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September 09, 2007 |
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Famous Dead People
FOUND by Adina
in Los Angeles, California
I found this on the UCLA campus. Looks like some friends were looking to have fun in LA this year! I liked how it was written on an old check carbon copy like a true college student.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
hah I'll just steal first post sleep then awaken with a brilliant and post-worthy comment.
Gotta hit the Rocky Horror Picture Show!! Thank Goodness this person knows how to show the out of town visitors a gooooood time.
Woohoo! today's my birthday and i'm drunk. see you tomorrow-not early.
My love to Midlife Crisis, Clover, Mona, Chrome Toaster, and the Salt Man. I love you guys! xoxoxo
what better way to be a tourist than to go to a wax museum?
Man, that has to be the worst Los Angeles tourist itinerary I've ever seen. Old Town Pasadena? It's just a bunch of Gap/Crate&Barrel/JCrew stores. The Grove is an outdoor mall designed to look like an old downtown shopping district (Main Street USA vibe). It's a fake "downtown". With the same damn stores. Ugh...Gladstones? It's the JCrew of restaurants. The Dodger game would be fun, though.
Much better itinerary:
Catch a band at Spaceland (not House of Blues...ACK!!)
Museum of Jurassic Technology (very cool)
Do your shopping on Melrose - still kind of posing, but at least you'll run into more interesting tourists (Mostly Japanese kids looking right out of "Mystery Train".
Eat at Roscoes Chicken and Waffles
LaBrea Tar Pits! Nothing better than wooly mammoth bones and the smell of methane. MmmmMmmmMmmm
Unless, of course, it was a joke list and they were trying to come up with the cheesiest things to do in LA...Then it's funny, and I support their itinerary completely.
Wow, I would love to visit LA but like Rob, I would not put those places as must-sees.
I am going to agree with Rob. I live in a crap town and we liked to make lists like this and then throw on Hawaiian shirts and umbrella hats and go take pictures in front of the statue of General Custer and things like that. I am thinking these folks are locals who are tired of doing the "cool" stuff, so they made a list of crappy places and are going to go play tourist for the day. It is a fun and cheap way to spend the day, and if you have the pictures printed in black and white they end up looking really cool.
I vote for the wax museum. What better way to spend your time than getting creeped out by lifelike statues? Famous dead people sounds interesting too. Do you think they're planning on bumping into any on their tourist expeditions?
I PERSONALLY WOULDN'T GO TO ANY OF THESE PLACES. PERIOD.
Cool idea, SuzyQ. Never thought of pretending to be a tourist and going out to all the tours trap locations. Black & white always add a sense of mystery and importance to photos, don't you agree? And they'd be such a hoot to look at later.
I'm not sure what to make of this find. I may just fly over to UCLA and check out the sites.
No, bikinis, though, 'cuz I got bad stretch marks.
Happy birthday, Unworthy!
This girl's boyfriend is coming to visit in a few weeks from Vermont, and she wants to do all the goofy touristy LA things she hasn't gotten to yet because she has no friends there yet and she doesn't want to do them alone.
When Mom and Dad come to visit at college.
They bring you a sweater, cookies, and list of things they want to see all on Parent's Weekend. *ugh*
When I lived in a small touristy town surrounded by mountains my friends and I would choose a rather touristy area and stare up at the mountains pointing occasionally whispering to each other. More often than not a group would form around us peering at the mountain looking for whatever we were looking at (which was absolutely nothing). After awhile we'd leave and watch them, snickering. I love fucking with tourists.
Aw man, I miss LA. And sure, some of that stuff is cheesy, but cheesy can be fun sometimes. I personally sort of like The Grove. I mean, it's a mall, but it's a cool looking one with a neato fountain in the middle.
I'm with Rob on the Spaceland idea, too. I used to live right around the corner from there and saw a bunch of cool shows at The Land.
Eh...I'm game. I'll take ya to these places...will you buy me dinner?
Oh how I've missed Lizardbits!
You make me laugh.
I like to take on fake accents around tourists. Do that, and drop some names while on the phone - works every time.
Hee hee
The best tourist story is the one about the tour guide who was taking a party round the Tower of London and spotted a friend of his whose name was Neil. ‘Neil!!’ he called out across the road, and turned round to see a whole coachload of Japanese tourists on their knees.
Tee hee.
The area where I work is a real tourist trap, the things they come to see are only there for the tourists to come and gawp at, so it’s all fictional, and they do get in the way. On the other hand they’re kind of indirectly paying my salary (mine and Pavarotti’s, R.I.P. – bless him), so I shouldn’t complain or be rude to them...
Happy birthday, Unworthy!! What do I have to do to get on your list??? Love anyway xoxoxo
I work for a bank. I'm pretty sure this carbon copy is from a Disney endorsded line of Winnie the Pooh checks.
I just thought id throw that in here.
-d. Sorry, i can spell. I just have lazy fingers. =)
Happy birthday, Unworthy! I hope you get to do all the stuff on this list and then have even more fun, today on your birthday!!!
Apparently the general consensus is that these are not fun things to do. So I was wrong in suggesting that you do them for fun, Unworthy. Don't listen to me. However, I think a bonfire on the beach sounds fun. And I've heard the Getty Museum is one of the coolest in the world.
If this is a touron list, where are Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm?
When I lived in Jackson Hole, we called the tourists "tourons." It's a combo of two words, the second being not politically correct.
stretch marks can be lovely - get a deep dark all over tan - go naked out into the fullmoonlight - voila - your very own (gorgeous!) tigress stripes - i happen to be very enamoured of mine ;-)
trying to add some fun to a dull romantic relationship? maybe she thinks that going to a wax museum will be just the excitement that will keep the flame alive.
PastelNinja, I love Pooh. That's pretty much the coolest thing about this find for me, since I know shit-all about LA tourist traps.
If this is a list of fun things for college kids to do,those are some boring young people.
Jonathan, I didn't mean to overlook you! I'm sorry to Katie, too, my classmate in crime. I wasn't very coherent at 2:21 this morning.
Thank you for the birthday greetings, you guys!
Clover, a beach bonfire sounds excellent! I'll bring the marshmallows! Next time I get to California I will not be at a loss for things and people to see and do.
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT I'D BE FAR TOO HUNG OVER AT 9AM, POSSIBLY STILL DRUNK, TO COMMENT ON FOUND MAGAZINE
Yes dear. We all know that was the imposter. Did you get the note I left on the kitchen table? The party was last night.
Yep, and it was a great party! Beach bonfire and all!
That's not SALT.
you're right... he's not SALT, but he's right about the fawning over the SALT persona (impostor or not). It's right up there with the bitching about the SALT persona. Let SALT do his thing and we'll do ours and we'll be a rather happy comment page.
only the Shadow knows...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, man it's been years since I've gone to see that. We used to get all dressed up like the characters and fling toast. Can anyone guess who I dressed up as?
I can DD, but I know who you relly are ;)
Dbl D, I'll Bring some Toast!!
Herve, Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch is closer to Santa Barbara than LA. Ostrichland in Buellton is far more interesting.
When I lived and worked in a touristy type town, we called them "terrorists".. (pre 9-11. It was funnier back then.) I like the term "tourons", too.
Rob should be commended for his more interesting list of things to do in LA, and
Lizardbits.. LOL! My friends and I used to do that, too! We miss you when you're not around.
Hey, if I were going to L.A., i would definitely have to make a stop at the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Kudos to this person.
Wow things sure got heated on the comments page. Some people really need to get out and away from the internet.
LA is stinky and the traffic sucks, wrong place for a vacation in my opinon.
Skip L.A. and come to San Diego.
i'm from northern canada, i think the first thing i'd do in LA is make sure i still had my wallet, not because its LA, but because its a city with more than 50,000 people, then i'd trade my jeans and long sleeves shirts in for shorts, winter is almost here, by the end of the month it'll be snowing, by the end of next month it'll be -30....so the heat of anything more would be a shock...i guess i'd find a hotel too...not a good one though
I know what the L. A. locals must think about all of the cheesy, tourist places in the city, but for someone who lives on the other side of the country, you grow up your whole life hearing about rodeo drive, watching the academy awards from the kodak theater on tv, and hearing about the chinese theater, so it's exciting to see those things in person.
...but there is no excuse for going to a wax museum. ever.
Happy Birthday Unworthy.
Happy Birthday, Unworthy!!
nikki, my apologies :)
Thank you Alai.
Thanks again, Crisis. Will you be my tour guide next time I'm in California? Love you, man. xoxo
Of course, Unworthy! If our travels take us to Los Angeles, the only thing on this list that will be included are the two Getty Museums (one at his former home in Malibu and the other, newer billion-dollar campus on a hilltop in L. A.). I'd also recommend the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and the Huntington Library, Art Galleries and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. I'd love to see the gorgeous new Frank Gehry-designed Music Center and catch a performance by the Philharmonic. UCLA has great concerts as well and a wonderful sculpture garden to wander around in after the show. We'd have it to ourselves at midnight!
Then it's off to be kids at Disneyland for a day, and next drive down to the San Diego Zoo (their panda cub was born on August 3rd). I'm sure there are lots of new things in the L.A. area to explore as well that I don't know about.
Rob can fill us in!
P. S. Uh, and our spouses will enjoy the trip as well. And they'll really like each other! Note to self: get FOUR tickets.
Hey Crisis, let's ditch our spouses in that Hilltop Getty Museum. <nudge nudge wink wink>
WHAT?!!! Nobody reads past Finds.
I just noticed that it says "Grove @ X-Mas", so I wonder if this is just a list of the list writer's favorite things.. or something. Otherwise, why the specificity about Xmas?
Oh please! 'Pretending to be tourists' is so... well, pretentious! Just go because you know you want to, have fun, and stop 'pretending' you are too cool to be there. Yeesh...
Lol Rob. I hear you. But I don't care how "JCrew" Gladstone's is, it's crazy delicious. The one in Malibu, not City Walk. :)