tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155290682009-03-25T11:40:02.255-07:00A guide through my life in Los Angeles. My wife and I moved out from the East coast to live amid the freaks and fancy folks. Scribbles From L.A. reports on the strange things that happen here every single day.Tom in L.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01923534376584433660noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15529068.post-1154537257215459442006-08-02T09:46:00.000-07:002006-08-02T22:37:07.250-07:00

It's been fun but it's time for us all to move on, don't you think?

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Save yourself a trip. Get your medical supplies before you get drunk and be prepared for those inevitable injuries.keywordsfunny signage

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I have a policy of not riding in orange VW bugs that are driven by people other than close personal friends because of two incidents that occurred during the 1980s.INCIDENT 1 - ICE DONUTSGreg was an Electrical Engineering major from a broken Colorado home. Greg partied as much as anyone I knew in college. He seemed to make great friends with everyone he met but for some reason, not so much with

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In 1957, Bob Alexander built a house for his doctor in the Las Palmas region of Palm Springs, California. In 2006, Cindy and I and friends Chris and Julia rented it for a weekend in July. Here are some photos I took.keywords las palmas • palm springs • bob alexander

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keywords ralphs • meat veg stick • funny signage

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"Uncle Tom, can I ask you a question?" Mae's perpetual smile was speckled with potato chip crumbs. I sat across from her at the kitchen table at the beach house my family was renting in Yarmouth, Massachusetts a few weeks ago."Of course, you can, Mae," I replied.Being an uncle is great for all the reasons that uncles always talk about. You get all the benefits of interacting with children –

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Finally, someone's gathered the courage to stand up to those arrogant, self-righteous bastards in the Pro Soliloquy faction. It's about time those yahoos got their comeuppance.keywords support ribbon • dialogue

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My sister Kim is smart as hell. Not like, "That was a good movie. The writing was so...SMART!" No, I mean smart smart. Book smart. #1 in her class, Ivy league, straight A, list the awards alphabetically smart.She also loves to laugh. She has the ability to laugh so uncontrollably that whatever beverage is in her mouth doesn't stand a chance. Out the mouth, out the nose, down the chin. Real live

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Cindy and I and friends Julia and Chris were lucky enough to spend this weekend in the Las Palmas neighborhood in Palm Springs. This sunset is just one of countless incredible moments were shared.Click here to get the big picture.keywords las palmas • palm springs • sunset

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In the mid eighties I was going to college in Rochester, New York, a frigid, blustery place that provided a relatively safe four-year sanctuary from reality and all of my impending adulthood's incumbent responsibilities. Each September, I would arrive from my hometown outside of Boston and remain long enough for the leaves to wilt, desaturate, and fall to the ground before making the trip back

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It's just a knitting shop in North Hollywood.keywords happy hookers too • north hollywood • funny business name • signage • knitting

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Peole LOOOOVE their donuts out here. Places like the one below are everywhere, though few have signs that try so hard to be clever and unique.Also see Faster Donut.keywords donut • doughnut hut • signage

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I yearn for a simpler life, one where the clock ticks just a little bit slower, where getting a manicure or a pedicure is considered an "event" as they apparently are in North Hollywood.Also see Hair People.keywords nail event • north hollywood • funny business name • signage • nail salon

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I recently attended a high-level meeting of great import and consequence. Here are my notes.keywords office humor

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Service ManagerJohn Elway Dodge on Arapahoe10743 E. Arapahoe Rd.Centennial, CO 80112Mr. John ElwayElway Enterprises1 Elway WayDenver, CO 80204Dear Mr. Elway:Mission accomplished. Rest assured I have personally taken care of everything. You need not further concern yourself with the resolution of the situation we discussed earlier this month. My team and I have seen to it. Furthermore, I see no

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Last year, I received a ridiculous amount of junk mail from Capital One. Not only is it a waste of paper, it's a pain because I can't just throw it away. I have to rip it up or shred it first. It seems like a small task but day after day, I got really sick of it.This year I'm keeping all the junk mail Capital One sends me and Cindy. So far we have received 29 separate pieces of junk mail from

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If they make a mistake, abracadabra, you're as good as new!Haircutting and magic...almost as good a combination as this.keywords dean's shoppe • haircutting • magic • glendale

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Few things are as dangerous as two bored kids with nothing to do on a summer afternoon. The extended sunlight hours, the lack of supervision and the teenager's innate sense that the thrill of bad behavior will surely outweigh the sting of its inevitable consequence conspire to lure young men-to-be into situations with little purpose other than pure childish titillation. It all starts with the

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I have a problem. I share an office with two space aliens named Rajneesh and Kathy. I suspect they weren't the best of students in their "How to Convincingly Act Like a Human Being" training. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they flunked out and that's how they ended up with such a crappy assignment. They must have both really not paid attention to the part where they went over which audible

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One can only hope that this is a case of sloppy translation in North Hollywood.Also see Hair People.keywords yummy hair • north hollywood • funny business name • signage

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To Angelenos, June means two things. Actually, that's a lie. Like everything else in Los Angeles, June means approximately 12.9 million different things to the 12.9 million people that live here, so I'll put it this way. There's a couple, a dark brooding man and his bright cheery girlfriend that show up at the Los Angeles party every June. People put up with the downer of a guy in this couple

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keywords george bush • skankjob

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This is a building at Ventura Boulevard and Firmament in Encino near where I work. It has these cool little mosaics on the gate surrounding the building. Each depicts a scene from a Hollywood movie.keywords ventura boulevard • encino • mosaic • movies • margaret nielsen • hollywood highlights

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Jewel idolatry off the 134 in Burbank.keywords jewel • billboard • elektra • burbank

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I can't believe this. As if it's not bad enough they stick me out here next to the friggin' freeway, but then they dress me up like a goddamn tree. Like it's so bad to be a cell tower. This sucks! They're always spouting off about freedom of choice and individuality and expressing yourself and being yourself, but when it comes right down to it, they want me to be like everybody else. They want me

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