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Posted May. 24, 2007, 12:14 a.m. PT
Back in La La Land!
By Ann Magnuson
NYC was a crazy whirlwind, as usual, so we are very happy to be home in the relative peace and quiet of Los Angeles! I just heard from a New Yorker that "It's supposed to be over 90 degrees, horribly humid and rainy this weekend in NYC, so you picked a good time to come and go!" Hate to rub it in your East Coast faces, but the weather is great here! A little smoggy, but other than that it is, as my friend William Lively used to say whenever he'd visit, "another shitty day in Paradise." I'm sure the masses will be out on the beach in full force this holiday weekend. Some may even be kitesurfing!
The video above is "Los Angeles Afternoon", an HD short about kitesurfing shot here in LA. Directed by Mark Hannah, it was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2007 X-Dance Film Festival. These people must have muscles as hard as granite! But if kitesurfing proves to be too strenuous an activity, one can always retire to the serenity of the backyard (yes, we have them here in L.A.!) and watch the lemons grow. Just like Donald Sutherland did playing "Homer Simpson" in Day of the Locust! Or maybe he was watching grapefruit? Oh Auntie Em, it doesn't matter because whether it's apples or oranges, there's no place like home!
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I donT ...Know I just got back from florida last night.....and I really loved that humidity and alligator infested swamp.I miss it alreadY....Florida is a gangsters paradise....literally.All those mob folks have made florida a bar hopping playgrounD.....
Posted at 1:55 p.m. PT on May 24, 2007 by randy focazio
Great, great show in NYC, Ann! I hadn't seen you perform since you were last at Great American in SF (by the way, when are you coming back?), and was quite thrilled when I realized my NYC vacation would coincide with your performance.
While at the Pub for your show, I ran into - out of the blue - the guy I lost my virginity to after a night of too much tequila back in 1989. I hadn't seen him in around seven years, and had no idea he was even living in NYC. Why am i even telling you this?
Coming back to San Francisco after being in NYC for five days was like arriving in Mayberry. So much less noise and people congestion, and the sky isn't blotted out in every direction by skyscrapers.
XO
Posted at 4:54 p.m. PT on May 24, 2007 by Rob
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