There's an October heatwave coming in a couple days and the forecast says it's going last more than a week. These are the meteorological vicissitudes of Los Angeles. I won't be cooking unless it's at 5am for a cold dinner late in
I have a 2000s-era iPod, and it contains exactly 29,804 songs that can never be updated because I have no more iTunes. Everything is inside that little flat box forever. None of it is leaving. It lives on a speaker dock in my kitchen. I wash dishes to
There's a line in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” Somehow, I've become very careless in 2026, but not with my parents. Both died quite
Until September 8, right after Labor Day. See you soon.
A mid-1970s newspaper ad for a local movie theater features two programs. In the afternoon there was a children's matinee of a 1956 Margaret O'Brien musical called Glory, and the evening double feature was the X-rated Joys of Georgette and Sweet Taste of Joy.
There's a one-off character that exists in the world of the Peanuts comic strip. Technically, he has no name. He also has no face, as we see him only from behind. He's a kid Charlie Brown meets at summer camp, and his response to everyone
Unmarried people can't have sex, unless it's done on one specific, government-approved, Purge-style night. This is how your script gets on the Black List. Of course, in the confounding, oblivious One Night Only, it is, quite intentionally, never adequately explained how the United States
A Pool Day is different from a Pool Morning. Pool Morning is when I go to the West Hollywood Aquatic Center at 6am for the purpose of exercise. It's a habit but not a pleasure. On Saturday, when it was quite hot, after I had spent the morning
Last week, Alonso, who likes for me to share in the miserable information he finds online, sent me a link to WorseOnPurpose.com It's an addictive and depressing site devoted to brutal facts about corporations that run the planet and how everything you buy is worse than it
* Behind me in line at the grocery store checkout, she said, "You've only got one life, you have to do something with it. Our brains were made to absorb infinite information. The scientists say we're meant to live eternally. Well, the ones who are Christians
Fiume o morte! is a slyly entertaining film about a dreadful subject, but don't feel too left out if you didn't know it existed. It went from film festivals in 2025 to a European release to a very limited North American theatrical experience earlier this year.
Something took my phone on a Prefab Sprout algorithm tour. Which came first, Hayley Williams and Romy singing the song "Wild Horses," and the video hitting everywhere at once, or my friend Aaron mentioning them in a reel, or two other people talking about them elsewhere? I don&