It was fucking really cold today. High of 20, low of 16, and I was outside for entirely too much of it. Woke up nice and late since I wasn't in any real rush to go out. Ended up leaving at 1pm to go meet Thuy, Van, Layhanz, and Nancy at Joe's Shanghai in ctown. Got there a bit early and burned some time first in a duane reade (CVS) where I bought my first issue of GQ. It's a combination of maybe wanting to grow up and Rihanna being incredibly hot. After that I went to quickly's and had some chicken while waiting. I gave this awk teenage guy an extra chair so he could sit with the girls he was awkwardly lingering around. He didn't say thanks or anything which I'm not gonna lie, pissed me off but w/e.
On an unrelated note one of the pockets in my coat already tore! i don't know if i wanna bother going back to BCF to return it since the line was like an hour long... but still on the first day?
Anyways the girls eventually came and we had hella XLB which the restaurant did quite well. It was good catching up with them. Thuy and Van's sis lives in harlem like 20 blocks from me which is neat. While we were waiting outside this random old white guy came in and asked me in good enough chinese how long the line was. I sort of stared at him for a while, answered in chinese, then told him in english that I can speak english too but he went on in chinese. Sort of annoying since i'm not sure if he was assuming i couldn't speak english or if he was just proud he could speak chinese relatively well. I probably should have Samuel L Jackson style kicked him in the chest and yelled "English motherfucker! do you speak it?!"
Moving on, we parted ways after eating and I went to go seek a sports bare to watch the eaglebank bowl which ucla was playing in. I got pretty lost which in 18 degree weather is no leisurly detour. First i ended up in this pub but I couldn't get audio since they wanted to play music for the other patrons. At halftime I walked to another actual sports bar about half a mile away that was super divey and cold but they had lots of tv's, blasted the audio feed and a good beer selection. I shot the shit with the bartender and UCLA won. GO BRUINS. After the game I figured I should go give carnegie deli a try since sam and karri clearly weren't that interested in it. On my way i stopped at one of the many unrelated to each other ray's pizzas and had a slice. It had roasted chicken and pepperoni and sounded much better than it tasted. Not up to nyc pizza standards in my opinion. After that I got to a subway and then walked the final half mile to my destination.
Carnegie deli is pretty famous, not as good as katz's despite being name dropped in the Adam Sandler Hanukah song. I ordered a potato pancake which was meh and a "woody alan" which was this monstrous half pastrami half corned beef sandwich. It was literally like 7 inches tall. utter madness. I didn't get through much of it before tapping out. As I was finishing a man and his daughter sat next to me. It's pretty crowded so you're pretty much just put at tables with strangers. She was cute so when the dad left to go to the atm I tried to chat with her a bit. It wasn't hard starting a convo, i learned that her dad lived in nyc and she was from conn and i got to surprise her saying I wanted to come here to celebrate my jewish roots and the such. Anyways her dad came before I could do anything else and the waiter had already brought my food wrapped up with the check so i had to bow out gracefully and leave. lolz.
Watched the warriors fight the lakers till the end. I think a huge part of why everyone hates kobe is he's such a damn trump card. No matter what is going on he's good enough to take over a game and just will it into submission. What hurts the most is LA is really a terrible sports town. Not to rag on some of my friends, ie Cat, Ryan, who are real and great fans but most ppl in LA just like winning having their name out there. Staples center is about being seen not love of the game. And who the fuck boos you're own team while throwing shit on the court? Fakers fans did it after the celtics xmas day loss and after the warriors were up 10 after the 1st quarter. Where's the support for the team that just one you a championship. That's why angelinos call it the lake show, because for them it might as well be jersey shore. It's all about love and appreciation for the game and I would argue the vast majority of LA sports fans don't really love the game. LA doesn't deserve Kobe and the lakers who are really the best team in the league right now and everyone in the country knows it. That, I believe is one of the main reasons everyone hates the lakers, they just help amplify the hyper image conscious status obsessed culture that Hollywood breeds. I enjoyed my time in LA and a lot of my best friends are from there but the LA that is represented in the phrase lake show is what makes me know I could never settle down there.
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