What Up, Vienna? when a girl and a guy from los angeles move their asses halfway across the world

alex is gone gone gone…

The first (maybe third or fourth really) domino has fallen everybody and now there's no stopping it.  This domino in particular is on his way eastward (first stop Utah!) right now in a Prius packed to the brim.  He might not say this to you but he was a mite sad when hitting the road today.  Even with the expensive groceries, congested roads, self-important people, $80 parking tickets (we got one last night)... Los Angeles is all right.  It has Trader Joe's, the Arclight, really cheap nail salons (All Star Nail on Santa Monica and Poinsettia!), taco stands, the Hollywood Bowl, great comedy at the UCB and other places, Dodger Stadium, great weather, STREET MEAT (bacon-wrapped hot dogs sold late night around Hollywood Blvd parts) and the list goes on.  I still have another month to visit all my favorite places and do all my goodbyes.  I think I'll be sad when I go too.  But then I'll be in Vienna.  And then in Hawaii.  And then in Vienna again.  So I'll recover.

Also, I just read that Jermaine Jackson is trying to put together a Michael Jackson tribute concert that is supposed to happen in VIENNA of all places.  The promoters are claiming all sorts of people appearing at this concert whose people all seem to deny that they will be appearing at any such concert.  And Jermaine Jackson claims there will be an attendance of 250k.  Will all of Eastern Europe be attending?  It also just so happens that the date of this concert is supposed to be September 26th, the day that I get there.   Putting aside my extreme doubt this concert will ever actually happen and if it does that it will have anywhere near the magnitude that it is proclaimed to have,  this might make for a really shitty jet-lagged transport from the airport to our apartment.  I'll just have the Xanax at the ready so I can refuel once we touch down.  And that's really a tribute to Michael Jackson in itself.