What A Linda Vista....

What A Linda Vista....

That translates to "Beautiful View" to all you non-spanish speaking folks. And if you're in Los Angeles I just have to ask one thing, why don't you speak the language? But no, there's nothing beautiful about this view. It's more of a scary thing.. as in Ghost stories.

I would normally save this sort of thing for the October time frame of blogs, but maybe I'll bump it up again later so it hold some seasonal theme or something. The main reason why I wrote about this now is that there was some Ghost Adventures episode about this place. Hmm, perhaps you should watch some of it in order to get the point of reference. Here you go;









Boy, wont this blog post look silly when and if Youtube ever takes those segmented clips of Ghost Adventures off their site. Whoops, there wont even be a ghost of them left behind to yell at them like they do on the show.

But it does lead to a couple of questions. First off, is the guy a moron? How can you be serving South Central Gang members when the hospital is located in EAST Los Angeles. South Central has its own closed hospital; King/Drew Medical center which has been closed for a while now.



You see, I actually have been into Linda Vista. Many times, actually. I was the first to post a review about the place on Yelp. Suffice to say that this place is really creepy and it's about 5 minutes away from me. I would often go into there for urban exploration. Those broiler room and insinuators were still down there and looked as if they weren't ever cleaned out. The file room was covered with full patient records. It really was one hell of a creepy place to be... but it was in EAST L.A. and not in SOUTH CENTRAL! God damn it.

On a side note, a lot of television shows were filmed here and still are filmed here. It's a very popular location for a lot of movies to use this as an exterior shot and the pilot episode of E.R. was filmed here. I had a couple of gigs in here and I have known other people who had to work there for a couple of days on various productions. All of them have agreed that there's clearly some unearthly feeling in the place.



My advice is that anyone who lives in the Los Angeles area, you should make it a point to come out to this place at least once in your life in your stay in this fine city. It's really a trip to see this building still standing and a couple of years ago it was going to be taken down to build condos. Imagine how fucked up it would have been to live in one of these "high end" condos that would have been built on literally ghost turf. Now that would be some scary shit right there.

So there you have it. Linda Vista. Through the eyes of some morons on some Ghost Hunting show and through someone who grew up not more than 10 minutes away from this place.

Don't Jive Me, Turkey!

Don't Jive Me, TURKEY!

Or is it Don't Jive ME, turkey? I can't get my street lingo straight. If only there was a television show on that could teach me how to keep up with my street cred. I also can't live by my name without putting the TV in WeirdTV unless this had strange television news. Well, here you go.


Stephen Colbert... Making Black Friends IS easy!

NBC is working on a sitcom to the Nick Adams book Friends with Black People. If there's nothing that NBC knows more, it's how to make a show that will be canceled soon after it airs.

NBC is developing a comedy based on the book "Making Friends With Black People," a buddy comedy that will focus on the state of race relations in the U.S.

"From time to time, race bubbles up in the consciousness of the country and then dissipates," said "Making Friends" author Nick Adams. "Now, with Obama, people are talking about race a lot more. We hope to capitalize on that and not let the dialogue die down. ... It seemed like a good opportunity to strike while the iron is hot."

First thing I thought was that finally a comedy covering the same ground as Rush Hour but even worse! This should be as topical and popular as "chocolate news"


NBC would like to buy a vowel.

Working at Fox I thought I saw a lot of shows get canceled. That's nothing compared to the massive amount of trimming of the fat that NBC is doing. My Own Worse Enemy got the shaft as well as Lipstick Jungle. It wasn't long ago that NBC was the number one contender when it came to prime time. They can barely hold on to Thursday night and they've dropped to fourth place over all on the network ratings. I would say that they needed some Heroes to get ratings, but even that has suffered in the last two seasons.

So they think that with President Obama that they'll be able to reach a new demo? I mean, it's not like anyone tried to appeal towards the African American community before. Well, not counting WB or UPN.... But I'll stop there before the sarcasm meter breaks.


Even this guy could make black friends
What's your problem?

Are they really going to make an entire show based around awkward handshakes and fish out of water social faux pas? I guess it worked for like 11 seasons of Frasier. What's the need for a show about having a show based only on the black friend? Everybody's friends on Clueless and Malcolm the Middle were already Black they should just show those instead to save money.

I'm sure you're just wondering what sort of material we'll be getting out of this. Well, here's the writers stand up on the subject...


six minutes of nothing but stereotypical racial humor lol blacks are good at basketball and "heroes should be called negroes". Seriously if you aren't convinced that the show is going to be painfully unfunny and stereotypical watch that clip again. Maybe you shouldn't. If you wanna find a good racial comic you look no further than Jeff Foxworthy.

I can already see the weekly scripts. This week, on a very special "Making Friends with Black People:"

Black Friend: "I know you weren't trying to be rude, but you saying the N word is totally unacceptable man! That is a word that was created solely to denounce African Americans, and has no place among decent conversation! It's impossible to even think about using the word without knowing and experiencing the suffering that my parents and grandparents have gone through so I could be where I am today!"

White Friend: "I dunno... I used to work customer service at Macy's. How's that for suffering?"

*laughtrack*

Blaxploitation hasn't died quite yet folks. So don't you worry. I'm counting down to hilarious conversation about usage of the word nigger. This show is gonna have the promos where a white dude walks into a room full of black people and goes "what's up my n..." and then a record scratches and all the black people give him that confused dog look and then "Why can't we be friends?" plays.


Now don't you dare Jive this turkey...

Hey NBC, I read the internet. I know of the website about Black people/White people comedy and how to make Black Friends. How about you give me a comedy sitcom to work on? I think the only thing that can make this fly is if it's a show that stars Mike Meyers and Kanye West.


In the end when this show fails, perhaps network execs will be shown proof that it's impossible to make friends with black people.