LA Chronicles 11.5

Today was a day of firsts for me. No not those kind of firsts…ya’ll so nasty! Well I guess everyday has been a day of firsts now that I think about it except for the whole work thing because that happens every day. But today was an interesting collection of “Firsts.” The craziest first was being in 85 degree weather at the end of October…this is the first time I’ve seen air conditioned Halloween costumes.

Another one for those of you that have been to LA or even seen a movie about LA/Hollywood/Beverly Hills/Miracle Mile/etc, you know that there is an LA outfit. I didn’t realize how quickly I would buy into it since I consider myself original but the outfit has turned out to be more of a necessity than it is a look. (At least I’m telling myself that to make me not feel like a biter) And as they say while in Rome, do as an European. For those of you not sure of the get-up, two integral parts of the outfit are Sunglasses and Jeans. I thought I had these covered given my $13 shades I picked up in Vegas back in May and the 3 jean collection I had put together in my Nati life. However this uniform/outfit requires more than the base items I’ve collected through the first 2+ decades in my life. I tackled the first portion today by venturing out to find glasses. The long and short of it is: 2 stores later, 1 guy putting glasses on my face as if I didn’t know where they went, 6 pairs tried, and 2 much paid I had ½ of my outfit complete. Stay tuned on my jean hunt…

Another first was getting back on the courts. I was hoping to catch Ice Cube dropping a triple double but I guess it wasn’t a good day for him. I was actually challenged to show my skills on the court by a person, who asked not to be mentioned in my writing, that thought she could do something with me on the court. We spent most of the time walking through fundamentals like shooting, lay-ups, selecting legal counseling, dribbling, macking groupies and trash-talking before I was invited to my first game of LA pickup ball. How could I pass up the offer to ball with Cali’s best? Well it wasn’t really Cali’s best but it was Culver City’s best…Two hard fought games to 11 points later…why were these cats boocoo tired and heading in their respective directions. Needless to say my first time getting my Kobe on was not the most optimal…

What better to follow-up a good game on the court but fast food. Only today I wasn’t going to have just any fast food. It’d be my introduction to In & Out Burgers. I was actually fairly excited when I saw the sign because I figured this would be the best burger I’d ever since this is the reason Tom Cruise joined Scientology. I won’t give away the report as most of you have never had these burgers but I will say you won’t see me and TC together on Sunday. The most amazing thing about the about the place was that there sanitation engineer was working overtime and came up with the best restaurant modification I’d seen. They installed holes under the ketchup dispenser. BRILLIANT! Think of the amount of time saved not have to clean up catch-up messes. And you can just take the ketchup remnants that fall through and put them back in the container. Sort of a form of recycling…Now if that doesn’t get you to Cali then nothing will.

As we prepare to turn back the clock for daylight savings, I’m giving out hours since you can’t really claim then if you are sleep already and they expire at 2:01 am.
UM – Thanks for driving to CC
TB – The bowling experience
BR – You may be able to read these with the extra hour
TW – Cable w/ all my channels FINALLY

M. aka “Culver City King of the Courts”