Our busy weekend continued on Saturday night with the Revenge of the Book-Eaters event at Royce Hall at UCLA. It was a great event in a beautiful space, even if it involved Andy Richter wearing only a vest and leather pants. And a wig. Channeling Jim Morrison. Or maybe that’s why it was great. Anyway, […]

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Though that sounds like some sort of social agenda for pets, it’s actually how we spent last night, seeing Cat Power, a.k.a. Chan Marshall, play the late show at the Malibu Performing Arts Center. I got home from my first day of a four-day fellowship at the lab around 4:45 – the day was a […]

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I got Aimee tickets to see her beloved Red Sox play in Anaheim for her birthday this summer, and game day was yesterday. We knew it would take awhile to travel the 39 miles to the stadium at rush hour, though I’m not sure we thought it would take nearly two and a half hours. […]

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This weekend brought our first real exploration of the area since we moved out. On Saturday night, we headed Westwood where we had a good meal at Native Foods and then went to the Bridges Theater at UCLA for the premiere of the restored Faces and a cast reunion with Gena Rowlands and Seymour “Bert […]

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So three weeks have flown by since we got in, and we’re beginning to get into a rhythm: running in the morning, going to work, three or more nights a week at the movies, often in the company of James Hong or Robert Towne or Hugh Hefner and his entourage (and that was just last […]

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A quick recap of the last days of the road trip, before they fade from memory… We left Sheridan and headed into Montana, our destination for at least the next few days. We spent the morning at the Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument, and spent some time looking around at the memorials and gravesites. The car […]

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