Monday, May 09, 2005

The Coop

It's bad to have a blog because it can hang over your head when you're not posting. And the weekly traffic reports I signed up for back when I was pretty good about posting... they don't look so good these days. I usually manage to stay above zero hits/day, though. I'm kinda proud of that.

It's good to have a blog because even after weeks or sometimes months of not posting, I can still have a place to permanently record weird things that happen to me. Today isn't the weirdest day ever yet, but it at least should be called "wtf???"

I have been walking my dog through different parts of the neighborhood lately on long, rambling walks. It's great to do this in LA because you never know where you're going to come across some bizarre and seemingly out of place building or structure. Anyway, this post is gonna get long if I go on like this. So I see lots of great places for movie shots or photographs or even paintings, whatever your preferred medium is. One of the spots is a great, semi-secluded highway overpass with a view south on the 101. I love the shot there. The audio would be horrible, but I love it. I'll get a picture of it for you cats.

Anyway, I'm walking towards the overpass today, and I see some cops and people milling around over there. I get closer and realize it's a film crew. All right, could be anything. Then I realize they're at my spot. I'm cursing as I walk towards the shoot. I get closer and my fears are confirmed. They're in my shot! Realizing I have no recourse, I at least hope they're shooting something cool.

Instead:



The Coop! Cooper Anderson of CNN! In my neighborhood, on my overpass. He looks so plastic and polished even in real life. I thought he was animatronic. I was looking at him and laughing. I bet he was doing some stupid story on traffic in LA being bad. God do I hate cable news. SEARING HATRED.

Anyway, I continue on my walk and then I come home to check my good old mail. I get really embarrassed when my Rolling Stone with Orlando Bloom on the cover falls out of my mailbox in front of a cute girl. Then I realize how many envelopes in there are from the government and run upstairs, only to see that I have made about $1000 while I was out on my walk. I love the government!

So that's the story of my weird day. I'm more writing this for myself than any of you cock-knockers, but I hope you enjoyed it. IN OTHER NEWS, one of the seminal blogs of all time, It all starts here... has gone under!!! I support a heavy email, telephone and backrub circle for Steve-o until he is well enough to entertain us again. GET THAT BLOG BACK UP, MISTER, OR I WILL SICK COOPER ANDERSON ON YOUR ASS.