For all of you indecisive LA diners...you're welcome.

So I decided to put together a list of my personal favorite restaurants in LA based on the following criteria: quality of food, price and experience factor.

(in no particular order)

MEXICAN FOOD: El Compadre - Hollywood - ok so this place has the best margaritas and they have a live ranchero band that plays so you kind of feel like you're in Mexico for a hot second.

ETHIOPIAN FOOD: Messob - Fairfax - you can sit in these traditional huts while u eat with your hands. I recommend my personal favorite, Doro tibs or quanta fir fir.

PERUVIAN FOOD: Los Balcones del Peru - Hollywood - if you haven't tried peruvian food you are missing out. TRY IT. End of story. Ambience is ehhh but the food is GREAT. Try the Lomo Saltado.

RANDOM FOOD: Luna Park - Mid Wilshire - try the goat cheese fondue and the pizza is excelente. Ambience is dope but make sure you get reservations. They even have trippy original paintings that look awesome after two or three cocktails.

HEALTHY FOOD: Bloom - Mid City - Smoothies, cucumber water, turkey burgers, wraps and the best french fries if you are tired of your diet.

GREEK FOOD: Papa Cristo - Near Downtown - Greek salad is my favorite with a lamb and chicken skewer...with some yogurt. (salivating)

JAPANESE FOOD: Shabu Shabu Yaaaaa - - Hollywood/Highland - Novel Concept: Pay to cook your own food! j/k It's a good restaurant. Trust me.

SOUL FOOD: Philips BBQ - Leimert or Adams - Hot links, short ribs and "cone bread wit a lil bit a gray-veh".

PERSIAN FOOD: Pars Persian Cuisine - LAX - Not the best location OR ambience but the best persian food in LA in my experience (and i've been to quite a few spots)....but if you're looking for ambience then go to Shah Abbas (la cienega/san vicente).

BREAKFAST FOOD: Cafe Verona - La Brea/2nd - Think sunday morning brunch. I get the turkey sausage, and either an omelette or the french toast. Sooo good.

Again, you're ALLLLL welcome!

This only adds to me hating V-day!

Ok, so let me preface this by saying I should have paid off my parking tickets a long time ago. With that said, about a week and a half ago I did pay them off thru the DMV, got the updated registration and all that. I wake up on Valentines Day..its a sunny day, nice and all..bout ready to get my day started and I walk out to my car in the process of being BOOTED! You should have seen the horror in my eyes but I thought my smooth talking would get out of it. WRONG. Even after I showed her proof that the tickets were paid off she said, "well my system shows different and since I already started it my supervisor said I have to finish the job." And since Monday is presidents day I have to wait till Tuesday to get this stupid boot off my car. Unbelievable...you couldn't write this type of bad luck.

Costa Rica, Doug, bifocals and bungee jumping.

Ok, so several years ago I studied abroad in Costa Rica. We got a group together to go bunjee jumping off of this old, rusty bridge. It was a gloomy day and very wet. I went first and yes it was very scary, but I'd do it again. Eventually its my boy Doug's turn to jump. So he says, "hold my bifocals dogg, I'll be back." He steps up to the plank and because he's SOOOO blind he can't figure out where the edge of the plank is. We start counting down and he gets nervous and when the count hits zero he jumped straight up, slips on the plank WELL before the edge and hits his shins. We were cracking up laughing and I just so happened to catch it on film. Ahhh good times.
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LSAT Question so you empathize with what I'm going thru!

Fossilized bones from the hominids Australopithecus robustus and Homo erectus were chemically analyzed. The robustus bones contained a lower ratio of strontium to calcium than did the erectus bones. The lower the ratio of strontium to calcium in fossilized hominid bones, the more meat the hominid had in its diet. H. erectus is known to have eaten meat.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which of the following?

A.) The diet of A. robustus included at least some meat.
B.) The meat in the diet of H. erectus was higher in strontium than was the meat in the diets of other hominids.
C.) The diet of H. erectus was richer in calcium than was the diet of A. robustus.
D.) The diets of A. robustus and H. erectus both contained less strontium than calcium.
E.) The process of fossilization altered the ratio of strontium to calcium in the bones of both A. robustus and H. erectus.

(You have 90 seconds to answer this correctly)

-Introducing $tray Money-

We found him on Melrose and Western and took him in. He's a good dog but he has his moments like when I mess with him while he's eating.