A few completely random notes:
- People in LA don’t seem to realize the chaos that surrounds them each day. My friend’s fiance has lived here for most of her life, but has never noticed that there is never a traffic report that doesn’t include at least one car in flames somewhere. People will rubber-neck for minor fender-benders in the Bay Area, but on the LA freeways I’ve passed two cars with twenty-foot flames shooting out of them with hardly any slowing of traffic.
- While looking for dinner the other day I saw some Chunky soup on a shelf and my immediate thought was “that would taste good”. After Alaska I would have bet a lot of money that I would never think such a thing ever again.
- The “snow” on the ER set was completely gone today. Four days ago there were huge drifts on the studio lot, today it was back to normal. It’s freaky.
- The Goob graduated from the fire academy on Friday and was greeted by $35 billion in state budget cuts. The odds of finding a firefighting job make lottery tickets look like sound investments.
- Jason used the words “haggis” and “yummy” in the same sentence. Either he has not yet actually eaten haggis or else he needs to become a contestant on Fear Factor as soon as possible.