Here is my latest Vlog for my column "Alive in Wonderland." You will see, my favorite kind of comedy features my stupidity as the punch-line.
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Today in "Alive in Wonderland" I expand on my story about graduating from Jr. High and then go on to talk about the joys of yearbook inscriptions. Please head on over to "These were the best of times" at ocregister.com.
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Today in my column I list all the things you will remember if you were a kid, growing up in Orange County in the 70's. Even if you didn't grow up here, some of the things you might remember.
Click here to read it... Please remember to select "recommend" at the top of the column. If everyone does I get a free "Pigs Trough" from Ferrell's Ice Cream Parlor. Will the obscure Orange County 70's references ever end?
(Thanks Karen from The Blah Blah Blog for the Pup 'n' Taco memory.)
Okay, so today in my column "Alive in Wonderland" I have put together a video chronicling my family's trip to Legoland in San Diego.
...and yes, I do use the word "Plethora." Every big word I know, I learned from a Steve Martin movie (Watch the Three Amigo's "Plethora" scene here.)
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My first television experience is now behind me, but I am still talking about it (and you thought I was impossible after McSweeney's). I wrote about it in my column: My Television Debut.
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But I couldn't just leave it at that, I made this video which follows me through the whole saga--from nausea to the best message ever from my mom.
Today in my column at ocregister.com I remember my first job at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Huntington Beach.
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Today in my column at ocregister.com I ask the question, "Where have all the cowboys gone?" And then answer myself...which I do often.
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My dog Hazel gets excited when she knows she is going somewhere fun--me too.
I have finally decided what format I am going to use to write the sitcom treatment based on my column, "Alive in Wonderland."
Recently, I asked some readers how I should approach writing an outline and eventual treatment about an Orange County mom who writes a blog/column for The Orange County Register called "Alive in Wonderland". (Oh, look at that...same as me.)
After weighing the advantages of doing it online in a blog verses doing it privately and sending it to the usual suspects, I have made up my mind and explain it all here, in this very close-up and tangent-ish (ohhh made up a word) video I made this morning. Here is my answer...
I just want to note that I say I am "just" married to Larry, I spent an enormous amount of time trying to edit the "just" out, but I say it so quickly, I couldn't. So, for the record, being married to Larry is not a "just" sort of thing, he's a big deal--really, really big deal.
I also want to note that I realize I speak like a teenager.
Reality can be brutal.
Here are some of my favorite "Alive in Wonderland's" so far:
Ways to amuse yourself in Orange County.
Frenchy's Great Escape.
Hockey-me vs. Girl-me at the Anaheim Ducks Game.
Today in my column at ocregister.com, I admit to something disgraceful, something you will probably read and lose all respect for me after completing. Please read it anyway...
--Read "I don't beleive what I just saw" by simply clicking here--
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Today in my column at ocregister.com I tell a story about a girl, a warm bottle of beer, and an apple.
Please click here to read story over at the Register...
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Today in my column I tell a story about Starbucks. It is the same story from a couple of days ago.
I am finding that this blog (emphasis mine) is like a journal of ideas for me--some of them come and go because of their innate stupidness, some of them need a little work and some of them reappear later in another form.
Hope this isn't too selfish of me...I received a lot of response from this by comment and email when I wrote about it, so that gave me the green light to put it up in my column.
Ways to amuse yourself in Orange County: Starbucks
I don't care for Starbucks, I much prefer "The Bean." I can be fiercely loyal to ultimately pointless things.
When circumstances such as location or parking make Starbucks more convenient, this is how I make the trip worth it ...
When I order, I act like I have never stepped foot in a Starbucks in my life and need an enourmous amount of help ordering.
At the counter I stammer, "Hmmm, what's popular here?"
Today in my column at ocregister.com I wrote "You know you were a teenager in Orange County in the 80's if..." But, even if you aren't from Orange County, you might still like this trip through a time when synthesizers ruled the school and your room was plastered with Duran Duran posters.
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Back story: For reasons only known to him, Keith Sharon, my editor, didn't post this picture of the Golden Bear I took THE day it was torn down--that very day.
You can just feel old HB in the photo...I'm pretty sure this was taken with a 110 camera--now that I think of it, probably why Keith didn't post, never mind.
Today in "Alive in Wonderland" I write the last of my hockey stories for a while. The Anaheim Ducks tragically lost last night. I don't really want to talk about it...too soon.
Hockey-me vs Girl-me at the Ducks game
