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spectralbovine

National Bovine's L.A. Vacation

Jan 10, 2008 23:33

When last we left our intrepid Cow, he was sitting in a Hollywood library reading Midnight's Children and avoiding being shot. What adventures awaited him in Los Angeles? Proceed, dear reader, and find out!

( Saturday: Which features three movies and a dog )

the sarah connor chronicles, not!drake and not!josh, being indian, personal, video games, art, girls, my year(s) of (new) meats, vacation, movies, lj friends, pictures, the 4400, fandom love, i am so awesome, not being a serial killer, pimpings, music, twop, real life friends, family, in a world without threads, john enbom, rice, such is life, food, buffistas

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squaringkarma January 11 2008, 07:42:32 UTC

*high five (and bikini-wearing Sydney Bristow) for random celebrity sighting*

holly96 January 11 2008, 08:02:05 UTC

Of course, then I started to wonder what the purpose of marching bands was in the grand scheme of society and art.
They are important! Very important!

Football is a game, halftime is reality. (Okay, I have that on a t-shirt.)

And, yeah. I was in the Rose Parade my senior year, with my HS marching band (and my sister was also in it a couple years ago). Oh, and the parade route might be five miles, but with the freaking long walk before you even get to the start of the route, it's about 7 miles. And they close off part of one of the freeways for loading/unloading. That's why you saw horses down there. It's actually really weird to be wandering around on the freeway.

spectralbovine January 11 2008, 08:07:23 UTC

I'll bet it is. So cool that you got to be in the Rose Parade!

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spectralbovine January 11 2008, 08:24:07 UTC

And Phil Klemmer is on Chuck, if you didn't know.

Whatever happened to giant sloths, man? What were you THINKING, evolution?!

electricmonk January 11 2008, 08:22:03 UTC

This post was very... familiar. Because:
1) I'm kind of obsessed with The Third Man. Orson Welles! On a ferris wheel! In a sewer! So good.
2) I've been to that cupcake place, I think.
3) I've seen famous people at that same movie theater. (Ed Norton and Salma Hayek. She is very short.)
4) The saber-toothed tiger was exactly what freaked me out about the tar pits as a kid! That and the cavelady. (There is a cavelady, right? Doesn't she turn into a skeleton too?) That whole museum is like, "Here, six-year-olds! Contemplate mortality! You'll turn into bones and your mama will drown in tar!" Fun for all.

spectralbovine January 11 2008, 08:26:00 UTC

1. Aw, you fangirl.
2. HAVE you.
3. Ed Norton and Salma Hayek are way cooler than Chad Faust!
4. I don't remember seeing a cavelady. Oh, mortality.

I thought you were going to say it was familiar because it read like an OD post with pictures.

electricmonk January 11 2008, 08:46:35 UTC

Aw. Well, that too. But where were the seating orders?

I'm pretty sure there used to be a cavelady. Maybe too many children had existential crises and they removed her.

tibicina January 11 2008, 09:47:07 UTC

I remember the cave lady. Though now I can't remember if you pressed the button to turn her into a skeleton or it was just that as you walked past she turned into a skeleton. It was very similar to the tiger, really. Do they still have the thing with the handle to demonstrate just how hard it is to pull something out of the tar?

Also, on a random note, should you feel the need to go to the Tar Pits or LACMA again (though maybe it was because so many people had the day off and thus had used up all the parking), there's a parking lot behind the Page museum which is for the Page museum, the tar pits, and LACMA. It usually has spaces available when I've been there.

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tibicina January 11 2008, 09:25:34 UTC

Sorry. I hadn't given you the church address proper because that's on Colorado and, thus, you couldn't get to it. (Or you could, if you fought your way through the crowd, but then there would be a large chain-link fence between you and anything useful.) I should have told you it was Pasadena Presbyterian Church. (While we are the oldest congregation in Pasadena, we're not actually called 'first' anything.) The church campus ends up being sort of oddly shaped, as it's two opposite corners of the block and the center of the block, but the other two corners are taken up with commercial properties which aren't ours.

Also, arguably, I know you through Mars, who is a college friend. And/or Seanan who I may have originally met online, but who probably ceased counting as an online friend about the point she flew out to Minnesota to help me drive my stuff from there back to California. Plus, I'd met you in person at ComiCon, even if that was fairly brief.

spectralbovine January 11 2008, 16:07:44 UTC

Also, arguably, I know you through Mars, who is a college friend.
Oh, I don't think I knew that! Neat.

serrana January 11 2008, 19:02:02 UTC

And Rebecca and I were friends in high school, so...geekdom is a tiny, tiny place.

Speaking of which, if it makes you feel better, it was years before I realized that Buffistas even came female. Because the one I cohabitate with isn't. *GRIN* It was actually kind of a shock; I'd mentally classed b.org with Ars Technica and Slashdot.

And locals refer to Rebecca's church as "the big concrete thing with the dirty windows." *ducks, runs, giggling*

spectralbovine January 11 2008, 19:13:20 UTC

And Rebecca and I were friends in high school
Interrobang?!

Speaking of which, if it makes you feel better, it was years before I realized that Buffistas even came female.
Ha. That's weird. I don't know what the percentage of male Buffistas is, but it's probably just as low as, say, the percentage of males on TWoP or in online fandom in general.

Because the one I cohabitate with isn't.
Who's that?

And locals refer to Rebecca's church as "the big concrete thing with the dirty windows."
Hee!

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