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  • Cornbread and Pineapple Pie??

    Recently I received a call from someone I met only once briefly 8 months ago but have spoken to via phone or text message dozens of times since then.  (To protect this person’s anonymity, I’ll call them “Pat” ),   Yet every time we tried  to meet again, Pat flaked on me.  VERY L.A.  So yesterday Pat calls with a friend to say they are “in the neighborhood” and have a present for me. ?? I go outside to find that Pat had brought me homemade cornbread and a slice of pineapple pie.  How random is that?  Am I missing something??  It was good to see Pat though, I must admit, and the cornbread and pie were quite tasty.

    Then today I was at Koo Koo Roo for lunch.  At the table behind me sat a man in his mid 50′s I’d say, wearing overalls, with a ponytail and headphones that were attached to a portable DVD player watching Star Trek.  In the opposite corner of the same restaurant sat Linda Hunt, Academy Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1982 for “The Year of Living Dangerously” with Mel Gibson (I hope she’s not Jewish).  Outside the restaurant a cute dog was sniffing everyone for food.  I put some of my chicken in a cup and asked the person at the table near the dog if it was his and if I could give him some chicken.  He looked up at me as if I had interrupted a proposal to his boyfriend and sneered “If it doesn’t have bones!”  He might as well have followed it with an Endora snap!  (OK, I’m dating myself.)

    Sometimes it’s so bizarre living in La La land.

  • Brokeback Coffee Drinker, Children and Dogs and Bears, Oh My!, Wienermobiles and the Subcontinent


    I’m dog-sitting again until next Wednesday.  I met Seth & Jessica for breakfast at 7 this morning at the Urth Cafe.  I forgot my stupid camera, so I just snapped a couple of these with my cell phone.  Bad quality, but you get the idea.  Jake Gyllenhaal was there, and though I normally don’t take pictures of celebrities here, I took this because the last time I mentioned Jake Gyllenhaal on my blog, I got hundreds and hundreds of hits from all over the world from people in his fan club.  They’re apparently quite loyal.   Then I baby-sat Hannah for a while while her Mom & Dad ran some errands.  We had fun.

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    Tried to be discreet about taking this photo of Jake Gyllenhaal. Not sure who he was with either.

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    Happy Hannah

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    Hannah & I played and danced while Mommy & Daddy were gone.

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    Ruby fast asleep, LOL


    Crazy Google Search of the Day – I’m #1

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    I wonder what they were actually searching for?  They spelled “wiener” wrong but Google still found it.  Maybe they meant “winner” and the “mobile” meant mobile phone?  Not sure what “crazy” has to do with it.  These people who come to my site from these searches may be crazy!


    I got a message from India recently saying that I cover a lot of Asian issues, but never deal with the Subcontinent.  Coincidentally, these two items were recently brought to my attention:

    15-year-old performs surgery in India

    By MUNEEZA NAQVI, Associated Press Writer Thu Jun 21, 1:24 PM ET

    NEW DELHI – The 15-year-old son of two doctors successfully performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents’ watch in southern India in an apparent attempt to set a record as the youngest surgeon, officials said Thursday. Instead, the boy’s father could be stripped of his licenses and may face criminal charges.  Read more…

    and from neighboring Pakistan:

    Pakistan’s late-night, cross-dressing TV star

    (05-17) 04:00 PDT Karachi, Pakistan — By day, Ali Salim’s chin is covered with stubble. He wears scruffy jeans and feeds his taste for cigarettes. But at night he puts on a sequined sari and high heels and transforms himself into Nawazish Ali — catty chat-show queen and South Asia’s first cross-dressing television host.  Read more…


    I tell you, there’s never a dull moment in my life.  Today, while walking the dogs, we were on the lookout for bears!!

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    Here are a couple of other photos from our walk today, and a video of Garbo & Ruby playing. 

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    Song/Video of the day. This performance still gives me goose bumps.