do i have any faults? omg ha!
actually i do. im terrible on the telephone. and im doubly terrible being a shoulder to cry on. why? because most of my advice is take a nap and when you wake up take a shower. or just come over and...
View Articlemike nichols died today
he made some pretty damn good movies. id watch some if i wasnt so busy. last night we celebrated ali’s birthday at kanpai the night before i attended the 20th anniversary screening of The Shawshank...
View Articlea comment from a long time reader
Tony, You need to get out of LA pronto. You don’t need the Hollywood Hills house in your rear view mirror all day. The constant visibility of all the things you don’t have is clouding your mind as to...
View Articlewatched the Longest Yard last night, but it got cut off at the very end
so i laughed. which scared the cats, which were laying on me. the night before i watched this older Jared Leto movie “Mr. Nobody”, which was weird, but good. this is my life without driving Uber. not...
View Articlehad a really good weekend until sunday night
if youve noticed i havent talked about the xbi in a while. everything happens for reasons. for some people attention is good, for some not so good. believe it or not i dont like attention. i know that...
View Articlei once had a boss who told me i was not meant to be a manager
she said i was more of an Individual Contributor. i took great offense at that because i felt that i had been a good manager in the past and inside i have always felt like a leader. but i would need a...
View Articlemaybe blogging isnt for anyone
i used to think that blogging was for everyone. everybody has dreams and ideas and interesting lives. after a while i thought, well thats all true, but not everyone is interested in telling the world...
View Articlea million years ago today Greg Vaine had an art show
i wanna do something on Medium. why not. im thinking about putting old busblog posts on there. because no one else is. i feel like i have 90% crud on this blog, which means 10% is halfway decent so...
View Articlemy computer is decorated by tiny images from shepard fairey
i got a discount code from one of those companies that makes laptop covers which are really just huge stickers that go over the front of your macbook and i didnt know which one i wanted and i had this...
View Articleon this day on the busblog
2001: me and this girl i work with were talking about True Hollywood Stories. We edit the closed-captions so that the deaf, hearing-impared, and hotties working out in the gym can keep up with the...
View Articleit’s been 47 days since Zulieka has posted on her blog
heres the problem with life: it’s fleeting. the older we get the faster it goes and then justlikethat it’s gone. did we learn anything? what was life like? all those things become folklore unless we,...
View Articletheres a lot of things that will make me fall in love with you
the easiest way is if you keep a good blog. ten years ago this december i took a road trip up to canada to see mr matthew good along the way i got an email from a blogger who i admired who went by the...
View Articledear world famous busblog
i must apologize to you. this has been the least prolific year on this fine blog… since last year. the trend is super sad. for years this blog averaged between 700 to over 900 posts a year. last year...
View Articlethe clock says it’s time to go… now…
i’m doing this new thing to motivate myself away from the computer during this Christmas vacation. when i wake up i take the charger off the macbook and when the battery runs out it’s time to go...
View Articleim clogged up
i have to write some things but theres a blockage two weekends in a row i just wanted to stay in bed and not do anything dont wanna uber, dont wanna write, dont wanna change the world, dont wanna text...
View Articlesometimes you might feel like climbing the shit house
and sometimes you might feel like walking on top of said houses and sometimes you might feel like you know what, i really should just totally jump no matter what they say about white men and jumping....
View Articleeight years ago today we launched the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar blog
have i told you im the luckiest man in the world? i am. it seems like just yesterday, i had held the position of Blog Editor at the LA Times for just a few months when i got an email from the Sports...
View Articledear rock n roll diary
first of all im sorry i put even an imagined quota on you. for some reason i still believe quantity is quality but after seen bruuuuuuce last night i realized quality is quality. if you have enough...
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