Willo O'Brien

My buddy, Michelle is in town! “Mickey” & Aaron are here for the weekend, with us tonite & then going down to visit his parents down in Palo Alto. Michelle & I know eachother from high school back in Steamboat… She cracks me up – the girl should be on SNL. She is one person I can truly say has brought me to tears laughing my ass off (many times). In fact I think the first day we met, in Mrs. Conlon’s English class, she had me rollin. (Mrs. Conlin wasn’t so pleased :) …..I knew at that moment we’d be friends.

This reminds me of when I ran into Bill Murray on the streets of Boulder one night. I said to him, “It’s great that I’m meeting you! …. I love to laugh!” hahhaa (I’d had a few) And after that I put my arm through his & his friends, and led them down to my favorite bar, the James. It was such a fun night!!

YAY!! My old friend Ted just emailed to say him & his wife are expecting a baby girl! PHEW!! There is hope! hahaa :) Congratulations, Ted & Diane!

p.s. I posted the photos of Evan! (scroll down for the full posting about him)

Alice fooled me.

If any of you are Alice 97.3 listeners – you may have also been “April fooled”. The morning show is somewhat controversial, I guess (and for the small amount it is – thank god, cuz it’s something entertaining to listen to when I don’t have the energy for Stern). So they’d been leading up last week talking about how pissed management was, etc. And then yesterday I hear this announcement from the stations manager about how “Some changes need to be made”… “you can now listen to the morning show comfortably with your family” and then he announced the “new morning show with Mike and Malou will be taking over” & I was blown away! I immediately boycotted them, switched all my stations on my clock radio & the one in the shower.

So, today was the day of the “new morning show” — and I wasn’t going to switch it over, and I even stood there thinking.. should I? Didn’t I commit myself to totally boycotting them? But I just had to hear how bad this Mike & Malou really were. So I turned it on, but lo & behold – it was Alice & No Name still!! I was like WHAT?! Then slowly it dawned on me. It was really pretty funny cuz I got TOTALLY suckered and believed it!! Well done, Alice.

Overall I’m not a fan of the music on radio here. You’d think San Francisco would have such better music focused radio!! Not just crappy TRL inspired top 20 hits played over & over 10 times a day. ug. I mean, I can get through a day with a little KFOG and then LIVE105 in the afternoon or after work… but I really wish we had a station like Seattle’s KEXP. My friend, Jane turned me onto it. They actually play music that I LOVE!! And they play new music from bands on small labels that deserve to be heard!! It’s awesome. The best part is I can listen to it online while I’m at work! Check it out. And SOMEONE, please start a better radio station here in SF!!

Welcome little Evan!

Matt’s brother Eric & his wife Kristie just delivered a healthy baby boy!! A big warm-hearted welcome to Evan Matthew Leshinskie! His middle name, is sweetly named after my boyfriend, who is now a 3rd time “Uncle Matt” of another Leshinskie boy!

Also my aquaintence, Kendra Gadzala just welcomed her little baby boy into the world, too! And named him Matthew Robert! :) Matthews & Babies everywhere! oh my!

Lot of boys it seems, too – have you noticed? Elana just had a boy, two of my coworkers have baby boys – and another other one here is expecting a boy in a couple months! WOWIE ZOWIE!

Come on, lets start making more *girls* people!! :)

What a GORGEOUS weekend we’ve had here in SF! We’re so lucky to have amazing blue sky, 70° *perfect* weather here! This is something my mom reminds me of, as they still have many feet of snow outside their window.

We had a great night out lastnight w/ our friends Greg & Krissy. We hit Blue Plate & then headed over to El Rio to see Birdsaw (hot rockstar chic Robin Coomer has an AMAZING voice). They finally went on around 12:30am… so, many beers and entertaining conversations later we got to rock out a bit. Her drummer was rocking my world too – I love the drums. I wanna BE a drummer!!! I said hello to her afterwards, too which is fun. I always laugh at what a geek I am when it comes to saying hi to “stars” or people I respect anyway… picture full force geek (atleast that’s what I think I look like anyway). El Rio is a cool bar, too! We’d never been and it’s totally different than I expected. We’ll go back for sure.

Today we enjoyed a yum breakfast at Rock Soup… I had the eggs benny which is one of my favorite breakfast dishes ever! Rock Soup is cool – live jazz every day… great space. We also took a nice walk to Dolores Park… sat and read and soaked up the sun! I’m starting to read a cool book called Generations: The History of America’s Future. It’s pretty fascinating.

Anyway – the park was great. I’ll post a few photos later…. Gotta go get ready for some yummy pizza w/ Michelle & her momma at Goat Hill!

OK – the correct stylesheet is pushed. *phew* you were really stressed about that one huh?

We just watched Signs. It was really good. I get really scared in scary movies…. The Sixth Sense scared me so bad… just all that suspense my imagination goes on overload and I totally lost it. My boyfriend thought we were going to have to leave the movie early, I was freakin so bad…. not to mention I ended up crying for like an hour afterwards. hahaa. ya, I’m a sucker for scary movies. Anyway – Signs was good. And it was the bonus DVD, so I enjoyed watching deleted scenes, and the commentary was great. M. Night Shyamalan is an incredible writer/director… and seems like a really level headed cool guy to work with too.

OK, I just accidently pushed up an old stylesheet from another computer… so the homepage looks funky for today… I’ll push up the right one tonite. Also, since I moved over hosts there may be some weirdness… missing things, or old pages that I just pushed up from here & need to fix later, etc. :) I know, boring tech talk zzzzzzzzzz

I went to a fun Oscar’s party at my friend Michelle’s lastnight! We had yummy Zante’s indian pizza too – have you tried that? It’s really good.

I thought Peter O’Toole’s acceptance speech was AWESOME. So was Adrien Brody’s – you *go* buddy! Man oh man that was hot. The whole event was so elegant & classy. And I LOVED Michael Moore speaking up about what he believes in. That man is doing good things in my opinion. He’s shakin it up & exposing the crap that so many corporations and leaders in our administration try so hard to cover up.

I saw Bowling for Columbine and really enjoyed it. I’m just about to start reading Stupid White Men. Check out Melissa’s review of it on Bamboozled.org!