I was all set to do another post to this list when two things happened: The evil empire known as TIME WARNER yanked my chain with a cable modem outage and ConsumerSearch.com emailed me another assignment. It's funny (not funny "hah hah") how your world can go from day to night with a simple outgoing message from your internet provider saying they are "working to solve the problem of this service interruption."

Of course, the real insult is that even when our cable modem works, it's not as good as the bloody free WiFi at Coffee Table (http://www.coffeetablebistro.com/) over in Eagle Rock. So I packed it up and headed East into a land where there's little if any sign of gentrification.

Our friends Tom (he has a rad comics blog at http://weblogs.variety.com/bags_and_boards/) and Jessica live out there and they introduced us to the wonders of Coffee Table's delightfully quirky menu. Tom met me for coffee since he lives around the corner and told me about scheduling an onset visit to a popular soap opera for a piece he was writing. After spending the day there in coffee heaven, I walked across the street to meet Rob for dinner at The Oinkster (http://www.oinkster.com).

While I reveled in these unique food experiences, the one from the night before was even more fab. Rob and I were at HOME in Loz Feliz (http://www.homelosfeliz.com/) digging the open air patio dining scene after watching a performance of RUTTLEMANIA. HOME is the perfect place for an intimate or couples dinner in the evenings. After negotiating sharing an odd number of jalapeno poppers as our starter, Rob turned to me and said, "This is why we live in Los Angeles."

Los Angeles is a thousand little experiences that can't happen anywhere else. This city is actually dozens of little cities bound together by a spider web of freeways, highways and surface streets. I know everyone reading these entries because of this city and as the winner of this year's Best Actress Oscar intimated, there are most certainly angels in this city.

It's also so very groovy that while I was writing this entry I flipped over to Ez E's blog (www.myspace/ericstormoen) and noticed he and the Letinator were having the same sort of L.A. bliss these last few days.