Can you say Uhgwah?

I wonder if this is a national phenomenon or just limited to the greater Silver Lake/Echo Park/Eagle Rock area: parents teaching their toddlers to say "agua" instead of water. I had to ask and was told it's cause it's just easier to say than water. And I thought "wadder" was already pretty easy to say---say as opposed to the more proper British "waTer," but I was wrong (of course, I'm always wrong). But why stop there? Isn't pan easier than bread? And so forth?

Kröd Mändoon

There are certain moviegoing (and otherwise: headbangers) people who think a word (film, project, whatever) is funny as söön as you put two döts over it. What's up with that?

Cocaine Cowboy

Nothing like hanging out with an internationally lauded swearing, Cocaine Cowboy painting, anecdote-wielding (David Bowie, David Hockney, Joe Strummer, the Queen of England) British artist---who just happens to be your neighbour---to perk up. I haven't had so much fun in ages. And even though he's British, dinner was outstanding.

Codeine

Tylenol with Codeine isn't bad.

Wake Up and Smell the Folgers

Actually, I's constant negativity served as a mirror in which I saw reflected my own tendencies to separate myself from my environment and the people in it. If he is my "sangha", I can only remain de-pressed and dis-passionate. It's no good. Why take smiley pills when all day you're mind is fed a steady diet of shitty complaints? I will de-tox my mind and embrace the US of A wholeheartedly.

From Answers.com: Ugly American is an epithet used to refer to perceptions of loud, arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless and ethnocentric behavior of American citizens mainly abroad, but also at home. Although the term is usually associated with or applied to travellers and tourists, it also applies to US corporate businesses in the international arena.

Anti-American

I. and I "broke up" over coffee last Friday afternoon and I went to Elysian Park playground by myself. I couldn't take the anti-American sentiment anymore, of a magnitude I hadn't encountered since I dated a G.I. when I was 16 and was called an "ami slut" by the local townsfolk who were sick of their prettiest girls running off to California with surfer dudes who had enrolled in the military to get college money. (and they didn't like those Pershings much, I guess). BUT seriously, I can stomach only so much of:

Americans are dumb.
Every other American is an asshole.
Americans eat crap.
You can only buy cheap shit here.
There is no architecture.
LA is ugly.
American bands are all influenced by country.
American film sucks.
There are no good American artists.
American schools suck.
There is no American fashion unless it's rap culture.
Americans are superficial.

Need I go on?

I've had it. Go back to your euro techno and arrogant architect fucks and shoveling snow.

Snuggies

Why do hipsters think it's cute and "ironic" to like the Snuggie? Now there are even Snuggie pub crawls. And this morning, I got one of my "cool" "urban" email alerts that started: "In the beginning, there was fire. Then came the wheel, the Internet and most recently, the Snuggie." Snuggies suck. But the free reading light you get when you order one, now that's a different story!