If you don’t believe in same sex marriage then don’t marry someone from the same sex and shut the fuck up. - Wanda Sykes
Always forgive your enemies;
nothing annoys them as much.
-Oscar Wilde
There's a world full of endless resources;
There's a mind full of outrageous dreams;
There's a place where the two meet...
Anything is possible...
-Deborah Gibson
As human beings, our greatness lies not so
much in being able to remake the world -
that is the myth of the atomic age -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Year after year I am amazed. My soul could burst with all of the thanks and gratitude I have for every one of you who continuously take the time to make me feel special- especially on June 27th. My facebook, Myspace, email, text messages and voicemail were all filled with loving sentiments. One of my best friends on the planet posted one of the nicest things I have ever read about myself. And this was all before 9am. I was served a yummy breakfast in bed (this is not code for anything, there was actual bacon involved). At 9:15am, I said goodbye to my boys…
…and my beautiful friend Joy picked me up in her white chariot for Starbucks and a trip to the spa…
After a 25 minute relaxation bath, a 25 minute foot massage and a 50 minute deep tissue massage, I was shiny and happy and ready for our reservation at the always fabulous Mozza Pizzeria. We were joined by Andrew and Jo as we dined on pizzas, sipped on wine and devoured the Mozza Caprese…
as well as the Chicken Liver Bruschetta (my droolworthy favorite)…
I was shiny, happy, tipsy, full and ready for a nap…
I needed it so I could be ready for a night of beer pong, dancing and laughing… and a visit from my favorite New Kid on the Block, Jonathan Knight…
I know!
Again, I can’t thank everyone enough. The next 200 photos are only a glimpse of the fun. Although next time, I will make sure the place is reserved privately for me. Too many random people by the end trying to dance in our parade! Mark your calendar, next year, it will be big for sure… xox
My sweet friend Ross had a little housewarming party yesterday. I have a very brief cameo in his talkie blog and of course I am talking about the size of my head.
Another fun year of Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Tour. The Puppini Sisters, Andy Bell, Wanda Sykes, The B-52s and of course the always captivating Cyndi. So fun!
There is one thing I can count on for the rest of my life… I will always get to share my birthday with my friend Joe. His is the 26th and mine is the 27th, so while his birthday gets the party started, I make sure to finish it off. Forty eight hours of birthday bliss. Happy birthday my friend… xox
White chocolate brownies. Check.
Togos. Check.
Pinot noir, merlot and zinfendel. Check.
Cyndi Lauper. Check.
Andy Bell. Check.
The B-52s. Check.
Beneric and Daniel. Missing in action. Tickets?
to be continued…
is already off to a rip roaring start… breakfast in bed… my ride is just minutes away to take me off to the spa… and my cell phone has been ringing off the hook and it is only 9:16am… so much love so early in the day and for that I am so very grateful and thankful… and most especially for one of the nicest things I have ever read… ever… (and I didn’t even have to ask for it )
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For anyone who was at my going away party in 1996 (when I was off to pursue my La La dreams), you might remember my little friend Max. He was probably about 6 or 7 and danced to the longest version of Macho Men by The Village People ever recorded. It wasn’t choreographed or even rehearsed, he just got up and shook it with all he had (that’s a video for another day). I am proud to share the following clip from his latest dance show. It’s great to see he’s still shaking it with all he’s got!
I am very proud and excited to announce the launch of our new project foodwhores.com. My friend Jo and I have toyed around with the idea for awhile and finally we have laid the floorplan to start building. It is a place for us to discuss food and all of it’s glory. Recipes, chefs, videos, dining experiences and all of the joys of food and cooking. We are just getting it started and we are looking forward to it growing from not only our contributions, but yours as well. So dig out your favorite recipes, have someone take photos along the way and get ready to share! Bon Appetit!
There is a mature (not) feud going between Lilly Allen and the blogger named Perez who I hate to even mention. But she had this photo posted on her blog during her war of words and I HAD to share it. I am thankful for how much it really made me giggle.
About four years ago, I was watching Rocco Di Spirito make his mom’s meatballs on a talk show. They looked delicious and I couldn’t wait to try them. Around that same time, my aunt and uncle took me to New York for my birthday and the theater trip of a lifetime. On my personal agenda was to sample Mama’s Famous Meatball’s from Rocco’s now defunct restaurant, but time never permitted and it didn’t happen. Over the years I have sampled and enjoyed other meatballs (Bay Cities Italian Deli in Santa Monica still may be my favorite meatball sandwich EVER), but I have yet to make or try Rocco’s.
Yesterday, Andrew and I met fellow food lovers Jo and Peter at our new discovery (and local staple unbeknown to us), The Monte Carlo Italian Deli in Burbank, where Andrew was happily enjoying the meatballs. I, being the good boyfriend wanting to keep his man happy, was determined to make delicious meatballs at home for him and thought this would make for a great excuse to finally try out Mama / Rocco’s recipe. Which is kind of what I did, until of course I made my own changes (i.e. bought the wrong ingredients but figured out a way to make them work). Below I have captured the recipe I made as well as some of the photos during the process. I am happy to say I think they may be the most delicious meatballs I have ever tasted, which is proof that accidents can be a good thing in cooking. Read more »
I remember my childhood as poor and limited but loved and safe in the hands of my grandparents. One of my favorite things I would do with my grandmother is sit at the kitchen table with the JC Penny’s Quarterly Catalogue. It was as big as a phone book from my small perspective. I rarely stopped at the clothes or appliances or gadgets that filled the beginning pages. From time to time I would pause at the jewelery for my grandmother. She had an eye for gold necklaces and clip on earrings. As soon as we’d get to the last page of glittery treasures, I would flip quickly to the back where the pages were filled with toy after toy after toy. I got to circle whatever I wanted and fold the corners over to make it easy for my grandparents or Santa or whomever would be fulfilling my decadent wishes.
Alas, I think I rarely received anything from those pages. Santa was always good to me at Christmas, but throughout the year, toys were usually second hand from a neighbor or a family friend. Fortunately I didn’t realize my lack of toys until later in life (like last month when I bought a Wii only to find myself playing the original Super Mario Brothers as long and whenever I wanted from the comfort of my own living room). As long as my grandparents had aluminum foil in the house for my bracelets, I would play Wonder Woman in the yard for days on end and I rarely felt deprived (depraived would be for another post).
What’s this ramble really all about? Glad you asked. With my birthday coming up, people are constantly asking me what I want. So I spent a few hours on the world’s biggest internet catalogue (Amazon) and was reminded of just how fun it can be wishing and hoping for all of those things you really don’t need but would be fun to have. There are a lot of things on there that are pricey and expensive that I would never expect from anyone… but a boy can dream, can’t he?
I had dinner with friends on Tuesday night (at Ketchup) that I hadn’t seen in eleven years. It is amazing how much time can pass and all that can happen in our lives and how easily all of that time and space can be removed by a simple reconnection. We worked together at a little company called Navigation Technologies. It was a revolutionary concept that would digitally map out the world so a satellite in the sky could guide you and keep you from getting lost. It was far fetched and by the time I left in 1996 seemed like it was never going to happen. Now it is used in every GPS system, Mapquest, Google maps, you name it. What did I know? The 21 year old fool I was, I had my sights set on Hollywood and was just thrilled to be out of retail. I didn’t buy a single stock option, but I can always look back on it as the job that changed my life… and humbly I still have the friends to prove it.
(above Mark Granovsky and Joe Noonan)
And just because I hadn’t posted any in a couple of days, I had to share these two new photos of Gus as he rapidly grows, looking more and more like the prodigy of Lady and the Tramp. In the twist of his story, his cocker spaniel mother is the lady AND the tramp!
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