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John “McClain” as the “Alaska Daily News” called him, must really not want to be president.  (See below, just above the second biggest story in the state of Alaska today, “Grizzly Attacks Woman in Tent“**.  Incidentally, John McCain is 22 year older than the state of Alaska, LOL.)  Call me a sexist pig, but I don’t think most of America is ready for a woman who’s still breastfeeding her four month old baby, to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, should McCain (who will be 76 if he makes it to the end of a first term) kick the bucket.  Sarah Palin and her five kids, Trig, Track, Bristol, Willow and Piper (I kid you not.  Someone’s been watching Charmed & Buffy too much) is the best thing that ever happened to Barack Obama.  Oh, and she pronounces “nuclear” just like George W. Bush (nucular).  As a former beauty queen, I wonder if Sarah Palin knows Miss Teen South Carolina?  Maybe they could compare notes on “The Iraq”.  “US Americans”, get ready for President Obama!

From the Alaska Daily News before they corrected their website.

**Too bad Sarah wasn’t there, she’s an avid hunter and would have shot the grizzly!  What kind of governor are you Sarah??  Leaving innocent women to fend off bears while you travel to the mainland to hob nob with the Washington elite!

Governor Palin even checked into a hotel last week under the name “Upton”, the same unfortunate name as Miss Teen South Carolina.  Coincidence??

Governor Palin has what it takes to be the next Dick Cheney

Carey Anthony for President

McCain, The Miss Teen South Carolina of Economics

Last night the GMCLA had their 30th anniversary concert at the Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.  It was a great venue and a great show, with celebrity guests like the incomparable Della Reese and the less comparable George Takei (of Star Trek and of late, gay marriage fame, LOL). 

The event was hosted by Joely Fisher, (from Desperate Housewives) who was very funny and charming.  We were lucky to get free tickets to the concert, but there was a catch:

The GMCLA is offering FREE tickets for youth (ages
14-24) and their adult chaperones for their next engagement at the Disney
Hall on Aug. 25th.

For FREE TICKETS
please contact Jeff Morris (See Attached Flyer for contact information). I know there are many
of you who meet the age qualifications as a youth. I hope you can make
it. For the rest of you, this
is a great opportunity for the youth that you serve to be treated to a
fabulous concert and a tour of the Disney Hall.

Sincerely,  

Stephen

Educational Equity Compliance

The “rest of you“?  The “youth that you serve“??  Sheesh!  I’m going to be 43 next week and it’s already starting.  LOL.  But hey, a free ticket is a free ticket, so I’m glad Vivek is 21.  LOL.  Anyway, here are a few photos from the evening:

Vivek on the steps of Frank Gehry’s masterpiece.

L.A. City Hall, made famous in Dragnet.

The rolling sails of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, winter home to the LA Philharmonic.

Why can’t strangers ever take good pictures?

The less than enticing press line/red carpet, which we bypassed.  LOL

This is the city…

The Bank of America building in the foreground and the U.S. Bank Tower (the tallest building in the U.S., west of the Mississippi, which was incidentally blown up in Independence Day), back left. 

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, former home of the Oscars.

This kid was sitting behind us, and tuckered out during intermission.


Joely Fisher, Della Reese and the entire cast.

Best of the rest.

The last time I was at the Disney Concert Hall, it was for the American Idol Gives Back Concert, where we saw everyone from Annie Lennox to Kelly Clarkson (see link).  The acoustics in the building are great and it’s pretty small, which makes it quite intimate.  We sat on the side last night, and still had a great view.  Speaking of American Idol, am I the only one who thinks the stage at the Democratic Convention in Denver this week looks like the Idol stage??

Hillary’s speech was great tonight.  She’s obviously gotten over the latest portrait of her husband (look carefully):

We took the kids to B.J.’s last night, and let’s just say I shouldn’t eat for a week!  Vivek keeps commenting about the amount of food we get served here in restaurants, and of course he’s right, it’s ridiculous. (Though he did finish his Pinkberry much faster than I did tonight!)  That said, I’ve really enjoyed the cultural nuances that inevitably come up when such vastly different worlds meet and cohabitate.  It’s a wonderful exchange of ideas.  And as Hans Rosling so adeptly points out in this lecture from a couple of years ago, the world is getting smaller and the playing field more level.  If you’ve got a spare 20 minutes, this is worth watching.  Have a good weekend!

   
It was one year ago today when I was sitting at my desk and smelled smoke.  I was dog-sitting at the time, so I took Buster and Roxy and walked down the middle of an empty Santa Monica Boulevard, to find a fire burning at Micky’s “flaming” gay bar. 

Micky’s was always a popular hangout, but I never knew how popular until I posted these pictures on my blog last year.  There has not been a week that has gone by since then, that someone hasn’t visited my blog by Googling Micky’s Fire (#20 Google hit, thank you!).  The weird thing is that the hits come from all over the world; most recently Poland and the United Arab Emirates! (??)

So knowing the bar and the fire are of such international interest, I’ve been taking pictures of the reconstruction for the past year.  They certainly don’t seem to be in a hurry at all.  Their website says they hope to be reopened in early 2008.  Leave it to queens to be late!

January 2008

April 2008

August 2008

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Renea, Laura & Kristen leave the Hotel Careyfornia early tomorrow morning.  We had a good time in Hollywood yesterday.  Today they went to Venice Beach and Beverly Hills, and tonight they’re out partying.  Meanwhile, Vivek and I went to a special screening of a new documentary called “America the Beautiful” which was about our obsession with beauty and plastic surgery.  The filmmaker was there to answer questions about the movie, and though it was pretty good, it wasn’t as good as the documentary we saw last week.  Here are a few photos:

Striking a pose on the same stairs the celebrities walk into the Kodak Theater for the Oscars

Hollywood glamor girls

You can barely make out the Hollywood sign in the background

The elephants in “Babylon Court” are a recreation from D.W. Griffith’s silent epic “Intolerance“

Another “clear” day in Los Angeles

My harem

The obligatory Pinkberry stop

A sober Ryan in front of the 12 Step Store

Ready for a night on the town

In response to commenters; my other harem

Yet another sushi dinner


The courtyard of the Sunset 5

Vivek on the Sunset Strip

Ryan’s sister Renea and her friends Laura and Kristen took a road trip from Missouri to California this week, getting their kicks on Route 66.  It’s the first time in the Golden State for all of these Midwestern beauties, and of course they made their way to the Hotel Careyfornia!

Last night though, Claudio & Ryan invited us to their new home.  It was the first time Vivek ever went to a barbecue!  He liked it a lot, and enjoyed visiting with other college students his own age.  LOL.

I set my camera on the tripod and took 3 group shots:

As you can see, Claudio looked quite fabulous in the first shot.  But he soon invoked his classic sneer in the second shot, and a new and wacky persona I’d never met before, for the third picture:

In the classic film, “The Three Faces of Eve“, Eve White is a quiet, self-effacing wife and mother who has headaches and occasional blackouts. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and while under hypnosis her “alter personality”, wild, fun-loving Eve Black, discloses herself. With Eve Black on the loose, Eve White’s husband leaves her and abandons their daughter. Under continued therapy, a third personality appears, the relatively stable Jane.

Hmmmm…I wonder who’s who??

Hollywood pictures tomorrow   I’m tired!

Update:  I got my car back (again).  Next week will be the 5 month anniversary of the accident.  Here’s hoping that I won’t be paying any more visits to the Honda of Hollywood Body Shop.  Turns out, it was the key.  It needed a new microchip.  It also finally passed the electrical portion of the smog test.  I drove down to Irvine yesterday, and it drove fine.  I also went to have a delicious spaghetti dinner with my aunt and uncle:

Thank you to Darron at Honda of Hollywood for doing the right thing, and to Peter for being a nice guy throughout this whole thing.  It’s a good thing I got the car back when I did, because Claudio and Ryan came back from Brazil on Wednesday and took their car back:

I took this with my cell phone.  They look pretty good for just having gotten off a 20 hour flight!  At lunch, we were sitting next to these two drunk Korean girls who were drinking Champagne (at noon on a Wednesday) and talking about how the “chinks” and “gooks” stole the Olympics from the Americans. (??WTF??) We couldn’t believe our ears.  I actually took a video of them secretly with my phone, but it’s too vile to post.  They were trashed, racist bitches. 

Then Lisa and Joel came back from Hawaii the same day, and I headed back to the airport with their car!  Before that, Vivek and I went to Indian Sweet & Spices, and saw this on the way there:

Only in Hollywood.  LOL.

So now the dogs are gone, and I miss them a lot.  How could you not love a face like this:

Have a good weekend everyone.  Here are the rest of the photos from the last couple of days!

A taste of home!


Weird 80′s style Indian supermarket.

Shadow took a liking to this famous producer named Julian at the dog park.

Honda Update:  They towed it away (again) yesterday.  In keeping with the funny tradition of photographing all of the tow truck drivers who have visited me the past five months, this one was a pleasant surprise!  He brought his kid with him, and he was a real pistol.  We hit it off immediately, and his father asked me if I wanted to keep him.  LOL.

Today, Honda of Hollywood called to say that the reason it wasn’t starting was because of the key!  I switched keys this weekend, and apparently there’s a microchip in the Honda keys, that needs to be programmed when the engine is taken out.  So, they’re reprogramming my key and making me a new 2nd one (waiving the fees of course!).  After that, they need to drive the car for 50 miles at 50 miles per hour so it can pass the electrical portion of the smog check!  Ugh.  Hopefully I’ll get it back tomorrow, as Claudio is arriving back from Brazil at noon and Lisa is coming back from Hawaii at midnight!  That means two trips to the airport tomorrow and two less cars in my garage!  That also means, I’ll have two less dogs at the Hotel Careyfornia/Pet Motel/Parking Garage/Airport Shuttle.  I’m going to miss Shadow & Oreo a lot.  They’re good snuggle buddies at night.  Speaking of Oreo, he had a little accident yesterday in the house.  It was my fault, because I knew he didn’t go #2 in the morning when I walked them, but I had an early meeting and had to cut our walk short.  The poor little guy couldn’t hold it, and my shoe and my carpet paid the price.  He felt really bad, as this photo will attest.  Warning:  If you’re easily grossed out, don’t look!

I didn’t yell at him, honest.  He just knew!  LOL   At any rate, it gave me a good excuse to rent a Rug Doctor and clean my living room rug, which needed it anyway!

The day got better though when Vivek and I had dinner in Koreatown (Mmmm, bibimbap!) to celebrate his new internship, and I took a few shots around the neighborhood by his new office:

Tonight we had tickets to a free screening of a movie called “Trouble the Water” at the Sunset 5.  It won the Grand Jury prize this year at Sundance.  It was a documentary about Hurricane Katrina from the producers of Fahrenheit 9/11.  As an added bonus, the producers were there, along with the couple whose story the movie told.  They all held a Q&A session after the film and it was really interesting.  I strongly recommend this movie.  It opens in LA and New York on August 22nd and many other cities shortly after.  Click here for showtimes and support this great film!

Kim Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts

Like many filmmakers after Hurricane Katrina, Lessin and Deal wanted to chronicle
this historic event. Originally they had targeted the National Guard
troops that were returning to Fort Polk from Baghdad in order to assist
in the clean up. But military red tape proved too much for them. Ready
to give up, the two started volunteering at a local shelter, when their
story found them.  Kimberly Rivers Roberts approached the filmmakers with video footage
that she had shot during the hurricane. The filmmakers realized that
Roberts experience, captured on a $20 second-hand video camera, showed
more about what had happened to the people of the 9th ward than they
could ever hope to capture. Returning with Kimberly and her husband
Scott to the devastation of their neighborhood, Lessin and Deal
captured the second part of their journey, seamlessly editing their
footage with Robert’s video, to create a remarkable story of two
survivors, a story that would win them a Grand Jury Prize in
Documentary.

Last week, Honda of Hollywood did the right thing and  agreed to reimburse me for my out of pocket rental expenses after taking four months to repair my car after the accident.  Great news, right?  The only problem is, yesterday, we went to take the car to Universal Studios and it wouldn’t start!  I’ll have to have it towed back to Honda tomorrow.  Thank goodness I still have Claudio’s car here (and Lisa’s!).  Stay tuned…

Carey Anthony>

Their email was in response to this: http://weblog.xanga.com/CareyGLY/666936605/the-saga-continues.html

Here are the rest of the weekend photos.  Vivek continues to take Hollywood by storm as these pictures will attest:

Indoor skydiving/wind tunnel.  If you’re interested, check out www.iflyhollywood.com.  It’s $40 for a single flight first time flyer.