515 Kelton Ave, Venice Beach, and more

First things first. I'm paying way too much money for a hallway that smells of garbage and an elevator that has been vomited in twice in the last two nights (and not been cleaned up by the way). And the kitchen has an old gas stove in it, so there is this constant "light a match and watch the room blow up" gas smell. $1900 a month for this? Oh, and we're the only ones in the building with children, so the building manager hates us, claiming we make too much noise. Nevermind the music we can hear loudly until 2 in the morning. Oh no, our kids sometimes running in the hallway at 2 PM is what is truly disruptive. Goodness.

Yesterday we went to Venice Beach. Like no place else in the world, and in a cool way. What you have is 3 miles of beach and people can apply for a lottery to get a bunch of small booths lining the walkway. And they use their booths to prophesy, to express themselves, to perform.

For instance:


Believe it or not, that guy was preaching the Gospel. Things are different here.

Venice Beach also has an outdoor body building gym where fanatically strong men and women work out, it's called Muscle Beach. It's also where White Men Can't Jump was filmed. Oh, and they were filming a scene of some new TV show and we say Don Johnson, from Miami Vice. Croquette!!! (Or however you spell that).

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