Day 30, Los Angeles: The Other Half of the Man Show.

(Posted by Andrew about the events of Jan 10; Los Angeles, USA)

Last full day of vacation before heading home. :(

In the morning today we had a walk down to Venice Beach, but being the winter it was only a frosty +19C and therefore not very busy so we didn't stay long. (Also I forgot a hat and/or sunscreen.)

The evening brought a cute C-list celebrity encounter. First of, we skipped going to the Tonight Show or Late Show; last night was good enough. Instead, I listen to the Adam Carolla Podcast and had hoped to go see a live taping wile we're in town. (Combined with Kimmel last night, it sounds like we're stalkers of the cast of "The Man Show".) Unfortunately, their first live show of the year is tomorrow night and we leave tomorrow morning. Instead, I found that Carolla would be at a showing of his movie "The Hammer" at a "Second Look" screening at a local art-house theatre, hosted by Illeana Douglas. Tickets were cheap so I picked up a pair and even paid a little extra to get "couch seating". When we arrived we found the couches had "reserved" signs on them and found the "Reserved for Andrew Pane" couch... immediately behind the "Reserved for Adam Carolla" couch, which in turn was right next to the "Reserved for Illeana Douglas" couch. So we had the odd experience of watching a movie with a small portion of the screen blocked out by the back of the head of the star of the movie:

(Podcast fans: the couch also had Lynette with Sonny & Natalia, and I think Dr. Spaz was on the next couch over.)

Afterwards, they did a Q&A session with Carolla, Douglas, and co-writer Kevin Hench.

At the end the announced that the next "Second Look" was going to be watching "Starship Troopers" with Moby in-house to comment. This is the only type of thing that makes we wish I lived in one of the big cities: being able to see cool things like this. A nice evening to end the trip, and CHEAP! The whole thing cost less than $40, though Kimmel last night still wins for most economical day: we just had to pay $4 for parking.

Now we get a short 20 minutes of sleep before getting up to catch out early morning flight home. At least I've managed to cash in my last few upgrade points.