How To Have The Best Sunday In L.a., According To Ken Marino

Ken Marino loves surviving successful L.A.

Living present has surely been bully for his acting career. Though he collapsed into nan business arsenic a personnel of NYC-turned-MTV sketch drama group nan State successful 1994, he moved to L.A. successful nan autumn of 1997 erstwhile he landed a domiciled successful nan 2nd play of “Men Behaving Badly,” an NBC sitcom. Marino changeable conscionable 13 episodes earlier nan show was canceled. Still, he stayed successful L.A., landing roles successful much-loved shows for illustration “Veronica Mars,” “Party Down,” “The Residence” and “Running Point.” He’s besides co-written a fewer things, including “Role Models” and “Gail Daughtry and nan Celebrity Sex Pass,” retired July 10, which was filmed successful and astir Los Angeles.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. group springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to eat and really to bask life connected nan weekends.

“Working astir L.A. and moving astir to jobs is really I sewage to understand L.A.,” Marino says. “It’s conscionable a very comfortable metropolis to unrecorded in. I conscionable deliberation it’s nosy to beryllium capable to bounce astir and do thing you consciousness for illustration doing.”

Here’s really Marino would walk his perfect, carefree Sunday successful Los Angeles.

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6 a.m.: Dog walking, java and flowers

We person 2 dogs. They request to spell extracurricular successful nan greeting and eat, and they are very vocal astir it. For a while, each greeting astatine 5:58 my 1 dog, Dot, would commencement whining and moving astir until I’d spell “yeah, OK, let’s provender you.”

In our family, I’m nan 1 who feeds nan dogs and takes them out, because I’m a greeting person. I bask it erstwhile it’s not afloat ray out, possibly making myself a java aliases taking a locomotion to this spot called Project Bloom Coffee. It’s a small mom and popular benignant of spot and they person terrific java and meal sandwiches. They’re besides a florist. Sometimes they moreover usage this cool insubstantial holder pinch a grip where, connected 1 broadside you put nan java and past connected nan different broadside you put your beautiful flower display. So past you get to locomotion location pinch your java and your flowers together and it’s thing I’ve ne'er seen anyplace else.

7:30 a.m.: Online chess

After I spell get my java and locomotion nan dogs, I’ll still beryllium nan only personification up truthful I’ll get connected my machine and get a mates of games of chess in. I play group from astir nan world online connected Chess.com, and I usually either get disappointment aliases consciousness for illustration I’m nan champion chess subordinate successful nan world. Anyway, I’m getting my standing up connected nan app and I’m very excited astir it. I’ve gone down nan rabbit spread of chess tutorials connected TikTok and YouTube that thatch maine really to play better.

9 a.m.: More java and “911”

If I spell to Project Bloom, I’ll bring my woman a java and immoderate flowers but if not, we person a small espresso and cappuccino shaper truthful I’ll usage that to make her a cappuccino, which I’ll bring to her successful bed. She’s ever very happy astir that and past I’ll spell effort to aftermath my [16-year-old] girl up, which usually takes astir 2 aliases 3 tries until I return her phone, group nan timer for 5 minutes, and past put it connected nan different broadside of her room truthful she has to get retired of her furniture to move it disconnected erstwhile it sounds.

She and I person been religiously watching “911” recently. We started pinch Season 1 and now we’re astir six aliases 7 seasons successful truthful I’ll make her meal — possibly a Nutella crepe pinch immoderate small cherry tomatoes connected nan side, which is weird but she likes it aliases possibly immoderate oatmeal — and past we’ll watch “911” and talk astir our favourite characters, for illustration Buck, Chimney and Bobby.

Noon: Lunch connected nan Westside

We person a small flat successful Marina Del Rey that’s correct by nan formation truthful sometimes I’ll spell retired location pinch nan dogs, conscionable to beryllium for a while and enjoy. I usually locomotion betwixt nan Venice pier and Washington Street, but sometimes I’ll spell further northbound and locomotion on Venice Beach if I want to bent retired pinch immoderate freaky deakies.

When I’m complete connected that broadside of town, there’s a mates of places that I mightiness spell for food, for illustration this Italian edifice called Ospi that’s successful Venice. They’re incredible. They make their ain homemade pasta and it’s delicious. There’s besides this concatenation called Guisados, and I emotion their tacos truthful sometimes I’ll do that too. Venice Ramen is bully too, and they do these things called jumbo gyoza that are perfectly delicious. They’re for illustration 2.5 times bigger than a normal gyoza, for illustration palm-sized, and I really for illustration them.

2 p.m.: Play believe and a pint

My girl is successful 2 plays correct now astatine this spot called nan Morgan-Wixson Theatre successful Santa Monica, truthful it’s my work to return her complete location and driblet her disconnected for practice. When I do that, if it’s a Sunday, I mightiness want to drawback a Guinness location and watch basketball. There’s a barroom called Weary Livers down nan thoroughfare that has a batch of committee games and it feels for illustration you’re successful somebody’s basement, which is good. It’s besides correct adjacent to the Brixton, which is different bully barroom that I’ll spell to from clip to clip if I’m waiting for my girl to decorativeness rehearsal because it’s a batch of driving otherwise.

4 p.m.: Garage set practice

Typically connected Sunday, we’ll besides person a rehearsal for the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band. [Editor’s note: Marino co-founded nan group pinch David Wain, whom he’s known since “The State” and who co-wrote “Wet Hot American Summer.”) We’ll play for a mates of hours successful David’s garage, trying retired caller songs and moving retired what we’re going to do astatine our adjacent unrecorded show.

6 p.m.: Guerilla promotion

Right now, David [Wain] and I are trying to fig retired different promotional things we tin do for our movie, “Gail Daughtry and nan Celebrity Sex Pass,” truthful possibly we’d do immoderate much of that. It’s a really funny movie and we sold it astatine Sundance.

Anyway, 2 Sundays agone we walked astir pinch our friend Frank Barrera, who is besides 1 of nan camera operators connected “Gail Daughtry.” We went to nan Hollywood Walk of Fame and we changeable promos for nan movie wherever we were talking to different group and pretending that nan Gail Daughtry cinematic beingness is immense and has been astir for decades, for illustration we were asking group what their favourite Gail Daughtry movie is. It confused a batch of them, but each erstwhile successful a while personification would opportunity thing truthful we’re utilizing those for promo spots.

I besides spent immoderate clip conscionable moving up and down nan thoroughfare being very overly enthusiastic and screaming “the caller Gail Daughtry movie is coming out!” and past we changeable people’s reactions, which were typically “confusion” and “not caring.” Like, “Stop yelling astatine me, weirdo.”

7:30 p.m.: Thai takeout

On weekends, my woman and I for illustration to bid from a circumstantial Thai spot that’s won galore awards. It’s called Luv 2 Eat Thai Bistro and it’s perfectly fantastic. The crab curry is truthful delicious and they do these thoroughfare nutrient sausages that we crave. They travel pinch ginger and peanuts and garlic, positive a large slab of earthy cabbage and immoderate basking peppers and we’ll eat them for illustration popcorn, conscionable throwing them successful our mouths while we drawback up connected “Survivor.” The spirit is conscionable insane, and we deliberation astir really bully they are each nan time.

9:30 p.m.: Checkmate

After we watch “Survivor,” usually what happens adjacent is that we’ll extremity up going, “Should we watch a movie?” Then we’ll look astir for a movie for a while and past my girl will beryllium like, “Hey, Mom! Come successful present and watch this YouTube show pinch me” truthful my woman will get pulled away, and I’ll instantly prime up my machine and commencement playing chess again. I for illustration to bookend my time pinch a quiet chess crippled successful nan greeting and different quiet crippled astatine night. It’s a bully measurement to upwind down.

I’ll typically play a minimum of astir 3 games earlier my eyes commencement to adjacent because they’re trying to autumn asleep. That’s erstwhile I’ll discontinue because I’ll beryllium making stupid moves and it affects my rating, for illustration “Oh, I conscionable mislaid that crippled because I fell dormant while my machine was on,” truthful that’s really I cognize erstwhile I’m done.