dearest ape,
first, i love and adore you, your apeness, your blog, column, nopes, music, photos, everything. second, my question… well, plea for guidance. help me!!!! as i have read and know from personal experience, in this city of angels, it’s hard out here for a pimp! i don’t mean to toot my own horn and say that i’m awesome or anything, but as far as it goes, i would not call myself something at which to sneeze! i’m a sane, rational, hard-working, somewhat attractive, height proportional to weight, fun lady. …

Before I’m too mean, let me just say that it’s not easy. Los Angeles has a lot going on and people often get really confused. At the beach you have beach people, and Echo Park has it’s neo-hippies and such. And then there is the influence of Hollywood trumping all. It’s no wonder style is such a mess here. Throw on top of that something no other city has to contend with, celebrities. This roving pack of isolated mega-stars who set trends by what their PR people tell them is …

It’s no lie, I love Los Angeles. I love seeing old photos of Los Angeles because I think it explains a lot about how it is now. I got these off my new favorite website of the day neat stuff blog. A must check-it. When was the last time you saw a mayonnaise billboard?

Why are men who over rate themselves such a big disappointment, and why is there really such a shortage of “good” men in los angeles, is romance dead?

The first part is a little vague, but at the same time, it kind of answers itself, doesn’t it? There’s a difference between being confident and delusional and we all know that delusional is around like girl-pants on guys. I supposed everyone is slightly delusion, that’s just a touch of human survival. But then there are the more extreme versions, like the friend …

I was lurking the facebooks one day in the near past and I saw this pic of these two dudes with that total LA look. You know the one, the gelled-up ‘do that is commonly referred to as the “faux-hawk” but for some reason I just feel like that is too rad a name to be wasted on something so stupid, though on second thought it’s rad in that totally stupid way so maybe it works. Anyway, I would have just grabbed that photo, typed this rant and boom. Another …