“We discovered that it was OK to have a little high-brow as long you have a lot of low-brow. That’s entertainment value. The one thing you want to avoid is the middle brow, because the whole world is frigging middle brow at the moment.” – Jon Langford
Friday I was walking around campus taking pictures I needed to take, as my job means I do everything anyone ever associated with marketing has ever done, and this guy/gal was about 10 feet away from me (and a road!) at one point. It's good to live in Santa Barbara.Labels: blog goes to the birds
posted by George at 5:45 PM
George markets only for the forces of good for a living. He has a paid hobby that involves eating, drinking, and writing, things he’d do for free, which is almost what he’s doing it for. In a previous life he taught mostly illiterate and generally ungrateful college students how to write. He has been a body guard for Jodie Foster, a walk-on dancer with French avant garde troupe Maguy Marin, a film programmer, a judge at an Iron Chef style competition, a political activist, a textbook author, a bassist in a band, a two-time league winning fantasy baseball manager, a union local president, a pr flack helping run a red carpet at an Angelina Jolie event, a janitor, a chauffeur to folks from TC Boyle to Andrei Codrescu, a delivery man to Plato's Retreat, a reluctant writer of a non-snarky intro for Colin Powell, a radio DJ, a corn detassler, an escort van driver, a rock journalist, a lab assistant for a company that made everything from mouthwash to super skin lubricant, and even, once, a poet. His biggest brush with fame was when Julie Christie fondled his tie, a tie George Lopez belittled to 1000 people minutes later. The best thing about him is his wife. His dogs aren't bad, either.
4 Comments:
My only consolation is that we do have peacocks here. Which is pretty cool.
Great post title.
It's good to live in Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara rocks. Santa Barbara is where people from LA go when they die -- if they've been good. Otherwise they go to Riverside or Temecula.
A great concert patter from maybe 7 years ago. Randy Newman is playing the very cool historic theater the Lobero in Santa Barbara. He plays "I Love LA" and gets the audience involved in a sing-along. When he finishes he says, "If you love LA so much, why do you live here?...I think I know."
A great concert patter from 2 years ago. T Bone Burnett plays. He says, "I've always thought that Santa Barbara sounded like a good idea."
Nice photo. I especially like the greenery.
Did you have to think for a few seconds about whether you were going to alternatively title this post "Je Egret Rien"?
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