#WTF: One night with sodomy ...

OMMMMMMMMGGGGGGG nerds, thank you so. so. so. so. so. so. so. SO. much for making my life last night. Seriously!! After 30 days of traveling you guys sent me off with a bang ... look at this face ...

Now THAT is the face of someone who had a really fucking good time!!

HAHA!! Omg omg omg you guys, funniest thing happened to me in the bathroom last night. <tangent> I actually want to start a section on this site based on all the weird shit women say to me in the bathroom. I'm not even kidding, all women get this - but I am a TOTAL people magnet ... I get it times like 100. Pretty much anytime I use the restroom I will have a story from someone telling me something epic. </tangent>

That being said, I'm at Sine, and go to use the restroom, and as I am freshening up my make up to not look too sch-wasted, these 3 women next to me start taking pictures of themselves in the bathroom.

They were looking cute, and clearly had good lighting - ladies, I think we can all understand what that is like.

Either way, I wasn't paying attention to what they were saying, but as the only other chica in the bathroom I turn to them and say, awwww that's so cute.

One of the girls turns to me and goes, sodomy?

COMPLETELY caught off guard at that point (and slightly buzzed), I go - excuse me?

Sodomy!!!!

I start laughing now realizing that yep, that's what she said. They then start talking about sodomy in a way too rather of fact manner. I then high five-d the ladies and I snuck past them to walk out the door.

Laughing my ass off, I skip back to the table.

I turn to @thekerp and @ashleycrowl and go OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!! You guys are not going to believe what just happened in the bathroom - I just discussed sodomy.

They both shoot me this look - no way.

I just came back from the bathroom - no one was in there, said Ashley.

Dudes, I know right! I was in there for like .25 seconds and these three women just RANDOMLY busted out with a conversation on sodomy.

The Kerp chimes in, your words or theirs?

THEIRS!!! I exclaim!!!!

These kinda things don't really happen in Arlington, VA Jen.

I know right!! Totally not making this up though.

We all shared a laugh - and I turned to twitter.

There's always one ...

Anywho, so after I tweeted that, a couple more minutes went by, and the girls still hadn't emerged from the bathroom. Awww peppermint patty, I had wanted to show them to you guys.

Then, as if they heard me - they walk out of the bathroom and out the door literally right next to where we were sitting.

I went to go high five one of the girls again, and her friend turns and screams in the middle of the bar ... SODOMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I turn to Kerp and Ashley and say, I didn't pay them to do that.

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAh

Ah-Maz-Ing.

I didn't get pics with everyone ... but look at these faces ... fun. is. being. had.

Those are some happy fucking nerds right there!!! Whoop whoop!

Why are pics always taken at the end of the night when the only documentation is that we were all sch-wasted!!

Must remedy!!

Seriously though - one of the greatest nights I have had on this entire trip. For reals man, all that teaches me about the east coast is when you stop fitting in with the people around you - start your own effin' party!!! I can't fit in anywhere,  but with us nerdy folk uniting - I can CERTAINLY rally the troops.

From the depths of my soul, thank you. Thank you. Thank you TNTML for an AMAZING night!!!

What a way to end 30 days of traveling you make me all so. so. so. so. so. proud of this community!! THANK YOU!!!

5 hours til I head to the airport to go back home to LA. I only have one more thing left to say ...

HIT IT EDDIE MONEY!!!

#TAKEMEHOMETONIGHT

Special thanks to Michael, Robin, Ashley, Adam, Randy, Scott, Patrick, Lyn, and Jason for making it out last night!! So. Much. Fun!!

I gotta admit though, prolly my favorite part of the night is that I am now being followed on twitter by a sodomy bot ...

WINNING

#Adventures in Adventuring: 4 cities in 30 days (city #4)

A hoi hoi my loverly nerderinos, 

DUDES!!! I just got off of a double decker bus from NYC to DC!!! LOOKY!!! 

Oh, hello heaven. Is that you? I didn't hear you come in!

Totally epic. Or at least I thought at first. See, I'm a big fan of awesome views ... and obviously being on a double decker bus sitting up front will give you one hell of an awesome view. Winning, right? Wrong! Double decker buses have a "bounce" to them for a lack of a better word. Everytime there was a bump in the road - we bounced.

This went on for four ... and a half ... hours. 

Bounce.

Bounce.

Bounce. 

No bueno. 

On the bright side of things however, I am stoked that less than 24 hours from adopting my new hoodie from goodwill I have now taken it across 4 state lines!!

It's the little things in life, folks - always about the little things. 

I'm in DC for a few days to visit my brother. He bought a house a while back, and I've never seen it. Such a bad sister!! So yah! That's happening. 

Oh and look, I woke up from trying to nap and took this pic with my Droid Charge and the FX cam app. I'm kinda not mad at it ... 

Oh and I'm currently writing you all a loverly story on an epic adventure I had in NYC with a nerderino that's kind of a big deal. No, like for real - he's legit fame in the name game, and it was an off the record adventure. Just have to run it by him first to make sure he's kosher with it. 

So. So. So. Excited!!

YAYYYYY WASHINGTON DC!!! YAYYYY FAMILY TIME!!! TWO DAYS TIL I'M BACK HOME IN LOS ANGELES!!

peace love and lollipops!! 

#loveyoulongtime

#WTF: About NYC, can I get a rundown??

Latest goodwill adoption!! Dudes, I was NOT about to miss out on sightseeing, ANNNDD umbrellas are terribly inefficient and cumbersome. FACT! Oh goodness gracious nerderinos, NYC has been AWESOME!!!

Seriously, if NYC was a rack on a hot chick they would be a natural set of DDs bouncing back and forth on a mechanical bull.

Yeah - how's that mental picture for you right there.

WHOOP WHOOP!

It's been a rad trip man. I had two days of meetings, and not one ... not two ... not three ... but all 6 were interested in what I am doing, ANNNNDDD I have 1 more tonight.

Literally. Not a single person wasn't interested ... it was insane actually, and now I have a shit ton of homework to do.

From this trip I walked away with a new lit agent that is pretty confident in getting me a book deal, and a TON of new contacts at various networks who are all interested in being pitched with a show idea. It's great, and my management and I are just going to take a moment and go over some possibilities, but bottom line - I just have to ask myself, what interests me? Seriously, all this stuff sounds super fancy pants, and honestly it is, but what works with this site is the fact that I genuinely genuinely genuinely love doing it. If I am doing anything on TV it has to feel organic and more of a natural trajectory for the brand; I've worked too hard to just be weird and do something that doesn't fit. This site is my soul and my artistic and spiritual platform - so I'll keep it real, but I just have to figure out what I want to do. (Dudes, my last name is FRIEL, like FOR-REAL ... nuff said)

It's pretty cool man, and again - all terribly humbling sitting there with these mucks having THE MOST INTELLIGENT CONVERSATIONS EVVERRRRRRR on narrative advertising and the future of social media and TV. I am unbelievably fascinated by this space and how one can tell stories in both real time, and figure out how to merge that with television. I think the Kardashians do a BRILLIANT job of it currently. Albeit some might protest their shows and what not, you have to hand it to Kris Jenner for doing an UNBELIEVABLE job on building those girls brands both in social media and on TV.

Dudes, those girls have all their own blogs through CelebBuzz, they are entertaining and engaging in social media, ANNDDD their life is played out in the tabloids leveraging the press which acts as free promo for their show which runs closely enough in real time to when it airs to keep people interested. I mean I literally foam at the mouth over what they are doing.

So.

Fucking.

Brilliant.

I'm excited, and everyone else shares that enthusiasm on the TV side of it, which is rad. It's the greatest time to be alive EVER nerds!!! Seriously!!! Wake up!!! Start a blog!!! You have a voice!!!! Go ... USE IT!!!!!!!!! Do something epic!!!! Just make sure you document!!! =) =) =)

Leaving for DC in the morning!! If you're in the area and want to kick it, I have Saturday night free. Hit me up on twitter: @JenFriel - or follow my Foursquare checkins.

#love

#Adventures in Adventuring: 4 cities in 30 days (Famous Previous Tenant)

AHHHHHHHH!!! Oh my goodness gracious acious - I am loving. loving. loving. being in the big apple. I actually used to live here for a year when I was 17 - I lived on E15th and 3rd literally 1 minute door to door from the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute where I was taking classes.

Feels ah-mazing being back!

Dudes, I just found out that the previous tenants to the apartment that I am staying in were The Kills!!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG Sour Cherry was for REALS the most overplayed song on the itunes on my old macbook pro. I'm not even kidding when I say I listented to it over 300 times. Well, that and Kings of Leon Sex on Fire ... clearly.

Take a listen to The Kills, the song might sound familiar, but for reals - it's the tits DDs.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I hope they didn't replace the toilet!!!

Yep, just crossed pee streams with The Kills.

#WINNING

Today, I have to finish and Fed Ex off season 2 of vidblogger nation - THEENNNNN, I'll be bopping around the city meeting up with some friends. If I checkin anywhere, and I'm near you, you are MORE than welcome to come in and say hi. I don't bite!! I just ask that you are courteous to the peeps that I am with, but I'd love love love love love to meet you! Here's my Foursquare: Foursquare.com/JenFriel and also you can drop me a love note if you are there and for whatever reason can't find me. Here's my twitter: @JenFriel

peace love and lollipops!! xoxoxoox

#Adventures in Adventuring: Nerd's first @AirBnB

A hoi hoi nerderinos,

This nerd is officially out of the hippie commune. I found this place on AirBnB.com - and I have to say, I was THOROUGHLY impressed. Take a look:

This is where I slept ...

SUPPPERRRR comfy futon!!! I didn't wake up with a bar up my butt, but not that that would have been a bad thing ...

Here's where I put my stuff (which no one touched, btw - and dudes, I'm traveling with LITERALLY thousands of dollars in equipment and nerd gear) ...

and here's where I was writing/ editing from ...

I paid $40 a night to stay here, had NO idea where this place was in relation to wherever I needed to be - but because of the reviews on AirBnB, I was able to read from other travelers that this place was in the heart of EVERYTHING. OMG, they were 100% CORRECT!!! Literally!!! This place was PERFECT!!!

I got to work, write, edit and sleep without anyone bothering me. It was super quiet (almost annoyingly so coming from the big city noises), and yah considering this place was $10 less than the glorified brothel I stayed at for one night in Chicago - you can't be mad at it.

Traveling to begin with can be so so so expensive you have to cut your costs as much as possible without being stupid and sacrificing your safety.

I felt 110% safe here.

I will say I was a bit overwhelmed with incense a few times (damn hippies), and the one night that 5 girls from England checked in with literally no concept of how to share a bathroom with not only each other, but the other guests downstairs ... that got annoying.

Again though, it was for only 1 night. I was there for 10.

The main hippie duderino was pretty rad. I enjoy keeping to myself in living situations like that as I am around people 24/7 and can get overwhelmed ... he totally got that and didn't bother me. I did however, pick his brain this morning and asked him what made him want to turn his home into a bed and breakfast - and he said it was a matter of circumstances, he had no other option.

Intrigued, I pressed on.

No other options?

I had this woman rent a room upstairs (there were 5 bedrooms in all, 2 floors), and she didn't disclose that she had 3 cats, cancer, and was a raging alcoholic. I was stuck because I couldn't kick her out yet no one wanted to live with her. Heck, I couldn't even CLEAN for the longest time because she was too sick to properly take care of her cats, nor would she let me near her room. She had drunken fits of rage during the middle of the night because that was basically all she could do with her life at this point was just drink - well that, and call the cops.

That is one of the most insane things I have ever heard, I said.

So, something like AirBnB just made sense because people would come and go none the wiser.

Amen, to that!

I then thanked the duderino for his stories - told him he should write a blog, or a book ... hell, I'd read it!!!

He smiled, and said his gift to me for that would be refraining from offering me unsolicited health advice.

Yah, the duderino was like a MASSIVE health freak. Literally THOUUUSSAANNNDDSSSSSS of jars in the hallway filled with spices, herbs, everything. Was super duper freaky, but whatevs - to each his own.

So there ya go! My AirBnB cherry was popped, and I HIGHLYYYYY recommend it. Again though, this was one experience and yours may vary - totally just read the reviews on wherever you want to stay to make sure it's kosher for passover.

YAY LIFE!! Now I'm staying with one of my oldest oldest oldest friends. Actually, he is the closest equivalent to a high school sweetheart. (He wouldn't date me when we were growing up until he got his license, and then by the time we were 16, the legal driving age in CT, I was done with school.) I took this kid's virginity when we were 17, and he happens to have an extra bedroom in his place. SCORE!!! I am repaying him with a wee bit of money from production (basically the going rate of a night of couch surfing, $16, times 12 nights) - and maybe some nerdy lovin. MAAAYYBBEEE!! heheheehehe ;)

Here's all my stuff that I'm traveling with btw, I have a rule that if I can't carry it on my back, I can't bring it ...

30 days on the road, and this is what I got!

Plus too, it's SUPPPERRR annoying trying to bob and weave through crowds with a rolling suitcase. I can't do it ... I just ... can't do it.

More adventures to come ... whoop whoop!!!

#nerdsunite

I'm in Boston until the 12th, and then I head to NYC next. If you guys wanna meet up - drop me a tweet, and I will happily grab a brewsky: @JenFriel