Brits in LA:
By Craig Robert Young and Eileen Lee
Okay, so there’s nothing worse than being sick in LA, and when I say sick I mean poorly.
In LA you don’t have to be physically sick to be ‘sick(?) Firstly, Why on earth would you be sick? The weather is perfect, everyone is super healthy and germaphobic (“Have you tried this new peach watermelon handsanitizer from Erewhon?” “Do you like my new perfume, it’s Lysol” “I don’t shake hands…let’s fist bump.”
Yes, the ocean breeze, the super-fit people and the supermightymultijellyvitamin bears (Yum!)….But for some reason it happens a lot and to a lot. We’ve all heard the excuses: “I can’t come out tonight I’m sick,” “I overdid it last night, I’m sick,” “I’m feeling like I’m about to get sick.”
SICK = Run down, not 100%, the common cold, a 24 hour bug, nausea, vomiting, fever, flu, food-poisoning, allergies, sinus infection and (insert ailment here). I find the main reason is that people are just plain hung-over and in Britain this is an okay answer, since the response is invariably some variation of: “Well done, my son, good on ya, stellar night out”.
But in LA for some bizarre reason people don’t want to reveal or admit to themselves that they over-indulged last night. In Britain it seems a rite of passage to get steaming and legless. It appears that if you don’t wake the next day without a well deserved hangover, the night before was all in vain and obviously wasn’t ‘EPIC.’
Which leads me nicely to…
…BARMEGGEDON! Brits in LA having been hosting monthly pub crawls for about two years now. And this Saturday will see the biggest yet. Hitting five British pubs between Hollywood and the Valley (check our website www.britsin.la for the route.) And our mode of transport? A double decker bus, of course. This is going to be extremely fun and make for an EPIC evening. Two reasons for ‘going large’ this time is to tie-in with the film release of ‘The World’s End’, an apocalyptic drinking movie but with lots of zombies thrown in. (I think?) “C’mon? two of our most favourite things right? starring the British comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (see left, sinking a pint) and written and directed by longtime collaborator Edgar Wright. The movie opens in theatres on August 23rd.
Newcastle Brown Ale are coming along with us and throwing some great giveaways along the way, including gift cards, pint glasses, bottle openers etc and giving our passengers some discounted drinks along the way.
And the second reason being — it’s our 6th birthday. “Happy Birthday to us…. “ Brits in LA was founded Aug 15, 2007 with just a few friends having breakfast together and a good catch-up. Thank you to all our members who have helped shape the British community and given it a very good name and here’s to a great night of celebrations and a hangover worth getting! 😉
As well as pubcrawl, there’ll be the regular Breakfast Club every Tuesday and The Sunday Roast at ‘The Pikey.’
Meanwhile, Eileen and I are busy planning ‘DEAD BRITISH 2’ -The return of our Halloween Party -where you dress up as either a dead British person or something Dead (Very) British – Oct 31, so save the date.
Before I go I’d like to give a shout out to my good friend and collaborator Darren Darnborough, (pictured, left) who seems to be on fire with a gig on the CBS Sitcom ‘Two Broke Girls’ and the screening of his movie, ‘Darkness Descending’, starring Danny Trejo, at the Action On Film Festival in Los Angeles, on Sunday Aug 18th, 8.30pm – Way to go Bruv!
Have a great week ahead Breeps and I hope I’m not feeling sick when I write this column.
Cheers! Hic!
Craig
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