Good news for Asher

One of Asher's short films has been accepted to a film festival. I am not sure if you have checked out his website, but you can find his movie here scroll down to piece(s) and watch it. It is my favorite.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Today let's pause to think about all of the things we are thankful for.

Stars

Lately I have seen:

Emily Rossum- You might know her from Phantom of the Opera and Mystic River.
Russel Brand- You might know him from the really funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall and hosting the last MTV Video Music awards that was filmed across the street.

I would have seen another celebrity a week or so ago, but due to disorganization of a movie sneak peak, I missed seeing Benicio del Toro's Q & A after seeing Che. I was really looking forward to this but will see it as soon as it is out in the theaters

You can look up these two and all of the people I have seen on imdb.com

Notice of a Filming

Last Friday, while I was at work of course, they shot an episode of Kath and Kim outside my house.

I haven't really gotten into the show. I think the characters are good, but I don't really understand what the purpose is.

The guy who plays Craig, Mikey Day, is/was part of Groundlings. I think I have mentioned them before, but it is an improv house that has started the careers of Will Farrel, Pat Morita and many of the current SNLers. If you want to see funnier work of Mr. Day check out David Blaine Street Magic You Tube Edition. Click here Watch for the language.

California on Fire

This weekend dozens of fires broke out in California starting with the Montecito Tea fire on Thursday. (see picture above taken from the KTLA website) There are several fires burning right now and although not close the Santa Ana winds brought the smoke this way. The sky in LA is very pink gray and you can smell the fires.

Please think good thoughts that these fires are over soon. Thousands of homes have been lost. Not too many injuries or deaths, but 5 people have been arrested for looting.

Halloweeeen!

Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. I don't know why, maybe because of all of the seriousness of being an adult, it is nice to do something different and non-serious.

People in my neighborhood are really into it too. Every year the mansions of Hancock Park become haunted houses and safe havens for the trick or treaters. They really go all out and probably spend thousands of dollars in decorations, just for this holiday. I think they spend more on this holiday than Christmas. Next year I hope to have pictures.

I was excited this year because I was home early enough to give candy to the trick or treaters.

By far the biggest pumpkin racket is the pumpkin patch on Fairfax and Third across from the Farmer's Market. I saw pumpkins for $30. I did not end up paying that much, but more than I thought I should. The picture above are the pumpkins my friends and I carved, before having homemade pumpkin pie. I guess we were really into pumpkin slaughter.

The highlight of my night was doing a Skype call with Evan in his Batman costume. He was really into it, which was really cute. He showed me his wings, ran around and with the help of his father flew through the air. It is great to be able to call via Skype. I get to see Evan on the weekends for free.


Asher and I went to a friend's party. Here are our costumes. Last year we were Cleopatra and a Transformer, this year an old school rapper and the Bride of Frankenstien. I spent a lot of time teasing my hair. Maybe next year we will do a couples costume.

It's been a while hasn't it

I don't know what happened to be honest, but I am back to writing and I hope to write a lot more.

First of all, I would like to say how happy I am that the election is over. I am very happy that Barack Obama will be our new president. After losing two jobs to a horse-pocky economy, I am happy that Change is gonna come to this country.

By the way voting at McDonald's was fast and painless. See Asher's video:



I was done in a couple minutes, then got a number 2. The line to get McDonald's took more time than voting. Alas, it wasn't free.

This was my first West Coast election and I was really surprised how fast it was over. I am used to not hearing who the president was until at least 11:00 p.m. Here it was over at 8:00.

Many of you might have heard about Proposition 8. Which eliminates the rights of gay/lesbians to get married and other additional civil rights. It did pass in California, which shows you that there is a lot more to California than LA and San Francisco. A lot of people here are really angry about its passing and there has been many protests. In fact one is going on right now at city hall. Their hope is to get it overturned in the 2010 California election.

All in all I am happy that the election is over.

So I am back to writing again and couldn't be happier.

3-4 four days

It is nice to know that in 3-4 days all of this election stuff will be over. It has been a long campaign and I am happy that at least on Wednesday this will be part of history. No ads, no conspiracies, no crazy New Yorker covers.

Please remember to get out there and vote!

I put a friendly little poll on the left hand side of the page. If you would like to answer you can. If not I understand. Voting can be a very personal thing.