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summer is sooo close

Taking a late spring break vacation definitely whetted my appetite for summer. With only two more weeks left of the semester I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. (San Francisco’s heat wave has also contributed to my spring fever reaching epic proportions.)
Here’s my optimistic list of top 5 things I am [...]

flickr gets me on the l word

Kind of. More like it got my friend Renee on the pre-L word show. I just snapped the photo.
Here’s the background: A couple of week’s ago someone from the network found this photo I shot of Renee with Leisha Hailey from an autograph signing and asked permission to broadcast it during a special they were [...]

adventures in disneyland.

Last weekend I went on a little road trip with some friends down to Anaheim to spend the weekend in the Disney-plex. The impetus to go was to attend a preview of the new Toy Story Mania ride that opens
this weekend.
In our less than 36 hours down there we learned a some valuable lessons:
1. Gas [...]

f*ing obama, with love to sarah silverman

The Sarah Silverman/Jimmy Kimmel videos had me laughing for days… so why not share this little send up. It’s two weeks old now, but maybe some of you haven’t seen it. And while it’s completely inappropriate, it’s damn brilliant.

twitter of the day

from kateconsumption: “just saw a man on hwy 12 selling Obama shirts from the trunk of his car.”

terry stops by the bryant park project

I rarely make it to hour two of the Bryant Park Project, but thanks to their tweets I got tipped off to this little moment of pop culture radio zen: Fresh Air’s Terry Gross cameos on the BPP to discuss American Idol. Any last pit of lingering shame I might have for watching Idol has [...]