Better late then never!

Hey peoples! As you can imagine I've been pretty slammed with work-related stuff lately, so my bloggin' time has been non existent.

There are some fun pics to share - unfortch I missed my sister Damien's baby shower that Mom and Dad threw home in Oregon...
She and Kirk AKA BabyDaddy, pose - yeah, she's about to burst! I'm gonna be an uncle SOON! WAAAH!
This is Mom posing in front of her new Gazebo. I totally love it. I got to see it last month when I was home, it's coming along so nicely!
They hung baby clothes throughout the house for the shower - how cute is that? I hear the games were a blast.
My aunt and uncle, cousin and her husband flew/drove in to see Damien. They all live out of state so she was QUITE surprised! :) Good thing she wasn't so surprised it caused some water breakage.
So many baby clothes!
So many gifts!

I'm really sad I missed it, but that's life. Soon I'll be an uncle, and I'll be able to post 500,000 baby pics. You think I've gone crazy with the cats and dogs... hahaha

Done some other really fun stuff lately, including:
Hanging with super great friends at lots of different places, here we got together at Hyde in Hollywood where my friend Ray was spinning. F U N! From left to right: dork, Brandon, Loy, Ben, Josh, Dylan.

Dancing on the wall may have been involved.....
And we made a Saskia sandwich! She liked it, tho. At least, I CHOOSE to disagree with the '100 yard radius' mandate now. I think she's just flirting. You silly, you!

I randomly met these models at the bar and they were hilarious, so we took a pic. Fun fact: The blonde is grabbing my ass. Hence my "Ehrr... ahh... OK..." look.
Fun fact: I'd tell you what the tattoo chica is doing, but my parents read this blog.
Fun fact: OK, actually, she's telling me I need some tattoos. Then she asked me how long I've been a casting director.
Fun fact: Lying in bars in Hollywood is supersupersuper fun.

We all went out to celebrate our friend Brandon's birthday the other week, which included going roller skating at a total 80's disco in the valley:
Yeah, it was superfab. Or ... uhm... killer? Sick? Crap, gimme an 80's term!
Here Loy and Josh in a skate-by photo. Loves it.
Randy is a little too good on skates. Too good, you ask? Yes, I think there may have been soul selling and/or black market trading going on here. First born?
Loy has the gift of being 6'4" like me. Unfortunately, neither of us has ... how you say... balance. :)
"I'M GONNA BREAK SOMETHING! BAWLS!"

I caught up with Trent for dinner the other week and saw Batman on IMAX again, which was, amazing of course, and we saw this sign on the 3rd st. Promenade.
You should have seen the sluts working that store. Man, the economy is so bad they'll stoop to anything!

Last Friday I met up with my SD peeps Ben, Raph, newly-moving-to-LA-Frank, and LA Bobby at the Kevin Smith Crazy4Cult art show - it was really cool, super hot, and had tons of movie related art:

It was great. After, we bounced to Saddle Ranch on Sunset to see some people get tossed around by a mechanical bull:I have to say, that NEVER gets old. lolol :) This chick, who told us her name was Ebony (her friend's name was Ivory... yeah... it was Vegas name night, apparently) ate it like a sack of potatos. :)

Great seeing my peeps, sad they live so far away!

T, Loy and I saw House Bunny at midnight Thursday last week:
L O V E D IT!!!!!!!!!! SO damn funny. Anna Faris is sort of a God to me now. I sacrificed a virgin for her the other day!*
*Come on, seriously? There are no virgins in LA. Britney, please.

Speaking of Britney, I met up with a bunch of great friends to go see Lady Gaga perform at Cherry Pop on Saturday night:
She rocked the house! It was so fun. The blonde girl on the left here totally flashed her boobs, too. Or maybe it was just spirit fingers. I get the two confused.
Rock it Lady Gaga!
John and Jordan were fun to hang with as always, and of course Jordan's suspenders made a really fun snapping sound while we waited for Lady Gaga to come onstage.*
*Sorry, alcohol.
Randy, Ben, Brad, and I'm giving my best "Awwww shizz in da club" look. Or, my 'special' look.... yeah, probably that one.
Steve, who's so ridiculously in shape his bodyfat is now in the negative. Don't worry, we can be jealous together.

Sunday I met up with a bunch of peeps to hit Sunset Junction in Silver Lake, which was cool. Basically it's a mix of music, food, crafts, the usual fair type shizz. Great mix of people...

This was cool, this old dude started dancing with the hot chick who was grooving out. It was a really cute moment. That, or he was her sugar daddy. You never really know in LA.

Das Poopen?
Yup, never running for President.

Monday Julie and Angela invited me to lunch and for pedicures, which having never had one, I thought it sounded sorta fun. Try anything once, right? Unfortch for me...
They wanted me to do the pedi's. OY. It was a lot of work. Julie said her "white boy AC sucked"....

So I fanned her. She then fired me and threatened deportation (I didn't have the heart to tell her I'm sorta here legally).Angela's toes left a lasting impression.... and my lunch all over the floor.
;)

Fun times, great friends, I'm blessed, hope ya'll are well!
Cheerssssssssssssss

International Day - LA Style!

What an action packed day it was today! Whew! We officially deemed it International Day as we started out at a Japanese restaurant with a Latin friend, went on to the Mexican section of downtown, then Chinatown, then ended up seeing a Flamenco show and eating Spanish food (with an Aussie!). Yeah, it's pretty international!
We met my friend Karina for lunch at Kaya Sushi, Karina is amazing and it was so good to see her. She's a great friend and a pure soul. She met Mom and Dad on their first trip last year and was eager to see them. We had a great time catching up with her!Then it was on downtown to Olvera Street, the Mexican section of downtown LA that features the oldest building in SoCal, built in 1812! Not this one tho, this is just a cool fire station-looking place.

Naturally we had to stop for margaritas and Horchata, cuz what's Mexico without booze, sugar, chips and guac?*
*Yes I'm going to hell, thanks for the FYI.
Cadillac Margarita? Yes please! It's 5:00 somewhere.
Uck, feel free to throw up on your keyboard a little. Still all cutesy after being married 5,000 years.*
*33 years, but whatevs.
Mom likes to pretend to snort things. Yeah, it's cute, and she learned it from me. Take that, PSA!
This is where I get embarrassed to be white (well, one of the times). These tourists jumped on the donkey, threw on the hats and panchos, and raised their rifles for a photo op. Ugh. Blanco Nino is ashamed of his peoples.
They were playing Andes style music, it was purty!

After filling up on some hot mexican chocolate and narrowly avoiding Death By Churros (it happens people), we decided to head over to Chinatown which is a few blocks up...
And because it had been 30 minutes since we consumed something, I promptly found the best Boba shop in town!
Mmmh, sweet tapioca balls of bliss. Chewy? Check. Tasty? Check. Addictive? Check. Disgusting looking? Check. Don't knock it till you've tried it!
"Vampire boba! Rawwwwrrr!"
"It tastes like deer poop and baby vomit... but I can't stop eating!"
I got some nice plants here... love how colorful the shops are.
I also love how racist the Chinese are and hang shit so if you are over six feet tall you hit your head on every goddamn lantern or toy hanging in their shop.
No, I'm kidding, I know they aren't racist, they just wish a fast death to the tall white Gaijin. It's cool. I grock.
Love the architecture and use of color!
We shopped till we dropped, then shopped some more. It's a really cool section of town! It's like going to China without the 16 hour plane ride and shitty air. Well, OK, the air sucks, but hey.
I don't know what all these shops are, but they looked cool!
A scary lion! ... And a stone statue next to him!
These jars were full of freaky looking roots and liquids. I was pretty sure if I drank them all I'd turn into the Hulk and get superpowers. And be really smart. Er.

Unfortch after drinking them, I just got kicked out of the store and threw up on myself. I felt just like Bai Ling! Only without the stealing.
Yeah, I dunno WTF, but hey, art is cool. I lurve Kid Robot stores!
Devil mask on cute teddy bear = too much Awesome.
This store had a great entrance. The bamboo is welcoming... especially if you are 1/16th Panda like me.
Love that building! Is it bad I wanted to see a Jackie Chan style bar fight happening on that secondary ledge?
These dudes were playing some kind of ancient game of checkers or Mah Jong or something. It was pretty cool to see.
M&D got me a superfly Chairman Mao messenger bag. I totally heart it! It's like the most stylish thing I own right now. Sorry, Armani, you are yesterday's news. MAO SPEAKS FOR THE PEOPLE. ... Ahem.
Look, look, we visited China! Oh crap, I got SARS again. MEDIC!
Fountains of luck = cool.
For the final chapter of the night, we met the always lovely Kirsten at the historic El Cid for Spanish food and Flamenco dancing:
Yum! The food was dee-lish!

And the entertainment was great! The musicians were talented and the old dude was an amazing singer. I thought it was a CD at first!
Dance homegirl DANCE! I don't understand your crazy gibberish words of "Spanish", but you speak with your body!
They were talented peeps, fun show to see!
Oh and they clap with great rhythm. No wonder none of them were white.

It was Mom's bday so they brought out some flan:"You better sing Happy Birthday in a language I can understand or I'm putting that tambourine up..."*
*Mom never speaks like that - at least not before the first few bloody mary's.
Happy Birthday Moms!

Dad didn't feel all the attention was fair, so he put on his best drug dealer sunglasses:
Sadly, 6 people came up and asked how much for an 8 ball, black tar, and a trip to the white rabbit. Yeah.... LA STYLE!

Being of course a full fledged International Day in LA, we saw Adrien Grenier, star of Entourage, filming an episode of his new show Green Earth - for The Discovery Channel. He's green, ya'll!The film crew was all over getting various shots. It was a little awkward, cuz later in the night we were literally the only people in there that weren't apart of the Hollywood crew. :)
So naturally I took photos of the crew. And gawked a little. OK, a lottle. That's how I roll.

I worked up some courage and went over to Adrien to say hi...And got a photo! He was super nice, thanks to his beautiful companion Angela for taking the photo (she was a pro!). He was also there to see his friend's band play. Oh and PS he's not short, I'm just freakishly tall.
It was a very fun full day and we had a blast! Time for bed... more fun planned for tomorrow!