Be really careful out there tonight, all you little leprechauns! ☘️

Balls deep at Fred Segal.

Back in the day, not only was I an “excellent actress,” I was awarded for my perfect attendance. (Nerd!) TODAY, however, I would have walked out. #nationalwalkoutday #walkoutwednesday #neveragain #neveragainisnow #enough #parkland #studentwalkout #guncontrol #guncontrolnow

2-tone tights, 1 great night! #lafashionweek #openingnight

Regretting not buying this while I was in Copenhagen for days like today... But thankful its designer, KENDT dragged me outside to pose for pics in it at least!

Favorite, albeit shameless, dreary-n-down, rainy day activity: seeing myself slash some throats in Japanese!

#fbf They say “go big or go home,” and well, I’ve ALWAYS gone big! But rarely go home. So I did last weekend... to the same woods where I used to play and pretend I was in a horror movie! Needless to say, after +25 years away, my grandparents’ light shown particularly brightly this visit.

#tbt Still glowing from last weekend’s gala... Topher Straus’s painting sold at auction; 100% of proceeds go to Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ children’s theatre education. And to think we met +30 years ago doing “Kidskits,” as those same young, aspiring thespians he’s now benefitting... 💕🎭👶🏻🎩

With so much drama & horror in my life (well, career anyway), I gave my comedic reel a quick clean-up-- cuz I can be funny too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CO0VLArPzs&t=14s

Pretty great feeling walking into a photographer’s studio and seeing your photo on the wall 👀💕📸: Kenneth Dolin

One day I hope to thank the Academy... But today, I want to thank IMDb for putting on a great Oscar party!

Well, I’m disappointed!

This sums it up:

So, remember how I KNEW I had to be an actress when I first saw Lily Tomlin perform her one-woman show at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts? Well, I’m back! Today it’s the largest non-profit theatrical organization in the U.S., where my dear, talented artist-friend, Topher Straus (topherstraus.com) recently donated his “Elephant Eyes” in order to raise money for children’s theatre education. So basically, kids like me 30 years ago! AND now, he and I are about to see Hamilton, as part of the auction’s black-tie gala... at the SAME theatre where I first saw Lily. Nice full-circle, eh?

My childhood homey, Topher Straus needed some arm-candy for his black-tie gala at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts tomorrow, so he worked some magic! 🎩 💕🐰

From the creators of “Pepper Does Party City,” expect some adventures this weekend!

Pretty positive that if published, my YouTube channel’s comments could constitute a bestselling book.

While he passes for a pool shark, he’s THE amphibious man from Oscar contender, The Shape of Water! Doug Jones, good luck Sunday at the Academy Awards, & tonight at Young Variety of Southern California’s pool tourney, benefiting local children’s charities!!

Stars. They sit in bland rooms with fluorescent lighting, just like us!

A Wrinkle In Time used to scare me... But I feel like I got this tonight! 💄💪🏼 Dress by: Wow Couture; styled by Nicole Balzano. — at The Hollywood Roosevelt.

OH, so THAT’s what I’d look like as a Hollywood star! #themoreyouknow #excusemybeauty #stillgotit

As we mourn iO WEST’s closing this weekend, I can’t help but wax nostalgic of my time there (‘98-‘01). While I never met my spouse there (unlike everyone else, apparently), I did make some life-long, smart, funny friends, like my girl, Kristina Hayes. Our all-girl improv group, “Powerbox” was the hot-ticket for a minute. You can see why!

Throwback to 2006-2014, when I was a Spanish teacher. Note my two-toned tights, two different shoes, and lack of assault weapons! Ah, the good old days...

Making heart-openers my b on this v-day! ❤️ #valentinesday #yoga

Booyah! Managed to get my #carnaval on even still! #mardigras #saudades #brasil — at Make-A-Wish Foundation.

If I seem not all here this #fattuesday, it’s cuz my heart is in #Nola, celebrating #mardigras 💜💛💚. But according to my #krewe, Meg Kinney & Hallonius Phillips, Pepper’s there too! 👶🏻🎉

Pincha arms, lotus legs, focus on fleek! 💥🙏🏼

...and that it was! Thanks, friends, for my making my day. (Gonna rest my like-finger now.)

THIS IS (ALMOST) 43! I couldn’t do this when I was 41!!

Dear lighthouse life, Thank you for your thorough, albeit subjective analysis of my appearance. Beauty really IS in the eye of the beholder! Thankfully, my parents weren’t TOO disgusted, since they have the same smile and teeth and nose and wrinkles (you know, heredity). I’m lucky—being a beautiful ingenue was never part of the plan, but rather being an interesting, character actress. And well, whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve! But enough about me... who ARE YOU?? How do you have so much time on your hands?! I can only imagine how perfect your smile and nose and teeth must be! And if it’s not too personal, who hurt you? What bridge do you live under exactly? KIT! N

Y'all know I GO HARD on my birthday... This year promises to be (belting at top of lungs) ESPECIALLY FABULOUS! Please, local LA friends, make my birthday great again, and come to my party Monday!!! Yes, you got the invite... It's in your FB events. RSVP already so I feel popular! Or just come. In costume! Or not. I may even do a mid-party, tear-away pant, costume-change!! (I mean, The theme IS MUSICALS, so ANYTHING GOES!!) JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, what do you expect? It's ME!!!!! Just don’t not come, then CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA!! 🇦🇷 Ok, guys and dolls, you've been warned-- we getting GREASY, and ALL THAT JAZZ! 🎉

I ❤️ THE NIGHTLIFE! Thank you, Brandon Liberati & Craig Ramsay for keeping it fabulous, always! Celebrity Page TV -#grammys2018

You know that game, “if you could have dinner with ANYONE in the world, living or dead— who would it be?” Well, that person for me— since I was age 10 and saw her do her solo show, “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe”— was always, unquestionably, Lily Tomlin. THAT was the moment, there at the Denver Center, when I looked up at her on stage and said, “THAT’s what I want to be when I grow up.” And I never vacillated once since. Had pictures of her up in my locker, won the school talent show doing her monologues, and channelled her when I wrote & produced my own. Well, last night, it actually happened. I had dinner with my idol. (ARGENTINE STEAK-dinner, no less!) I’m done. I can die happy now! Thank you, Bob Bergen for giving me this opportunity, Patrika Darbo for making (despite the fires!) my dream come true, and to my fellow Television Academy PGEC board for your service & friendship. Enjoyed breaking bread with you too! (Just haven’t been obsessed with you for the last +30 years… till now!).

1 week without yoga down, 1 week to go... But at least my feet now are really clean! 😬🧘‍♀️🙏🏼 Wardrobe: Orange Cosmic Mermaid; photo: @koyu

Still glowing from the YUGE crowds yesterday... 💪🏼 #resist #riseup #timesup #wmla

I’m with her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her... #timesup #womensmarch #dumptrump #notmypresident #resist #riseup #pollsforthepeople #grabembytheballot — attending Women’s March Los Angeles 2018 at Pershing Square Park Downtown LA.

If you have to have a layover, I highly recommend Aspen. #nativecoloradan #coloradogirl #homesweethome #colorfulcolorado #rockymountainhigh

I’m really not cut out for convalescence! North Dakota State University, here I come:

https://www.facebook.com/events/356981341432592/

What a difference a day makes!

Thank you all for racing to my rescue yesterday! The get-well comments, texts, and calls all WORKED!! I feel FANTASTIC, with the one exception: knowing I have to go a week or two without Yoga. (Which FEELS like the end of the world.) But that’s not to say I don’t still have a back-log of Yoga pics to post! 🤪🙏🏼 Wardrobe by: Orange Cosmic Mermaid; Photo by: Koyu.

I’m having a very routine, albeit not fun surgery in the hospital today. But at least I look like a famous Dutch masterpiece!

HBD & thanks to my dear friend, Elizabeth Epstein for a wild & wonderful day at Roar Foundation. (Prefer to see them in their natural habitat, of course— but nevertheless thankful to Tippi Hedren for providing them a good home, just an hour outside of LA!) 💕🦁

CLEARLY The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Golden Globes winner, Rachel Brosnahan) needs a great-great aunt in season 2, amiright?!

Where was Jessica?! This year was hardly a freak show-- thanks in part, to the tone my fellow Wildcat, Seth Meyers so deftly set. (This gross display of name-dropping calls for a MANDATORY REPOST of that time HE name-dropped ME to HER!) #GG #TimesUp #TruthHasAVoice #Oprah2020 #MondayMotivation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLP-9Ij_9s

If I were a cookie, I’d be The Black Version Whoreo.

Yay! You can barely tell it was just Christmas!!! Thanks, Sandi McCree, Zak Barnett Studios, & Backstage for hosting me at the “Wonder Women Of Hollywood” talk. Way to kickoff the new year!

For those enduring mid-west temps “colder than Mars,” the “bomb-cyclone” back east, and snowfall in Florida (?!), I give you my mom in my yard:

I shot 5 horror movies in 2017! In 2018, I want to shoot THIS as a TV show. Got that, Universe?!

https://www.facebook.com/ctrlaltdeleteshow/videos/1954109544916813/

LET’S DO THIS, 2018! (Full disclosure: this pic was not shot today. However—not to brag—I DID party till 5am, broke a man’s heart who looked just like Jesus, then destroyed my yoga mat by 10am. So that’s something!) Wardrobe by: Orange Cosmic Mermaid; Photo by @koyu.