Comments | rikoshi: Rikoshi Kisaragi in the City of Angels

rikoshi

Rikoshi Kisaragi in the City of Angels

Jul 29, 2009 09:57

As some of you already know, I'm on business down in Los Angeles for three weeks doing some off-site voice recording work for one of my titles. While it kind of sucks to be away from home and friends for that long, the work itself is at least fun (and gasp, actually kind of rewarding). Also, on the plus side, I get to fly back up to the Bay Area ( Read more... )

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athelind July 29 2009, 18:10:19 UTC

Oh, man. House of Pies. Now, THERE'S a Fond Childhood Memory; I didn't realize they were still around. They used to be a decent-sized chain that was essentially the Baskin-Robbins of Pie, but they kinda vanished by, oh, the mid-'70s.

Do they still have that logo of a Greek letter "pi" in a house?

rikoshi July 29 2009, 18:13:29 UTC

You know, I don't recall having seen any logos clearly enough. Sorry.

But man, that was a mighty tasty piece of pie. And really, if your establishment is the "House of" something, you probably oughtta be pretty good at that something.

athelind July 29 2009, 22:15:36 UTC

They do have that logo behind the register.

-D

dar_han July 29 2009, 20:25:27 UTC

Hah! Your driving problems can't touch me! I have a driving license but can't drive for the life of me! Hahahah...
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wait, that... can't be right.

rikoshi July 29 2009, 20:30:50 UTC

Sounds like you'd fit right in here in California. :)

dar_han July 30 2009, 08:25:37 UTC

Heh, not sure... I only got my driver's license on the third try, and only because they didn't monitor my stress levels :P
Last time I drove, I almost gave my mother and aunt a stroke, in addition to confirming my distaste and lack of skill for driving.

bohor July 30 2009, 07:26:42 UTC

Driving in L.A. definitely requires a different mentality. It's not like driving in San Francisco where you have to turn off analytic thought and drive on pure survival instinct. It's almost the opposite: do exactly what everybody else is doing at speeds nobody should be doing it. I've driven in just about every major city in the U.S., and Los Angeles isn't like anywhere else. They drive like never having rain means never having responsibility. The DMV could reduce the written test so that the only question is "Are you from Los Angeles? A - No; B - Fail."

I dunno...Having grown up in the Bay Area, the inherent disdain for the basin is rooted deep in my soul. It's a natural rivalry: People from San Francisco tend to rag on people from Los Angeles for being self-centered airheads living in a filth-infested cesspool of narcissism and delusion, while people from Los Angeles hate people from San Francisco for pointing that out to everybody else.