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 Lunchboxing With The Stars: Never Played Out by jamie flam Saturday afternoon and the temperature in Los Angeles is sunny and mild. Down for two nights of vacationing in celebration of bully Chrissie Canino's birthday, members of lunchboxing's Oakland contingeny have assembled on Melrose Ave. to drink coffee, look at over priced Pumas and Adidas in colors that wouldn't match Mr. Furley's wardrobe, view scenesters from every imagineable scene ever invented, look for movie stars, and hopefully get into the type of adventures that make us lunchboxers. As we turn left onto Melrose from Crescent Heights we have our first star spotting of the day as MTV's Jesse Camp drives by in a shitty vehicle. Three of the four people in our car aren't so convinced. But I know Jesse Camp when I see Jesse Camp, and this is Jesse Camp. I am unimpressed and excited all at the same time. We find parking and thirty minutes later we have had enough of looking at Pumas and Adidas in colors that wouldn't match Mr. Furley's wardrobe, viewing scenesters from every imagineable scene ever invented, and looking for movie stars. This is when...I see a movie star: Play of seminal hip-hop fun squad Kid N' Play. You may know them better as the stars of the House Party series, which redefined the house party movie genre in the early 90's. I saw him first coming from the front of a designer women's store. We made eye contact. First I pulled Travis over to confer: "Don't look....but I think that's Play of Kid N' Play." He looks over discreetly..."Yep." Still needing further validation I call over Dore who agrees that it is in fact Play. And so I approach. "How you doing....are you Play?" "Yeah! What's up man?" "Not much...just thought I'd come over and say hello, I am a big fan of your work." "Nice, nice! You from around here?" "Yeah, I am from LA, but I live in Oakland these days." "Word. I'm just out here filming a new movie." "Excellent! Well, listen, you should check out my website when you get a chance. Here's a card." I hand him a lunchboxing card "Oh cool, man! I'll check this out." "It's a comedy site, you might enjoy it." "Oh nice, you know, Kid is doing stand -up these days. He's out in the mid-West doing some shows this weekend." "Rad!" "Cool, cool." "Would you mind taking a photo with us?" "Not at all."  At this point we proceeded to pose for a series of shots with Play, including (no kidding) a shot of all of us doing The Kid N' Play Dance. Fourteen year old Jamie would have flipped out had he known that 12 years later he would be chatting it up and taking photos with the guy whose music was played at junior high dances in which he didn't french any girls. Unfortunately, none of the shots actually made it onto Travis' digital camera which was out of batteries because he had spent th past 45 minutes taking pictures of attractive girls' butts. Many lesson were learned, but none other than: Always leave enough time for PLAY. 
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