Start: A new “comic strip” from artist Daniel.
On the Scoop: Zippers: A visit to Galliger’s Zipper Repair to get the scoop behind the coolest clothing...
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It's That Time of Year Again...
…I’m wondering whatever happened to the characters from my favorite Christmas movies. Christmas movies aren’t great on wrapping up dangling plot lines; part of the wonder of a good Christmas movie is just reveling in the idea that anything- everything!- can be done and said at Christmas.
But what happens on December 26th?
For example, did Keira’s husband from Love...
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November 2010
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A Break-Up Letter for Oliver Stone
Dearest Oliver,
No, wait. I shouldn’t say “dearest” anymore; you see, I think it is time we broke up. Now, don’t whine… I should have done this ages ago.
We had a great run. You caught me when I was young and vulnerable, an impressionable girl, excited about the world. You taught me to live with reckless abandon. You taught me not to sit back and merely accept what my elders told me. You taught...
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When I was younger, I was quite certain that the only thing it would take to make me cool was a Les Miserables t-shirt. Just like everyone else had. I’m sure I hadn’t the faintest what Les Miserables meant when the shirts first started to appear. But I wanted one- and badly.
I got the CD instead.
It was Christmas, two weeks before I’d gotten my first CD player for my 12th...
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Pet Peeves #911
Being mean to Jared.
Why? Why be mean to Jared? Why make fun? He’s just a guy who made millions- and lost weight!- eating sandwiches… if anything, I wish I could be more like him.
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What Does Your Wes Anderson Movie Say About You?
I never hear anyone arguing over whether The Darjeeling Limited or The Life Aquatic is their favorite Wes Anderson movie. Oh, I’ve heard arguments about them- I’ve had arguments about them… but never about which one is most-beloved. Quite the opposite. Likewise, I never hear anyone debating about whether Dignan or Mr. Fox is the best character sprung from Mr. Anderson’s...
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I'm Thinking of Adopting →
I know, I know. I always said I am not the maternal type, but this is a word adoption.
Did you know hundreds of thousands of words die an unceremonious death each year? Neglected and unloved, we leave these words- the our former building blocks of our language, of ourselves- to find their way in a world that’s forgotten about them. Hopeless and alone, they often disappear.
But you can...
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October 2010
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September 2010
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Minutiæ + News: Issue #4 “Safety” Available Now →
Check out the latest issue of Minutiae online! I not only got the opportunity to write about my most favorite thing in the world (cookies) but I contributed a cartoon, as well. First time I’ve picked up my drawing gear in 12 years! Viva la Minutiae!
enjoyminutiae:
Safety is now available as a PDF.
In this issue: Lady talks about Crumbs, Safecracking with the Silver Serpent, Tour Report...
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MTV Picks Up DEATH VALLEY!!! →
erockappel:
Very exciting news!!! The pilot that I directed for MTV earlier this year (“Death Valley”) was just picked up for 12 episodes!!! Here is the press release…
DEATH VALLEY Death Valley is a scripted horror-comedy that captures the exploits of the men and women of the Undead Task Force (UTF) - an elite branch of the LAPD that was formed in 2009 when the San Fernando Valley became...
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New York Hates Me.
Living New York City living made me much more of a neurotic nutcase than I was before I moved there. And I’ve always been a neurotic nutcase.
The city somehow encourages psychotic behavior… and I took full advantage of that. People who do not notice a homeless man walking down the middle of the street and screaming “Total Eclipse of the Heart” are not likely to notice little old me...
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I'm Fixin' to Fix Myself, So Just Fix Yourself for...
fix [fiks] verb fix or fixt, fix-ing; noun
to repair, mend.
to put in order or in good condition; adjust or arrange (She fixed her hair in a bun.)
Though I think of myself as a Southerner, I rarely think of myself as someone incapable of speaking plain English. The “y’alls” and dropped g’s hardly make my speech incomprehensible- at least to my understanding. But...
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August 2010
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Pet Peeves #219
The Fall Fashions Get Ugly.
I am loathe to admit just how much time I spend in front of the mirror, how much brainspace I use to choose just the right outfit. I troll through the sale racks of stores, I live in the pages of Vogue: trying to find a way to combine the two. To find the magic outfit that will change who I am: make me look thinner, prettier, hotter, more successful, more confident,...
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WatchThe Big Dog a brilliant little 17 minute tragi-comic masterpiece co-written and starring my ever-talented boyfriend Charlie Sanders. Directed and co-written by the great Eric Appel. With Bob Odenkirk, Harry Crane and the cutest little boy wizard since Harry Potter…
Watch it. You won’t be sorry.
I Am the Watercooler
I was born a secretary. The type of girl relegated to sitting amidst the land of Larger Personalities and Important Persons and listening. Listening to their toils, troubles; hopes, dreams.
There is paper work that goes along with being a secretary, of course, but the major attribute of someone born to the trade is to be a Human Watercooler, a place- I mean person- to have your thoughts heard...
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July 2010
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Where the Light Is?
Many nights, driving home across Hollywood, I pass a church- the Hollywood United Methodist church, where I often enjoy their advertisements for upcoming sermons revolving around the popular movies of the day (“What can Avatar teach us about love for others?” “Are you a Liar Liar?”). Late at night, for years now, a homeless woman sleeps on the walkway in front of the...
As if the Disney Wedding Dresses Weren't Enough...... →
The eight-year-old me would be in heaven right now… thirty-year-old me thinks there really must be something wrong in the world. We’re in a recession and people are buying pre-fab Disneyfied homes for pricetags in the millions?!
I hate to be a curmudgeon, but what is the world coming to?
SIDENOTE: I am spending the week after Christmas in Orlando and if anyone would like to loan me...
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Kitchen Floors and Teddy Bears
Last night, I fell asleep on the kitchen floor yet again.
I had not slept there since the age of 18- and it was not that good of a sleeping place. Our kitchen floor, in those days, was in shaggy disrepair: the wood was buckled and uneven from years of clumsy young girls letting rain in the back door, the linoleum was ripped up in many places exposing the convex wood, the result of a dog too...
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June 2010
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Pet Peeves #2010 / Simple Pleasures #3
Oh goodness, how I hate bandwagoners… people who’ve never cared a lick for something until the moment it becomes relevant. And then suddenly we’re all experts. We’re all enthusiasts! We’re all TEAM U.S.A.! And I’m one of the worst offenders of all…
But it’s not as if we didn’t all grow up playing soccer in Little League. It’s...
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“Right after Sabrina, I thought I wanted a big dramatic role to really break out....”
– Melissa Joan Hart, in a recent EW (who should know that I, for one, would laugh a lot if she ever did decide to do an accent or play a transsexual)
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My Favorite Short Story I've Never Read →
Turns out that the seemingly never-ending New Yorker subscription your parents gave you as a joke when you moved from New York to Los Angeles can actually come to an end. The magazine stopped coming to my door last week- after 4 and a half years.
Nevertheless, I will get my hands on this article… for it’s not that often that so many of my favorite things (Friday Night Lights, The New...
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Films That Make Me Die Inside, Vol. I
I so cherished each and every movie-going experience of my childhood that I was quite old- 14 to be exact- when I first realized there was any such thing as a bad movie.
For me, it was all about the experience of Seeing a Movie, the Power of Film: so long as images were flashing in front of my face, I was happy. Pinocchio was no greater wonder than Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; The Wizard of Oz...
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Pet Peeves #9000
You know, I never have really wanted children but I have always been desperate to name some. I adore putting together baby names… and I think if I ever did have kids, I’d probably need to have about 10 to satiate my need to create the perfect family of names, each representing a romantic, ideal little child in my imaginary fairytale family.
That’s all babies are to me at this...
May 2010
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Found.
Science Fiction and Fantasy have always been a big part of my life… a shaping force, a guiding light. From the moment I picked up my mother’s beaten and tattered Narnia books at age 10, the release from our modern existence, the glimpse they can provide into a world greater than our own… let’s just say I was hooked. Hooked on a way to escape from my own boring, sad little...
“Frailty, thy name is woman.”
– Boyfriends around the world. And, also, Hamlet, Shakespeare and God (most likely).