28
Jan, 2011

My daughter is three and a half years old and she really doesn’t have much hair. What she does have is really thin and wispy and it seems to grow in a beautiful mullet shape. She’s only had three haircuts in her life and it was because the front was finally starting to get in her eyes.


I know a lot of moms really want their little girls to have a glorious crown of locks and get upset when their little princess’ hair ends up, well, like my kids hair. I, personally, could care less. Chances are it will grow into a beautiful, healthy mane and she will do something horrific to it in her early teens anyway – like chop it into a mohawk, color it orange or let her gay friend from drama class “style” it for her. Whatever.


I am the youngest of four kids in my family and the only girl, so my mom was chomping at the bit to play with my long hair. She braided it and put it up in pig tails and pony tails. In third grade, I got the Dorothy Hamil haircut that was all the rage and my mom sat every morning before school and tried to tame my stubborn Asian straightness with a curling iron, attempting to get the under-curl just right. This usually resulted in my neck getting burned and by the time I got to the bus, the curl probably straightened too. 


Aubrey is still a little tiny turkey and I don’t want her worrying about her looks already. I’m not quite ready for that. So for now, we are enjoying the craziness of her little preschool mop and I wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s my little Muppet with a mullet and she’s ready to ROCK!!

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Tags: Amy Anderson • Aubrey • hair • haircuts • mullets • preschoolers

14
Jan, 2011

“Good evening peepers, prowlers, pederasts, panty-sniffers, punks and pimps. I’m James Ellroy, the demon dog, the foul owl with the death growl, the white knight of the far right, and the slick trick with the donkey dick. I’m the author of 16 books, masterpieces all; they precede all my future masterpieces. These books will leave you reamed, steamed and drycleaned, tie-dyed, swept to the side, true-blued, tattooed and bah fongooed. These are books for the whole fuckin’ family, if the name of your family is the Manson Family.”

I recently had the unique experience of touring around the City of Angels in a bus with legendary crime novelist and screenplay writer, James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, Blood’s A Rover). Ellroy served as docent for this tour of famous murder sites in our fair city and to say it was interesting would be an understatement. We also were fed cheese and wine, so interesting and satiating. 


Ellroy is a character, himself, eccentric and brilliant and in Hollywood, this means you get your own tv show. The purpose of the bus tour was for Ellroy to pimp his new show on the I.D. (Investigation Discovery) network: James Ellroy’s LA: City of Demons. It is described by Ellroy as a “Wildy Wicked Weekly Show written and hosted by the ‘Demon Dog of American Literature'”. Yes, Ellroy hosts and yes, he really does use that much alliteration in real life. I shant shit you shivering sheeps as I am no blundering blogger but beguiling at best. (I don’t know what that meant, but it’s all I could come up with right now. I’m no Ellroy. Sorry.)

Ellroy – tall, huh?

If you like Ellroy, if you like old school crime, if you like the noir stories of Hollywood yesteryear – then you should check it out.


James Ellroy’s LA: City Of Demons premieres on Investigation Discovery on Wednesday, January 19 at 10pm with possibly the most interesting episode upfront – “Dead Women Own Me” – where Ellroy tells the dark and deeply personal story of his own mother’s murder when he was only 10 yrs old. Fascinating story. Fascinating guy.

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Tags: Amy Anderson • I.D. • Investigation Discovery • James Ellroy • LA: City Of Demons

06
Jan, 2011

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Tags: Amy Anderson • giveaway • National Bubble Bath Day • Pocoyo