city of bable

In LA you come in contact with people all over the, world, the state, the country. I find myself doing a lot of translation lately. Not the kind where someone speaks another language and I paraphrase in English. It is more that I say one thing and provide its regional counterpart.

I realized this as I was planning my very first white elephant party. It wasn't until I invited someone on the east coast by mistake that I realize that out there they call it a "yankee swap" I had heard the term before but completely forgot about it.

It dawned on me that I actually do a lot of that here when I talk to people. I usually stop mid-sentence and say:

"where you live they call it this"

So in order for us to understand each other better, here is what I found to be true:

white elephant = yankee swap (east coast)
bag = sack (iowa and other parts of the mid-west)
World Market=Cost Plus (california and west coast)
Liquor store=packie (Boston Area)
Quit your job=gone drug up (deep south)

I hope that this will you help you to "overstand" people better.

la hipster podcast

Bon jour hipsters,

This is the news for this morning 10/12/10 (european dating people!!)

Nautical stripes are out, even though we have been loving Brigitte Bardot and all things French New Wave, stripes are out

Ironically big glasses (not sun, what are we the mad men crowd?) are still in, it is up to you if they actually have glass in them.

Bonus word of the day, that you have to work into 4 conversations is the word Goethe.

I hope you have a pleasant day full of judging and hating things for no reason.

(btw went to ArtWalk last night)