before i show you my favorite LAT blog post of the day

lemme say hi Chris!

ok. heres the story that i wish we had headlined “Bad Ass” but you cant have everything

“Marijuana smuggled inside donkey statues”

In a case that could cast suspicion on lawn ornaments everywhere, authorities say they have busted a drug ring that used ceramic donkey statues to smuggle $1.5 million worth of marijuana into the Los Angeles area.

At least 15 people have been arrested in connection with the scheme to ship 1,800 pounds of pot in 200 concrete burros discovered last month in a shipping container at the Port of Long Beach. The shipment came from Mexico and was being sent to a fictitious business in Fontana.

The marijuana was found hidden inside the hollowed-out decorative lawn statues, which stand 3 feet tall and weigh 100 pounds, said Immigration Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice.

read the whole thing here by one of our ace reporters Andrew Blankstein

its hump day

so i took the subway. it was nice.

today i will go home at a reasonable hour and run around my neighborhood cuz im a disgusting pig. i will eat salad for lunch and the souls of the righteous for dinner. i will break up with the girl who told me i couldnt blog because hello how do you think she met me? i will then watch Lost and rejoice.

had the most delicious sushi last night that i didnt pay for. drank and enjoyed pleasant company.

before that i found myself in a discussion regarding the Green Movement. and the reason Al Gore needs to make himself a bigger player in the national discussion is because some very intelligent people think its all hype. and if thats what some movers and shakers in LA, and cool ones at that, think those thoughts, then i wonder how its playing in Peoria.

unrelated: our Daily Dish blog has a really funny post about the Guac Bowl that took place Sunday. written by my former Film Editor of LAist, Elina Shatkin, this post hit the front page of Digg this morning. which is always nice.