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Archive for December, 2003
I’m short (pun intended) on details at the moment, so just know that there is more to the story.
Hang tight and check back!
If you’re new to jozjozjoz.com, then you might wonder why I am constantly talking about/posting pictures of Genevieve Gallen. The story of that starts back in July 2003… you can always check out the archives for more. After posting Verne Troyer and Genevieve Gallen pictures on my site, Genevieve happened upon my site & got in touch. The rest, I guess you could say, is history…
I usually blog about Genevieve (not Verne, because I’ve only said “hi” to him a couple of times), but anytime there is happy/exciting news for either of them, I want to share it. Genevieve has been nice enough to share many photos with us, including this EXCLUSIVE picture of Verne Troyer and Genevieve Gallen).
Here’s a brief blurb:
NBC alternative topper Jeff Gaspin has pacted with producer Mark Cronin’s Mindless Entertainment to develop “Life Is Too Short,” a half-hour reality comedy starring two-foot-eight thespian, Verne Troyer…
Mini-Me Gets A Reality Show
December 13, 2003
Austin Powers star Verne Troyer has landed his own reality comedy show on TV - as one of three little people living and working in Hollywood.Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, will be joined by real-life buddies and fellow little actors Elena and Phil Fondacaro in the show “Life is Too Short,” which will be based in the trio’s San Fernando Valley home that has been specially built to accommodate their size.
Series co-creator Jeff Gaspin says, “That’s a world we’re not privy to. We don’t have to deal with the things they do.”
For another interesting article about the future of reality television…
Continue reading ‘Verne Troyer’s Reality Show on NBC: “Life is Too Short”’
I have soooooooooooooo much to do!!!
And I have to have lunch… must run out and grab something from the roach coach before it disappears!
GAH!
UPDATE: I missed the roach coach. I had a Tommy Burger instead. I think I’m going to be sick.
So we left at 9:15 pm on Friday night, we took my car, which has no cruise control, but at least it had a full tank of gas. Called the ‘rents, told them we were on our way, and proceeded to spend the next 5 hours talking about anything and nothing at all, which is rare—we hardly ever have an opportunity to talk for hours on end, so if nothing else comes out of this, at least we got to do that.
We got to san jose around 2:30 am, my mother had already made up the inflatable mattress in my old room with lots of blankets since jozjozjoz gets a frozen nose if the room dips below 70 degrees, but we had to re-inflate the sucker since the plug popped out. But no matter, we were soon snoring away.
My parents had very good intentions about the whole “find Rusty” thing, but he’s really MY dog. My dad said he’d post signs and walk around the neighborhood, but he works full time and so by Saturday, had only the opportunity to post a sign on the tree in front of our house. And they didn’t really think that we needed to go to san jose to do all the stuff, but again, he’s MY dog.
Saturday morning we printed out the flyer and went to make copies, buy a staple gun (cuz you know, i can’t have a project and not have a new tool to make the job that much more fun!) and a tape gun, and began the slow process of posting flyers all over the neighborhood. I think we papered over 150 light posts/signal posts/telephone posts and stuffed over 250 mailboxes.
Jozjozjoz, being the more social of the two of us (or the one who can approach a complete stranger and not become catatonic over it) talked to a lot of my parents’ neighbors, store managers, and regular people and wasn’t phased by the rudeness of 14 year old boys, crazy homeowners against ‘solicitors’ and those people who haven’t seen your dog, but who will tell you of every other dog they’ve seen in the neighborhood over the last three years.
My method, by the way, of approaching a stranger’s door:
Continue reading ‘The road trip…’
I have to rush off to work now… maybe Yoshi will blog about our trip to San Jose.
We woke up at 5am and drove back to L.A. this morning so I can get to work on time.
We’d both feel much better if Rusty was returned safely home.
Send good dog-hunting mojo our way, please.
Must take a shower. Yoshi says I can’t be stinkier than the dog is when we find him.
The next time I post, I hope the news is that Rusty is home.
…but for a reason.
Ok, as you may know, Yoshi’s dog Rusty got out of the yard (no tags) and hasn’t been seen since Wednesday.
We are driving up tonight (Friday) so we can put up flyers and go door-to-door. [Yes, it’s 9pm and it’s a 5-6 hour drive. We’ll be up in SJ at approx 3am.]
Just letting you know where we’ll be.
Thanks.
Guess what I got today?
Continue reading ‘To Professor Eric…’
WHERE ARE YOU!?
If you happen to see this doggie running around San Jose, please get in touch right away!
We are worried sick!
Ok, no more shooting pain, but my knee still hurts and is kind of “tingly” in a bad way.
Oh and it’s a little black and blue… bordering on eggplant colored.
How appropriate.
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I rolled my chair and rammed my knee into desk. Hard.
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Did I mention HARD?
My friend Craig was nice enough to send me some photos of Lacy.
And here they are…
More below…
Continue reading ‘In memory of Lacy…’
Oops, I did it again. (Damn you, Britney Spears, for hijacking a perfectly good phrase!)
Yoshi says that the only reason I am working Job #3 now is just to support my habit.
What habit? My Jobe Benjamin habit. It is bad. BAD!
Except for the fact that it was actually framed (bronze frame to go with the print) and matted, this is what I bought…
Enticing Marlon Brando (Description: PHOTO PRINT BY JOBE BENJAMIN Photo print, entitled “Enticing Marlon Brando” by Jobe Benjamin, (American, b.1956) initialed and dated 2003, 22″ x 15″; unframed. Est: $600-$800)
There’s an awesome story behind (no pun intended) the print I bought. It’s called “Enticing Marlon Brando” because Jobe and the model went out on Mullholland Drive (outside Brando’s house) to do this shoot. Without Mr. Brando’s permission, of course. That wall is right up on the property line. Imagine Jobe out there in the middle of the day on Mullholland with a naked chick, taking pictures for close to an hour, before Brando’s security guards came out and chased them away.
Emily asked “so, did it entice him?”
Well, the answer to that is up to our imaginations!
At least I exercised restraint and didn’t buy this one:
You Mean… Like This? (Description: PHOTO PRINT BY JOBE BENJAMIN Photo print, entitled “You Mean…..Like This?” by Jobe Benjamin, (American, b.1956), initialed and dated 2003, 15″ x 22″; unframed. Est: $600 - $800)
I can’t decide if I like the Red Stripe/Blue Stripe set I bought better, or ‘Enticing Marlon Brando.’
Do you like one more than the other?
After I threw away my greasy, greasy fries, I had to SCROUNGE to find money to spend at the vending machines downstairs.
I only had 75 cents in my wallet. It was pathetic.
I could have had my bag of popcorn. Or a bag of chips.
But I already had enough grease coursing in my system, so I spent my last 3 quarters on a Peach Tea Snapple.
Since I only had coinage, I could not even enter any currency into www.wheresgeorge.com
…available from the lunch truck on our lot.
And two of them are in my tummy.
I bit into one and grease literally splooged out (yes, that’s the scientific term for it) and all over my desk. I thought it was a fluke and tried again. Bad idea.
Blecch.
I’m so disappointed, I may have to have a bag of popcorn instead.
Don and Mike Doss nominated jozjozjoz.com for a 2003 Weblog Award at Wizbang? THANKS!
Best Slimy Molluscs (and below) Ecosystem Level Blog
You can vote here once every 12 hours, through December 14, I guess.
I know that I’m in not nominated in the right “category” in the Ecosystem, (I’m nominated in Slimy Molluscs and below… I an actually an adorable rodent). However, I did check with Kevin at Wizbang & he said placed us in categories according to where we were at the time of nomination.
Anyway, the nomination is quite cool, and be sure to check the link before and vote for your favorite blogs… there are many categories to consider! Check it out!
*Unless your name is Yoshi and you live in a small guest house with jozjozjoz and put up with being jumped on by crazy dogs named Moca & Terra. And even if you are the above, think twice if you do.
Seriously. I’d rather you put your finger up my nose than in my belly button.
I can barely stand to look at that picture without freaking out. First of all, you will not see me posing for a picture while I’m lifting up the front of my shirt.
Second of all, if I was (and you have not yet been shat upon by that flying pig), your finger should not be anywhere near the vicinity of my navel.
No way, no where, no how, nuh-uh!
And if by some horrible chance my belly button did happen to be exposed, pointing your index finger anywhere in my direction would be as smart as trying to shave your private parts with a chainsaw. During an earthquake. On the hood of a speeding car. While 9-year-old boys shoot BBs at your naked ass.
Why can’t you do this to me?
Continue reading ‘Never EVER do this to me*’
If you’ve never experienced a Sweet Honey In the Rock Concert, I highly recommend it. They travel year-round, so if you’re not in L.A., check their touring schedule to see when they’re performing near you. (Have you been to a Sweet Honey concert? Back me up on this!)
I’m not just attending this concert, I’ll also be working it. If you attend, please come by and say “hi!” My team and I will be selling Sweet Honey CDs/merchandise in the lobby.
In addition to hearing some really great music, I’m also excited because I’ve been told that I’ll be the first person to see (aside from the printers themselves) the special limited-edition 30th Anniversary 2004 calendars.
The Liberty Hill Foundation does some really great progressive work to create “change, not charity” in the L.A. area. I got to know this group’s work when I used to work for Arianna Huffington. Liberty Hill gets a lot of support from some “big names” & you can always see some more of the socially-aware celebs at their events. Aside from David Duchovny and his wife Téa Leoni, I can’t remember who was there last year… except that I do remember having a long conversation with Tom Hayden.
Anyway, if you come, don’t forget to buy lots of stuffs!!!
The Liberty Hill Foundation has made it possible for Sweet Honey in the Rock return to Los Angeles as part of their 30th Anniversary concert tour.
The Grammy Award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble has deep musical roots in the sacred music of the black church - spirituals, hymns, gospel - as well as jazz and blues.
The concert this Saturday night is Sweet Honey’s only L.A. area performance during their 30th anniversary tour (ending January 2004). This year will also mark a milestone for Sweet Honey, that of transition and planning; it being the final year of touring and performing with founder, Bernice Johnson Reagon as a member of the ensemble.
Described by the Los Angeles Times as “Los Angeles’ most imaginative foundation,” Liberty Hill “is building the foundation for a new Los Angeles by bridging the divides between privilege and poverty, the powerful and the voiceless.”
DATE: Saturday, December 6, 2003
TIME: 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 4401 West 8th Street
TICKETS: individual tickets are $35, $75 and $250.
To purchase tickets, either
a) call (310) 453-3611 to pay via credit card
http://www.libertyhill.org/donor/sweethoney.html
yoshi! (2:06:50 PM): what do we get R & L [for their upcoming commitment ceremony]?
me (2:09:41 PM): um
me (2:09:48 PM): i dunno
me (2:09:53 PM): a puppy?
yoshi! (2:10:05 PM): you are SO no help
Evidently, a puppy is an “inappropriate wedding gift.”
I was reading the Digging in the Dirt post written by Wil at my newest favorite hangout: www.blogging.la (a project spearheaded by Jason & Sean)
Anyway, Wil’s post reminded me of something I meant to blog about two months ago but never had the time to.
A good friend of ours had been working on her house & decided the garden needed some attention. For her birthday, she invited everyone over for a “Birthday Planting Party” and people brought plants instead of gifts and helped put them in the ground for her.
So we wouldn’t doom her with our blackthumbs, we brought tiki torches for her backyard jacuzzi. It was a lot of fun, especially because my contribution was being the official photographer (instead of having to, you know, plant something).
And of course for such an event, I had the perfect attire: my DIRT-TEE!
(And Yoshi tried to get me to throw it away… See!?!? I *did* have a reason to wear it!)
I’ll be the first to admit to being a packrat, and even though I know Yosh would *never ever* apply for us to be on ‘Clean Sweep’, I will admit to panicking from the mere mention of it.
I know Yoshi thinks it’s great fun to mess with me about it, but seriously, I am *not* digging that show today.
I think I am totally justified in putting that show on my shit list because THEY MADE ME LATE TO WORK TODAY!!!
Ok, ok… really, it was the DUMBASSES who stopped their vehicles, got out of their cars, and stopped traffic to see what was going on who made me late, but I’m going to blame it on Clean Sweep, since I think they’re mean to people to make them throw away perfectly good stuff, especially when they don’t want to part with it. *pant pant*
As long as I have to drive myself 45 minutes across town everyday, I figure I may as well take surface streets and drive through residential neighborhoods instead of sitting in traffic on the 10. It’s just a much prettier ride.
Anyway, I was on my way to work this morning when I turned a corner and got stuck behind a mess of cars on one of the quieter streets in Beverlywood. WTF?!
My car slowly inched forward until I saw the giant “TLC/Clean Sweep” logos on the trucks and I was like: “Arrgh! Damn you, Clean Sweep! Damn you for disturbing this pretty little neighborhood and the nice people who live here! Damn you for getting in my way while I’m trying to get to work! Damn you for having such big ol’ trucks that everyone is stopping to look! Why do you have to tape in So Cal anyway? Why can’t the Fab Five tape Queer Eye here instead of New York!?”
And to the people who slowed down to look:
“Damn you, too! Can’t you see what’s happening without getting out of your friggin’ cars? There are two giant trucks that say “TLC/CLEAN SWEEP” on them. Haven’t you never seen a show taped before? We live in L.A.! They tape things all the time, all over the place! And if you’re looking for the yard sale… it’s 8am right now!!! They don’t even do the yard sale until later, so get your fricken asses back into your cars and MOVE OUT OF MY WAY!”
Ok, actually, I wasn’t really thinking that… I’m actually not a road ragin’ kind of gal.
What I was *really* thinking was “Damn you, Clean Sweep, for giving Yoshi more reasoning and rationalization of why I should to throw things away!”
And since I was stuck there, I had time to grab my camera and take a couple of shots from my car. I’ll put them up after I get home tonight… after I figure out how to “ban” ‘Clean Sweep’ from ever being TiVo’d on our machine, that is.
UPDATE: Here are the pictures I snapped. Yoshi claims I can’t actually “ban” a show from TiVo. I shall find a way…
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