So I’m writing a memoir about asexuality, and I’ve spent a lot of time revisiting years that I’ve repressed very well – too well, it turns out. A lot of my high school years are gone. Just gone, which, as a writer of creative non-fiction, is really frustrating.
It was Friday, and I’d just gotten a haircut. Highlights too. I was walking towards the California Pizza Kitchen at Topanga Plaza for my usual post-trim BLT pizza, when a guy in a black sedan pulled up alongside me. I figured he wanted directions, or maybe that he was going to ask if a certain store was in the mall, so I stopped.
A year ago, I joined Chemistry.com, curious about what their ‘super-accurate’ personality quiz would have to say about my person and my suitability for relationships. Once it presents your results, the sidebar happens to mention that, oh, by the way, here are some men we think would be perfect for you. The catch is that [...]
I don’t think of myself as a person with a cause. I don’t see myself as the victim of a social injustice that I need to champion – certainly not if it interferes with my daily inactivity. I’m a lazy sort of person, a person who mostly prefers to stay out of it, whatever ‘it’ [...]
When I heard that Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory‘s Spock-loving, Stan Lee-stalking, resident OCD genius, was going to get a girlfriend (Mayim Bialik of Blossom renown), I was about as happy as when I heard there was going to be a third Transformers movie – not in the least surprised, but very disappointed. Both entirely unnecessary events could [...]
Facebook is a lousy, no-good, meddling Yenta. I can’t update my status, post photos on my Wall, or play a simple game of Bejeweled Blitz™ without the site trying to fix me up with strange men, “suggesting” we become friends just because we have an acquaintance in common. If the virtual blind dates weren’t bad [...]
One of the things I worried about when I first named this blog was that people would click the link expecting to find the adventures of a call girl. It was entirely possible “Hollywood Jane” might make me sound like a hooker. (I was going for a whole Calamity Jane/Jane Doe/anonymity thing that I’m pretty [...]
Anyone who’s anyone in Los Angeles spent Halloween in a dinky movie theater on the corner of Fairfax and Beverly, watching the charity screening of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog and The Guild. The line ran all the way down the block and around the corner – fortunately Vlada, Irina, and I were there on the [...]
That, folks, is a line from the imdb.com summary of Sex Drive, opening Friday. A line which is just ridiculous because everyone knows you can’t graduate high school unless your cherry’s been popped; hell, you can’t go to Prom unless you’ve been to third base, forget about a diploma. Oh, the horror, the horror of [...]
I posted a tutorial on my blog for creating a miniature of the Great A’Tuin from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld - The Turtle Moves.
