 |
|
|
|
|
|
Off-Topic
> Another Reason I Love LA!
|
|
New Topic |
Post Reply
|
| 51. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:29 AM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
- Gieve me de mony or I shuut.
- Sorry, I can't understand what you're saying.
- I nied de mony t' pay de axnt elimnator.
- What?
*Bang*
|
| 52. Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:00 AM |
| Raymond |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:1664
View Profile
Send PM
|
Mostly, it is the decadent, land of broken dreams that has me attracted to L A . Architecture, freeways, hot summers, all the other features are secondary. It is the dream machine with astronomical odds on success that I find magnetic. Oh, and Booth is from the British Isles, I'd wager. The dental care philosophy tips the balance for me !
|
| 53. Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:22 AM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
| QUOTE: Oh, and Booth is from the British Isles, I'd wager. The dental care philosophy tips the balance for me ! |
It's not so much a dental care philosophy as a "not subject myself to unnecessary discomfort" philosophy.
Having all four wisom teeth out at once seems severe, unless they're all impacted (which my lower right was, it grew horizontally).
And no.
|
| 54. Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:40 AM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
According to Geoff the answer to Where in the World is Booth? is not an unknown. Many times, he says, it has been cited on various threads. Probably one of those Lynch threads that I never read though... I like the mystery. But please, Booth, be honest when we hone in on the right hemisphere or continent, okay? Canada? Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 55. Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:45 AM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
No.
|
| 56. Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:59 PM |
| Raymond |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:1664
View Profile
Send PM
|
Dental studies have shown that if one wisdom tooth comes in crooked or inpacted with decay, the odds are 94.4 % that the remaining 3 wisdom teeth will have a similar crooked/impacted developement. The American school of thought is to remove all four unaligned/infected/impacted teeth together. That is one side ( two teeth) done on one sitting or two sessions- one per side to safely remove the offending, outmoded teeth. Get them all removed-in two sessins if you prefer and be done with these natural selection castaways. Take good regular care of your teeth and avoid an Amy Winehose occlusion down the road.
|
| 57. Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:19 PM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
Both of my "uppers" grew in straight. They cause no discomfort, even after the one I had removed broke in half, I felt no pain. My lower left tooth may be screwy, but to know that I would have to look at an x-ray.
As for now; if it's not broken, I'm not fixing it.
So would that be an interesting new topic? "Post pictures of your teeth".
Let's start with the aforementioned Amy Winehouse.
What's wrong wiv those teef?
|
| 58. Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:12 PM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
USA???
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 59. Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:23 PM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
This is a mystery that will only lead to disappointment when solved.
|
| 60. Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:56 PM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
QUOTE:This is a mystery that will only lead to disappointment when solved.
|
It's probably Los Angeles, right?
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 61. Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:53 PM |
| Raymond |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:1664
View Profile
Send PM
|
Even though your remaining wisdom teeth are not causing immediate acute problems, I would have them all removed Booth. Nip the wisdom problem in the bud and be done with it. By the way, what does your dentist recommend? Give the wisdom teeth the heave ho now, don't wait for an emergency with serious dangerous complications compromising other currently healthy teeth.
|
| 62. Friday, June 29, 2007 1:32 PM |
| Raymond |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:1664
View Profile
Send PM
|
O K Booth, you will only address a wisdom tooth if it is in pieces or is causing acute pain. After all, they are your chompers. Good luck. Let's see, an old saw , that would fit this situation. How about " an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This is my last post on the subject, Have a good one.
|
| 63. Friday, July 6, 2007 9:19 PM |
| Raymond |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:1664
View Profile
Send PM
|
Why have wisdom teeth removed? Why does Dr. Corbin recommend wisdom teeth be removed? Wisdom teeth usually appear in young adults between the ages of 15 and 25. Some wisdom teeth will grow in normally; others are "impacted." An impacted wisdom tooth allows no room for the rest of your teeth to grow. Dr. Corbin uses X-rays to evaluate whether your wisdom teeth have any chance of coming in properly and can advise you on the best time to have wisdom teeth removal.
When there is no room for wisdom teeth to come in properly or when the teeth haven't reached their permanent location by age 25, then they're considered to be impacted wisdom teeth. Dr. Corbin recommends removing the tooth early, before wisdom tooth and other dental complications can develop.
For more information about wisdom tooth removal in Oyster Bay, contact North Shore Dental Arts LLP today. I said I was finished with this subject Booth, so maybe I lied.  With your history of a broken wisdom tooth and the removal of another wisdom tooth- you sound like a candidate ( as are the vast majority of people ) for the full tilt removal of all 4 wisdom teeth ASAP my friend.
|
| 64. Monday, August 27, 2007 10:54 AM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
Wouldn't you know Leopard Man walks down Melrose a day after my shopping spree. I went to to the area to buy some of these...
Being a native Tarzanian, I'd have appreciated the sight, but no. I missed him. How perfect is the arrest photo with the Billy Bob Thorton movie poster in the background? Wonder if he jaywalked or something. He must have broken the law in some way. Animal cruelty? It has been awfully hot to subject a cat to the midday sun.
I love LA!
Susan PETA has yet to claim responsibility 
We were just noting how it's a bit of a wackier day than normal in Defamerland--what with the Gay Pride float oracles, acupuncture needles on the red carpet, and Swedish golf cart joy rides--when what should appear in our inbox but a series of truly glorious and mind-boggling photographs, taken not but an hour ago on Melrose by a highly placed operative. Yes, that is a completely naked man, strolling down the street with a leopard flung around his neck. Our witness explains:
He stopped for all traffic signals, took good care of the cat in the intersections etc. He was so nonchalant about it. The rest of his report, along with the uncensored photos and a shot of the arrest, after the jump: There were a lot of LA traffic cops trying to get a handle on the situation - figuring out what to do. Then at melrose and la brea the cops came in and arrested him. Not sure what happened with the cat but the guy did put up a little bit of a fight. All the cops, traffic cops, people were shaking their heads - like only in LA. People were cheering me on to get the pics. Our hats are off to the photographer, who manages to simultaneously evoke cave paintings, Michelangelo's David, and the T.R. Knight Advocate cover in his artful studies--and, of course, to the mysterious urban Tarzan, who threw a ray of leopard-spotted sunlight on what should have by all accounts been an uneventful August Wednesday. 
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 65. Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:06 PM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
We've been experiencing fall here in LA even if the midwest is going through a heat wave. Weird and wonderful! Highs in the 60s with a pleasant breeze. You can even wear a sweater! And socks too. Oh, I'm loving it though I still don't think we've gone through the last heat wave before Thanksgiving. So that's been really nice. But I had this other LA experience Friday. I saw this.  Well, not really that exact image. Someone else took this photo back when Angelyne, Hollywood Icon, was running for governor of California in the famous recall election of 2003, I guess it was. The one where the more famous Hollywood Icon, Ahnold, prevailed. But here's what I did photograph with my shoddy cellphone camera... 
...but only after I ran directly into the scary face of Angelyne in Long's Drugstore in Tarzana! She was wearing a micro-mini skirt with little stretchie tabs down the sides. Between the tabs = flesh. A patterned low-cut top of some kind. And little poufy pink things on either side of the top of her head securing the cutesy li'l partial pigtails. Heads turned as she walked through the store. Of course I wasn't so brazen as to snap a photo of her in the store. But when I went out to the parking lot and saw her pink corvette, I had to get a shot. The left rear bumper (unseen from this angle) has a dent and a large smudge of paint from what must have been a recent collision with a red car. Who is Angelyne? Who knows? When I moved to Los Angeles in 1970, she was famous for having this large billboard at the Laurel Canyon end of the Sunset Strip. Maybe it just said, "Angelyne" and a contact number. The story was that a rich boyfriend was trying to help her become a star. That was 37 years ago. She is nothing if not consistent. But very scary. I saw her once before a couple years ago at a Michaels Arts & Crafts store. So odd. So hard to look away. So I thought I'd share. And I still do love LA! Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 66. Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:44 AM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/greater-los-angeles.html
QUOTE:
I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I'd move there again in a heartbeat.
There are three great cities in the United States: there's Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York – in that order.
I love Boston; I even love Denver; I like Miami; I think Washington DC is habitable; but Los Angeles is Los Angeles. You can't compare it to Paris, or to London, or to Rome, or to Shanghai. You can interestingly contrast it to those cities, sure, and Los Angeles even comes out lacking; but Los Angeles is still Los Angeles. No matter what you do in L.A., your behavior is appropriate for the city. Los Angeles has no assumed correct mode of use. You can have fake breasts and drive a Ford Mustang – or you can grow a beard, weigh 300 pounds, and read Christian science fiction novels. Either way, you're fine: that's just how it works. You can watch Cops all day or you can be a porn star or you can be a Caltech physicist. You can listen to Carcass – or you can listen to Pat Robertson. Or both.
That's how we dooz it.
L.A. is the apocalypse: it's you and a bunch of parking lots. No one's going to save you; no one's looking out for you. It's the only city I know where that's the explicit premise of living there – that's the deal you make when you move to L.A.
The city, ironically, is emotionally authentic.
It says: no one loves you; you're the least imporant person in the room; get over it.
What matters is what you do there. And maybe that means renting Hot Fuzz and eating too many pretzels; or maybe that means driving a Prius out to Malibu and surfing with Daryl Hannah as a means of protesting something; or maybe that means buying everything Fredric Jameson has ever written and even underlining significant passages as you visit the Westin Bonaventura. Maybe that just means getting into skateboarding, or into E!, or into Zen, Kabbalah, and Christian mysticism; or maybe you'll plunge yourself into gin-fueled all night Frank Sinatra marathons – or you'll lift weights and check email every two minutes on your Blackberry and watch old Bruce Willis films.
Who cares?
Literally no one cares, is the answer. No one cares. You're alone in the world.
L.A. is explicit about that.
If you can't handle a huge landscape made entirely from concrete, interspersed with 24-hour drugstores stocked with medications you don't need, then don't move there.
It's you and a bunch of parking lots.
You'll see Al Pacino in a traffic jam, wearing a stocking cap; you'll see Cameron Diaz in the check-out line at Whole Foods, giggling through a mask of reptilian skin; you'll see Harry Shearer buying bulk shrimp.
The whole thing is ridiculous. It's the most ridiculous city in the world – but everyone who lives there knows that. No one thinks that L.A. "works," or that it's well-designed, or that it's perfectly functional, or even that it makes sense to have put it there in the first place; they just think it's interesting. And they have fun there.
And the huge irony is that Southern California is where you can actually do what you want to do; you can just relax and be ridiculous. In L.A. you don't have to be embarrassed by yourself. You're not driven into a state of endless, vaguely militarized self-justification by your xenophobic neighbors.
You've got a surgically pinched, thin Michael Jackson nose? You've got a goatee and a trucker hat? You've got a million-dollar job and a Bentley? You've got to be at work at the local doughnut shop before 6am? Or maybe you've got 16 kids and an addiction to Yoo-Hoo – who cares?
It doesn't matter.
Los Angeles is where you confront the objective fact that you mean nothing; the desert, the ocean, the tectonic plates, the clear skies, the sun itself, the Hollywood Walk of Fame – even the parking lots: everything there somehow precedes you, even new construction sites, and it's bigger than you and more abstract than you and indifferent to you. You don't matter. You're free. In Los Angeles you can be standing next to another human being but you may as well be standing next to a geological formation. Whatever that thing is, it doesn't care about you. And you don't care about it. Get over it. You're alone in the world. Do something interesting.
Do what you actually want to do – even if that means reading P.D. James or getting your nails done or re-oiling car parts in your backyard.
Because no one cares.
In L.A. you can grow Fabio hair and go to the Arclight and not be embarrassed by yourself. Every mode of living is appropriate for L.A. You can do what you want.
And I don't just mean that Los Angeles is some friendly bastion of cultural diversity and so we should celebrate it on that level and be done with it; I mean that Los Angeles is the confrontation with the void. It is the void. It's the confrontation with astronomy through near-constant sunlight and the inhuman radiative cancers that result. It's the confrontation with geology through plate tectonics and buried oil, methane, gravel, tar, and whatever other weird deposits of unknown ancient remains are sitting around down there in the dry and fractured subsurface. It's a confrontation with the oceanic; with anonymity; with desert time; with endless parking lots.
And it doesn't need humanizing. Who cares if you can't identify with Los Angeles? It doesn't need to be made human. It's better than that.
|
|
| 67. Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:13 PM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
Had to return to that blog, Booth. Just read it to my husband. We both loved it. I was telling him how that blog reminded me of our son's producer. I won't explain it here but to say he is comfortable in his tattooed skin.
The blogger left out alot of the good stuff though. The mountains, the canyons, and some of the hidden areas within the metropolis. There are secret areas where people go to dump bodies in the middle of the night and those same places by day are part of the miles of hiking areas in the Santa Monica Mountains. None of this was mentioned but I'm supposing he didn't spend enough time here. On the flip side, there is a fantastic auto junk yard that may be where the Dude's car ended up in The Big Lebowski. Or this one I know may be a different one. There are seemingly acres of photogenic wrecks. Many cities have junk yards, it's true. But ours are bigger and better, I'll bet. Today it was 86 degrees. The sky is clear. The mountains stretch out in the distance clear as a bell. One of those lovely fall days. A little warm maybe but now, at 5:00 pm, as the sun goes down it is cooling off. Overnight we'll have temps in the 50s. My heart swells with the love and affection I feel for this town. Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 68. Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:40 PM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
| QUOTE: There are secret areas where people go to dump bodies in the middle of the night and those same places by day are part of the miles of hiking areas in the Santa Monica Mountains. |
So unsuspecting hikers find bodies all the time?
|
| 69. Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:19 PM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
Yeah, that's usually how it happens. A hiker, a dog-walker, or some pedestrian finds a body. It's not really "all the time." But those canyons and the Angeles Crest Forest mountain roads (where Jacques Renault's cabin was located) have had their fair share of body dumpings. You're not going to hurl a corpse out of the car onto Sunset Blvd, you know. check it out. And this... Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 70. Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:40 PM |
| Booth |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
8/20/2006
Posts:4388
View Profile
Send PM
|
| QUOTE: You're not going to hurl a corpse out of the car onto Sunset Blvd, you know. |
But officer, look in my car. There are way too many corpses in there. I had to get rid of one, I couldn't breathe.
|
| 71. Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:38 PM |
| JVSCant |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:2870
View Profile
Send PM
|
That blog entry basically made me want to move to L.A. I'd be an illegal immigrant, though...
 
|
| 72. Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:56 AM |
| nuart |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/18/2005
Posts:7632
View Profile
Send PM
|
Yep, the Grossman Burn Center again! It is so lovable. This time it's in the news because of Adam Sandler (not one of the reasons I love LA, though he seems like a good guy). The action at one of filmdom's most famous backlots became all too real for a while. Two stuntmen were hospitalized Monday, after an accident on the Universal Studios set of Adam Sandler's new comedy left them with first- and third-degree burns, according to Los Angeles County fire officials. One man suffered burns to his hands and legs, while the other sustained injuries to his back. Both were taken to the nearby Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, where one is listed in serious yet stable condition and the other is listed as stable. Neither man was identified by the studio or hospital. "Our thoughts right now are with the stuntmen and their families, and we hope that each recovers swiftly from their injuries," Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group spokesman Steve Elzer said in a statement. According to Los Angeles' KCAL-TV, Sandler visited the stuntmen in the hospital Monday evening. L.A. County fire inspector Sam Padilla said no fire was reported at the scene and that the incident is being investigated. While it's unclear whether the stuntmen were injured while working or because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, it is known that the crew was at Universal filming scenes for You Don't Mess with the Zohan. The comedy, due in theaters June 6, stars Sandler as an Israeli secret agent who fakes his own death so he can start anew as a hairdresser in New York. Henry Winkler and Rob Schneider costar. Sandler, Judd Apatow and Robert Smigel all collaborated on the script, which apparently was ready to roll before the current writers' strike kicked off Nov. 5. Columbia has included You Don't Mess with the Zohan on its list of 2008 films for which production will not be affected by the walkout.
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
|
| 73. Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:38 AM |
| LogicHat |
RE: Another Reason I Love LA! |
Member Since
12/19/2005
Posts:2335
View Profile
Send PM
|
QUOTE:Sandler, Judd Apatow and Robert Smigel all collaborated on the script, which apparently was ready to roll before the current writers' strike kicked off Nov. 5. Columbia has included You Don't Mess with the Zohan on its list of 2008 films for which production will not be affected by the walkout.
|
Damn, that's really unfortunate. Oh yeah, the injured stuntmen thing was bad too.
1991: Barton Fink, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
Logic Hat Online- logichat.org
|
|
New Topic |
Post Reply
|
Page 3 of 3 ::
<< |
1 | 2 | 3 |
>>
|
|
Off-Topic
> Another Reason I Love LA!
|
| Users viewing this Topic (1) |
| 1 Guest |
Powered by JorkelBB 2006 (Version 1.0b)
|
|
|
