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Headshots

So I’m super overdue in posting photos which is what always happens when I come to CA. First I get a suntan and then I get plastic surgery and then I forget to put photos into my blog. It’s a problem. Anyway, I’m now going back and catching us all up.

So I needed new headshots. Here’s the image from the shoot that it looks like I might be going with although there are a zillion other images which I enjoy spending my time poring over and also talking to.

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Wait, here’s an image (below) which has nothing to do  with headshots but I’ll be just damned if I’m going to  re-categorize now.  Check it out, it’s the dorm I lived in at Pomona College which was recently featured on Top Chef Masters.  Fun fact: the other side of that dorm was the exterior of Eastland from Facts of Life!IMG00709

Ok back to the headshots. They were shot by the super awesome Ben Goldstein. If you need photos I recommend him. IMG00712

The above is me just hanging out looking dewy.

Why did I look dewy, you ask? Because my makeup was done by the also super awesome Vincenza Carovillano. I was planning on doing my makeup myself and then about 20 hours before the shoot I freaked out and realized I probably shouldn’t do it myself and Vincenza, who used to do makeup on Weekend Today in New York where I did Best Bets for three years came to my rescue and she was a Godsend. Without her my face would have looked weird and my bra would  have been showing and my shirt would have been wrinkly and plus, I wouldn’t have laughed as much. Seriously, I can’t thank her and Ben enough.

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This is me with Vincenza.

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Here’s Ben and me. At this point I was so tired I was leaning entirely on Ben I think.

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And then after I went to a party that Diana Falzone threw. I made sure that we took a photo where we looked kinda drunk and blue-tinted.

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The Daily Alison (Where Rex Sorgatz answers tough questions in person!)

When I told my imaginary camera man that we were going on location to shoot someone he suggested we use some professional equipment and try to get both people in the shot. “Hell no!” I thundered. My viewers have come to expect a certain level of homespun ineptitude and I’ll be damned if I’m going to start changing it up now. Then I insisted he get a tight shot of my hairline and a sliver of one of my eyes.

Today’s guest is Rex Sorgatz whom I didn’t really properly introduce but he’s a writer, media personality and longtime blogger. It turns out he and I both used to write for Minneapolis City Pages and can spout useless-but-interesting critical theory. Plus, we have some mutual friends.

Fun fact: The second or third question in the Alison Rosen Getting To Know You Getting To Know Me Quiz is always “What’s your favorite condiment?” 100 percent of people polled have said mustard. That’s like four or five people!

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Is there a duck in here?

I love this video of the duck ring tone that interrupted Obama for two reasons;

1) When I was a kid I had a phone that quacked like a duck only it sounded like a Satanic electronic squawking, not an actual quack, but still.

2) “Is there a duck in here?” is one of my favorite euphemisms for asking if someone farted. Ooh, if I were less mature I’d condone fart sounding ring tones. Good thing I think that’s sophomoric and totally beneath me.

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