The March 30th Los Angeles Fire

These pictures were just taken a few minutes ago from the rooftop of the parking garage in Hollywood at "The Lot." Tell my story....

Calvert "Larrry 'Bud' Melman" DeForest - RIP

NEW YORK (AP) - The balding, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows has died after a long illness. The Brooklyn-born Calvert DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, the Letterman show announced Wednesday.

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Happy St. Pat's!

Head colds in Los Angeles

Getting a cold sucks. Everyone knows this. Getting a cold in the summer sucks even more. Getting a cold when it's actually cold outside makes sense. Immune system is worn down due to the cold air, and that's why the sickness gets hold. Getting a cold when it's hot out makes is crazy by this reasoning. Now, in most places that I have lived the chance of a summer time cold only lasts for 4 months or so...

But not in Los Angeles...here the potential is there 365 days a year!

Ugh, I caught a cold. For no reason that I know of. I woke up Sunday morning with a full head and a stuffed up nose. I blamed it on the Santa Anna's (the winds, not the city) but when I woke up on Monday with swollen glands I knew that it wasn't the wind. Now it's Thursday and I still have this god forsaken cold. The week has gone something like this:

• Sunday night: stayed in, watched a few bad TV shows, no booze, was in bed by 11:30pm
• Monday night: stayed in, yet again, drank lots of OJ, no booze, was in bed by 11:00pm, read and was asleep before midnight
• Tuesday night: stayed in - man, am I 28 or 78?!?! - no booze, lots of water and OJ, ate a really big meal (feed a cold right?!), and went to sleep early yet again
• Wednesday night: fuck it - went and played basket ball for 2 hours (By the way, I suck at basketball, I'm a hockey player, yes I know I'm tall and should have played basketball but I didn't, I played hockey! and therefore suck at basketball) came home, didn't eat dinner cause it was too late, went to bed, read my book, asleep by midnight
• Thursday night: well...that's where we find ourselves now...

Some say feed a cold, well I'm going to drown it. After having my car vandalized this morning and paying $300 (plus $40 tip) to have it detailed to remove the spray paint (which they did by the way. SIDEBAR: for a guy that hates to pay anything for a car wash, I have to say that this detail business is impressive, my car looks better than I've ever seen it...anyway)....right, after dropping the car at the carwash, walking a mile to work with blisters on my feet (thank you basketball) and just being grumpy at work all day, I decided to stop at the liquor store on the drive home. As Saturday is St. Patrick's Day, I came home with a bottle of Jamison and 4 cans of Guinness. Maybe the whiskey will make me feel worse, maybe it will kill that which ills me - whatever happens, it's 10:00pm, I'm watching a great movie and about to pour myself another Jamison and say to hell with the Los Angeles summer cold that strikes in the middle of March!

Beverly Hills....the dodgy part

I moved to Beverly Hills a year ago and since then:

• There was a break in attempt at our apartment in the first week we lived there
• Our upstairs neighbor's car (shitty Honda) was broken into while it was parked inside our buildings covered car port, where my roommate and I have one spot for the two of us.
• Had our oven break, and it remains broken as I write this
• And then this morning this:

Beverly Hills, thanks large in part to Aaron Spelling (may he and his TV shows rest in peace) carries a reputation for upscale, high class living. However, that obviously is not always the case.

I could write more, but any eloquence would quickly go out the window and this would just turn into an exercise of creative curse words.

This really exists.....

United States Association of Rock Paper Scissors....

They have a championship that is being held this year in Vegas...


And the winner gets $50,000!!!!!! Are you kidding me?!?!

Go to the WEBPAGE and find a local competition in your area. OR come to Vegas with me in May and watch the competition. What's better than 24 hour drinking, gambling and "professional" Rock Paper Scissors!? Nothing - absolutely nothing.

the other shoe...

The plan was NYC and the offer was a free apartment for six months starting in April...it all seemed too good to be true, but just the same I sat and kept a quiet vigil for the inevitable "other shoe."

On Saturday it dropped.

The apartment is still there, my invitation has been pushed back 2 months, maybe longer. Reading between the lines the answer is, it's gone.

But for those two months, it was a great idea. What now, what next? That battle is being fought in my head as I type....so I guess stay tuned....

PacMan - World Famous Pill Popper

From the people that brought you Crank Yankers and several writers from The Jimmy Kimmel Live Show come - VideoGame Theatre.


Watch the pilot episode online - PacMan: The Insatiable Hunger. It's the story of PacMan and his strugge with pill popping. Watch as this living legend lets drugs (specifically pills) take his personal and family life straight to the gutter.

Many more episodes are planned to be released: Frogger - International Terrorist, Qubert - the world's first retarded videogame character, and may more.

SEE THE PACMAN EPISODE HERE