Burbank. BUR-bank.

Any time I say Burbank, or even think it, I think it like Will Ferrell says it.  BUR-bank. In Burbank lies Ikea, a veritable utopia of affordable yet nice furniture.  Or so I thought… enter me, into a world of plywood.  Now I don’t mean to knock Ikea, but their furniture is probably the worst ever made.  And I don’t mean to make fun of how cheap their furniture is, but homeless people could buy it and make homes out of it.  Problem is, a home-made shack out of tables and chairs from Ikea would either a) blow away in the wind or b) collapse under the weight of itself.  Oh boy here I go:

• I don’t mean to make fun of Ikea, but that is the worst store I have ever gone into.
• I wouldn’t want to put off Ikea, but they should donate their furniture for fire wood.
• I don’t want to hurt Ikea’s feelings, but their store is aboslutely huge and full of nothing of consequence and there were so many people in it I couldn’t find the forest from the trees and even when I did find the tables they were so poorly made that I could probably knock one over if I tried to cut into a juicy Filet Mignon that I know I will be cooking and eating on my new table that I will most certainly not be buying from such a horrible store.
• I’m a nice guy and I wouldn’t want to make fun of Ikea, because that could result in offending someone that likes Ikea, but people that like Ikea are stinky marmots.  ZING.

Check out this car.  Jalopiwood!  I do love LA, and its things like this that keep it interesting.  This woman was driving the oldest most beat up car I have ever seen actually operate it, right in central Hollywood.  I’m sure I have seen older cars in the front yards of random folks out in the hill country of Texas.  However, this one actually runs.  I don’t know the model, I don’t know what color it is (other than just Rust?), and I don’t know how it runs.  I wonder how the gas mileage is on that bad boy.  I did do my part though, and let her in to my lane.

Next up, Griffith Observatory.  I haven’t been up there, but I know I will be at some point.  It has been featured in lots of films, the latest being Charlie’s Angels 2.  Apparently a big James Dean film, Rebel Without a Cause, was also filmed here.  I just happened to notice off in the distance sitting high on the hill.  I think it’s about 3 miles away.  That would be one hell of a zip line, am I right?  Maybe I should start looking into that.  It could be the new hit tourist attraction, zip line from Griffith Observatory straight to Sunset Strip!  Notice the garbage and refuse, in particular a piece of plywood, that are randomly strewn about the streets of Los Angeles.

Tomorrow, Operation Table Harvest Success.