― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 14 March 2004 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 14 March 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 14 March 2004 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 March 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)
How about the Boardwalk? I like walking down there. You can rent a bike or roller blads somewhere near there can't you?
I like San Diego. It's nice down there. How about Hillcrest? I've always gone there. If you can, get Phil's BBQ. It might be crowded. Try going in the afternoon istead of at night. It's good. They've tried to kick them out because of all the noise the people waiting in line make at night and the smoke that comes out of the building. See if he's still there. For some reason, he's been able to expand the place maybe three times the last time I can remember.
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 14 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)
F. L. Wright in the Hollywood Hills,Sharon Tate Murder house,Things like that. Theme driving.Lots to see in L.A., lots to miss. Easy to spend too much time in route between one or the other.
― Skottie, Sunday, 14 March 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― twelve, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.serve.com/sosorgan/
― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)
Also, you must have a Tommy's chili-cheeseburger from the Tommy's on Beverly/Rampart. It's like, the law, or something.
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Nobody reads what I post :(
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh, I can tell you all about Coronado (sez the guy who spent about ten years of his life there on and off while growing up).
I have seen and believed!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)
And there's a great Brazilian restaurant just down Venice Bl.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)
I had a problem after going to the Tommy's in Beverly Center once.
Was it ... a dirty problem?
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)
There's a couple of cool things currently at the local art museums too. LACMA has a big Diane Arbus retrospective going on and the Norton Simon in Pasadena is always worth seeing.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― dan (dan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― dan (dan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)
I really like Moonshadows, although they've started to have a DJ on some afternoons which can be hit or miss. Also it's started to attract some euro-trashy types as opposed to the older tacky-money types that I enjoyed watching. But no matter who's there, it's still an amazing place to sit and watch the sun set over the water while having a Chardonnay and eating hor d'oeuvres. Another semi-cheesy place to have a sunset drink is at Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica. The bar/lounge is really an amazing room to spend an hour or two in.
Dean, I'm totally going to be at Luomo, you going?
And My Tommyburger problem seems to have been isolated, but I'm a bit reluctant to go to any of them except the original.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)
You totally have to elaborate on the tommyproblem though. You can't tease us like that.
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)
should read:
"but if you don't care about the view"
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)
and I had a mild case of food poisoning after eating at Tommy's once. I think I had the Chicken sandwich (my first mistake was avoiding the obvious thing to order).
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― gothnut bitchus (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)
When is this again?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 19 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 19 March 2004 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)
That better not be the highlight of your trip, Adam;>
:) Errrr, I should also mention we spent a great deal to get a pair of Prince tickets for the Staples Center show this weekend, so it wouldn't be the highlight!
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)
Standard vs. Argyle FITE!
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)
Haha, I really don't know what it is about making arrangements for trips to LA that brings out the Patrick Bateman in me. I'm really a very quiet, well-adjusted person! Just ask Ned!
Standard works out at about $10 a night cheaper but I just started a new, well-paid job, and I have lots of overtime coming up and it's my birthday...*pauses to think of more excuses, clicks "submit" on the Argyle site, immediately feels crushingly guilty*
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)
ferry and water taxi info: http://www.sdro.com/sdhe/tours.htm
restaurants - in the more upscale range ($15-20), I'd recommend Chilangos (University near 3rd, in the aforementioned Hillcrest neighborhood) or if you wanted to go the Spanish tapas route, Picasso (around the corner on 4th) is also very good.
And I've heard Hamburger Mary's has just opened up a Mex place called Margarita Mary's somewhere in Hillcrest. No idea what the food will be like, but I imagine the atmosphere will be a pansexual party. With tacos!
― chëshy f cät, Friday, 7 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)
And the Hillcrest area, around 5th and university, is indeed the most walkable, pleasant area in San Diego... Avoid the Horton plaza unless you want to drown in god fearing mall rats.
Also Lyra, if you can get a ride out there, I highly recommend going to La Jolla, just for the waterfront... the retail area there is about as snooty as you can get (Imagine Kirkland, WA's downtown basically)
It looks like we'll be done in SoCal the same weekend! I'll be in L.A. on the 14th and 15th this month..
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)
PNW invades SoCal!
I'm not looking to venture too far on this trip, but if this is fun, I may go again later in the summer for longer than 3 days. Just bought my sunscreen today- I'm remembering Australia & the sunburn I got there... am afraid I'm going to be beet red by Thursday. I'm too acclimated to the NW weak sun, I think.
― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 8 May 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)
Los Angeles, then. Is it still there?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― youn, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)
It would definitely be difficult for older people to get around without some kind of wheelchair or motorized thing. I wouldn't be surprised if they have something like that you could borrow or rent though. You should call and find out.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)
― Quintana, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)
― def zep (calstars), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)
― jodias of sunhillow (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)
i really gotta read that book. i think there's a movie version coming out?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)
― i'm from hollywood, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)
― ath (ath), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)
On the other hand Robert Towne wrote and directed it, so I have mixed feelings...
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)
I'm spending next week on the UCLA campus. Any particular suggestions?
― toby, Thursday, 20 March 2008 04:34 (eighteen years ago)
Some Westwood suggestions...
Stan's Doughnuts: http://www.stansdoughnuts.com/ Diddy Riese Cookies: http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/44293/ Novel Cafe: http://www.yelp.com/biz/novel-cafe-westwood (good college student grub. great chicken tortilla soup!) Thank You Mart: http://www.thankyoumart.com/ (best vintage store in town) Sunin: http://www.sunnin.com/ (oustanding Lebanese food) Sak's Teryaki: http://www.yelp.com/biz/saks-teriyaki-los-angeles (inexpensive rice/noodle bowls. Skip Noodle Planet, and go here instead) Roll Inn: http://www.yelp.com/biz/roll-inn-los-angeles (ridiculously cheap & yummy sandwiches) The Mystery Bookstore: http://www.mystery-bookstore.com (great bookstore specializing in mystery/detective stuff) The bookstore at the Hammer Museum is pretty good for obscure art books: http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:25 (eighteen years ago)
If you've got time for public transport and/or are renting a car then there's the Museum Of Jurassic Technology on Venice Bl.
Fap?
― felicity, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:44 (eighteen years ago)
Also downtown sample sale run next Friday guys? Cash only.
― felicity, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:46 (eighteen years ago)
Wow, thanks! That looks like a very helpful list.
― toby, Friday, 21 March 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)
Go to THE GETTY and see the CALIFORNIA VIDEO show, which I interned on!
― admrl, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)
I am going to the Getty next Friday, I will check that out!
― toby, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:14 (seventeen years ago)
Going to LA for a couple days this week and staying with some friends in Silverlake. We're going to check out the Turrell and Varda exhibits at LACMA and maybe the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Any other suggestions? We're particularly wary of spending our stay stuck in traffic so tips on fun restaurants/bars/thrift stores not too far from our home base would be appreciated.
― Fetchboy, Monday, 16 December 2013 07:01 (twelve years ago)
the turrell is really cool -- check out the calder and the hockney while you're at lacma. also, i haven't seen it yet, but there's a tom of finland/bob mizer retrospective at the pacific design center (not too hard to get to from silver lake).
― comics on fire (get bent), Monday, 16 December 2013 07:28 (twelve years ago)
Clifton's Cafeteria is still closed in Downtown L.A., but maybe head down there for a French Dip at Phillipe's (http://www.philippes.com/) then walk over to Olvera Street and check out the Angels Flight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Flight). Shouldn't hit traffic heading in that direction from where you'll be and it's a pretty different L.A. afternoon!
― Walter Galt, Monday, 16 December 2013 07:39 (twelve years ago)
when you're there, go to grand central market and get a pupusa!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/saritas-pupuseria-los-angeles
― comics on fire (get bent), Monday, 16 December 2013 07:42 (twelve years ago)
Pescatarian so can't do the french dip, but Angels Flight and pupusas sounds like a great detour!!Thanks for the tips!
― Fetchboy, Monday, 16 December 2013 17:07 (twelve years ago)