NEWLOVE

i spent the evening with many of the winners and kept looking out for my friend rex, but no luck. but entourage has begun their season 5 and now rex is in the title credits! yay!!

and to top it all off, they have him writing a blog.  wha wha what?!

josheepoo, charley, florian, kyle and i went to the sound of music sing-a-long at the hollywood bowl tonight. little did i know but everyone gets dressed up and has a huge costume parade. it’s so much fun!

in this photo you see florian and chacha dressed as kurt and friedrich, with 3 guys who are dressed up as “tea, a drink with jam & bread.”

if we go again next year, i’m dressing up as the baroness. i’ve already mastered her icy demeanor so all i need is a fabulous dress, diamonds and a dashing up-do.

i can’t believe it took this long. i mean you won’t believe the amount of ridiculous fictitious stars on hollywood blvd. but the village people have finally made it - even though i’m not so sure they’re all still alive.

tons of fans were there to get autographs

you may often hear me complaining about how when i was little, it was impossible to find pants to fit a 10 year old who was 5′9″ - i was constantly in high-waters not to mention that my dad was of the “you already have one perfectly good pair of jeans, why should you need new ones” school of thought.  to him, as long as they could still be buttoned around the waist and as long as they weren’t torn to bits, they were perfectly acceptable jeans.

now, i’m a tall-ish girl living in los angeles (land of short people) and i think it’s outrageous that i have to get my jeans hemmed as they are all at least 6″ too long and WHO IN THE HELL IS THAT TALL?

well here’s the answer…

the world’s smallest man and the woman with the longest legs

my dad was raised in a super strict religious household.  then he studied theology in college which resulted in his becoming an atheist.  so as a kid, the only time i went to church was when my zealous uncle john or my grandfather came to town.  my grandfather would take me to your run-of-the-mill conservative methodist church less than a mile away.  my uncle, however, would drive an hour to the most outrageous church experience i could ever imagine.  church that didn’t look like church!  church that looked like a theater when you walked in and had a real. live. rock. band.  shut up!  there were people dancing around in the aisles but not because they decided to get up and dance - but because the love of god and the power of being saved COMPELLED them to dance.

usually, not really being interested in the scripture and what the preacher was saying since i had not been raised to worry about whether or not i was going to hell, i found church to be an incredible snooze fest.  it was hot and everyone was really nicely dressed and my stiff outfit was making me uncomfortable and i couldn’t believe that my hello kitty watch said there were still 55 minutes left of this ordeal…

but at my uncle’s rock band churches, i was enthralled.  i’d never experienced such entertainment!  and all that talking in tongues stuff???  i was speechless.  this was about the time when i started dating only catholic boys and insisted upon going to church and i was constantly angry at my dad for not including religion as part of my education.  unfortunately, no catholic churches i ever went to had a rock band.  but catholic boys were a lot cuter than those christian fundamentalists and they were less invasive of my prudish self.
check out this video of a church in ohio that has even better moves than what i was exposed to…

CLICK HERE TO REACH OUT AND TOUCH YOUR OWN PERSONAL JESUS

if you have ever traveled to a third world country, i’m sure there are plenty of images that flood your mind when you think about how much easier your life is living in a first world country. one of the first things that i think about is the lack of clean drinking water available globally and how easy it would be for a huge corporation to spend some money to fix it. unfortunately, no one company has gone on a crusade to change this and many first world governments don’t want this to happen because this changes the social and financial structure of international trade. after all, if the third world countries where we’re producing many of our consumer goods are improving, the prices to have factories and labor there will increase, and the large corporations (and the governments they’re in bed with) in turn will see less profit.

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The September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on Vimeo.

there are a lot of interesting characters that go to our gym. there’s the bag lady who drags at least two 3′ bags around with her who has chin length brown super greasy curls to which she has attached what can best be described as a few bratz hair curly extension clips in magenta and plum that are a few inches longer than the lady’s bob.

and it’s not like we’ve only seen her once. she’s there almost every day! maybe she goes there to shower or something but i see her sweaty ass up in the weight training area smelling up the mats.

there’s also this bleach blond polish looking lady who is obviously anorexic. she’s probably too busy living in a tanning booth and therefore has no spare time to eat. it’s pretty creepy watching her string bean muscles lift weights. here’s what she would look like if she didn’t have a tan.

i read this article on yahoo and had a laugh.

“While sex is not an Olympic sport it is expected to be an activity in the Beijing village housing 10,500 athletes, all of whom are in great shape and with plenty of free time on their hands once knocked out of the Games.”

so they distributed 100,000 condoms to the athletes…

“‘There are many young, strong, single people in the athletes’ village and, like everywhere, some will fall in love or other things so we need to make condoms available,’ Ole Hansen, spokesman for UNAIDS China, told Reuters.”

Ole Hansen is of course a Dane. hundreds of thousands of condoms lying around and you can typically blame the scandinavians.