Hollywood Squares Goes to Boston

Bruce Vilanch was on my plane to Boston last week. I was reminded by Tom Daschle's new red glasses tonight, and my friend Helen identified Vilanch as a Hollywood Square based solely on my description.

Holy Postage Batman!

Got this from a posting by Political Research Associates:

"Now Americans can buy postage stamps with religious themes through The Apostolate, Inc. Stamps oriented towards Christians and Jews are available for a surcharge over U.S. Postal Service costs, but can be used for U.S. mail under its "customized postage" program. This "outsourcing" allows the company to ignore the separation of church and state, and issue stamps with Isaiah, the Torah, star of David, an angel emblazoned with In His Name or a beacon with the banner IGWT (In God We Trust) are among the stamps available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, and Gaelic."

OK, so it wasn't Mary Louise Parker...

But we did have a Weeds sighting at the ArcLight last night: Allie Grant who plays Isabelle Hodes, Celia's smart-as-a-whip lesbian daughter.

(Blogger just will not upload photos for me lately. I don't know what's wrong.)

Of Polygamists and Punk Rockers

Saw Grace Zabriskie, currently of Big Love, in Little Tokyo this weekend.

There were stars galore at the Johnny Ramone memorial event/fundraiser at Hollywood Forever on Friday. There were of course all the ones I saw at the broadcasting tent (Flea, Tommy, CJ, and Marky Ramone, Rose McGowan, Slim Jim from the Stray Cats). But while I was waiting for Karl to arrive at the main entrance, I saw John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers get out of a black Mercedes. He called over to the person at the gate, "10 bucks a person, right?" Yes, John Frusciante paid to get in.

(Blogger seems to be having problems uploading photos right now... visuals coming ASAP.)

Malibu Public Beaches Safari

We just did this great program yesterday with the LA Urban Rangers. While CA law mandates that coastline is public land, beachfront communities like Malibu do their best to try and limit public access. For example, Malibu stretches along 27 miles of the coast, and 20 of those miles are lined with private development. So how do you get access to those stretches of coastline? The LA Urban Rangers lead "safaris" to Malibu beaches and teach you how to know what part of the beach is in fact public (wet sand, for example is always public), how to tell which of those threatening signs on multimillion dollar homes are blatantly untrue and which are partially true, and basically how to access shore line that de facto only rich people are able to enjoy. It's a great subversive and witty tour that I highly recommend for next year! Or if you're out in LA, we love to share our new-found knowledge with you!