Hey, you guys, I just wanted to give you a heads up that I am in Los Angeles, California for a few days to meet with the President of Entertainment. If things go as I expect they will, he’ll probably put me in charge of everything. “What do you mean, you don’t think Marg Helgenberger is the best actress to play Lois Lane Jr. in the upcoming Dax Shepard Superman: Babies spin-off reboot tent-pole franchise? I’ve already given it the green light, you’re fired. [Pulls Bluetooth earpiece out of ear and throws it in disgust onto the plate with the remains of his cocaine omelet].”

Just kidding. I’m mostly meeting with Southern California’s Regional Manager of the Lawnmower Man to talk about the future of making all the phones in the world ring in unison. But that means that posting will be light until Thursday, when it will be back to normal. There will be posting, it will just be light. Sometimes maybe very light?! I don’t know. Stay strong! We can still do this! Let’s paint, exercise, and be in California for a few days.

Comments (67)
  1. Have fun in California. Surf and sun and whatnot.

  2. If they hire you to do punch-up, you have just landed my dream job.

    • Oh, I’m with you. Punch-up work is the most exciting, soul-enriching form of creative expression the world has ever known. If I do nothing else for the rest of my days, I will have died a happy man (I will not have died a happy man. I will have died a broken and pathetic failure of a man.)

      • Also, I read the post again, and still haven’t the slightest clue what Gabe is actually doing in LA. So I’m going to assume that he’s moonlighting as a “mover” for a Mexican drug cartel while working days in San Fernando Valley. The monsters will soon have much more interesting Photoshop opportunities.

        • I think it’s pretty obvious why he is in California. He is pitching the idea of a Gabe and Max film. Topher came through with the six million dollars and this thing is happening, people! They have an IMDB page any everything!*

          *They do not have an IMDB page. I may have made all this up. He is in fact having fun at dinner with Dax Shepard (Perez Hilton said they ordered the ‘pussycake’).

  3. Inside All Of Us is….Fear

  4. If I were Ted “Theodore” Logan, I would be all, “Have a most excellent adventure!” But since I am me, and me is bitter, am I more like, “If there is not a WMOAT tomorrow, it’ll be your balls on a platter, Delahaye! YOUR! BALLS!!”
    Ha ha, just kidding. Party on, dude! Snap lots of polaroids for us to enjoy later!

  5. either someone has a laptop
    or someone’s going to be spending an awkward amount of time at an LA public library computer station (NO PORN OR ONLINE GAMBLING)

    or maybe someone’s about to merge with the mainframe and become pure energy*.
    *something like 1.9*10^21 Joules of pure energy, given 40% efficiency (generous!) in conversion and assuming i’m write about your weight, you feeble old man. That’s a lot of energy!!! Don’t spend it all in one place!!!

    • Actually, I’m pretty sure I read an article about some mother who took her kids to a library in Dallas and there was a guy there watching porn. She got all freaked out and tried to have the library kick him out and they were like “as long as he’s not jacking off there’s nothing we can do.” So watching porn in the library is apparently a-okay.

  6. Tip: make sure the kids are ready when John Cusack arrives in the limo.

  7. I hope all of the posts have some corny surfing-based theme behind them. Or Schwarzenegger-based theme. You know, CALIFORNIA STUFF.

    (Please don’t let this turn into a kitten-picture comments section. My soul can’t bear it.)

  8. Anyone else not able to get to pretty much any posts from this week?

  9. Monkey  |   Posted on Oct 4th, 2009 +2

    I’ll forgive you if you fix that damn alanta housewives thing. I get a 404 whenever I click. This isn’t highschool anymore, I don’t have to put up with this.

  10. Bring me back a double-double.

  11. All of this dancing around the subject of what he’s doing in LA makes me 1000% sure he is there for a secret rendezvous with Gwyneth.

  12. I have a bad feeling about this.

  13. Are you in Thom Yorke’s band now?

  14. SenorBunch  |   Posted on Oct 4th, 2009 -41

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  15. “We can still do this! Let’s paint, exercise, and be in California for a few days.” There is a “we” and there is an implied “us.” Does this mean that you will or will not be OK with all of us showing up at your hotel room door in about six hours (assuming everyone also lives in New York and/or has a time machine…in which case, they’d probably have just ridden with you on the plane over)?

  16. What the fuck am I going to do with my life now, Gabe?

  17. I’m really hoping this is who you are meeting.

  18. Gabe, I live in Hollywood, so let’s do this thing. Surfing tomorrow? Pink’s? What’s it gonna be? There is a new “mini” kids section at LACMA that allows you to paint, so we can do that, and I’ll take you over to YogaWorks for your exercise. Skipped anything? Oh yeah, hipster spotting at Spaceland/The Echo/The Smell/The Scene. And there’s a cat show. We should do that too.

  19. Gabe,
    while you are there can you ask hollywood why the hell Seth McFarlane was in Flash Forward the other night?
    That was disconcerting and unnecessary.
    I assume he won some sort of contest to be on tv.

    (Also tell them that Flash Forward would still be ridiculous even without Seth McFarlane in it.)

  20. “Stay outta L.A.L.A.”
    -Neil Young

  21. I can’t wait for 404gum to be a thing of the past. The Grey’s Anatomy post get screwed, and I feel a little bad for Mary. Apparently a baby’s arm got ripped off (!?!), and I’m completely unwilling to watch the show to verify this.

  22. Gabe’s transformation into Hank Moody is almost complete.

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  24. Oh, and also this:

    Because surfboard + cat = VIDEOGUM: CALIFORNIA EDITION, basically

  25. I hope you’re not pitching a screenplay based on Infinite Jest because that’s my plan, but first I have to actually finish reading the book.

  26. I’m home sick and I won’t even have Videogum posts to keep me entertained? Boo.

  27. Please tell us that while you’re out here you’re going to sit in on a taping of The Jay Leno Show (sometimes abbreviated as WRST).

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    Gabe in Hollywood, He’s going off the rails trying to get Ben Kingsley to be in his movie and doing a shitload of coke.

  29. Welcome to LA, Gabe! I think you brought the crisp weather, and we’re all grateful to you for that. (I’m talking to you about the weather because you’re 57 years old.) (Don’t try to surf. You’ll break your good hip.)

  30. GABEY, i know you’re in LA and its all gwenyths and jay lenos, but us gossip girl fans need your recaps. make us proud.

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