Where's Andrae?*

At Pilates Westwood, that's where! He was working out at the same time as me this week.



*Project Runway reference, for all you non-fans. If you've gotta watch a reality show, this is the one. Or Miami/LA Ink. At least they create things, and don't just sit around a mansion getting drunk and causing drama.

Theorizing the Fist Bump

OK, I think it's a sign of our 24-hour-news-channel-instant-blogging culture that so much has been written about "the fist bump heard round the world" or the "fist bump of hope." That said, here are some of my favorites.

I still can't quite believe that Time has an article called "A Brief History of the Fist Bump," which really does attempt, well, a brief history of the fist bump.

And check out this page, with some amusing sports-like instant replays and priceless "fast facts" about the Obama fist bump.

The Baltimore Sun, unlike the previous two sources, analyzes the significance of the gesture in African American culture, and places it in the context of Obama's other displays of gestural currency.

Why do people with money always look like it?

Can't believe I forgot one of my Buffy-related sightings from a few months ago. I was hanging out in the Casbah Cafe in Silverlake, and Emma Caulfield was there hanging out with a friend, dressed very simply, but looking quite good (and quite tiny). Why is money always most evident in people dressed in jeans, flipflops and a ponytail? Sigh.

He drives a Prius and supports Obama

Yep, that's Kal Penn, star of the Harold and Kumar movies and The Namesake. I passed him on my bike, as he was on his way into the Fox Studio compound on Pico early one morning.

RIP Robert Rauschenberg

“I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop,” he said in an interview there. “At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.”