yes its Rocket’s own Lauren Rocket!

meanwhile look who’se wearing a Rocket shirt while doing a shoot for animals?

you’re not seeing things, that’s former Runaway Joan Jett in her new PETA ad.

holy crap!

but until pete rose gets in, the whole thing is a sham, if you ask me

however, this song… people really dont write tunes like this any more

What’s the best way to commemorate your longtime friend on the other coast turning 41 years young?

Gage: 1. How will I know if he really loves me? 2. Who made who? 3. Are you gonna go my way?

1. he’ll let you vacation in hollywood, no strings attached. 2. robert johnson, johnnie johnson 3. if your way is hawaii or vegas, then hell yes.

BobD: What Would Ivan DeJesus Do?

probably ground out to third. BUT HE’D RUN IT OUT!

zona: I have a dilemma. I seem to have lost my wallet. The last time I recall seeing it was near the Thai restaurant where we had dinner. If you could possibly find a girl named Baby who is wearing cutoff jeans and pink stilettos. There’s no money left in my account and the credit cards are max’d out. I can get my driver’s license and govt credentials replaced. I can get new pictures of the wife and kids but what I REALLY need out of my wallet is a piece of paper on which a stripper in Vegas wrote her home phone number. I think she really digs me. Can you be a real pal and see if you can track Baby down and get that piece of paper for me? Thanks bro. I’ll owe you big time.

sorry, what gets pickpocketed in Hollywood, stays in Hollywood. moose out front shoulda told you so. ps. (323) 467-4466

Alyson: Is it true that girls who drive standard are hotter than girls who don’t?

i like girls who dont. i like girls who sit in the passenger side and navigate and propagate and fill me in on everything ive been missing out on.

Steven Allen Adams: Happy birthday Matt! What is the worst break-up you’ve had?

all the breakups ive had have been pretty devastating, if not totally devistating. which is probably one reason i havent rushed into any serious relationships in quite a while.

rl: I’ll be driving down the coast in August, any suggestions on places to stop/see/things to do? Thank you!

everyone should visit Compton, Beverly Hills, and Skid Row when they come to LA. if anything to realize how close they are while being worlds apart.

john wayne maioriello: 1. i know you’re a super blogger.com loyalist and all that… but have you considered giving the busblog a testdrive within the wordpress platform? 2. what’s with the times and the register merging or teaming up… How does that work? 3. what’s buzznet’s deal lately? 4.will you upload a drawing you made? i wanna see your art skillz. my rules are it has to be a portrait of someone and it has to be in ball point pen.

1. for a brief but wonderful time i was blogging with Matt Good and Theron Parlin on ThoughtMechanics, which is a wordpress blog. also the LAT travel blog, the daily deal, is a wordpress blog. i really like that platform and it has a lot of features that you dont have on blogger. but im a super loyal person and ive always wanted to prove that to be a successful blogger you dont need incredible design, lots of bells and whistles, or a blogging platform that cost money. so ive always stayed with blogger for the busblog.

2. the ocregister says they’ll save at least a million dollars a year by paying us to deliver their paper. and we’re stoked to have some more cashflow, so its one of those rare win-wins.

3. as long as theyve got breesays and panasonicyouth then im good.

4. i’ll hook you up later this week cuz i have to buy a mattress. in the meantime heres something i drew when i was a lad, then xeroxed, then added some color because it was the 80s.

Liana: In your opinion, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Please know that your answer will reveal alot about your beliefs. Also, I need to hire a Taco Truck in Palm Springs! How does one go about findings those things in advance? They don’t have websites!

as a born again Christian i believe that the animals were created and then adam and God named em all, and then the eggs came out. it was all pre-Eve which is probably why animals have crazy names. like chicken. as for taco trucks in palm springs – i bet you are having problems finding such things because after they chased off wild teen spring breaks in the desert they pretty much sent the message to any and all that things like taco trucks were probably not going to be welcomed either. so i agree with this three year old chowhound recommendation that asks almost the identical question, whose answer is to get a nice truck from the IE to drive out there instead of one from say Echo Park.

timmay!!!!!: canseco says a current hall of famer was using assteroids … who do you think it was?

Bowie Kuhn. obvs.

jackassjimmy: Take a part or full time job in addition to the full time I have, while I finish school… or be dirt ass broke and possibly miss out on the woman of my dreams? Cheers, JJ

money is overrated, so is a college education, and working two jobs. women will break yr heart, bankrupt you, and lead you to bad decisions, but the stories you can tell afterwards are forever.

g/d: painting sculpture scripture =

First King’s 5 – the way the bible describes the artistry of Solomon’s various architectural masterpieces is more flowery and awe-inspired than any description of the creation of anything else. an excerpt:

23 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 24 Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast. 25 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward. 26 Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

katherine: 1. what’s your favorite pick-up line? 2. Who’s sweating most bullets at prospect of all 103 steroid names being made public by MLB?

1. i love your photo essays. 2. nike.

top photo by Jim Lowney. Happy birthday Matthew Lee!

also who knew we’d someday find a 2,000 year old artifact in Israel that mentions God?

and finally who knew Wilt, Andre the Giant, and ahhhhnold took a picture together once?

via boing boing/metafilter, la times, and digg, respectively

update: loving this Seth Rogin / Jimmy Kimmel deal too:

LE TRIPTYCH et LE SOIRÉE

WHEN: AUGUST 1, 2009 at 9:00PM

WHERE: SAN DIEGER!

PRODUCED BY: DANIELLE K!!!

(Or if you are unable to attend, films are visible for public viewing from the Essex Lofts rooftop on the corner of STATE and GRAPE streets and the 5 freeway in both directions)

Art for Art’s Sake Presents

LE TRIPTYCH

On August 1, 2009 at 9pm a public art show —

3 François Truffaut films are being projected onto the Essex Lofts rooftop (corner of Grape and State Streets, Little Italy)

Walk on by, look to the sky, glance from nearby

seems like everyone is reviewing funny people. today the times gave it a meh, the weekly gave it a meh, but the only person i really agreed with was my man LYT over at eonline, and one of the commenters over there – the one near the bottom who saw a screening the last week:

I saw a screening of this movie last week. I laughed. I cried. It is very long though. I usually don’t like Adam Sandler, but he was pretty good in this. Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill play the type of characters they usually do. Leslie Mann was fantastic. Eric Bana was great, I hope to see him in more comedic roles in the future.

i would add that the alterna chick was really funny too.

i would also add that yes its long, and some of that length is pretty much unnecessary, but it made me think “whats your damn rush?” the people are enjoyable to watch, the story is good, and its funny, so why do i need everything to end already.

plus the music is terrific.

update: i also agree with josh tate of LAist: “True, Funny People is not Apatow’s funniest film, but — true also — it is his best.”

so he got in the family car, and drove off.

cops chased him back home, he jumped outta the car and ran into his house.

several questions:

– how did he reach the pedals!

– did he learn to drive on xbox?

– when can we start letting 7 year olds race in NASCAR?

longtime reader of the busblog, husband, father, even grandfather, dan is on a birthday road trip around the west and took my advice and stayed at the Motel 6 near hollywood and highland and says its definitely worth the $75 a night.

we were supposed to meet around 7, but i was still in the dentist chair at 8:15pm, but dan is an honorary member of the xbi and knew i was in good hands and took the extra time to take pics of hollywood blvd – and meet Jesus.

seems like lately everyone has been asking me where to eat Chinese around hollywood and highland, and other than kung pow kitty which is ok, i dont know of anything really great around there (business idea?), so we went to Palms Thai to say hi to Thai Elvis.

dan and i gorged on tom kah kai soup and deep fried frog legs.

safe travels back to the homefront mr dan! and as always keep blogging.

photo of Thai Elvis by Mr. Lilly

according to LAist the UCLA administration told “student leaders” that they were no longer allowed to strip down to their skivvies and run around their campus three times a year during finals.

pardon me, when did college students ever need permission to act a fool?

when did college students start ASKING permission to run around their own campuses?

did the school ask the students if it was ok to raise their tuition every year that they were in school?

i faintly remember a California law that said that because parents spend 10-15 years saving up for their children’s college educations, that the government wouldnt be allowed to raise fees or tuition more than a few percentages each year so that families could properly plan. did the schools ask the parents permission to blow off that law?

the problem seems to be that some non-students are going to UCLA to run around in their underwear. and also that a few kids are getting into fights and fewer still are getting hurt.

so? no really: so.

kids get hurt doing all sorts of things: driving, riding bikes, participating in NCAA sporting events where the students get zero money and the schools make millions. and yet the schools dont stop those things from happening.

for some reason.

my hope is the UCLA Bruins will take a little ownership of their college experience and do their thing in safe, fun, happy ways. if that includes running in boxers and briefs, then so be it.

the university has done its job by “officially” turning their backs on the unofficial tradition. let’s hope the kids do the right thing by maintaining the tradition – which is one of the more harmless things this blogger has seen on any campus.

but i cant talk about it till friday when it comes out

it stars almost everyone in hollywood. and even a few hip hop stars. everyones very funny.

i wanna say “its the best 2 1/2 hour comedy that could have easily been 2 hours” but then that would be talking about the film (that only feels like 90 minutes).

so instead i will sigh about my relationship with my truest. i know uh-gain!

we left the movie on such a high, looking for food. as is often the case, i of course ruined the mood by talking about subjects that were bound to piss her off. i pissed her off seconds before the film, as well, because im just such a wonderful man.

but some of these topics needed to be discussed and i figured, why not talk about them in the glow of a great movie when the feelings are good? these are the lessons i learned while sucking on nitrous in the dentist chair: do painful things when really happy.

so we talked. and if theres one thing i am still amazed at is how well she and i can navigate through the dangerous seas of intensely sensitive subjects while trusting each other, saying things in blunt but sweet ways, and pushing each other to try to reach some semblance of shared agreement.

but because im completely insane, after we were in an understanding with one subject, i would double down and bring up a second high voltage matter, and then a third! all while doing the one thing she had repeatedly asked me not to do: put my hand on her bare thigh!

BUT IT’S MY THIGH! YOU ARE MINE FOREVERZZZZ!!!!

strangely, weirdly, ridiculously, we made it to Fred 62 (one of the few all night eateries) without totally hating each other and in fact feeling good about all the poisonous ground we had covered.

ate drank desserted and as she tried to fall asleep i kept talking to her and she had one eye open, one closed, and she was all please just lets table all of this till tomorrow. im not going anywhere. just going to sleep.

and a half hour later, i stopped yapping.

however at 4am i noticed that we checked in with each other with little whispers of “your feet smell” which got the response of “no, i just farted.”