Wild & Wacky Venice

Jeff and I took a Sunday drive down the coast to Venice Beach, my old stomping grounds.  I went to Venice High School.  Venice, California has canals like in Venice, Italy and you may have seen them featured in some movies or the television series, "Californication."  Venice is the number one tourist stop in Southern California.  I guess it beats Disneyland because it's free.  Over the years, Venice has changed from rundown buildings and homes to million dollar homes and upscale businesses.  Still, it hasn't lost it's weirdness factor.  I remember taking Justin and Jessica there when they were young and they thought it was like visiting a different planet.  There are lots of street performers, tattoo parlors, piercing salons, booths selling arts and crafts, palm readers, people who will tell you an insulting joke for $1.00, let you kick them "below the waist" for $10.00, and the list goes on and on.  I took this photo of a Medical Marijuana Clinic where they had a young guy and girl dressed in green scrubs urging passersby to come in and get a prescription for $40.00.  They barked, "Walk on in, fly on out!"  The weird guy in the black bikini photobombed my shot of the clinic.  He's wielding a plastic bat but was harmless enough.  He asked for a dollar and took it well when we passed.

I told Jeff I should ask my doctor for a medical marijuana Rx for my herniated disk!  Can you imagine my wholesome, Harvard-educated doctor in Thousand Oaks getting a request like that?  Makes me laugh just to think about it!  Can you imagine the quality of the doctor lurking behind the doors of that lime green building?  This post has to go under my "Only in LA" category!