Our first stop was Venice Beach - Southwest of here. We parked a block from the pier, walked out and watched the surfers, then headed to the boardwalk - a crazy assortment of tourist junk, homeless and hippies, and junk food vendors. As we approached the end of the pier, we noticed someone was filming a tv show or movie, so we stuck around to see what was going on... Turned out they were filming a new movie called I Love You, Man, which will be released in 2009. It's from the same folks who did 40 Year Old Virgin.
So, on the set, we saw Lou Ferrigno (YES, the original Incredible Hulk), Jason Segal (recent star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Knocked Up), Paul Rudd, and Rob Huebel. I took a ton of photos... Here are some of the highlights.
That was a pretty cool start to the day.
After we watched a scene, we went back to the car and headed to lunch at Baby Blues BBQ on Lincoln in Venice Beach. If you're looking for good Southern pulled pork in Los Angeles, I can't imagine you'll find much better than this. Check it out if you're in LA.
We had decided to spend the afternoon in Hollywood. Eric and I walked the ENTIRE Walk of Fame, saw Graumman's Chinese Theatre, the Kodak Theatre, the Hollywood sign, and other landmarks... And after three hours of walking the Walk, we were exhausted, content to saddle up to the bar for a drink or two before returning home for the night. On the way home, we picked up ingredients for Chicken Tortilla Soup and Fat Tire beer - as well as several more of those delicious Diddy Riese ice cream cookie sandwiches mentioned in a previous post.
Then we just took it easy... But what a day it's been! Tomorrow I leave for San Francisco!
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