My car was in the shop for DAYS since it sadly and tragically ceased to function on me right before Thanksgiving leaving me car-less for the holiday. It was for sure unpleasant to say the least. To cheer myself up, I figured I’d visit my dear friend Cazzey who happens to live blocks away just [...]
I have a beautiful mix of different and diverse friends. Perhaps because I don’t really fit in anywhere myself. As a kid growing up in Brazil I was always called “The American” because my dad’s American. But what did I know of America? That everyone was beautiful and rich. The magazines made that perfectly clear. [...]
Last night around midnight I rode the underground Los Angeles Metro train from Burbank to my apartment in Koreatown. My previously trusty Volkswagen Beetle had heartbreakingly stopped on me, like a stubborn mule.
While trying to park my car I’d been unable to shift into reverse and figured the clutch was acting up, maybe for attention, even [...]
I’ve never won a Nobel Prize. Or received an honorary degree. I find honorary degrees to be insulting, quite frankly. “Ok, we know you’d never bother to get a degree from our school so how about we just print you up a piece of paper that says you have a degree!
Obama: “What are you implying [...]
For some reason people in Los Angeles seem to love frozen yogurt. There are over three dozen Pinkberrys, plus Yogurtlands, Cantaloops, Red Mangos other frozen yogurt shops in Los Angeles.
My friend Kelsa and myself were in West Hollywood and had just finished an hour long hike up Runyon Canyon in Los Angeles. Upon returning to her [...]
In some states people can afford to have kids. In Los Angeles we can afford ready made coffee. We have more than 300 Starbucks, 193 Coffee Beans, over 600 Seven Elevens and hundreds of other coffee selling establishments in Los Angeles. If you want coffee all you have to do is step outside your Los [...]
“Parking sucks in LA!!!!” is an understatement. I recently got my car towed in Los Angeles and what a delight that was! No sucking there. Thursday night I drove around my friend’s block three times to finally find a space on Sunset Boulevard that read “Anti-Gridlock Zone, No parking 4am-7am, 4pm-7pm Monday through Friday.” It also [...]
I love the 99c Store! It’s the most well-known store in Los Angeles where you can walk in with $12 and leave with a bar of lime scented soap, cherry lipstick, a can of olives, a jar of salsa, tortillas, a bag of corn chips, red onions, a can of refried beans, a scented vanilla [...]
Last night after mojitos and cannabis brownies a couple of guy friends and myself got onto a discussion on penis size. I did not consume the cannabis brownies, by the way. That would be illegal. My friend who we’ll call Jari did though, because through the beauty of California law he may consume marijuana legally. [...]
In my infinite wisdom I didn’t take care of my traffic ticket within 45 days. It was $25 which balLOONED into EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS, twenty days late. Yep, it went up 3,244% which taught me a two part-lesson I’m about to share with you. One in procrastination and naivete and another in government retardation.
At 2:15pm [...]
