I've been in southern California now for a little over one year. This is a list of ten things, a very small number of the total amount of weird, I've seen that can only, and often do, happen in Los Angeles:
1) Police arresting a man fully dressed as Heath Ledger's Joker; 3 a.m., Hollywood blvd.,
2) Transsexual prostitutes; very, very obvious transsexual prostitutes, the kind of obvious where you think, "There's no way that is a woman" and feel a twinge of guilt for thinking it,
3) Diane Keaton with several children, looking exactly like she does in every film, covered in clothes from head to toe, complete with fashionable hat and white gloves,
4) A homeless man making "blessing" gestures to everyone else on his street while simultaneously smacking his lips and making farting noises,
5) Watching Slash shred at the Viper Room my first night out on the town (once again proving my ignorance of pop culture as I turned to Nikko and said, "That guy looks a lot like Slash!" to which she replied, "Uh, it IS Slash.")
6) A thirty-second choreographed martial arts fight in a pedestrian crosswalk while I was stopped at a red light,
7) Stephen Fry (particularly thrilled about that introduction!) out at a noisy dance club full of young, trendy, and very drunk people, wearing a full tweed suit, looking like he'd just stepped off a plane and being very, well, British, simultaneously seeming incredibly out of place and yet comfortable in the environment,
8) Huge columns of smoke from the severe summer fires of '09 forming cloud-like images in the sky reminiscent of the imposing clouds of doom caused by the UFO's in Independence Day,
9) A Hollywood character impersonator in THE WORST Wolverine costume I WILL EVER SEE,
10) A juggling mime on stilts, outside the El Captain movie theatre, not promoting anything but just being himself, a juggling mime on stilts.
2 comments:
Difficult to believe but out of all these things number 7 tickles my fancy the most. Indeed. Fry is an institution all by himself. He even makes owning an Ipad seem like a worthy cause despite every inch of my reason knowing better. Much better. Then again it is an item and Fry a collector of wit and wisdom. So why not?
Not difficult at all! I'm still addicted to "Qi", and have been a constant annoyance to my friends by reciting the interesting facts from the show. And his techie bent is pretty convincing, most of the time.
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