i don't usually do this but...

...a kind of sleazy dude just said the weirdest/cutest/funniest thing to me. I was walking back after dropping a package off and concentrating on sending a very important text message (with my eyes glued to the phone screen) when this dude says, "you keep walking like that you're gonna walk into a wall and smash your gorgeous face!" I usually keep a straight face when this kind of thing happens and walk on (as would be expected) but i thought it was so funny and weird that I laughed and said something like, "nice."

anyway...just got back from san fran which was a bit of a fiasco (apartment hunting can be a little rough) but i had a great time. I spent most of my time in the mission but i also looked in sunset and a few other places close to golden gate park.
My favorite things that i did/saw are:
- Green Apple books (in richmond. also cool japanese supply stores there)
- store: "stumasa" (http://www.stumasa.com/) in sunset. so many amazing products. and they make custom cabinets. and they are really good at gift wrapping.
- botanical gardens in golden gate park
- bars: "phone booth" (http://www.yelp.com/biz/gj3JIPaE066SP8wJ2bcmRA) and "elbo room" (http://www.elbo.com/) in the mission
- store: 24th St. Cheese Co. in Nob Hill (and farmers market in Nob Hill is nearby and really awesome. they had a live jug band.)
- restaurant: "foreign cinema" (http://www.foreigncinema.com/home.html) in the mission. they show movies in the courtyard. the food is really really good.

so...we'll see where i end up! but of any other place in this country that i could live in (besides nyc), this would be it by far.

Life as art

I spent the day researching how life and art are intertwined(...which couldn't be better since i try my best to live my life as an art project...)in "The Accidental Masterpiece,On the Art of Life and Vice Versa" by Michael Kimmelman. A must read, my favorite quote is that "life makes sense not when reason tells you that everything is as it should be. Life makes sense when some imponderable and apparently random event confirms your most irrational prejudices about the world." More on irrationality next time....

ummmm

I spent the majority of today setting up a facebook account for zingmagazine! Fun! So anyone who's reading this: if you're on facebook, then search for us and add us to your friends. The "name" is Zing Magazine. As of this moment, we only have two friends. Sad...

I also made a button ad for Spine & Sports Medicine, to go on our website. I'm just that talented. Ummm that's about it for today. Sorry for such a boring entry. It's been a slow day.

the west coast is calling...

I leave for San Francisco tomorrow. nothing else new to report except i am hopelessly lost with this apartment search. not many people are getting back to me, its pretty frustrating. i just have to keep refreshing craigslist over and over and over....

but some of these places look really neat. i'm not really sure why but so many of the ones i've looked at in the mission have the same green paint on the walls. and fireplaces. check it out:





wish me luck!! speak to you all zing readers next week!

Love means Never having to say You're Sorry

So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye!
I flit, I float, I fleatly flee, I fly....back to Los Angeles tomorrow!
This has been one of the best summers of my life, but all good things must come to an end.
Thank you to all the great readers of zingblog, this really is because of all of you. It's all for the people, that's what zing is all about, and I am honored you have allowed me to be your intern. Hmm, what else, I know I'm forgetting to thank a bunch of people, I didn't write it all down, this is so unexpected (cue elevator music, softly). Um, thanks to my bosses, my fellow zinginterns and our mascot, zingpineapple.
Much love. Peace.

...but there are worse things i could do

rip bergman and antonioni.

i don't usually read gawker but this was brought to my attention:

thats me, somewhere in that crowd. sarah lawrence college represent! i won't point out which one is me because this blog is supposed to be anonymous.


been watching grease today and i've been figuring out how to play each song on ukulele in my head. i think it may be time for a zing grease sing a long party soon...

I don't know where, I don't know when, but something awful's gonna Happen

So this is my horoscope for today:
You may have an argument with your romantic partner. Don't exchange fire with fire -- this time the fight may very well spiral out of control, leaving you both angry and hurt. Try not to feel depressed about your lot in life, there are many others that wish to be in your position.
Too bad I don't have a romantic partner.
So does that mean that I wish to be in "my" position? HMM. Miss Cleo?
--Woah that was a reference from the past. that just came into my head, but I haven't seen a Miss Cleo commercial in years--
Damn it, they won.


Too bad I didn't have Miss Cleo to foresee the random yet recurring presence of weird deformed-looking guy with stringy blonde hair at the Whole Foods event last night.
Mr. "I don't go to zing parties cause they're not very good" (he relayed this to me the first time I met him--which was a totally random encounter at a bar, where be bragged about going to 12 parties a night, including Martha Stewart's recently-little did I know that my coworkers were quite familiar with him) walks in, pretends he doesn't know who we are (even though we have a big orange tarp up that says 'zingmagazine'), proceeds to take one of everything that's free and walks out. One foul swoop around the room (he didn't even step in the same place twice) and he was outta there! Hilarious.
I guess the Whole Foods event wasn't up to par for Mr. "zing parties aren't good because I get there before anyone shows up and drink all the Champagne" either. Shucks, shoulda hit up Martha. She probably has better free shit to mooch anyway.
Yay Martha!