* Another trip to LA last week. Gray and dreary weather. I wasn't nearly as enamored this time around. Celebrity sightings: Julianne Moore on the way out, and Mary Kate Olsen on the way back. She got off the plane in LAX with her truly hulking bodyguard, wearing black leggings and huge sunglasses, and she looked like a fashionable spider. I was taken to dinner at Capo in Santa Monica, and it was okay, though there were some service missteps that would never happen in a white-tablecloth restaurant in New York: The bread was placed on the table as soon as we sat down, the waiter felt it necessary to advise us of which dishes on the menu were his favorites (as if I care), and my plate was cleared before my companion was finished eating. With entrees rounding out at $40+, Capo needs to button up its service to justify the prices. I've eaten in 4 restaurants in LA now, and for some reason I get the impression that everyone in them wishes they were someone. My dining companion told me the guy in the corner was one of the most powerful agents in Hollywood. Again, do I care? I guess that's what makes me a New Yorker. I was more impressed to sit next to Charlie Rose at Nobu than to see poor Jeff Conaway at The Ivy.
* On the flip side of it, I have two words: Business Class. I probably could have lit a cigarette and they would have let me smoke.
* I find it horrifying and uplifting at the same time that Lorin Maazel accomplished more diplomacy in one night in North Korea than Bush has been able to accomplish in 7 years.
* I think many things about people who read The New York Post on the subway, and funnily enough, none of them are, "Wow, you must be really smart."
* If those cheap Glad plastic containers are disposable, how come no one ever throws them out? By the same token, you only get out the Sharpie for the $6 Rubbermaids, don't you?
* Perez Hilton is living proof that there is indeed work for ugly people in the entertainment industry.
* Some of my secret vices: blue Kool-Aid, Raspberry Zingers, Orbitzgames Island Hop, America's Next Top Model
* Does anyone else find it interesting that even though everyone thinks the Clinton camp leaked the Obama photo (by now I shouldn't have to tell you what Obama photo), the first place it showed up was on Drudge?
* I wonder: Why is there a "d" in "fridge," but not in "refrigerator"?
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LA is weird and so are the people in it. I'm glad it's not really part of California.
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