Angels and Others

Two of our favorite things in one Domo-tastic package. Play at full volume for maximum enjoyment.

Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood

So last Sunday was L.A. gay pride and being new to the city we of course went to the ...Sumo matches. and while we're not really sports fans we couldn't resist taking our Japanese sponsor child to experience a bit of his cultural heritage. Domo can't wait to get inside and see the wrestlers... and the yakatori stall. Domo loves watching the crowd file in but is a little disappointed that there wasn't a shaved ice stand in the coliseum. The wrestlers are very big and frighten Domo so he's glad that he wasn't too close to the action. The Olympic Coliseum just outside the Sports Arena inspires Domo to become more active but the headless statue frightens him and makes him want to seek comfort in fried foods.

Mid-Wilshire

and we're in West Hollywood. Now that our friends at Time/Warner have connected us once again to the outside world we'll have posts a plenty to let you in on all the news of our big transition. More later. kisses

It has been brought to our attention that some of our readers ( you know who you are) may not be familiar with Domo Kun. Seeing that some one has recently queried "What up with that purple thing with the fangs?" ,we thought we'd bring everybody up to speed. Domo (どーもくん, Dōmo-kun ) is the mascot of Japan 's NHK television station, appearing in several 30 second stop-motion sketches shown as station identification during shows.The name "Domo" was acquired during the second episode of his show in which a TV announcer said, "doumo, konnichiwa" (どうも、こんにちは, "doumo, konnichiwa" ? ), which is a formal greeting meaning something along the lines of, "Well, hello there!", or "Hello, Domo!", and thus is a convenient dajare . The kun suffix on "Domo-kun," the name used to describe the character in the Japanese versions, is a Japanese honorific often used with young males. Domo's official website at NHK is http://...

to sleeping in our own bed again but for the next few nights we're staying at a friends place in Culver City. While the Culver City of today is pretty cool in a hipster suburban sortta way The Culver City of the past is fab-u- los . Basically this little Los Angeles neighborhood used to be the back lot of the M-G-M studios. Now there's not much left from the old days but one of the best to an Oz head like me has to be the Culver Hotel: The Culver is most famous or in this case infamous for it's connection to the Wizard of Oz. This is the very hotel that housed the Singer Midgets or for those of you who dated as teenagers The Munchkins. The small unassuming building will go down in history as the sight of the worlds biggest all midget orgy. We've vowed to check out the rest of Culver City while we're here something about galleries and restaurants and blah,blah blah. But there's no way we're gonna miss seeing a piece of that yellow brick road inside the now S...

We just had to share a few shots of our temporary home in L.A. For the next week our so we're staying at the Writer Villa, a short term stay artist's residence in the Los Feliz "hills" . Our hosts are warm and very helpful and the villa is a quiet escape from the stress of apartment hunting and traffic. Our room. Our view Our private patio. We find it more than a little distressing that we will have to leave this and live in... THE WORLD but until then, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

...the slums of Hollywood for an apartment that someone DID NOT overdose in Domo enjoys the day at Universal Studios and hopes to see a movie star or eat a sno -cone. Domo doesn't care much one way or the other.

That's right gang. We've made it to L.A. and are groggy but happy. The flight was early (you know how much we love mornings) but smooth and everything we checked made it in one piece except that bottle of Prada cologne that exploded in one of our bags. Ah the smell of it. Now for food and BED!

It seems we're not the first folks to make the switch from the streets of Brooklyn to California's sunny shore. OK so we're not exactly the Brooklyn Dodgers . But they moved to California and everything worked out for them right? Didn't it? Anybody? Anybody.......

As we begin our long push west we thought that a redesign of the blog was in order. But don't let the light colors or new name fool ya this isn't going to be some smurfy blog with poems about bird and trees and flowers and you can be your ass that we'll be writing a lot more about the "other" than we will about the "angels". While posting may be a bit sporadic over the next two weeks we'll do our best to document the big move in pictures and ( snarky ) words and keep you up-to-date with all of our adventures in the Land of LA.

Still packing. Man do we ever have a lot of stuff.

The glorious Miss B. was a neighbour when we we're young and beautiful. And while we were never as beautiful as she we were at least younger.

That slight scraping sound you hear can only mean one thing. They are indeed ice skating in Hell and we are moving to L.A. The date is set and there's no turning back . The truck with all our worldly processions leaves on the morning of April 28th and Virgin American leaves with us later that day. We'll also be introducing a brand new blog that will follow us through the first fun filled year. Stay tuned

A very cool clip from Russia. Beats the hell out of some crumby ballet.

Finally, the internet gives us what we have been looking for all these years -- a site dedicated to chronicling only what white people like. Examples being gentrification, difficult breakups and expensive sandwiches. Yep, three for three! But we must admit that we are more than partial to #58, Japan . Stuff White People Like

A trailer for a shock film about teenage sex. No one will be admitted during the red hot chicken wing scene.

We just luv her messy self.