#Bossypants is Pee-In-Your-Own-Bossypants Funny! #TinaFey

Saw it sitting on a shelf at Target. Bought it, took it home. Read it in 2 days.  LOVE it! 

Best lessons from Tina Fey's book "Bossypants":

1) Double-check to make sure you're not guilty of treating your gay friends as if they exist for your personal "entertainment".

2) Always in awe of them, now I know for sure that good comedy writers are even smarter than I originally imagined. 

3) I'm not the only one who ever thought a denim suit was awesome.

4) I don't understand why anyone would think Tina Fey is not beautiful. 

I read it the old-fashioned way - a real book with pages and stuff - and for my own bossy moment, I'll say, "I think you should read it that way, too."   Just click the link and buy it. Genius.

Buy "Bossypants" by Tina Fey

Mystery Solved in 2.1 seconds... "Tech Support" #scam phone calls still happening...

It's a Friday morning of a long weekend.  Sunny Los Angeles is in a dense fog.

No one's working. Or ARE they? 

The landline phone rings.

The landline?  Shit. That's never good news.  Scenes from "Dial M for Murder" drift through my head.

Me:  Hello?  

Other side of the phone says: ------nothing.  

I wait b/c that pause, that deafening silence can mean only one thing. Well, it can actually mean 2 things.. but it mostly means one thing - it's a telemarketer - who IS actually working on a dark, foggy Friday morning of a long weekend. I stand corrected.

I wait ... and I wait ... as I knows it's dangerous for me to say "hello" a second time. I could blow my cover. So I just wait. 

And the telemarketer speaks.  International accent. (Wow. There's a surprise)

Telemarketer: Hello? 

Now it's my turn to say ----- nothing. 

Telemarketer: Is anyone there?

Me:  I'm mostly here - if you ignore the physics of it all. What do you want? 

Telemarketer:  I'm calling from Windows technical support about the report you sent to ....

I think, wow! The scam's been all over the newspaper and the internet and the news and they're still making these calls.  What a fun!

Me: Ha, ha... good one.  Microsoft doesn't work like that.  You're all over the news and the internet.  Everyone also knows you're a scam.  Go get a different job!

Telemarketer: Click!

So, if in some foggy dream you think any 21st century tech support service might actually be pro-active and call you b/c the psychic told them you're having issues w/your computer, please wake up. The scam is still running.

The 411 directly from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

 

Using Laurie Anderson to say "Happy Mother's Day"

Don't wait until love, justice and force are gone, say "hi" to your mom today... 

" 'cause when love is gone.... there's always justice.  And when justice is gone... there's always force... and when force is gone... there's always mom.  Hi mom... 

 

 

Some artists see so deeply into nature... watch a profound artist's process...

Some people see so deeply into nature. This fisherman / biologist is considered the finest scientific illustrator of fish in the world. 

The story of how he has catches the fish, where he finds them, etc... here: 

This is why #ART rules!

Word is that the people who own this land were denied a permit to build a shelter for their horses. 

So instead they built a table & chairs: http://s.glbimg.com/jo/g1/f/original/2011/11/02/germany-weather_fran.jpg