The Most LA Things That Have Happened To Me In LA
One time I saw Danielle Haim in Burbank
If you were wondering what it’s like to live here…
Apparently there are a lot of machete attacks in LA!
It’s also known for earthquakes.
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I haven’t been attacked with a machete (yet) and for some reason I didn’t feel the most recent earthquake, but I still consider myself a person of LA experience. Sitting in traffic, spotting celebrities, sun-damaging my skin, I’ve done all that. Sometimes at the same time, like when I’d get sunburned walking next to celebrities during the strike.
But only a handful of times have I done or seen something that is SO LA that it could ONLY happen in LA, and these are those times:
My downstairs neighbor hosted a housewarming and Natalie Beach was there.
I met my friend’s girlfriend (and the girlfriend’s partner — they are in a polycule and I’m not exactly sure of what shape the polycule is in, but they’re all really nice!) and I asked her what she did for a living and she explained that she does voiceover work and also plays Dungeons & Dragons. There are podcasts and webcasts that are just people playing Dungeons & Dragons, and they are popular enough to get sponsorships, and so that is how this woman makes her money (playing Dungeons & Dragons).
I went to a Hanukkah party at a house that had been featured in a celebrity home tour video during its last occupancy (the house was built by a producer or a director for his mistress, if I recall correctly?) and at this party cater waiters served bite-sized latkes that were really not in the spirit of the holiday, and even though these latkes had literally the surface area of Oreos, no one ate them, including the host, because everyone was on Ozempic, including the host (not a judgment or an assumption; he admitted this, as did other guests). He had also hired people to make mini pizzas in a little portable pizza oven, and no one ate those either.
Over the course of a week, I met people named Calliope, Eros and Sophocles.
I had a Girls Night at my apartment and naturally the conversation turned to cult documentaries, and then to who thought they could ever be in a cult, and then it turned out not one but three guests at the party had been in toxic cult-like mentorship relationships with powerful showrunners. One of whom has since been canceled (the showrunner, not any of my friends).
I met Zac Efron’s assistant and she says he’s really great. That could have happened anywhere, but it’s a nice fact and I thought you would all like hearing it.
Lizzie
PS- Here’s a sunrise (yes, sun RISE) that I saw from my bedroom the other day
