LESBIAN FRO-YO

There's this fantastic frozen yogurt place in West Hollywood that I love! At one point after I'd moved here, I was between apartments, and I stayed with a good girlfriend of mine for a few weeks while apartment hunting. We frequented the frozen yogurt place together sooo much that the little Asian lady who runs the place thought that we were a lesbian couple!! I realized this one night when I stopped by the shop alone on my way home from work and ordered two yogurts to go. She said "Oooohhh...this one for your girlfriend" with a naughty wink. I was so caught off gaurd I just laughed and said, "yeah it is." What do I care if she thinks we're lesbians? She always gives us a great discount!!

So we now refer to the place as "Lesbian Fro-Yo".

Eventually, after staying with my friend for a while I found an amazing apartment in Venice, RIGHT across the street from the beach. I was SOOO excited!! I couldn't believe that I would be able to walk to the beach!! This was a dream come true for me!!!

The next time I visited Lesbian Fro-Yo I told the shop owner that I probably wouldn't be in as often because I was moving to the West Side. She asked where, and I said "I found this great apartment in Venice just a block from the beach!!" She made a sour face and said, "Oooh, by the beach. Sooo cold over there. Too cold." She sort of shuttered as if she was cold just thinking about it -As if she couldn't imagine any place worse than the DREADED BEACH! "And what about your girlfriend?" she asked.

I told her we broke up. It was just easier.

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*BTW - If you're in the L.A. area, and you'd like to visit Lesbian Fro-Yo (actually called Beverly Place Yogurt), it's located at: 8103 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90048

LAX CELEBRITIES

Taking a flight out of Los Angeles International Airport is always a treat. I have no idea why, but for some reason people leaving L.A. like to pretend that they're celebrities! It's bizarre!! I fly a lot. In the last 6 months, I've been on at least 10 flights in and out of LAX, and on EVERY flight there's at least two people who wear a hat and sunglasses, and SIT IN COACH!!

I personally feel that the combination of a hat and sunglasses - worn indoors - SCREAMS "Look at me...look at me...I'M SOO AWESOME THAT I HAVE TO HIDE MY FACE FROM YOU!!!!"

These people almost always look the exact same too!! They are usually reading script - VERY obviously, and are always dressed like they walked straight off of a high-fashion runway and onto the plane. Of course we all KNOW that they're nobody rich and famous, or WHY would they be sitting in COACH with us little people? The whole spectacle of it all makes me laugh though, so I hope they keep doing it.

I've also noticed a lot more primping happening in the bathrooms at LAX than I have seen in other airports. In say... Cleveland or Chicago, you might see a woman brush her hair, or touch up her lipstick in the mirror. But at LAX, there is ALWAYS at least one girl in EVERY bathroom with her whole makeup bag spread out like the cosmetic counter at Macys. This girl is getting ready for her MOMENT to walk through the see and be seen world that is LAX.

I really thought I'd seen it all when it comes to looking perfect at the airport, until my last flight. I walked into a ladies room at LAX, and saw a girl with her CURLING IRON plugged into the wall, CURLING HER HAIR in the LAX BATHROOM!!! I don't even know what to say about that, except THAT is SOOO L.A.!!!

MY RUN IN WITH THE WEEEEASEL

Pauly Shore has been BLOWING UP my phone with text messages all night. My friend gave him my number to play a joke on me at a Miller Lite event I was working, and the rest is history. That's SOOO L.A.!!!

BEST COLLEGE COURSE EVER!!!

This is just SOOO L.A.!!
I'm thinking of taking some courses at Santa Monica College, and as I'm flipping through the Schedule of Winter Classes I see this:

Kin PE 51B - Intermediate Surfing (1,1) 1 unit
Transfer: UC*, CSU
Prerequisite: None.
Advisory: Advanced Swimming
This class is designed to cover various intermediate techniques for surfing. Emphasis is placed on performance and conditioning for surfing.
1473 8:00a-10:05a MTWTh POOL Culbertson I P
Above section 1473 will meet at the SMC pool classroom for the first two class meetings.

I LOVE that there is NO prerequisite for this class, although they do "advise" that you are an "advanced swimmer." You would think that that would be sort of a MAJOR PREREQUISITE, considering the ocean is only like the toughest and MOST DANGEROUS place to swim!!

Whatever, either way I will never complain about a town where surfing is part of a college education! Hell Yeah!!

WE READ. I SWEAR.

On a recent trip to Boston I met a local who said that he used to live in L.A. He said it drove him crazy that "people in Los Angeles don't read!" He complained that he could "never find anyone who could carry on a conversation about a good book." I didn't really understand what he meant by this - Afterall, I live here, and I LOVE to READ!!

Then yesterday I was out shopping in Santa Monica, and on a whim I stopped to take a look at a Store Directory. Check out the first "Book Store" on the list:

Can't imagine why anyone would think that we don't read books here.

DO YOU PREFER FRIENDLY WOOD SPIRITS OR WASHED UP ACTION HEROES?

I passed a movie theatre in Santa Monica last night, and I couldn't help but laugh at what I saw!

It's sort of hard to tell in my dark and fuzzy cell phone photo, but there were probably a couple hundred people lined up AROUND the BLOCK to see a movie at this theatre. This doesn't seem so unusual at first. After all, I waited in line to see the opening night of SEX AND THE CITY, so I get it.

What I don't get is how in the world THESE TWO FILMS (the ONLY two playing)had drawn such crazy lines of people!

"Step right up folks, and take your pick between TOTORO, a wonderful Japenese Anime film made in 1988 which follows the story of "two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan," - OR be swept away by JCVD, a new French action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in the title role. "Van Damme plays himself, a down-and-out action star whose family and career are crumbling around him, as he’s caught in a bank heist in his hometown."

I know that both films sound completely riveting, and certainly worth standing in line for, but for me it was a SOOO L.A. moment!!!