Teddy Roosevelt kicks Ayn Rand's A$$

So...I was at the gym tonight and I saw where the checker-inner guy normally is sitting there was just a book. 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand. "Wow," I thought, "this guy is pretty weird, why would he be reading such a heavy book?" This guy is the same one that tells me I'm not very consistent at working out and that even though I work 6 days a week sometimes I should come in on the 7th day (Sorry I don't have a job where I get to sit down all night long guy.) and rubs his girlfriend's ass while she's running. I can't stand this guy already!

As I left he was back at his spot and I asked him if he had read that book. He said he had and was shocked that I knew who the author was. I should have played dumb because I was then locked in an hour long talk about bullsh*t I didn't care or agree with him on and didn't want to put forth the energy to fight with him because I would still be there right now if I had.

Craig is this idiot's name, he's an atheist who thinks I ride a motorcycle (so basically thought I was a butch dyke, thanks douche.), but that's neither here nor there. He's majoring in philosophy. I'm not a big philosophy buff or Ayn Rand for that matter, but I held my own in this conversation. He told me he thinks religion is stupid and you can't prove it and it holds people back and you can't be prideful or selfish. I listened to him prattle on about this for the better part of 45 minutes. He started talking about the Middle East some how and I said something about Teddy Roosevelt and the carrying a big stick quote. He said, "Oh Teddy Roosevelt, I think he was horrible. That's when the Presidents really went down hill, starting with him."

Wait, WHAT?

I think he saw that he had to really prove to me what he was saying because my eyebrow had raised so high it was almost to my hairline. I LOVE TR, LOVE him. He said TR was the reason government was involved with busting up big businesses and we shouldn't be involved in that. He didn't have an opinion on my Big Stick comment because he didn't really know much about TR's stance on foreign policy but thought it was like W's and he thinks we should always be isolationists not "cowboys" or have "national pride". And that TR "fancied  himself a cowboy." No dude, he WAS a freaking cowboy. He was THE Rough Rider. IDIOT! "Didn't he create National Parks? I don't like paying for those, I mean the government doesn't pay for things I like and those aren't even any good so they should be privately funded so I don't have to pay for them." I don't like the outdoors much but I never thought I would meet someone who hates conserving nature and actually finds it a friggin' burden on them self financially. I think my brain was melting out of my ears at this point.

Who doesn't like Teddy? I never thought I'd meet someone who hated him. He is the most bad ass President EVER! Better than Lincoln because someone tried to kill TR, shot him and with the bullet in him gave a one hour long speech!!!! BAD ASS!!

So, Craig was and still is, really pissing me off. I can't stand these hipsters that think sitting around and thinking about all this stupid stuff makes them the next Aristotle. I'm fine with people not thinking there's a heaven, great more room for my plantation in the sky, you can work in my cotton fields for eternity and ponder more stupid crap, like "Why was I so stupid to think Teddy Roosevelt was a bad President?"

GAH!!!! STUPID PEOPLE!!!

Marty!! We've got to go back!!

They had style, they had grace

So...I got to Hollywood Blvd. early for my class tonight and decided to wander around. It was daylight so I was safer than it being at night. I've walked past this theater and it always makes me sad. Clearly it once was a really neat theater and now it's all boarded up. I did a little research and found out that this spot is apparently very haunted because in 1901 it was an elementary school that burnt down killing 25 kids and a teacher. The theater was built in 1936 and was in use until 1995. There are a lot of neat old buildings on Hollywood Blvd. that, in a past life would have been some really swingin', happening places. It reminded me of Back to the Future. How things were once awesome and now they are all dirty and scary because people are all buttholes now.

Ice, Ice Baby

As I went about my little adventure to look into the past I really found one from my family's past. Jack Warner was the ice boy to my Great-Great Grandpa Abraham Goldberg. Jack apparently asked Ab if he wanted to go into the Nickelodeon (WAY before it was the name of a cable network) business with him and my stupid Great-Great Grandpa said, "I've got enough money." What an un-Jewish answer...they can NEVER have enough money!!!

Walk like an...

One landmark that has not turned to rubble was the Egyptian Theater. It open in 1922, just a month before King Tut's tomb was discovered  and was built, in my opinion, in a much more opulent manner than Grauman's Chinese just down the street.

See the pyramids along the Nile...

This doesn't even lead anywhere! Now that's crazy money!!

Slide your feet up the street bend your back...

Near the glass doors they have a schedule posted with all the movies they are playing for the month listed. On May 1st they are playing all three Back to the Future movies. I'm like a psychic! I text Harry to tell him he should come for a visit to watch all three...apparently there is suppose to be a special guest at the end of the showing. Maybe it'll be someone awesome like Doc Brown or someone less awesome like Bliff, either way that's cool.

I walk down the lane, with a happy refrain...

I couldn't get any closer to this building but it was really pretty and had a lot of detail. I wonder what it once was? Now it's stuck next to these two crappy souvenir shops. Poor little building.

Shoobie, Doobie, Doo...

I didn't know THIS place is the oldest Italian place in Hollywood since 1949. If they drove all the other Italian places out of town they did a bad job because Musso and Franks serves Italian and as been around since 1919. Someone needs to fix their sign but that mosaic is pretty cool.

While walking down to Grauman's Chinese I saw a girl flip out when she came across Marilyn Monroe's star on the Walk of Fame. She yelled and then kissed her hand and touched the ground. Maybe she thinks these people are buried under the stars, I don't know, but it was gross.

The Lady, She's a Tramp...

I wear the same shoe size as Sinatra. We could do a Tootsie like movie together where he borrows all my clothes...hilarious!

You Made Me Love You, I Didn't Wanna Do It...

Why does Gable's prints have a brass boarder? Did Lucy and Ethel try and steal this one too??

MAME...

Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame reminds me of my crazy Grandma M. And my feet are WAY bigger than ol' Roz's tootsies.

I had to hoof it back to my class down the street but I did have a fun little adventure in only an hour before class.

And I'm going to be 40....SOMEDAY!

Drunken rock out. Clearly I'm doing my best Freddie Mercury.

So...'When Harry Met Sally' was on E! the other night. I've seen that movie about a kajillion times. I remember my parents referencing that movie to tell me men and women could never be friends. I'm fairly certain my Dad almost knew the spiel verbatim, like some kind of cautionary Gettysburg address or something.

I have always had more guy friends than girl, now the guys are just gay so the Harry/Sally thing turns into the Will/Grace thing, but I never worried about any of then actually liking me (the straight ones), but this scene in the movie has always stuck with me as a reminder.

I moved in with my guy (non-gay) best friend in college (For the sake of this blog, his name will be Harry). We were never single at the same time and I was totally certain there was nothing there because I asked him to Winter Formal in high school (as friends) and was shot down.

Yes I did have blonde hair at one point

As far as I was concerned we were like brother and sister since we were born 5 days apart, went to the same schools since we were 6 and when I was blond, looked similar. So, for three years we lived together and with each other's boyfriend or girlfriend at certain times. Neither one of our dates ever worried that we liked each other because they figured if something were to happen it would have by our early 20's.

Harry moved away and I still haven't found that replacement and it's been almost 2 years. Now, don't get me wrong, he's irreplaceable and I really miss Harry... a lot. But I am still looking for that straight buddy to pal around with, like I make you dinner and you fix crap for me and watch Old School and talk about random historical events and Back to the Future and not worry about him trying to do anything funny.

Now I have to worry about people asking me out to places I do not want to go to on dates and then expect something..physical. As if a $25 date means I have to put out....hookers make better money than that!!! I just want a freakin' friend. It's like THAT is harder to find than a date.

A good piece of advice from my crazy Grandma M is she told me to make sure I'm friends with who ever I end up with because once the love is gone you can at least like the person. So, shouldn't it all start out as friends?