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Pico Metro Station, November 26

Waiting for the train on a Sunday night after a Lakers game
and after missing one train by 30 seconds is no fun
but at least it is a visual stimulus.

Lakers won handily.

Signs of the Times

Let's review, shall we - more visions of Nora's 80's fashion statement...

Plastic Dinosaur - check
Jim Carroll button - check
Wrigley Field 75th Anniversary Pin - check
Hollywood Walk Of Fame Pin - check
Madness Pin - check
Finger Cuffs with rubber hand - check

What Would Your Dog Write About You?

We love our dogs -
and one of my friend's dogs even wrote a book!

And he even used a photo of his mom and dad that I shot a couple Christmases ago.

Come join in the fun at Book Soup.
Outoftowners can buy it here OR here.

Signs of the Times

More Visions Of My 80's Fashion

Emergency Condom - check
Souvenir Deck of Pope Cards - check

Sardonia

All I can say about last night's extemely funny Sit 'n Spin featuring a couple of my favorites including Hiram Kasten and Gary Shapiro, is one word:

CHRONIC

Signs Of The Times

As previosly mentioned in the entry before this one, I sported this jacket between 1986 & 89.
In light of todays election, here are a couple buttons that I gathered and flaunted during that time.

I believe it was the election before '88 that I wore a campaign button and was brought into HR and told I had to remove it while on the job. I hated that job. And I'd never been to Colorado.

Bentsen Who? And where are today's buttons? The only one I've seen this year is the "No on 85" worn by a friend in the California Family Planning and Health Commission.

Rock the Vote!

Old Friends From Comedy & The Closet

After a free dinner at Barsac we headed to the Sacred Fools Theater for Bukowsical and were told by the guy who played Bukowski, "You should've told me you were coming, I would've put you on the guest list!"

C'est la vie. It all balances out.

While waiting for the show to start I saw a guy I used to know from our hanging at The Improv days, say 17-20 years ago. This kind of thing happens and I usually ignore it because I figure they wouldn't remember me anyway as they've been busy all that time making money, making babies and often making stars of themselves.

Well, after the show I found myself in the tiny lobby of the theater across from him and he instantly said, "Hey, how are you! I haven't seen you in so long, you look exactly the same!"

As soon as I was sure he was for real I said, "That's funny because on Halloween I dressed as ME, twenty years ago!!

Now, THE REASON I dressed as me twenty years ago, is because we recently visited Ruben at Musso's and once again he fondly remembered and made sure to comment on "that jacket" I used to wear "with all the stuff on it". I told him that I would pull it out of storage and wear it for him on Halloween. I didn't make it to Musso's on Halloween, but I did get the thirty pound jacket out and when I put it on it felt just like yesterday.

Except that "yesterday" I was able to board a plane wearing that jacket but today they wouldn't let me near one. And I think EXACTLY twenty years ago I had a crew cut with chevrons shaved in at the nape...

Coming Soon: Close-ups of said jacket. "Signs of the times".

Day Of The Dead

This is not Toluca Lake where I spent Halloween at a mansion helping to hand out 1400 full size candy bars in less than two hours. But it's not far. Just far left. And very ballsy. I likey. And obviously nobody messes with a Tupac fan.