The duck got wet

Duck umbrellas are a brilliant idea. I'm looking forward to giving his bill a nice new paint job at some point. Thank you duck for working so well for so long. Truly a lord among umbrellas.

Office parties

Okay so office holiday parties are office holiday parties, but the biltmore sure softens the eyes.

Fidm and United Artists

turns out the FIDM scholarship store is all that if you're in the market for small print swatches or unusual fabric. I left with a good selection of low and high loft fake furs and found myself at a new bus stop. Only 2 blocks further south, but this united artists building is amazing.

High on fire

A rocking metal show, 70% of my hearing still intact, a $4 pabst and a free T-shirt -- not bad for a wednesday night in hollywood.

Take a bow

Escaping history

I just had a moment.

Critika and I switched essays: I to tease out the slippages in her boarding school / historical society application, she to breath positivity into my business school destitution essay. I was reminded that upon graduating from high school, indeed five years of high school, I was proud to have cleverly evaded all history courses -- required or otherwise.

Then I married a historian,

and in fact, some of my best friends now are historians. Enter the Japanther concert I went to last week; it has had me listening to Pandora's Japanther station for nearly a week now. Brings me back to the birth of emo, Anasarca, and that curly-red-moptop of a historian friend I roomed with in college to put an end to that question I never was able to resolve:

What is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, and why did they register me as Libertarian when I said I didn't know which party I belonged to?

Some manga

I've been on a hunt to read every graphic novel in the la public library system and it's high time I dipped into that deep pool of superhero manga. Turns out ragnarok has some decent storyline to it, but what's up with all the floating chests?