We went out to celebrate Arun's birthday yesterday. First it was dinner at Buca di Beppo, which is nice because in a family-style restaurant you can just order a few large dishes and don't have to sit around waiting for everyone to decide on their entree. And did you know that Beppo = Joe and Buca = (literally) hole? So Buca di Beppo (para los que pueden hablar espanol, buca no significa "boca") means Joe's Apartment or Joe's place... but literally Joe's hole. I wonder what atrocity C&O stands for now...

Then we went to North on Sunset blvd. I really enjoyed that place. We had a nice corner booth reserved for us, the same one that Dr. Dre sat at the last time Tony went there. It's a nice loungy bar, with really good music, a totally eclectic crowd, and a good looking waiter. :) But seriously, people watching was so far there, and we had the prime seats to people watch. The booth next to ours went through nice transitions... first it was the old crew (grandma and grandpa basically) then the fancy crew (this couple wearing a tuxedo and evening gown) and then the J.Crew crew (really, straight out of the catalog, sweater tied around and everything). The tux crew was nicely contrasted when two guys walked by us wearing sweatshirts, jeans, and sneakers. Nice, eh?

I myself was wearing a semi-skanky yet tasteful see-through lacy shirt with a black bra underneath. The waiter at Buca (who really didn't deserve as big of a tip as we gave him because not only did he spill Diet Coke down my back he denied it tried to play it cool) commented on how he could see my underwear... which started a whole what kind of underwear, upstairs, downstairs, uptown, downtown, northern hemisphere, south of the equator conversation. Then somehow the Lindsa(e)y H(e)artma(e)n story came into the picture. Then, absolutely pricelessly, a table of 24 of her happened to sit down to dinner near us. That was fun.

Overall, crazy evening. No need for more details here, but you can definitely ask about them later. Be sure to bring up marischino cherries, Shivani's three men, Ty the waiter, the Love Potion, Ginger-ific!, and non-discriminatory cruising along Sunset. Peace.