Free love on the free love freeway

Okay, you may think I'm crazy, but I swear on my life I think that someone trimmed the bushes outside the Hollywood Bowl sign to look like penises. Seriously. They're pointing up into the air and have a set of balls each. If you don't believe me, go north on Highland toward the 101 entrance. If you go to the left to get on Cahuenga instead of the freeway, there's a little grassy island on your left. The bushes in question (and I swear, there will be no question when you see them) are just sitting there in all their erect glory. Let me know what you think (you know you want to see it).

(It occurs to me that I just may get some porn Googlers from the vocabulary in that paragraph. Sorry to disappoint you if that's how you ended up here. "Trimmed the bushes"--heh.)

(However, if you got here by searching for something The Office-related, well then, welcome. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then shame on you--set your TiVo for BBC America!)

(Most likely you got here because you either: a. Live with me, b. Are one of, oh, two people who tend to comment here, or c. Are a spammer, in which case, get the hell off my blog!)

(Now that I've done so many parentheticals, I'm finding it hard to go back to a regular update. I think I'll just leave it at that.)

(If that's okay with you.)

A list (for lack of better title)

I'm back! Didja miss me? Anyway, because it's raining like a mo-fo and I certainly don't want to go outside in THAT (yes, I grew up in Southern California; shut up), I decided to give you the extremely rare workday lunchtime update (even though we finally have reliable internet at home).

For lack of better organizational skills, I'm just gonna throw a list of things that have happened since the last update at you (and, for fun, include the name of the songs that my iPod shuffles at me as they come). Here goes:

1. Celebrity sightings. (Cheeseburger in Paradise: Jimmy Buffet)

a. A literal run-in with Pauly Shore at the Farmer's Market. He bumped into N and then apologized.

b. The Arrested Development creators/writers at Caffe Latte on Wilshire, which has become our favorite breakfast destination (I See Monsters: Ryan Adams). We talked to them briefly after one of them made an off-color joke they thought we heard. One thing led to another and they mentioned what they were working on (even though my eavesdropping self had already figured that out). A week later, there they were on our TV accepting an Emmy.

c. One of the girls from Laguna Beach at the Cheesecake Factory in Beverly Hills (I'm 90 percent sure, anyway. I choose to believe it was her.)

d. Big Brother's Marcellas at Jerry's Deli.

2. N and I were both sick. Him first, then me. (Dr. Livingstone: Crowded House) It was our first experience with being sick that one of us wasn't able to go home to escape. That was fun.

3. We saw Keane in concert at the Greek with the best friggin' seats I've ever had. The concert, good seats or no, was pretty great. Those guys are amazing performers! If you ever get the chance to see 'em, go. (Chocolate: Snow Patrol)

4. My TiVo is freaking out. Practically everything it records cuts in and out, sometimes so much so that the show is unwatchable. Any suggestions (TK, I'm talking to you!)??

5. We were caught in the middle of a hijacking! (Okay, not really, but something was happening down Wilshire Blvd. Friday night while we were dining at Big Wasabi, our first foray into our neighborhood all-you-can-eat sushi joint--not great, for the record--and there was a bus being emptied of passengers with their hands up, a shitload of cops and cop cars, and the street was blocked off right where we were. N made me go across the street to Blockbuster anyway, even though I thought we should probably move as far away from a possible crime scene as possible. Anyway, it must not have been anything too big because no news show mentioned it. (Borderline: Madonna. Hee.)

6. N and I introduced Eclektra and husband to the wonder that is Katamari Damacy. I wonder if they're still up playing it? (I Can't Take It: Tegan & Sara)

Woo hoo!

Our DSL is (finally) up and running! Expect more posts more often, starting right...well, maybe starting tomorrow.