Sounds great!

So once again, here's the current roll call:

Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 5:00pm at Red Lion Tavern located at
2366 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039:

WILL ATTEND
-----------
blankfist: Los Angeles
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
MarineGunrock: Arizona
GreatBird: San Diego
waxxx: San Diego

ATTENDANCE UNSURE
-----------------
Grimm: Stanton (OC) (likely to attend)
IssyKitty/DFT: Anaheim (attendance still unclear)
DarkRowan: Costa Mesa (OC) (attendance still unclear)
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC) (unlikely but might attend; out of town)
Ant: Los Angeles (unlikely to attend; doesn't drive)

NOT ATTENDING
-------------
LittleRed: Arizona (term paper due)
Lucky760: OC (out of town on business)
Charms: OC (out of town on business)
rottenseed: San Diego (unable to attend that weekend)
YouLickMyWhat: San Diego (unable to attend that weekend)

update: See below.

Thanks for the suggestions, bf.

Red Lion Inn sounds great, but the billiard also sounds like fun. I guess I'd lean to the latter, but I'm fine with whatever the majority prefers.

So here's the current roll call for Saturday, November 22, 2008 at ~5:00pm (?) in Los Angeles:

WILL ATTEND
-----------
blankfist: Los Angeles - votes for Hollywood Billiards
rottenseed: San Diego - votes for ?
Lucky760+Charms: OC - votes for majority rule
youdiejoe: Los Angeles - votes for Red Lion Inn
MarineGunrock: Arizona - votes for Red Lion Inn
GreatBird: San Diego - votes for ?

ATTENDANCE UNSURE
-----------------
Grimm: Stanton (OC) (likely to attend)
IssyKitty/DFT: Anaheim (attendance still unclear)
DarkRowan: Costa Mesa (OC) (attendance still unclear)
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC) (unlikely but might attend; out of town)
Ant: Los Angeles (unlikely to attend; doesn't drive)

DESTINATION TALLY
-----------------
Red Lion Inn: 2
Hollywood Billiards: 1

blankfist: Los Angeles
rottenseed: San Diego
Lucky760+Charms: OC
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
MarineGunrock: Arizona

So, assuming that list of 6 is all who intends to participate, where/when do you blokes want to meet? I think LA County sounds like a good general location, but as east and south as we can get so it's as near Arizona and San Diego as possible (without putting ourselves in danger of a car jacking). Anyone know a good spot? How is a Saturday in November? Perhaps Nov 8?

So this is the outstanding list of other locals. Will any of you participate?
IssyKitty/DFT: Los Angeles
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC) (moved away)
DarkRowan: Costa Mesa (OC)
GreatBird: San Diego
Ant: Los Angeles
Grimm: Stanton (OC)

Here's the list so far:

blankfist: Los Angeles
rottenseed: San Diego
Lucky760: OC
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
MarineGunrock: Arizona

According to the world map:
IssyKitty/DFT: Los Angeles?
Jonny: Huntington Beach, CA?
Dark Rowan: Costa Mesa, CA?
GreatBird: San Diego?

Wasn't it pretty obvious the US would attack Iraq weeks before it actually happened, or was it just me? What the hell is he talking about? Attacking a country out of the blue? That would have to be Canada or maybe Costa Rica by now to be any kind of surprise.

Well, I lived in Maine, which is right next to Canada and on the east coast. So I'm an expert in Relations with Canada, England Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Finland, Italy, Greece, Bosnia, Croatia, Haiti, Cuba, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and OH, what do you know? Russia is on the Atlantic too, so count that one in there. Then add Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Ghana, Guyana, Suriname, Guyane, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize.

And that's just the Northern Atlantic.

Well, and Of course I was in Japan, Korea, Iraq and Kuwait, so add those and all surrounding countries.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to use my new-found skills to disssolve the DMZ and instill peace in the Koreas, Stop the mini wars in Africa, get the Columbian government to stop all drug trafficking into the U.S., convince Israel to calm down, get the Kurds, Sunnis and shiites to stop fighting and work together, Convince Iraq, Saudia Arabia and Kuwait to give half their oil to the U.S. for free, and Iran to stop all the "naughty business" with nuclear research.

You would think after all that, and with all my foreign relations skills I could convince MINK to stop being a douche. Well, I'm not God, you know.

It'll be a busy day.

Trinity Broadcasting... my fucking favorite. I drove by their gawd-AWFUL gaudy-ass "palace" in Costa Mesa, CA before I knew what it was, and I wondered why it COVERED in Christmas lights all year 'round. All they money they'd save in electricity costs if they took off all the stupid lights could probably feed a million starving children. Please, for the love of all that is good, would people please stop supporting goddamn televangelists???

I listened to this while watching this clip. try it...

Being raped by the Dutch press is no reason not to give a straight answer. That's probably why he got raped by the press the previous time he didn't answer. Costa was being extremely rude.

First thing Costa says is that he got raped by the Dutch press the last time he spoke on this issue and it's my guess as to why he gets short with this guy.

I'd like to point out that what Costa says about Dutch drug policy is wrong. It's true that A FEW coffeeshops have been moved to the borders of our country but that's only because drug tourists were causing problems and crowding in the city centers close to the borders.

From YouTube description:

We came across this three-toed sloth struggling to cross the road between Arenal Volcano and San Jose. We formed a loose cordon to keep cars from running the guy over. He made it, slowly.
Story and photos at dolanbrau.com
Look for 'costa rica and the galapagos'.

To answer some questions in the comments:
a) it took 5-10 minutes for the sloth to cross half the road
b) it was covered in bugs and algae and had long sharp claws - no way were we going to pick that thing up

Costa Carbo? COSTA CARBO? Ugh.

Besides the fact that the author can't read and has no knowledge of American film history, it was good!

Clam down MG, Eklek is from Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada (French-speaking), Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, or Vietnam, so it's okay for him/her to use this convention.

I asked the internet.

pffffffff

i still haven't seen a howto that is actually useful, even if it isn't fake.

i'm off to make a howto video... how to make a cup of coffee if you have run out of coffee..

you will need:
a mountainside (anywhere in costa rica will do fine)
a coffee farmer (remember to pay him fairly!)
several months (you can watch your battery powered TV while you wait)
a roaster and grinder (you can probably find these anywhere)