Thursday, May 15, 2008

Gentrification = Frozen Yogurt

Anyone watching "Cranford" on PBS? I like a lot. I know...I'm hopeless...

If you are planning coming to the festivities out west, please give me a shout if you are coming to the Thursday BBQ. REM is playing at the Hollywood Bowl that night and parking will be a nightmare. I will try to organize some sort of carpooling. There's also some back routes for you to take to avoid the crazy traffic. Sigh.

Iain has been driving to work so I'm walking to work. Obviously the extra physical activity is probably good. Plus, I am getting a real street-level view of Hollywood. I walk down Hollywood Boulevard/Walk of Stars which sounds good. In reality, the Walk of Stars is a collection of grim tshirt and drug paraphernalia shops and smells like urine most of the time. Ah the smell of urine in the morning...brings me right back to London. And Brooklyn. Hollywood is supposedly gentrifying quickly, and there are a shocking number of fancy frozen yogurt shops, but there is very little glamour.

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