We began exploring Los Angeles through the book Walking L.A.: 36 Walking Tours Exploring Stairways, Streets and Buildings You Never Knew Existed back in late 2006, hoping to tackle all 36 walks over the next year or so. It has taken us a little longer than that; we’ve moved twice, the book has come out […]

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We had a pretty busy weekend here, with lots of our typical activities. On Saturday, I did my weekly long morning run, and we took in two new movies, The Invention of Lying — a funny idea, but not enough to sustain an entire film — and A Serious Man, which was a terrific, well-observed, […]

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A quick update on our weekend, before I settle into my first full week of jury duty: I went for a six mile run Saturday morning, finally starting to stretch things out a little from my normal daily routine, as I eye some fall mountain races and a February half-marathon. After that, I headed down […]

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After celebrating a belated New Year’s Eve last night, now that Aimee and I are both in the same place, we woke up this morning resolved to tackle our hikes with gusto again, having lagged a bit with travel, house-hunting, and holidays in recent months. After discovering, reporting, filing, and otherwise dealing with a smashed […]

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It’s time for the end of the year wrap-up, which I haven’t really done with any consistency (see the Best Live Shows of 2004 and Top Ten Films of 2004), but I’m going to give it a shot. 2008 has been an extremely busy year for us, our second full year in Los Angeles, one […]

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I’m sure that’s not really going to be borne out, but so far, it’s been a scorcher, which is really disorienting, even as familiar as we’ve become with the fact that the seasons have little meaning here. We’ve been pretty domestic lately, since I returned from Alaska two weeks ago. We went for a hike […]

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It almost felt a little crisp out on Friday morning, though when Aimee and I went hiking today, it was anything but chilly, so I guess calling summer over is a bit premature. We’ve been keeping busy, but happy to have a little more down time these days than during our hectic summer. Aimee had […]

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After a whole bunch of time out of town (did we really spend four weekends in a row in airports? Yes we did), we got back in the L.A. swing of things this weekend, with a couple of days filled with only-in-L.A. stuff. We started off the weekend with a screening of Wall*E, finally, at […]

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It’s been a pretty steamy weekend here, with temperatures in the mid-90s, a little early for summer heat, but what can you do? I guess we could be in Anchorage, which just got two feet of snow yesterday… We got up early Saturday morning to avoid the heat and headed out on a hike, or […]

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I’d only been to Santa Clarita once before this weekend, and it was before we moved out here, so I had no context; all I remember is nearly getting killed merging on to a freeway full of speeding semi trucks, and being amused by directions that involved turning on Magic Mountain Highway. On Sunday, we […]

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Spring seems like it’s on its way this weekend, as it got pretty warm out, but everything’s relative, I guess. Our weekend started with a little after-work drink with folks from work at the Bowery – love that baked mac and cheese there – and then a screening of Lars and the Real Girl, which […]

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It was an inside/outside weekend, with nomination screenings mixed in with some L.A. sightseeing and restaurant-going. We found the one moment of sunshine in each day of the weekend to do our outside activities: a hike in Caballero Canyon on Saturday morning, which was a nice little hour-long stroll through some rolling hills with a […]

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We took advantage of the return of the sunny weekend with a couple of outdoor adventures this weekend, first in the heretofore unknown Franklin Canyon, a great hiking spot nestled between Studio City and Beverly Hills. We missed the Faery Hunt that was going on while we were there, but we did enjoy a two-hour […]

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I feel like most of my blog post titles refer to time passing quicker than expected. Maybe it’s just that I’ve run out of titles for posts that aren’t about some sort of event. Anyway, it’s been nearly a month since I returned from New Zealand, and it’s high time I get caught up on […]

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It’s been awhile, almost three weeks, and it’s a little hard to get back into the swing. There’s more doing, less contemplating while on vacation, and now that I’m back in Cambridge, it’s more of the same old day to day, leaving time to go on and on about things, like the “Kerry=Hero” graffiti which […]

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