so shes lonely. and bored.

so last night i drove over to the wesssside and we ate at her favorite sushi joint. a little place called kanpai, on lincoln sorta near the airport.

because LA is amazing, you never know if the killer place is gonna be on a fancy street or in a strip mall or next to a quiznos. odds are it can be in any of those locales so dont get faked out if you ever come here.

not only does the joint have tvs everywhere (if you ever get bored of looking at karisa) but we usually end up with this waiter, peter, who is so knowledgeable its ridiculous. thats good for people like me who dont know squat about raw fish, and also for people like karisa who knows everything about anything.

dont ask me what we ate cuz i couldnt tell you. all i know is it was all delicious and we each drank a big bottle of saki and a big bottle of beer and dreamed little dreams of karisa teaching the world how to look as good as she does via youtube in the near future, so stay tuned.

one way she does it is by training for an upcoming triathlon. bitch seriously looks better than ive ever seen her and i was down with her back when she was working the hawaiian tropic circuit (pictured, left) when she actually looked hawaiian.

tonight mr duane storey comes to america. looks like we might go see rosa linda and her friends. on the way we might hafta stop by a bar because deja vu doesnt have booze and thats not very american.

there are many freedoms that we lack here, canadians, which im not very proud of, but i have a feeling that if either barry obama or the straight talk express wins they’ll give us our freedoms back.

because the first guy, being half black understands The Struggle and the other dude after being a POW understands how important freedoms are. so stay tuned on that shit too.

and omg its good and will only get gooder as we go

this is what some la times blogs were up to

LA Now, which is about what’s happening in LA (primarily) and then the state, had 41 different posts about the first day of same-sex marriages. Most of these weren’t just little posts originally written by other news sources, they were real news items written by a variety of our hard-working reporters from the Metro Desk.

I can confidently say that no other news source covered the opening day of gay marriage in California better than the LA Times’ LA Now. Be it from the marine who got married “i’m a marine, i like to do things first” to George Takai finally making an honest man of his beau Brad. LA Now had posts from Oakland to across the bay in San Francisco, to Bakersfield to San Diego and dozens of locations in between. We even documented right-wing radio shock jocker Dennis Prager equating same sex marriage to polygamy… somehow. Congrats to all.

Countdown to Crawford, our newest political blog about the last days of the Bush Administration, debuted with a bang. Despite being overshadowed by both the gay marriage story, and the Lakers in game six of the finals, “the bush blog” was in our Top 5 of blogs and had dozens of heated comments.

Speaking of the Laker blog – the Kamenetzky brothers’ live blogging of the game attracted over 900 comments. they did a killer job this year not just writing about the Lakers, but also creating video, hosting chats, and moderating their comments. all while also maintaining our Dodger blog.

The Technology blog – which launched last month was on Digg yesterday, and might become our most popular overlooked blog. Currently its our #3 most popular blog and yet because it’s not about politics, the real estate spiral, the wackiness of LA, or the Lakers, i feel like it sorta misses out on a lot of the love that it deserves. they have quietly put together a great team of business writers over there who are doing the group blog thing beautifully. this post about Facebook’s “foe finder”, was a tad more light-hearted than their normal items, which made it one of my faves yesterday.

This afternoon we’re launching a new blog, which also has a very good shot of being a top ten blog if all goes well. more on that later.

photo credit: krista the hotti

but for those of you who want to keep an eye on the president,

you know, the most powerful man on the planet,

the LA Times now has a blog just about the Bush Administration

latimes.com/bush

and candy, of course.

ashanti sang the national anthem, probably as well as one could possibly do it

the dunk that ended it all:

tshirts of the day:

these fellas didnt have a lot to cheer about today, and the fans around them were relentless

finals backpacks?

hi busblog fans:

hi loser:

what happens when the lakers win:

free tacos!
special thanks to my buddy chris who flowed me the ticket. i owe you!

and yes im a good luck charm

more good news: looks like the Sirius / XM merger will happen

looks like the Associated Press wants to be seen as completely clueless to bloggers

looks like the pants has a trampoline.

looks like erin is still reading good books

looks like the busblog is being linked on a blog hosted at the blogbus, and i think this is what busblog looks like in chinese characters: 又是一个碰巧

and yes we did meet some pretty cute busblog fans (photos later)

yes i love life.

at Staples ever

and in an hour we will be there again for their last home game of this season

the fact that it happens to be game five of the nba finals is just a happy accident

although a lot of my excitement for the home team trickled away when Shaq was let go

who am i to refuse finals tickets with my longtime isla vista bro?

plus plaschke, despite what welch says, wrote a good piece about how real fans arent making it into Staples for the finals

“Late in Thursday’s game, my wife whispered to me that the woman sitting next to her had no idea what was going on,” said Michael Balzary, a season-ticket holder better known as the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Flea.”

well, at least two fans who do know what is going on will be at the game tonight, and neither of us are rich businessmen who bought these seats from any of the ticket agencies to impress clients.

i might even buy a laker hat on the way in because something tells me this will be the beginning of the greatest nba finals evah

through my iPhone, cuz im fancy

not only is it faster, easier, and more efficient way to read all of your delightful blogs,

but i can do neat things like Share your posts with whoever is also on Google Reader

but now with this new Google Reader Share page, you can just see what posts i liked through this thing.

sadly i cant put it on my side rail very easily.

sigh