Yesterday we took a (very) brief walk around Laurel Canyon – rather, around the grocery store and past the house where Jim Morrison once lived. We were meant to walk up the Prospect steps and back down the hill on the other side, but the steps were blocked and overgrown at the top, so we […]

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Thursday brought a lot of progress on the film front, and I’m nearly finished with my inspection work, with next Tuesday still remaining at the Archive. On Thursday evening, I went out to dinner with Steve from the archive and his wife at Floridita on Cuba Street, not to be confused with El Floridita, across […]

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Well, 26.2 miles is a long way. I knew that before yesterday’s L.A. Marathon, but that fact of just how long became very clear to me somewhere after about mile 13. I spent the last six months training for the race, and ran two 20-mile training runs among all of the other miles I put […]

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We started our four-day weekend (five-day for Aimee, actually) with a Walking L.A. walk, which we hadn’t done in a long time. This one was not far from us, in Wilshire Center and Koreatown, starting at the Wiltern. I’d never really noticed how green it is.I bought this shirt awhile ago, commemorating the 30th anniversary […]

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We don’t get a lot of visitors, so when someone comes down just to see us, we try to make it worth their while. Brent flew down from Seattle on Thursday night to spend a weekend built around seeing Radiohead on Monday, so I knew we didn’t have to do much to make the trip […]

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Noticing that a number of the walks in Walking L.A. are under a mile long and don’t really justify an entire trip, we decided to tackle a group of westside walks this morning, four in all, from Santa Monica to Culver City. We started in Santa Monica, in an area of the community I’d never […]

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This weekend, we tried out another walking tour from our Walking L.A. book (it had been a few months since our last one), this time in Lower Beachwood Canyon in Hollywood. The walk was really pleasant and wound its way around the narrow streets, past houses of vaguely Mediterranean design, plus a few outlying castles […]

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We spent day two of the four-day weekend on another walking your, this time of Larchmont Village, which was very enjoyable. It was less activity-filled than yesterday’s, but brought us by a lot of interesting houses and through some neighborhoods we’d never have otherwise seen. More photos here.

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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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So, a quick recap of the last five weeks, more for the future us than for anyone else, because we end up using the blog to jar our deficiently attentive, distracted brains when we can’t remember what we’ve done. So, I call on Flickr, our credit card statements, Google Maps, and Google Calendar to help […]

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Was it just a week ago that we looked at the condo again, pretty certain we were going to make an offer for it? Yes, it was – and the next day, Sunday, we went for a hike in Glendale, went back and forth again over who liked what and why, and generally felt like […]

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Today was a jam-packed, thirteen-hour extravaganza of stuff, that’s about the only way to put it. We started with one of the last remaining walks in our Walking L.A. book, and one of the shortest, as well, a half-mile stroll around Leimert Park Village, a little business district about six miles south of us. We […]

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Aimee arrived last night (minus her bag, unfortunately, which didn’t arrive until it was delivered by an American Airlines employee this morning) and we were eager to get back into the swing of our weekly walks and hikes. We headed out to the Hollywood Bowl for one of the few remaining walks in Walking L.A., […]

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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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…and August will be over in a flash. We got back from a nice trip to Anchorage on Sunday night, which ended with a twenty-minute conversation with Wilco’s guitarist, Nels Cline, as we waited for our delayed flight at the (soon to be renamed?) Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. He was really nice and friendly, […]

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