el-layyyy

28 january 2014.

[sidebar]: how has it been more than a year since i’ve blogged?
easy. no one blogs anymore. it’s all about tumblr, vine, snapchat, pinterest. 
and i still use twitter. i’m such a dinosaur.

i’m headed to LA tmrrw.  the land of the beautiful, shallow, and self-centered.  i love it.

got nothing planned. it’s Amy’s bday.

[sidebar]:  how are my YOUNG friends suddenly  becoming older? weird!

got a place in WestHollywood from airbnb.  good times.

other than that, i’ll hang out with eegs, and maybe lulu.

thats all i got for ya.

*whew* it’s exhausting to start blogging again. no wonder i only fo this once a year.

how many times can i say this?

i heart brandon flowers. and he’s got such a cute new haircut!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Killers – Vegas

FUCK YEAH! i’m in Vegas. on my way to see the Killers w/ Louis XIV and Most Thieves at the Cosmopolitan.

showtunes

quite possibly the gayest thing you could ever do on monday night, showtunes/musical mondays night at theEdge.

and it’s 2-for-1 drinks night, too. dangerous.

i went with aries, and we ran into kids from the OtherHotel.

 

i just got flashbacks to this:

 

 

and this:

 

 

hilarious!

 

 

what’s the capital of scotland?

it was another exhausting saturday night at the concierge desk. i had worked alongside dar. [as you remember, (or not),  she, her BayAreaBoyfriend, and Aries and I became total BFF during the employee trip to SixFags a few weeks back.]

anyway, where was i? dar totally scored a tons of stuff (luggage, purses, clothes, wine) from hotel guests who were moving–or something like that, and earlier that day she met lotsa people from her alma mater, so she was on a high after work. she felt like she had just been on a game show!

she and i decided to celebrate with a drink. she called BayAreaBoyfriend, and he’d been drinkin at theEdinburgh Castle since about 6pm.  we get there, and the dance floor is hoppin, the DJ is pumpin tunes from the late90s and early 00s. (YEAH!)

i was surprised at how much fun i was having. because I always remember Edinburgh Castle as a place of beer-from-taps-that-haven’t-been-cleaned-since-the-place-opened-in-the-70s; and boring-as-fuck trivia nights. bleah. (even though, according to their website, it’s been voted the best trivia night several years running. *what-EVER*)

anyway, it was fun to listen to late 90s early 00s throwback. (thong song, mariah carey, destiny’s child!) and the several shots of jamesons certainly fueled the fun.

CrazyCzech met us after work, and some random friends stopped by too. several drinks later, the consensus was to go sing karaoke. (kara-OKAY!!). it gets a little hazy here–BayAreaBoyfriend was being aggressive–dar tells us it’s a common occurence–i suggest that perhaps its a result of all the testosterone pumping through his little body. she is only somewhat amused. they leave to get some food into him, and the other two are rounding up some alcohol–i think.

suddenly, it’s me and crazyczech. so we have another beer. (a kilt-lifter for me. it’s a local brew!)

next comes pizza, and lotsa gummi bears, and the next morning, a slightly hungover blogger.

good times.

 

 

go right ahead

tues 11 sept 2012

saw the hives last night. damn they put on a great show!

 

and i (almost) forgot how stylish they are!

 

 

 

collective thoughts

sun 9 sept 2012.

just checked this blog. damn. i havent written in several months.
it’s because i haven’t felt like it.

one of my friends just (well, “just” meaning 3 months ago) posted a comment–so i’ve re-connected with her after maybe 10+ years.

who needs facebook?

ive prolly got lots to write about, but i don’t feel like it.

**sigh**

 

tumblr

sunday. 12 feb 2012.

i really dont understand tumblr.  (does that make me an old person?)
it seems that everyone uses it to post random/weird/ironic pics. but i don’t understand why someone would want to share such things. am i missing something?

still no snow in the ‘hoe

12 feb 2012. sunday.

it’s slow enough at work now that i can write a little. but what the hell did i wanna write about?

i’m off on mon tues wed thurs. so i have this idea that i’ll go to the ‘hoe. but there aint no snow there!

 

li po

10 feb 2012.

no, we’re not talking elective plastic surgery to extract fat from your body. for that, see: liposuction.

we’re talking Li Po, everyone’s favorite chinese dive bar in SF.

click above to see photo credits: Telstar Logistics

i hadn’t seen aries in a while, and we were both working the PM shift. so we met up after work.

sidebar: has anyone else noticed that drinks have suddenly become way more expensive at this place? and what’s with the cocktail menu?

apparently, there’s a nightclub/dancefloor downstairs, although i’ve never been.  it was closed that night, and neither aries nor i particularly wanted to dance.

one or two drinks turned into four, and soon it was well past 1am, and we found our way to my canh (i think that’s what it’s called) for some most excellent pho. i’ve never order the same thing there (all three times that i’ve been) and this time was no different.

this time, it was a combo seafood rice plate of sorts.

when it arrived, i was slightly disappointed at first, but quickly realized the bounty of sauces available to me: fish sauce; sri racha; hot pepper flake/red sauce; hoisin…  **yummers** the possibilities were endless!

we chowed down. and overall, nothing much to report. but it was totes fun to hang out with a friend and not be a complete, bumbling, stumbling,  drunk idiot.

good times!

baby steps

sat. 4 february 2012.

click pic for photo credit!

**sigh**

i don’t feel like writing anything. eventually, i will.so for now, this.

in an interesting turn of events, i was off last night (friday). as much as i enjoy being off in the middle of the week, it’s nice to NOT have to deal with all the friday night drama-rama at the concierge desk. it’s nice to have a *little* bit of seniority.

so last night i did my laundry. terribly exciting, i know!

i could tell you about how i spent my day yesterday–at Buffalo (s)Exchange in the Mission, then pedaled around a little, returned a bicycle to Aries, and then hung out with Crazy Czech.

…but i wont. because i really don’t feel like writing…

(ha!)

bootylicious

thurs 22 sept 2011.

 

omg.

me and crazyczech decided to go out to the castro last night. just because.

Badlands was boring as fuck, so we went to Booty Call Wednesdays at QBar.

such an attractive clientele, and fun fun fun! well worth the $3 cover.

ugh. and i’m still hung over.

 

durrr-ama

monday 11 april 2011.

it’s busy at the hotel tonight.  there’s some convention in town. and lots of stupid-ass people, with stupid ass problems that are not necessarily concierge-related, but they call me to help them anyway: 

– i’m at pier 40, and i can’t get a cab.

– your wireless is slow.

– i lost my phone in a cab. can you call the cab company and have the driver bring it here?  why aren’t they calling me back? i need that phone!

– where can we eat that’s good? we’ll eat anything. 
no, we don’t want sushi.
no, we’re vegetarian.
no, we don’t want italian
no, we don’t want american.
etc. etc. etc.

in other news, i’m working at the Other Hotel tomorrow in the am, because Lana is on vay-cay.

in other, other news, except for the stupid-ass people, i kind of enjoy the busy-ness of it here.  the DJ is pumpin!

and in other, other, other news, i’m going to the ‘hoe again on wednesday! good times!

geminis twin?

sat 9 april, 2011

not, it’s not gemini’s twin, it’s actually twin sister.

but if you remember the SNL skit, you’ll know what i’m talking about.

anyway, twin sister is playing tonite at the hotel. it’s hipster central in the lobby tonite. i can’t even count how many ironic moustaches i’ve seen already, and the show doesn’t start for another hour.

i don’t know who the hell twin sister is, but thanks to the power of google and youtube, i’m totally well-versed. they’re kinda ethereal-sounding. reminiscent of the bands from 4AD from the early 90s:  cocteau twins, dead can dance, this mortal coil, throwing muses, his name is alive.  (note: before all of you music geeks lash out at me, here’s my disclaimer: i’m not sure if the aforementioned bands were actually on 4AD, so don’t get all crazy on me.)

i don’t really know how to describe their music, but it’s sorta like unicorns and stars and rainbows and waterfalls and “material girl” era madonna, with a backdrop of raindrops and flashdance and chimes, and lots of airy, breathless chanting, and charades. weird.

have a look/listen:

i don’t care. i enjoy this song.

8 april 2011. friday

so many people dislike this song.  why all the hate?  i quite enjoy it.