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remember he had it wrapped in some kind of sheet and wore gauntlets the owl looked at peace and the other people that were there inquisitively looked at the bird with caution and puzzlement the fella holding the owl held it up and let it go the owl kind of dropped then lifted up and flew into the distance flying north towards mullholland drive and a group of trees maybe a few miles in the distance as soon as it took to the skies other birds came from nowhere crows of course and other birds which were a lot smaller it was as if the birds had the area under guard and as soon as they saw an alien a bird of prey they took to the skies the owl steered its way through and a few birds went close to it but the owl carried on the guy told us that he knew that would happen and the same thing happened when he let the other owl go that too flew steadfastly on it reminded me of the time i worked as an ice cream man in wolverhampton when i took the ice cream van to a new area and was approached by an italian mister softie who didn t want me there and but that s for another day maybe maybe posted by chrissullivan at 6 29 am 4 comments labels humming birds owls rock n roll ralphs squirrels tuesday may 6 2025 peter mcparland there he is at the top of the page there peter mcparland he s the fella on the right with the villa shirt and he s about to cross that ball out of the reach of the chelsea fella with him he was in all the papers last week as it was his 91 st birthday and he s in them this week as he has died he waited for the villa to win again after the disappointment with man city and psg even though villa played great in that game aston villa left winger number 11 and the last of the winning fa cup winning team on 1957 to die i always remember him with that number eleven on his back like georgie best which many people are mistaken as they think he was number seven 7 every time i saw georgie play he was eleven with morgan at number seven peter mcparland played in the days when if the ball came across and the goalkeeper caught it it was okay to shoulder charge the goalie into the back of the net with the ball as long as his feet were on the floor this is why a lot of keepers punched the ball out which made for faster end to end football the goalkeepers since have been a protected species one time there were not allowed to run with the ball in their hands unless they bounced it and i remember in one game georgie best timed his shot so well that when gordon banks bounced the ball wee georgie kicked it out of his hands and into the goal no goal they shouted you can t score a goal like that you can t kick it out of the poor goalkeeper s hand like that not to saint gordon banks but back to peter mcparland who was the first player i saw playing for aston villa when i entered villa park with my dad who wasn t much of a football fan and who had taken me the week before to the dreaded birmingham city who played lincoln city the rest of the irish in birmingham supported aston villa and that s where we went so goodbye to peter mc p and thanks for everything posted by chrissullivan at 11 15 am 0 comments saturday march 1 2025 memorial day in america i wrote this some time ago and i am publishing it again as it reminded me of the la i used to know the la i hope returns one day and there it is above memorial day in america is a national holiday what you would call in britain a bank holiday and when i first moved there i would go to a big house in the san fernando valley the valley to celebrate with a friend of a friend the friend was a guy called hank everybody called him hank but his real name was chaim pronounced hime with that guttural sound on the aitch but people called him hank it wasn t that he wasn t proud to be jewish but hank was easier for goys to remember and pronounce now goy is a yiddish word and if there was one thing i liked about hank it was his use of yiddish i learned what a schnorrer was a schlemiel a schlepper and all the other uses of words not so complimentary but colourful and interesting i also got used to hearing those words from his other friends and when i went to the world première of the movie showgirls don t ask with him i met all the guys in the producer s office and learned their humour too when they heard my accent they d say where you fram joysey in fact if there s one thing i miss about la it s the jewish humour not jewish jokes but jewish humour you know woody allen seinfeld etc the jews here in britain seem to play gentiles ever since david kossoff died the closest thing britain ever got to a jewish series since never mind the quality feel the width was a series made by indians called goodness gracious me which had that fish out of water matriarchal italian jewish irish feel to it even though it was from a country so far away back to memorial day and my pal hank i went to the house twice in the valley and it was the same story each time when we arrived we met hank s pal and he would be sitting in the big house by himself he would take us in to the rear of the house where there would be loads of food and drinks all set out on a garden table next to the pool the others will be here soon he would say hey chris when we have time maybe you can explain to me the rules of cricket and i would say they re quite simple it s when we got time he d say then we would sit around and take a drink a little while later his daughter would arrive by herself and sit at the table she had the same conversation each time and that was to do with the valley seceding from los angeles that s all she was interested in and in fact one of the years they had an election and the people of the valley decided to stay in los angeles after that the fella s ex wife would show up she would sit with the daughter and the fella would say how about some food and as we were helping ourselves the son would arrive he wouldn t say hello to anybody but would get in to some argument with dad and the arguments would usually spring from the fact that mom and dad were no longer a couple mom no longer lived in the big house and neither did the kids so each memorial day this fella would get ready for a big garden party that no one went to the son was embarrassing the daughter was a typical valley girl and the poor mother would try and hold on to the remnants that once were her family each time we went there we ended up playing darts and leaving most of the food one year hank brought along his wife that was a new one on me and i think he married her so she could get a green card she was a make up assistant in the film industry and hank and his pal were assistant film directors they were always setting up one big film after another none of which ever happened and if there s one thing to know about the los angeles film industry it s that most people have a script in their pocket a project they are working on and as an actor i have been offered stardom more times than i can remember it was usually i want your voice in my movie my voice maybe i can get in to it too aye hank asked me to join him when memorial weekend came about again some time in may as a rule before the weather got really hot and the sun reflecting on the pool would blind you with its glare and when i would go indoors to get away from it the image of the last thing i was looking at would stay with me but i passed as it was just too embarrassing i never completely lost contact with hank he would call me every saint patrick s day and offer his services as a nominated driver he drove a 1963 chevy nova convertible with red seats and white body work and in the winter even though it was la it was cold as he couldn t get the hood to work or the top or whatever it s called so we were forever in the open when i started to do my one man irish show on st patrick s day in the year 2000 he came to see it and one year he brought along the guy from the valley nice show chris listen when we get time maybe you can tell me the rules of cricket yeh when we get time i d say i did the show each year up to about 2010 and each year i d send hank a flyer and he would call to say he was available as a nominated driver as well as the yiddish hank had a very rough voice with a thick brooklyn accent he would talk about his dawdter and his mudder an farder and one day when his daughter showed up she turned out to be quite a beauty it was strange to see something so beautiful with such a rough looking man let s face it he looked like a gangster one year one of the flyers came back not at this address so i feared the worst hank had called me one day when i got back from new york i saw his name on my caller i d thing on the phone and meant to call him back but i was rushing out so i didn t he probably wanted to know how his home town was i felt guilty not calling him that day as i knew what the returned envelope meant which i kept in the car one day when i was travelling through culver city i called at his address and what i had suspected was true the manager of the building told me he had died he had a heart attack one day and that was all he knew all the stuff i knew died with him his daughter his mother in new york his money worries the very cheap places to eat he had found all over los angeles and his chevy nova convertible which he called betsy all gone took me a long time to get over the guilt of not calling him that day but i did think of him just as i think of all my friends like you that i will call one day just as one day i ll tell you the difference between baseball and cricket posted by chrissullivan at 8 34 am 2 comments saturday september 28 2024 how to pour guinness eating in la and that pesky arizona law this is a follow up to the post i put up last time written in 2010 so the dates and views are from then i wonder on this day september 28th 2024 if los angeles is the same paradise as ieft well the medics remote area medical have left los angeles after treating over 6 000 patients and after a couple of other states they are heading for haiti and more power to their elbows one or two people have asked me how we manage to eat out so often well let me tell you it is very cheap to live here and very cheap to eat out petrol is about 2 a gallon in the uk the last time i was there it was that much per 2 litres last night we went out to eat at a french restaurant at the farmer s market and it cost for two of us about 25 we both had boef bourguignon and a posh bottle of water so it would have cost more if we d ordered a bottle of wine i suppose but you can see how cheap it is on sunday we had a curry and it cost around 23 but there i had a few pints of guinness the indian food is not great here but we have found a few places the guinness is not that good and it s better to have canned guinness and pour it properly the guinness i drank on sunday was from the pub next door to the curry palace on sunset boulevard where they open the can and dump it into the glass upside down if anybody came here straight from dublin they would kill the bartender for doing that it makes the guinness look like slops and it doesn t settle at all properly guinness won an award for the design of the can and the widget inside to make the guinness taste and look as close to draft guinness as possible the draft guinness in the pubs here leaves a lot to be desired and to be honest nobody here has ever tasted a real pint of guinness they may be used to what they drink and if they ever visit dublin or even london they might not like the real stuff a bit like people who are only used to eating processed food not liking the real stuff it s the same with the cheese it s all processed and there is no real dairy industry as the milk and cream have to be processed more than i am used to the milk when i was there in the british isles is pasteurised and here it is homogenised in britain it was possible to save the cream from the top of the milk over many days and churn it into butter if you tried that with the milk here you would end up with cramp and no butter anyway apart from the dairy and the guinness the food here is great they haven t quite cracked english food and their version of irish food with actual lumps in the mashed potatoes would cause another potato famine if it was introduced in ireland i haven t drunk wine for a few years by the way which was the best decision i ever made just whiskey and beer and the beer is usually guinness so none of those red wine headaches any more and i also object to drinking beer straight from the bottle so if that s the only choice i don t drink the area we live in is very nice we overlook runyon canyon and see plenty of palm trees humming birds and a lot of greenery in this shot you can see the welcome you get when you get to the gate of the canyon which might frighten people who are scared of snakes away but i have been over the canyon hundreds of times and i ve only seen two or three snakes i ve seen plenty of other things there though like a woodpecker i have heard them all my life but here i actually saw one there are also loads of butterflies and a morning yoga class just as you walk through the gate the other photo is on the way down the canyon and you can just see the roof of our building right at the part where the canyon disappears the flat roof all the talk here at the moment is about the new immigration law in arizona where cops will be able to stop people who they suspect is an illegal immigrant what they call illegals or illegal aliens and ask for papers the chances of them asking me is quite remote so they will have to racially profile people with brown skin the latino the latino does a lot of the work here by the way and the latina they sweep the streets do the gardening and do a lot of the manual work the americans won t do and if they don t do that you can see them selling oranges on street corners of course i have heard that the gangs rip them off for what can only be called protection money what you don t see the latino doing is begging there are lots of beggars here after spare change they are not called beggars they are called pan handlers is that the politically correct way i wonder santa monica i would say have the most beggars around here nearly as many as san francisco and you see all races begging except for the latino some people just come up to you in the street with their regular decent clothes on and ask for money sometimes it comes as a shock if they re well dressed and another place you find beggars is at the traffic lights at the chinese theatre on hollywood boulevard people are dressed as jack sparrow superman batman he gets into fights and other movie characters and they have photos taken with tourists who tip them so they re begging too in the richest country in the world the los angeles police are reluctant to get involved in immigration issues they don t want undocumented immigrants being too scared to report crimes i ve always equated undocumented immigrants 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