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January 7, 2009

Moved. Again.

If you would like to update your little black book my new address is:

884 Palm Ave. #201
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Send me a post card! Oh, how I do ever enjoy postcards.


Comparative notes on the new and old apartments:

Better

-It's bigger.
-There are no mice or roaches
-The lobby doesn't smell like a baby's diaper
-The ceiling doesn't poor water when it rains
-There is room for two in the kitchen
-There is a real closet
-The elevator doesn't have two manual operation doors
-There is no gang graffiti
-There are no warnings posted in the lobby about carcinogenic compounds within the building
-We have reserved parking spaces
-There are no gunshots
-One mile from work


Worse

-There are no children who want nothing more than to pet Oni and have him sniff their little faces
-There are no Ice Cream Trucks, Roach Coach Kitchens, Tamalies sold by announcement or belled wagons selling fried Mexican goodness
-I won't be practicing my Spanish nearly as much
-Rent is nearly double

The move was definitely for the better but I will miss Koreatown.

January 12, 2009

Funny vs. Not Funny

A week ago Nicole and I were in the car listening to a radio show with comedian Jim Norton on as a guest. I discovered Jim Norton years ago while listening to an internet comedy radio station and thought he was one of the funniest comics I've heard. Not Doug Stanhope or Patton Oswalt funny, but damn funny. So, when he came to Denver I dragged Nicole out to see his stand-up performance and she pretty much hated every second of it.

Being reminded of this while hearing him on the radio she asked me why I thought his crude, sexist and obscene sense of humor was funny. I replied that I like him because I'm an adult and enjoy adult things and Jim Norton is a true adult comic. She seemed to accept this answer and nothing more was said about him.

This morning on the Today Show they had on as guest the guy who did the "Evolution of Dance" Youtube video with a live sequal to his internet performance. I stood there in retarded awe as I watched this idiot who can't dance shake his legs and flail his arms to a mix of terrible well known dance songs. It was after his performance during an interview that he stated his Youtube video has had 109,596,364 views and if you google it you will see a description of the video as, "The funniest 6 minutes you will ever see! Remember how many ..."!!! What? Who the fuck thinks this is funny??? Is the rest of America really that low brow and Mormon?

I couldn't imagine anything less funny or more G rated and decided that he must be the antithesis of Jim Norton. I guess if there is a heaven there must be a hell and Jim Norton you are my Jesus.

January 13, 2009

Fuck You, Penguin

Ever had the pleasure of discovering something great in your adulthood? Perhaps you finally saw Critters 3 and it has now replaced Titanic as your favorite Leonardo DiCaprio movie of all time and you can't believe it's just been sitting there all these years! Or perhaps you finally tried asparagus and even though it makes your pee smell like a homeless man fried in lard and coffee you vow to never eat another food again.

Okay, maybe that's just me, but thanks to my friend Drew I now have Fuck You, Penguin to add to that list. He recommended it to me as a way to cope with the stupidity of the most popular internet videos and I can't thank him enough for it.

And if you're not a 10 year old girl and love all the cutesy pictures and videos of baby animals that never seem to stop circulating the internet I hope you're offended.

About January 2009

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