In 1976 Los Angeles secretary Jannene Swift officially married a 50lb rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
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Los Angeles Fun Fact: In LA, it’s legal to marry a rock.
LA Times Festival of Books - or - festival of big crowd induced panic attacks
Yeah I didn’t hang out long enough to form too much of an opinion. Lots and lots of people with bags of swag bumping into each other. Oh and the guy with the wizard hat. I did see find some cool needles in this literary haystack, those being the out-of-bounds located McSweeney’s, and the Vroman’s [...]
Barry Gifford appearing at Diesel in Brentwood
Barry Gifford, author of Wild At Heart, will be appearing at Diesel in Brentwood to sign his new book The Imagination of the Heart, the final chapter in the saga of Wild At Heart characters Sailor and Lula. Details:
Time: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Location: DIESEL, A Bookstore BRENTWOOD
Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is please [...]
Get your art on! New York in the 70’s retrospective show in LA - April 2
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Britney Spears to write autobiography
This’ll attract some dough. Britney Spears, pop-star-celeb-extraordinaire, is writing an autobiography. Usually, news of someone under 75 years old writing an autobiography is pretty laughable, but BritBrit’s been through A LOT. Don’t you wish Marilyn wrote an autobiography? (Monroe not Manson, Manson totally did write an autobiography and it was actually pretty good.)
Britney has reportedly [...]
