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Tuesday, jul. 11, 2006   |   0 comments

I’ve been thinking that maybe I should go on a tour across this amber-waved America, taking photos of my head in each city. And then when I find the spot where my hair looks the best, I’ll MOVE THERE!

In other news, I forgot to mention that in addition to sulking, shopping, and eating, my recent trip to New York also featured some CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS! While we were waiting for a table at Westville (Westwood? Westland?), Paula Abdul cruised up and ordered some food to go. And let me tell you, she looks oceans better in person than she does on television, so much so that I almost didn’t recognize her. (“THAT’S NOT PAULA ABDUL!” I said directly to the side of Paula’s head, which was observing the menu not eighteen inches away (much to my friends’ chagringe).) Which just goes to show: either Paula’s makeup person is criminally undertalented, or the general level of “good looking” in the entertainment industry is so freakishly high that Paula’s “hot and fresh in the human world” look translates to “brittle and semi-goullish” on the screen. Or maybe somehow Emilio Estevez is to blame? Paul and I also spotted Martha Plimpton and her friendly blond labrador buying a slice of pizza at Sal and Carmine’s. And Sandra Bernhard weirdly ducked her head in at the beginning of the Sweet Paprika show and bellowed out her intentions to one day come see the show. Which was…nice of her? Semi-relatedly, while cabbing to the airport I also saw a dead body being gurneyed out of an apartment building while a bunch of bored policemen looked on. It was very authentic.

Speaking of gurneys: will you by any chance be at loose ends in Seattle tomorrow evening (Wednesday the 12th)? Then maybe you should come see me read at the famous Elliott Bay Book Company at 8pm! If you come up to me after the show, I promise to make deep, deep eye contact as I press my damp palm into yours for an uncomfortably long period of time.

Or maybe you’re more of a Portland, Oregon, kind of person? More specifically, the kind who has nothing planned for this Friday (July 14th). And who just so happens to have ten to twenty dollars burning a hole in your magic wallet? Well, this is an eerie coincidence! Because I’m actually going to be presenting my sleep ideas down at the big Reading Frenzy fundraiser for 826 Valencia, to the tune of a ten- to twenty-dollar (sliding scale) admission! (There will also be some alluring presentations from the likes of Lisa Brown, Dustin Long, and Zoe Trope. Plus music. And DRINKS.) It’s all happening at “Nocturnal,” located at 1800 E. Burnside, show starts at 8pm. More details here!

—Thumb-typed at you from Baggage Claim in Seattle (which sounds like a bar, a very good bar, but sadly isn’t). Hair: flat, yet staticky.