Mrs. Parker and the Virtual Circle
Welcome to the Algonquin West, our virtual round table of barbed wit, random thoughts, trivial pursuits, and snarky rants about politics, entertainment, sports and Los Angeles - some of it vicious.
LAX should be an exclusive club. They already have velvet ropes. Now your name will have to be on ‘the list.’
Dorothy Parker
Heidi Montag will soon be in charge of designing the new LAX Master Plan.
Politico reduces the world to Rahm Emanuel and to the people who want to be Rahm Emanuel.
Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair, August 2009
Video: IQUITAROD in a minute and a half (click on photo)
Welcome to the Roundtable, Mo!
Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: “Sit down and shut up”, but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out.
Sarah Palin, explaining that staying is the quitter’s way out, so instead she is going to quit
The Soulvine: Betty Pleasant, The Wave
Much to the delight of some high-powered onlookers, Lakers great Kobe Bryant confronted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the start of last week’s jam-packed Lakers victory parade and added a whole new dimension to the day’s festivities. According to mesmerized eyewitness accounts, this is what happened: The City Council members were told to arrive at the parade staging area at 10 a.m. last Wednesday so they could get on the bus and ride in the parade. They boarded the bus at 10:30 a.m. and were still waiting to roll at 11 a.m. The council members, as well as the general public, became antsy and demanded to know what was the hold up and why was it taking so long to get the parade under way. (Some of the more fair-skinned council members were particularly annoyed, sitting in the sun, as they were.)
The cause of the hold-up was occurring adjacent to the locker room, where Kobe was refusing to ride on the City Council bus because the mayor was to ride on it. At the same time, the mayor, the consummate spotlight thief, was refusing to get on the City Council bus unless he got on with Kobe. Kobe loudly denounced the mayor in phrases that started with “I don’t like the …” and ended with “I’m not going to let him pimp my popularity!”
Leaning in to get into the photo.
In all fairness to his aides, “I’m getting some Argentinian tail” sounds a lot like “I’m hiking the Appalachian trail” when you’re on a fuzzy satelite phone connection. Who hasn’t had that kind of innocent misunderstanding?
Best comment ever
from Gawker
