thematically fickle

(As published today in San Diego CityBeat. Oh, and I made the California Sex Offender News!!! Hilarious.)
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Snuggled firmly between Tibet and India is the world’s newest democracy, a tiny country called Bhutan, where last Thursday, a very young and handsome man had a colorful raven-topped crown placed upon his head by his father, officially anointing [...]

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I love a good looking man. Even more, I love a good looking, smart man. Oh, look: That’s what we’re getting! The hotness quotient is certainly increasing with this new administration. Perhaps they’ll make a different kind of presidential calendar this coming year. I mean, Barack? Rahm? Who knows? Maybe Obama will even tap Javier [...]

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(As published today in San Diego CityBeat.)
Poor ACORN. The social-justice organization has been an unfortunate victim of John McCain’s inflammatory tactics.
The poster child for a GOP-invented voter-registration fraud, ACORN is this election’s lanky geek who’s being bloodied and brutalized by the puffed-up neighborhood bullies. And as The Huffington Post reports, the bullies are feeling dangerously [...]

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(A version of this appears in today’s issue of San Diego CityBeat.)
Remember Easy Cheese, the processed cheese-ooze that came in a can? In high school, my friends and I used to cut class, get high, squirt gobs of the stuff onto Triscuits, listen to Pink Floyd and discuss What It All Means. The conclusion? There’s [...]

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Hope is my religion, love is my God, and acts in the service of peace, justice and equality are my practice. I believe that you and I are of the same tribe. Visualize what you want.
-An email from a friend
In the sci-fi thriller Brainstorm, scientists develop a helmet that enables the wearer to inhabit the [...]

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I may get dooced, but the alternative is to hold it in and get cancer.

Thumbtacked to the wall outside my boss’ office is a giant piece of draft paper. On the right half, she’s meticulously drawn a floor plan complete with ruler-guided lines, a shorthand map of the building to which she and I and [...]

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While dragging my luggage up the main street of a London suburb last month, I noticed something sticking to the backs of my thighs. To my horror, that something was my ass. With each step, I felt the bottom of my bottom alternately peel away and then suction itself back against my legs. It was [...]

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I woke up this morning in what I like to refer to as Soap Star Mode. Just like Hope Brady coming out of a coma, I had a smile on my face, last night’s lipstick matted on my lips, all my makeup in tact, hair full and bouncy with just enough muss to it. [...]

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Wanderlust compelled me to cash in Ruby’s burgeoning college fund for two tickets to Europe. That’s right. Only two. Last month, Sam and I left the kid behind with her grandparents wrapped around her finger. Of course, I’m only kidding about spending her life savings; her tuition coffer is intact. But sacrifices were necessary for [...]

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(*Slightly re-vamped and completely regurgitated from a previous blog post. To my very kind and faithful readers—all my you-go-girl!ers and even to my I-read-your-blog-because-I-love-to-hate-youers— my apologies for being redundant.)
I don’t know what got into me with Ruby’s birthday festivities this year, but I put it in my head that I had to perform like a [...]

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