• Teens “say e-mail is, like, soooo dead” — a little bit makes me weep. I like having super fast access to backdata through email archiving. IM logs don’t work nicely enough, and sms logs? forget it. Teens: I shake my fist at you.

• Twiistup 2 in Venice Aug. 8th — Last night was the Geek Dinner, an outgrowth of BarCamp LA, at Galanga in WeHo. I met some interesting people, but more importantly, I had some crazy good food. I ordered the “garlic” entree with beef. Classic. Galanga is dry, so BYOB if you go. They do make a mean strawberry lemonade.

• Tiffany Bridge’s standup from last weekend — go Tiff

• It’s All Good in the Hood — Queen Michelle reports on hoods for F/W 07/08. I adore the white Chalayan.

• Fresh Fare Loves to Talk About Fresh Fare’s Opening — Downtown L.A. is getting its first supermarket when the Ralph’s [finally] opens on Friday. I also received my invitation in the mail yesterday; it cleverly included an application for a club card so one can make the sign up process that much faster. I thought I had found interim supermarket joy at the Vons on Vermont & 3rd the other day, but it took me three stoplight cycles to make a freaking left (which I would have needed to do from any exit point). The joy of Sierra Nevada on sale was stymied by the slowness of exiting. Do I not seem stressed for time?

• Suspiria cemetery screening on Jul. 21st — Ordinarily, I’d be all about a Suspiria screening, but cemeteries are kinda creepy and sitting cross-legged on dirt for several hours doesn’t particularly thrill me.

And what we’ve learned today, boys and girls, is that I’m a crotchety, old thing.