boy did we eat good today

Posted on February 24, 2016 by tony

dunkin donuts

first a fancy magazine or tv show sent us a bunch of donuts from dunkin donuts

which just opened on hollywood blvd just east of vine.

everyone needs to fit into their oscar dresses and tuxes so strangely this is torture for some

like me. i only ate a bite of the chocolate one.

pizza

work gave us some some gift cards for the california pizza kitchen

our server was Don who seriously couldnt have been nicer and we wanted to do all these sorts of things that would make most waiters and waitresses at least roll their eyes

old don was all, oh you want separate checks except for these two, and you want another order to go, also on a separate check and you all have gift cards?

iron man no problemo.

thanks Don!

i bet he secretly owns CPK.

do you own CPK, Don?

got back from lunch and iron man got stuck in the wall trying to get at the left over donuts.

security is super tight and only getting tighter as we get closer to the show.

heard some secrets about the show and you know im starting to think that thats the best compliment ever

if you tell me a secret, especially some big ones that some would love to know, and you dont say things like

this is just between us

because OBVS its just between us

then that means you trust me, which you should, which to me is the best

maybe having that job in sales when i was in college gave me the impression that no one will ever trust you, and maybe that was just a shady place and i was super young and i was asking them for basically all of their money for things like $1,000 vcrs and $1,500 cd players. maybe not everyone is going to believe you when you tell them that theyve gotta buy it.

today.

anyways the shows gonna be killer and you probably shouldnt miss it.

this morning we rolled out the red carpet for you

Posted on February 24, 2016 by tony

unspecified

of course i had to document it.

little did i know one of my coworkers was documenting me.

three years ago today I was recently dumped from a job I had been working hard at and I was demoralized.

One Mr. Mark Johnson said hey I have an extra ticket to the Oscars, wanna come?

It was a surreal day and night because for years I’d get as close as I could to it and take pics for this very blog and there I was in it, drinking the free bubbly, munching on the Wolfgang Puck food,

saying hi to Spielberg.

Never thinking in a million years that my next job would be working there with an All Access pass.

Life is weird. Hang in there.

And always be grateful for your beautiful friends.

sometimes it’s hard to believe

Posted on February 23, 2016 by tony

oscars

until you see it right there in black and white

and red

and blue

and gold

my team was stolen from me tonight, ladies and gentlemen

Posted on February 22, 2016 by tony

nirvana

see that team? see how great that team is?

it used to be better.

last night i drafted that team in probably the greatest Auction Draft performance i’ve ever done.

in a 20 team league.

i let them go for all the high priced talent, spending soooo much money on this guy and that guy

and then i jumped in and brought home the world.

it was a Hitters Only league which should have tipped me off that this was not being run with someone with a full love of the game

nor of the sportsmanship of Fantasy Sports

because at around 6pm i was alerted that my team had been had been hijacked

BY THE COMMISSIONER

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welcome to Oscar Week

Posted on February 22, 2016 by tony

chef wolfgang puck food

well here it is, the home stretch.

every day this week i’m gonna be working. of course murphys law everyone wants to do things with me this week and i pretty much have to say no to everyone because me and about 500 of my closest co-workers are doing our best to put on the finest show on earth.

last week chef wolfgang puck had his annual preview of the food and drinks that will be served at the show and governors ball. the week before that was the nominations luncheon. and on sunday will be the granddaddy of them all.

last night i saw a few movies including Ex Machina which i liked more than i expected. but mostly i just rested and paced myself because who knows what will happen this week at work, so it’s best if one is healthy and prepared.

i bought a bag of oranges for that vitamin c.

THEY DONT WANT YOU TO BE SUPER HEALTHY.
#blessup

is there something wrong with me that im secretly happy

Posted on February 21, 2016 by tony

every time Donald Trump wins a state?

i think he’s winning because people dont like it when other people are full of crap.

except for our moms, everyones has a little crap in em

but how insulting when someone thinks that they can just bs us

believing that we’re just too dense to figure out their lies.

when trump is wrong about things it isnt because he’s trying to pull the wool over our eyes

it’s because he’s just not interested in the truth.

do i want him as president?

undecided.

do i think he might lead us to world war 3?

i dont think the generals would let him do that.

some people are all talk. bluster. bark, not bite.

i dont think he would get angry and drop a bomb.

i also dont think he would build a wall.

but if he did, it’d be worth looking at.

we are all africans

Posted on February 21, 2016 by tony

tumblr_o0sfkn6saY1qz72h4o1_r3_250 imagine if you were able to teach your dog how to do morse code

and at first you think he got lucky

but then you realize he really knows what hes saying

when he taps on the floor,

Alpo is disgusting. i thought you loved me.

for all we know, our words, our tweets, our blog posts

our songs

are all being broadcast to ends of the universe.

and who knows, maybe something will leak out

tumblr_o0sfkn6saY1qz72h4o4_r4_250 to someone far far far far far away.

and they’ll say to their friend,

i heard the weirdest thing last night

through the buzz and static and nonsense

i could have sworn i heard someone say

we are all africans.

so i researched africa

and it’s this giant continent

on a planet called earth

in the milky way galaxy.

turns out, africa is hugely influential on the planet

it’s where a good deal of its most popular music is derived from tumblr_o0sfkn6saY1qz72h4o5_r4_250

an ungodly amount of exotic plants, animals and minerals,

but ironically one of the least powerful

and poor

places on the entire globe.

and do you know why?

neither do they.

well let’s help them, the one says to the other.

i was thinking the same thing, the other says to the one.

but should we? should more advanced creatures

“help”

others, simply because they seem interesting and deserving?

shouldnt they figure it out on their own?

what if they never figure it out, asked the one.

tumblr_o0sfkn6saY1qz72h4o6_r4_250 they will, eventually, the other told the one, but what a waste of time struggling to get there.

imagine what they could have done with that time if they had known.

and selfishly, imagine what they could contribute to us.

and a sound unlike one they had never heard before whispered.

we should do it said the one.

it is done said the other.

ali and i went to kanpai last night

Posted on February 20, 2016 by tony

kanpai

five years ago this weekend we went to vegas with some of her friends

we all stayed at the palms place

and then we saw the black keys play.

sushi

back then the black keys were cool.

last night was cool because we ended up meeting these very nice women who grew up in the south bay.

they had just worked out at the cross fit downt he street

they made the terrible decision of saying,

“lets just pop into kanpai and have a few slices of king salmon.”

next thing you know theyre eating drinking and telling us their deepest secrets

ali at kanpai

this was all at the new kanpai on sepulveda. ali had never been.

on a friday at 730pm even the new kanpai is packed so we went to this german place next door

for a quickie beer drinking competition.

i let her win.

today the cubs began the year they will win the world series

Posted on February 20, 2016 by tony

cubs it’s a magic trick done right in front of everyones faces

it’s a bank robbery where the crooks say, we’re gonna rob the wells fargo on this street on this date at this time

and not only will we take all the money but we’re gonna bake a cake in the employees break room.

here are the gentlemen who will pull the heist of a lifetime

Pitchers

79 Andury Acevedo
49 Jake Arrieta
32 Dallas Beeler
50 Rex Brothers
53 Trevor Cahill
36 Aaron Crow
6 Carl Edwards Jr.
57 Stephen Fife
48 Brandon Gomes
52 Justin Grimm
39 Jason Hammel
28 Kyle Hendricks
80 Pierce Johnson
45 Eric Jokisch
41 John Lackey
51 Jack Leathersich
34 Jon Lester
63 Jean Machi
62 Edgar Olmos
40 Spencer Patton
83 Felix Pena
38 Jon Pettibone
54 Neil Ramirez
33 Clayton Richard
60 C.J. Riefenhauser
81 Armando Rivero
56 Hector Rondon
59 Zac Rosscup
55 Drew Rucinski
46 Pedro Strop
71 Duane Underwood
43 Adam Warren
87 Ryan Williams
37 Travis Wood

Catchers

76 Willson Contreras
82 Taylor Davis
15 Tim Federowicz
47 Miguel Montero
3 David Ross
12 Kyle Schwarber

Infield

7 Arismendy Alcantara
9 Javier Baez
17 Kris Bryant
75 Jeimer Candelario
29 Jesus Guzman
66 Munenori Kawasaki
2 Tommy La Stella
19 Kristopher Negron
44 Anthony Rizzo
27 Addison Russell
61 Christian Villanueva
74 Dan Vogelbach
18 Ben Zobrist

Outfield

78 Albert Almora
72 John Andreoli
8 Chris Coghlan
22 Jason Heyward
21 Matt Murton
5 Juan Carlos Perez
68 Jorge Soler
20 Matt Szczur

a bunch of my friends are Aquariuses so we party in February

Posted on February 19, 2016 by tony

we like to go to Castia de Castia or whatever it’s called because it’s central and they have a big room in the back and a back patio where all the kids can be loud and play and do shots without any of us “old folks” spying on them.

kidding! the children are actually selling beers to passing strangers at a discount.

kamikazis one of the kids, the oldest of the mcilvane boys is an excellent baseball player. i taught him everything he knows.

yesterday he was sporting a sweatshirt for a team he is on. i said The Kamikazes? he said yeah.

i said, i thought we lived in the politically correct Silver Lake / Los Feliz / Echo Park corridor, how is this possible?

the boy just looked at me.

i said, do you know what a Kamikaze is? before he could answer i interrupted, not a delicious drink.

he said, they are suicide bombers.

i was a little startled at how concisely he described it.

i said yes! yes!

he said, yeah someone got upset and we had to change the name. because our caps already had a K on it, we changed the name to The Kings.

which was interesting, because here in America, didn’t some of us defect from England because we didn’t wanna be ruled by Kings any more? Didn’t we want some representation to go along with the taxation?

and then i drove home trying to think of other names that started with K

The Kanyes

The Kickstarters

The Kombuchas

The Korean BBQs

The High Flying Kites

The Killer Kittens

The Kreepy Klowns

and then I realized yeah the Kings was probably the smart move.

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