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so, admittedly february has not been my most proficient month as far as blog postings go.

in fact, for those of you keeping score at home, this will only be my second post for the entire month (granted, february is the shortest month - and i’m liable to think that had i been given the 2-3 more days that every other month offers i could have increased my total of posts in the month to a whopping 3).

presumably, this will put a serious crimp in my previously mentioned intent to try and increase the frequency with which i post blogs this year. after recenly reaching the 100 post mark in about a year, my current pace puts me at 200 posts sometime around 2010.

oh well.

anyways, here’s some stuff that you missed hearing about, and which i probably would have devoted entire blogs to had i been more conscientious about posting lately.

first off, i saw Abraham Benrubi (who some of you might know from his time as jerry on “ER”, but who will always in my mind be larry kubiak of “parker lewis can’t lose” fame) walking down beverly blvd about a week ago.

from the irony department: last week at the gym two things occurred that made me once again spend several minutes pondering whether or not the end of our civilization would necessarily be a bad thing.

the first thing was a group of 4 girls waiting for an elevator to take them up from the first floor of the gym to the second floor.

now, the fact that the gym (a building whose primary purpose is to encourage and facilitate physical fitness) even has an elevator to begin with is perhaps a bit perplexing - however, i suppose that perhaps a person in a wheelchair or someone engaging in physical therapy might require/benefit from its use - but these were 4 (at least as far as external appearances go) healthy, young women who just seemed either a)oblivious to the fact that there were stairs around the corner or b)were too lazy to actually use said stairs in their quest to achieve the results they desired. good luck with that.

but, this was nothing compared to what occurred shortly thereafter. i was on the treadmill when a young woman stepped onto a treadmill in front of me with a cup of coffee in hand. now granted the cup had a lid on it, but i still found it rather odd that she had decided that a cup of coffee would be an appropriate beverage to consume either before or during a session on the treadmill.

at first i wasn’t certain as to whether she was looking to boost her energy with some caffeine, was trying not to be wasteful and throw out the last few sips, or was just plain stupid.

needless to say my uncertainty lasted only a brief time, and all questions were answered as she proceeded to spill hot coffee on herself while she was running. causing her to not only curse in pain, but to also nearly fall off the treadmill from the burns, and her subsequent attempt to quickly rid her arms of the scalding liquid.

the other really entertaining thing that’s happened lately (not involving brittany spears) is all the hullabuloo being made over the american idol chick’s photos.

now, first off let me state i hate american idol (along with pretty much every other reality tv program), although i do enjoy watching paula abdul interview segments from local news affiliates online. so, really, i could care less about what any of these contestants have or may have done prior to, while, or after appearing on the show (unless it involves some sort of actual artistic endeavor having nothing to do with the show - ala jennifer hudson).

that said, the reason i am enjoying this current “scandal” is because the young woman in question hails from pt. pleasant (which along with being the name of a - what i’m sure was a very awful - short-lived television show, is also a town located very close to where i grew up in new jersey).

the part that i am enjoying most revolves around the photograph of her on the toilet bowl. not for any particular scatological fetish i might have, but rather for the comments made recently in an ap story by a local resident regarding the photo and the implications it has for people from the jersey shore.

“It’s the way this town is: Everybody knows everything about their friends,” said Mark Dillon, 17. “At least half the people in this town have pictures of their friends on the toilet. I’ve personally seen at least 20. It’s only because she’s on TV that they’re online.”

so, in lieu of all this, i would like to take this opportunity to state that i do not have any pictures of my friends on the toilet. and as far as i know nobody i knew growing up possessed any photos of friends on the toilet.

but then again, things change…

they say you can never go home again, maybe it’s because when you get there everyone is walking around with pictures of people on the crapper.

The World Has Changed

so, it’s been a while since the last blog…to all those concerned that perhaps i might have died, fear not i’ve just been busy lately. to all those wishing i had died, tough shit.

some of you may remember my post from a few weeks back citing the conversation pat robertson recently had with god regarding the impending terrorist attacks that pat “was told” would be unleashed upon major cities towards the end of this year.

you may also remember that in lieu of that conversation i suggested that perhaps i might try to take greater advantage of the world around me and of all the interesting and fun things at my disposal that i had yet to experience since moving to la now nearing two years ago.

well, this is what’s been going on for the last few weeks. i have been experimenting with a little thing that some people who do not spend the majority of their time in front of either a) a computer screen b) a tv or c) at a movie theater - refer to as living.

it’s been fun. and for those of you who are prone to waiting for my signing off on things before giving them a shot, i can now tell you that (although, not for every one) i’m giving you the green light to try life on for size…see how it fits. so far so good on my end.

however, this isn’t to say that life isn’t exactly as i remembered it from the last time i spent a significant amount of time out in the world. in fact, there are some things that have been down right surprising.

the first of these things are that mannequins now apparently come with models that seem to have down syndrome (at least the one’s at nordstroms do).

now, don’t get me wrong i am not making fun of people with down’s syndrome. i do not now nor have i ever promoted making fun of people with this infliction. that said it is a bit odd to have mannequins who seemingly have down syndrome modeling clothes in a department store. but, then, maybe this is a good thing…maybe down syndrome mannequins are just the first step in marketing clothes to a segment of the population that until now has probably been vastly ignored by the fashion community. perhaps this could pave the way to bigger and better things for people with down syndrome. who knows, maybe this spring there will be models with down syndrome walking the runways in france. i bet that guy who played Corky from Life Goes On could have rocked the runways back in the day if he had wanted to.

anyways. some other things that have been going on lately:

saw Cameron Diaz shopping/trying to escape the hounding of paparazzi at Whole Foods (this occurred about a week ago).

yesterday I spent the day in Santa Barbara, while walking down State street there was a man holding a sign that said “free hugs.” he may or may not have been homeless. nevertheless I took advantage of the offer and received a hug - in general i try to make it a rule never to refuse free stuff.

from the corrections department - I realized that my jan 06 mix should actually be titled jan 07 mix as it is in fact now 2007. as for my feb 07 mix, stay tuned it should be up in the next week or so.

other than that, i’ve been eating out quite a bit lately discovering lots of new, good places. and get this, i’ve even gone out drinking a few times…including a night that ended at the Roosevelt Hotel lounge, which is definitely a very enjoyable place to hang out and have a few.

i checked out the hollywood farmer’s market.

and i’ve also recently been introduced to crossword puzzles, they’re fun.

okay, time to get ready to eat some food and watch a little tv…

i promise i’ll try and be a little more vigilant with keeping the blog updates coming more regularly, i know how so many of you depend on them to survive.

until then, keep on keeping on…