In the news today, the 2018 Winter Olympics have been awarded to Pyeongchang, South Korea. Add to that the building excitement for many that the 2012 Summer Olympics in London are just a year away, as well as the impending anniversaries of the Olympics being held in Los Angeles this month, and, well, it's your video lunch.
Vintage Los Angeles: Let the Games Begin!
Please Lord, Give the Olympics to Chicago
Los Angeles' Olympic boosters might not want you to know this, but yesterday London, the host of the 2012 Olympics, finally revealed their projected budget for their games. And the magic number is...drum roll please...9.3 billion pounds, a new Olympic record! Now, before you shout "holy fucking shit!," please remember that number is in UK pounds. In US dollars, that's $18 billion. Okay, now feel free to scream "holy shit!" LA seems to have...
"Children of Men" makes us feel desperate, but hopeful
Recently we got the opportunity to see Alfonso Cuarón's latest flick at the local cinema megaplex, Children of Men. Having seen the trailer months ago we put this on our short list of movies to see because anything regarding a dystopian future and Clive Owen we're first in line for. We sat down in the theater captive to the ads on the screen and then the theater dimmed and we were transported.

