Recently readTwo real “What would Cathy do?” moments from today:
I was supposed to go to gathering tonight where I knew I’d meet new people, but almost didn’t go, because I was feeling lots of things, but ready to socialize wasn’t one of them. Then I could hear Cathy saying, “That’s riDICulous!” She never minces words, and […]
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Our friend Miss Cathy is in no pain, but it looks like the cancer that should have taken her life years ago is finally doing so. Her brave daughter, Maia, has posted an update on Cathy’s blog.
If you are in any way able to offer support to Maia, I would urge you to do so. […]
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Luke Ford is on something of a roll right now. First, a journalist asks, Who has time to read blogs? Luke answers:
Who has time to read good new books? Nobody has time to read all the good new books, yet I don’t read Daphne Merkin wondering about that…People will read what they believe they will […]
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My buddy Greg Gutfeld (he found a blog post where I declared my love for him and emailed me, soon after which we were lunching with Paul McCartney and Tim Burton) is doing really well with his funny new show on Fox News, Red Eye. I got to watch it when I was in New […]
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I wrote about Cookie Dominatrix, Part One, here. Cookie Dominatrix, Part Two, is now online. I love when Sandra talks about how she can’t get Tollhouse chocolate chips in her part of Van Nuys, because it’s just such a gringo product, but that in addition to the 99 Cent Store, they now have the 49 […]
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Patrick Crozier did a podcast of Antoine’s talk last night to the 6/20 gathering. He covered cheque book politics in the US and UK, how the Democrats’ fan base (but not the Democratic party itself) is doing the best job of any political group of making good use of emergent technologies, the illegitimacy of democracy, […]
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LA continues to be grand; it’s nice to go through my normal work routine - the same stuff I’d be doing if I wasn’t on-site with a client - while also getting to experiment with recipes and subject Cathy to the results. The big food success of yesterday was this Native American cornmeal pudding - […]
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Last night at Cathy’s, I made dinner (cream of spinach and mushroom soup, Thai prawn curry - made with my own improvised Thai curry paste, since the stuff I’d bought got lost somewhere between the supermarket and Cathy’s house - rice, butternut squash) and Sandra Tsing Loh brought the cookies. I was going to try […]
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* This morning, Matt was telling me that, in the eight years since he and Emmanuelle moved to LA for keeps, he’s only felt fear for his personal safety once (and with no incident, as it turned out). They’ve had their car break down twice in Compton, and both times were overwhelmed by the people […]
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Dr Karen Singer Avrech, wife of our dear friend Robert, was asked by the editor of the Jewish Press to expand on a blog post she wrote for Robert’s blog. The result is moving and well worth a read. I am in perpetual amazement of how Robert and Karen continue to live such meaningfully constructive […]
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[W]hen you work with assholes, you don’t change them for the better, they change you into an asshole.
–Bob Sutton (whose blog hosts a wealth of information about assholes; I think every office should have a copy of his book, The No Asshole Rule) via Chris Yeh
As the a-bomb quotient on this post is so high, […]
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Okay, so I’m going to be watching them on TV at Cathy Seipp’s house, but still! (LA Times opinion editor Matt Welch and Emmanuelle Richard, who will be covering the Oscars for French TV on Sunday, have been kind enough to open up their guest room to me for my visit. I don’t think poor […]
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This made me laugh; it’s nice to see one’s enemies ripping each other to shreds while my nail polish dries. Keep it up, guys.
Speaking of David Geffen’s ties to Obama, this story reminded me of 2005, when Arianna Huffington crashed the party I threw in LA (okay, Mickey Kaus actually invited her, but I […]
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Luke Ford can’t figure out when freedom and liberty should trump his wish to live in a certain kind of society. Can you help? I’m exhausted from too many ‘discussions’ with anti-freedom types masquerading as ‘libertarians’ lately. (At least Luke is honest about his lack of certainty and understanding, and not just brazenly dishonest about […]
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