Blue Blood readers may have come across Richard Kadrey first as a photographer, with his Blue Blood VIP work of Stephy Slaughter and Soma Stardust. I came across his creative work first reading his cyberpunk novel Metrophage. Aloha from Hell, the newest book in his Sandman Slim series is about to come out and I [...]
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has all sorts of new stuff in the new Dinosaur Hall. I used to love the dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a kid, so I’m very excited to check out this new exhibit. Their Tyrannosaurus Rex was incredible. I assume [...]
It is no secret that I love trade shows. Doesn’t matter whether I am actually particularly working in a specific industry, I just enjoy the sense of productivity and expertise and people trying to do whatever they do well. I like tools a lot. (Tools as in instruments to accomplish things, not guys who order [...]
If you are in Los Angeles and looking for something to do tonight (or just interested in stalking me), I plan to be at the BOOM Comics holiday party at Meltdown Comics this evening. Beforehand, I am going to learn to make red velvet cake because it is Forrest Black’s birthday. Red velvet cake has [...]
I first met the intrepid LA Weekly nightlife columnist Lina Lecaro back in the darkly glamorous and decadent millennial y2k nights of Club Makeup a decade or so ago. It was the place to be, full of noise and glitter and genuinely flamboyant craziness. I really should dig up some of the pictures from that [...]
I’d like to welcome semi-new advertiser web comic Buttersafe and thank creators Raynato Castro and Alex Culang for the giggles. I particularly enjoyed the Buttersafe take on spring cleaning. I’ve been TiVoing Clean House lately in the hopes that this will teach me to be able to de-clutter. The Clean House show has a lot [...]
Another interesting person I met at my pals’ Andy Warhol-themed salon this Monday is Tanja Laden. Tanja Laden is mostly an insightful writer and editor. Tanja Laden has been published all over the place and is currently Deputy Editor at happenings-oriented website Flavorpill Los Angeles. She also apparently takes the occasional picture and I heartily [...]
I am registered to vote and I have a drivers license, but I have not received a census form in the mail. Instead, a man buzzed my security system yesterday, gave me his name, said he was from the census, and asked to enter my home. I hung up. So he buzzed again repeatedly. Eventually, [...]
Zak Smith’s memoir We Did Porn is beautifully-produced by Tinhouse Books and it is a beautifully-written, readable book, featuring entertaining aphorisms and some sex stuff which might be titillating to people who are not me. A peculiarity of the book is the juxtaposition of absolutely brilliant cultural insights about the art world, the educated world, [...]
Los Angeles can be a difficult city to make deep connections with others in. I know literally hundreds of people who I genuinely like and enjoy in Southern California, but I can’t say most of them know me particularly in-depth or vice-versa. Sometimes I find it difficult to escape the feeling that every interaction is [...]