“I’m a vital force to be reckoned with. I still have great ideas. Call your article ‘Evans Reloaded,’ ” Mr. Evans declared at his home in August.

From No Kid, but Robert Evans Stays in the Picture (NYT)

(If you haven’t seen The Kid Stays in the Picture, go add it to your Netflix queue now for gems like this: “There are three sides to every story–my side, your side, and the truth.” )

I spent Thursday through Saturday in Los Angeles. I love LA. I know that might make you think less of me, the common argument being that I don’t know how shallow and insincere and vapid much of LA really is. I actually do know it and so do the people who live there. This is one of the great things that I like about it–that they know it’s all one big show.

I went over to Melrose Avenue for the first time in a long time. I had a late lunch with friends and then stopped into a few stores. The first was the super-cool, but decidedly male Munky King store for my friend to buy an Ugly Doll for her new niece. They had a lot of figurines, t-shirts that were super XL, and prints from Brian McCarty. If I had a spare $1100, I would have bought the awesome Monkey vs. Robot: The Meet and Monkey vs. Robot: They’re Late. Around the corner was the Japan LA Pop Culture Shop (myspace), where I acquired a new t-shirt for B. from Crowded Teeth. Store owner Jamie is considering selling some Gothic Lolita ensembles, which I thoroughly endorse in principle, even if the only people who can ever wear them and look decent are 5′ tall Japanese girls.

(Art: Brian McCarty’s “Monkey v. Robot”)

Adobe has made available its del.icio.us feed. Should you feel so inclined, 54monkeys delightfully accepts new additions to its del.icio.us network at del.icio.us/tamer and finds new links rather enjoyable, unless they are about Susan Sontag.

 (via Lifehack)

How can I be expected to take seriously the Chihuahua State Police? The vision in my head is a bevy of Hollywood starlets in mini-skirted police costumes carrying chihuahuas in their $1500 Louis Vuitton as they go slumming in Tijuana.

Merlin Mann brings us some links related to John Sawatsky’s interviewing coaching over at ESPN. I haven’t listened to the NPR interview yet, but the related article links to one of my favorite scenes that I occasionally find myself using when I need to be polite but unhelpful: Kevin Costner teaching Tim Robbins how to be interviews (real media)

In an endearing expression of his Normal Guy personality, Bill Murray watches COPS while doing an interview.

• Be Jackson Pollock for a day (or a few minutes). Be sure to click to change the colors. (via Feld Thoughts)
• In a rather popular question for the day: How many sources of income do you personally have? As a former market research person, this is a great question, but it needs to be a little more specific: Excluding the revenue sources of other people in your household, how many sources of income do you have? (Joint streams, such a project that you & another work on together, count.) Then, the number split needs to be 1, 2, 3-5, 5+ to reflect people who have a full-time job, a full-time job plus perhaps some freelancing, and people who are putting multiple streams together. I’d make the argument though that this still isn’t the world’s best poll. If I had 5 streams of income, that doesn’t amount to much if they’re each $200; I could just as easily have 1 stream of income that’s $100k a year. Additionally, it could cost me $100 to have an income stream that only generates $50. A smart researcher would find out how much each of those streams deliver profit-wise.

• Poll of the readers of Infectious Greed. Of the 160 responses so far, 44% have 2-3.
• Poll of the readers of Lifehacker. Of the 459 responses so far, well over 50% have 2 or more sources.