Forgot to mention earlier that Sunday ruled. Hope this weekend's get-togethers are as fun!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
We like sitting outside at Alcove. After silver lake/Los Feliz/wherever we are shopping, we're going to echo park. Is the lake under construction or something? What should we do there?
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
the lake is under construction, yeah. you can go to elysian park maybe?
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.echoparklake.org/english/index.htm
Lake has been closed for over a year, it's toxic and highly dangerous.
Echo Park you can go record shopping at Origami or you can go to the vegan ice cream place or you can browse Stories and sit out back w/ a beverage and you can get a taco. You could go to Downbeat Cafe or Mohawk Bend. And you can look at the clothes in Luxe De Ville on Sunset. They sell pants that say "PANTS" on them, among other things.
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
have a sazerac at taix!
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Echo Park Film Center store is open today, You could go in and say hi, tell them I sent you.
You could look at analog stereo equipment at Rewind if you're so inclined. <3 that place.
You could go for happy hour at Taix.
xp!
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
oh, re: ned's post, i'm having early birthday drinks at footsie's on saturday, if any LAXors (or out-of-town visitors) wanna swing by!
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Echo Park is also a great neighborhood to walk around and stare at cute houses, like up above Alvarado or along Echo Park Ave itself. You could walk along there, stop for a beverage at Chango and keep walking waaaaaayyyy down the Ave and look at all the nice houses.
and you should definitely walk up to Angelino Heights and look at the Victorians! Almost forgot
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
xp
how early? I might join for a bit. Been a rough week...
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
9ish ("early" is the modifier for "birthday" in that sentence, my actual birthday is on tuesday)
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
ok. I reached out to you via a social network
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
There's usually some fun stuff going on at Machine Project on Alvarado: http://machineproject.com
Secretly good breakfast place, the cafe at the LA Police Academy next to Dodger Stadium: http://www.lapraac.com/cafe.php
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for reminding me about taix--I had been interested in checking that place out. We has prosecco.
Donna r,, my sis and i would love to stop by your bday drinks...seems like its kind of near where we were today?
So sad about the lake...
My sister wants to know, is this a usual temp for this time of year? It's kind of hot.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 7 September 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
This is usual, can be hotter too. Stays like this as late as early November sometimes.
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 7 September 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's pretty much on the other side of the park from taix. and right off the gold line!
here's hoping i get over whatever weird sickness i woke up with today, tho...
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 7 September 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
i will be in echo park tonight, for a show! maybe i will grab a slice at two boots.
― arvo peart (get bent), Friday, 7 September 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
Vik took me on a magical downtown adventure that involved watching the sunset and cocktails from the roof at Perch, the other French dip sandwiches at Cole's, more cocktails at Varnish, an impromptu photo session at the Crocker Club, and finished off with Maxaroke, where he and my sister were a bit too liberal with the delete button during certain of my song picks.
Today is Silver Lake: what's good to do?
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 7 September 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
coffee at intelligentsia, gelato at pazzo across the street.
― arvo peart (get bent), Friday, 7 September 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
i just added another show to my tres-busy september schedule -- six organs of admittance on friday the 21st, at the echo.
― arvo peart (get bent), Friday, 7 September 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
Who else is going to see Faust at Redcat in Oct?
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 September 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
xpost -- really would like to get to that show but probably out of luck...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 September 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
I hope to be there
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 7 September 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Lunching at forage...i think I prefer the vibe in Los Feliz...
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 7 September 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
what's good at comme ca besides the burger? i have a reservation coming up. the moules frites are my french bistro go-to, but there's a bouillabaisse on the menu too!
― arvo peart (get bent), Saturday, 8 September 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
We liked it better over by the reservoir--where we were initially was impossible to park and filled with weirdos. Today brunch in Hancock park (home of sis's prospective new boss.)
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Drinking margaritas at el coyote...gonna head out to Pasadena...and then come to the thing tonite...
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 9 September 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
had a swell party with donna rouge and virginia plain and her sis in cypress park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjejqJVUYOU
― lord sitar and peter gunz (get bent), Sunday, 9 September 2012 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
Such a cool bar! Thanks for inviting me, Donna rouge and happy early bday! Those peanut butter cupcakes were delish. Great to see you again, get bent. Im going to try to connect you and my sis on fb so that she can benefit from your SoCal expertise. Just enough time for breakfast at grand central market before heading back east.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 9 September 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for coming out guys!! i had a fabulous time
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Sunday, 9 September 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ those dudes in today's car chase
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
it is hot
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
seriously though
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
96 degrees in the 90027 which feels low tbqf
― omar little, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
wait, i was wrong. 103??
― omar little, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
99 in the 90012!
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
it's 106 in the valley
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
but autumn starts next week so i gotta bust out the comforter
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
99F on my thermometer.
Autumn is the hottest time of year!
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
We broke down and got a window air conditioning unit. I yank it out and put it in the office on the days I work from home. It is great but pees everywhere. Air conditioning is so great, though. My regular place of work is not air conditioned =(
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
At least it always seems that way. Maybe because the expectation is that it should be getting cooler.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
No, I distinctly remember it being in the mid-high 80s last November and how that blew my mind.
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
we have one of those units you see in offices all over downtown, a unit on wheels with a big tube running to the window. it works well for one room! it's not totally miserable in our house.
― omar little, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
It's times like that when I stop gloating to ppl back home about the weather. I would give anything to spend (just) a couple of minutes in a freezing London rain shower right now.
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah this is just a crappy month for heat. And I have go out in it and water the garden or else.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
people are just miserable this week. i'm hearing lots of cursing.
― lord sitar and peter gunz (get bent), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
any psychic ills fans on this thread? they're playing at the echo december 21.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btIEV7enJaI
― lord sitar and peter gunz (get bent), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
hey guys, big fire burning in the sepulveda pass! or maybe more than one? getty center evacuated.
― omar little, Friday, 14 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
there's another fire at mulholland/coldwater.
― lord sitar and peter gunz (get bent), Friday, 14 September 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
and another one in encino
― omar little, Friday, 14 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
fires in hollywood hills too. thai town smells like smoke right now
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link