At the risk of being accused of being antisocial, I've strayed from the improv flock to spend my day at a cafe with free wi-fi instead of attending today's official Beyond the Borders Baja event. I have my ten-minute agent pitch thing next month so regardless of my feelings on Novel #1, that is the book that is being pitched, so I should probably work on my hook a bit more. I do have to elevator pitch it. I need to think more about that.
L.A. is L.A. It smells the same as S.D. only it has more clutter. Go figgy. Saving up my energy for the show. I need to quit the dairy products. I ordered a chai and I think it was made with whole milk. Why oh why is Austin the cheapest city ever? My sandwich today was $8. I never pay more than $6 for a sandwich in Austin.
I do have to recommend flying jetBlue into the Long Beach airport for all your L.A. transpo needs. This barebones airport consists of one runway. You disembark via a jet staircase (a la Arrested Development) and enter a small building with maybe five or so gates (one gate was for a flight to FRESNO!). The rental car offices were in a trailer! Seriously, with the palm trees and the lack of airportly sophistication, I felt like we had landed at the airport of some tiny island nation, not metro LA. The luggage carousel was outside!
Hertz tried to rent us one of those damn Chevy HHR clownmobiles, like we had in Massachusetts last week. I shouted NO and we were given a quality Toyota Camry instead.
Maple cone. :)
Posted by Zerd at May 23, 2008 01:51 PMGood christ, that HHR is the soggy cardboard box that a douchebag comes packed in. With the turning radius of the Queen Mary, vision-blocking pillars worthy of the Parthenon, the gas mileage of a Soviet T-72, and window controls only a dyslexic, left-handed orangutan could love, it's the fugliest piece of dumb I've had the misfortune of driving in the past five years. Good call on the Camry.
Posted by: Bob at May 24, 2008 02:35 AMDUDE. LB airport is 10 minutes - no, less - from my abode. I coulda met you there, we could have...circled the terminals! And had I been notified earlier, I would've attended your Friday show. I've "known" you for, like...6 years?
Posted by: Amy! at May 26, 2008 01:17 AM