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Great read, but I wish he'd drop the royal plural.

IMHO, if you are telling someone that you are meeting them for lunch place at place A at time A, you show up at that time or place. It's called lunch hour: I wouldn't take that from friends, much less co-workers. Life's too short to put up with that crap.

In my area there are people who go whole hog getting a full-on cooks kitchens complete with sub-zero iceboxes and Aga Ranges (who would want one in southern California? a stove that's always on?) for people that only reheat their Hot Pockets and to keep the Koo Koo Roo hot. Of course, i'm not jealous at all....

Wow- I am so sorry for her. Damn, that sucks. I hope that things turn better for you both, and soon. It's been a slightly bad week for me, but nothing as much as what others have been going through. Just a few expensive maintenance things with the car that are somewhat the fault of me deferring them, and aches and pains from doing a catering gig with a friend that is the fault of me not exercising as much as I should over the past few years. Note to you kids (and to me, most of you are kids), keep active and take care of yourselves. When you get a desk job, make sure that your exercise is more than keyboard shortcuts. Me, I'm going back to Yoga classes.

I like where I live. I can walk to two chain grocery stores, the Beverly Center, the shopping drag of BH and Robertson and the bars and clubs of West Hollywood (although I am a little old for them at this point). I have convenient busses to get to work, since work pays for the bus pass, but charges for parking, and several convenient busses to get to the beach if I want to. As a matter of fact, with gas so high, I now am having to make a point to take the car out and drive it I don't run down the battery. (aside) this is what bugs me about some of the holier-than-thou types that drive hybrids in WLA. They'll drive all over the place in their Prius', giving 'tude to people in SUV's, yet god forbid they have to walk anywhere, take the bus or ride a bike. I want to print up bumper stickers that read "I'm a better person than you because my Hybrid rapes the environment incrementally less than your Hummer" and slap them on their bumpers in the middle of the night.....

Sorry to read about that- sucks. But if she does this sort of thing at the beginning or the relationship with you, when she would supposedly be on her best behavior, I wonder how she'll be years from now. You have a lot of years ahead of you to find someone with a bit more moral fibre: someone who would care enough about you not to do something they know is wrong and would hurt you.

well it's 610 by 790, does that qualify?

Thanks! Now I should get back to work..

well, I can, but I can't resize it. At least, not from a Xerox machine. I'll see what I can do with it from home. Here's a link

I have one, but I don't have a scanner. The only way I could save it is to use the Xerox at work to save it as a PDF

I am Mr. liberal tree-hugger and I am highly annoyed by a$$holes who make these broad pronouncements. Just like Toyota, GM is in business to sell cars, and they have every right to market them in any way they see fit. If Friedman was really that concerened for the health and welfare of mother earth, he'd dump his Lexus (which doesn't get the greatest mileage in the world anyway, and donatethe money to Greenpeace. He can take the bus or the subway to work: if I can do it in Los Angeles, I think he can manage it in New York.

I don't think I''ve had enough of an impact to make actual enemies.

pretty girl. I never really had this issue, I was best buds with the prettiest and coolest girls from high-school up to the present day, but we all knew where it was based. Even now I have female friends rangeing from 20 something to 40 something, all lovely, smart and talented. The dumbest thing that straight guys do is act like a$$holes towards members of our tribe. Y'all should be cozying up to us: believe me, a word from gaybestfriend can get you closer than six dates.....

hope it goes well for you! I wish I kept up my Italian, I used to be pretty good, now I'm at best like Lucia and Georgie. My oldest friends mom was chair at the Italian Dept at Smith: she tortures my by refusing to speak to me in English, and cooing at me that I have the accent of a native born Fiorentino. Evil woman! A beautiful language.

I think they are. I've seen a lot of STS' in my area, far more than when the CTS made it's appearance. I've made a point at looking at who was driving them, and the drivers are younger than you would think. If they are getting on the radar in SoCal, that's an achievment.

my friend's New Beetle, with it interior that bio-degrades while you're driving it, and the clutch that disintegrates every 40k miles. my other friends SL, with it's electrical glitches that make British cars of the 70's look good. Seriously, she's driving with only one tail light and half of a CHRMSL and they can't run down the problem... buy German? not I.

the beauty of E85 is not that it's more efficient, it's that it's less of an impact on the environment, and uses a very renewable resource. Having written that, it would be nice if there was a push to get E85 out there for us to purchase

Personally I don't care for "Invicta" much, and it was used for five years during which most of you weren't even glints in your parents eyes, so I don't know about the deep corporate heritage there. But it's miles better than "Statesman", which sounds like it whould come with an Ensure dispenser in the glove box. IMHO, I like leSabre best. Think of the "Then and Now" commercial they could do with that..

Funny, I distincly remember special ordering my iBook 5 years ago with the optional 20 gig hard drive and having people tell me that I'd never fill it up. Now my iTunes library resides on an external 200 gig HD. And I haven't started ripping DVD's yet. Exactly what I was going to write. I don't think thee V-8 will ever completely disappear; some people will always want one. Even if the difference in gas mileage between the V-8 and the 6 on the highway is not that great, I can tell you from experience that the difference in insurance is.

glad to read that you are okay. Like someone wrote, you can get another car.

oohhhh honey. take it from me, as long as there's a dermo who can prescribe it's not over yet. I'm old enough to be your dad, and I could be taken for your sistah. Yoga and sunscreen, yoga and sunscreen... Happy birthday to all....

Well, there's a Mercedes dealership on the corner, but I don't think that counts since the last Merc I think was cool was the 560SL. There's someone on Palm Drive who has a '93 Allante (they drive west past me while I wait for my bus downtown), there's a nice '58 T-Bird over on Alden in the process of restoration, and there used to be an XLR parked around the corner, but the owner must have moved since I never see it anymore.

good for you- both!

I've done everything on that list (except Heroin) and a few that aren't on there. I never paid a dime for it, so I can't say I want the money back, but I will say it was a complete waste of time. I basically have no gay male friends at this point because of it. I just decided that I didn't like drugs, didn't need them to have fun, didn't need to not sleep for days on end, didn't need to be nice to people I thought were swill simply so they would furnish me with more free drugs. It all came to a head one evening at an after party when I was doing coke and drinking with a bunch of people and playing some lame-ass card game. I mean, cards are all well and good, but this was no glamorous party, it was just a bunch or rejects with money, sitting in a house in the Hollywood Hills hoovering white powder up their noses and boozing it up a 4am for absolutely nothing. I decided there and then that that was it- never ever again, and I've stuck to it. Unfortunately, I was pretty much dropped by that whole circle. You're looked at as a killjoy if you stop. Heck, maybe I was. But I've seen a few of those guys wandering around, and the worst case was my best friend who got so into Crystal that he lost his job, apartment, and all of his belongings, and eventually, his mind (no joke).