Of Course

Of course. One of the basest people I've ever been around. Is it sick to say good riddance? Sure, but whatever.

Actressville

Oh god! Oh God! I promised that I would stop ragging on Gwyneth and her lifestyle e-newsletter, GOOP. I even kept my mouth shut when she hurled insults at me last week. But today she sent round a report on NYC restaurants and hotels that ranged from obvious (yes, we all like Balthazar and Pearl's) to obvious (and gross too!--Cookshop is foul-town. I had the barfiest Rabbit trio there a few months back.). I know that she's from Manhattan and that most travellers consider Manhattan to be the whole of the city. But there are four other boroughs, and I, for one, could never profile the food in this town without mentioning them all (farm freshness in Brooklyn; the whole of Asia in Queens; delis in the Bronx; pizza on Staten Island). I'm a little confused. Sometimes she seems to broadly market her advice, and sometimes she seems only to be addressing those of us who need a place to crash for $700 a night while we renovate our West Village carriage houses. This is the deafest, most blithely moneyed of all of her missives. In this climate--totes inapropes!

I promised myself

I promised myself I wouldn't make a habit of posting the poorly written segments of Gwyneth Paltrow's weekly lifestyle newsletter, but, my stars, her paean to Los Angeles--

Los Angeles, where I was born and partially raised, will always hold a special place in my heart. Not the L.A. of Hollywood, but the old-school seventies beach vibe that which still lingers in corners. As strange, spread out and flatly lit as it can sometimes be, Los Angeles, with its bougainvillea, sea breezes, avocados and eccentric inhabitants, is like no other place and will always be in my soul.

and then again with the "vibes"!--

Shutters is my favorite place to stay in L.A. Make sure you get a room with an ocean view. It has a beautiful, breezy vibe, big bathtubs, good sheets. I return to it again and again

It's really not so bad. I just have an unjust tendency to be offended by this character and her tremendous blindspots. But, to her credit, when Paltrow starts to discuss non-descript, strip-mall Japanese restaurants, I have to get on board a little bit.

Sushi Katsu-Ya
11680 Ventura Blvd.
Studio City, CA 91604
(818) 985-6976
www.sushikatsu-ya.com
You have to go to the original, in the mini-mall in Studio
City. This place is heaven. The baked crab hand roll and
the spicy tuna on crispy rice are reason enough to go
to California.

Economic impossibilities aside, a trip out West would be really dreamy right now.

Folk Art for 10:18 A.M.

Nowadays, the kids have Twilight, but, for better or worse, in 1999, we kids had Varsity Blues.