Fun facts about LA (a continuing series)

1. The Ivy, a classic establishment dining spot, sucks. Great atmosphere, I'll give you that. Nice old cottage, antiques over the walls, wouldn't be out of place on Cape Cod. But $120 for two standard entrees and two cocktails? Food was pretty mediocre, too. Didn't see anyone famous, either. For that kind of money, I want to watch Tom Cruise change Suri's diaper on the bar.

2. Morrissey, Mr Moz, he of the 'girlfriend in a coma' swoon...lives in LA and is ADORED by the mexican-american community. Seriously. Who knew? I wonder if anything else from my high school-era record collection will sneak back into Vogue?

Ways in which LA is not like NY (A Continuing Series)

Fairly sizeable forest fire is raging outside our building right now, on the slopes of the Hollywood Hills. Sirens blaring from all directions and several helicopters are circling while another one dumps water on the blaze. You can see the flames from the window!

Neighborly Troubles

So we're having a parking dispute with the neighbors.

See, they keep blocking our garage space with their car. Their gigantic 1970s era diesel spewing monstrosity.

And we keep asking them to move it. Real simple, right? Wrong. One day last week we had to wake up our neighbor (at 9:30am on a Tuesday, no less) to move the clunker.

So our management company is trying to host a meeting between all the parties on Friday to resolve this. What's to resolve? Here's an idea - don't block my spot!

What is this, a low-rent episode of A&E's "Intervention?"

Are we back at college and looking for the RA to make sure my roommate doesn't eat my fritos?

Please.

M

Sorry Folks

I've been quite slack in posting. Gonna try to be better about it from now on.

Most unlikely quote I ever expected to hear from Shimon Peres

"If someone were launching missiles from Burbank into Hollywood, I don't think the United States would sit back and tolerate it."

I guess the Bryan Singer-JJAbrams feud is on...

Oh wait, he was talking about Hezbollah....

M