Category: Silliness

  • Hello Kitty Hell

    Ever been?

  • Return of the Stage

  • Smart-asses, welcome

    Jenn Reese has an interesting and fun entry in her journal today that revolves around playing a certain kind of game.  Here’s how it works at Jenn’s place: Post something positive about a presidential candidate for whom you *do not* intend to vote. -Giving credit to Clinton for being female or Obama for being black…

  • Strindberg and Helium

    Edited link:  Thanks for the fix, Maureen! If you’ve never experienced viewing the videos about Strindberg and Helium, you must watch them now. They make me laugh at myself whenever I become nihilistic or misanthropic. Click here and enjoy.

  • Home again

    I am back home from New York City, a bit bedraggled but thoroughly enjoyed myself. Saw Aimee Mann in concert, the anniversary reproduction of Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming”, Southland Tales, shopped in open air markets, was a guest on the Hour of the Wolf, which you can listen to here, and ate lots and lots…

  • Which way do you spin?

    I just did this right brain/left brain test and am so weirded out.  It’s a test to see which hemisphere of the brain you use more.  Initially I saw the image of the dancer going clockwise, the right brain way of seeing it.   And I watched it and watched it and couldn’t see it the…

  • Dear Public Speaking Gods,

    Please help me learn how to speak without saying “um” all the time.  And without, um, having to take classes for it, ’cause that doesn’t sound really fun. Yours, Chris

  • Fooling Around

    My friend Brooke is helping me do a lot of the local promotion and publicity for my book. The girl knows virtually everyone you need to know around this place to get things noticed, and so my publicist at Bantam sent her a box of books the other week to help when getting in touch…

  • You can stand under my umbrella

    A return to a mood I have not felt in a while. Recently I have been sort of obsessed with the song “Umbrella” which is sung by the very popular Barbados-born Rihanna. And when I say popular, I mean popular. You go to this woman’s myspace page and look at how many “friends” she has.…

  • Morning

    Found this in my email from my friend Graham this morning: and the day started off with great cheer. It’s a fun internet program, like those church signs you can write whatever on. Nonetheless, I think it fits nicely in the Hollywood hills.