Living in L.A. still feels a little like a long summer vacation because the weather hasn’t changed at all since we got here (only a slight exaggeration), and it’s nearly October. Alright, so it’s a little colder, but it still hasn’t rained a day in sixty, it was 76° today, and I’m wearing the same […]

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I spent much of my last semester at school looking at films from the 1940s and 1950s frame by frame, looking for damage and decomposition, but also checking out the content of the image, the style and design of rooms and clothes and signs and newspapers. I’ve always been fascinated by newspapers made up for […]

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Not Sinatra at the Hollywood Bowl, and not really Sinatra at all, actually, but this week we enjoyed some strange and interesting musical performances. First, last Sunday, we walked over to the Hollywood Bowl in the afternoon and picnicked on the grounds, with a loaf of bread, some brie, wine, and grapes, which made for […]

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William Randolph Hearst was a man of contradictions, apparently. He thought of his estate in San Simeon as a ‘ranch,’ and wanted his guests to feel at home, so much so that everyone ate with paper napkins and used ketchup and mustard out of their store-bought bottles. All the while, they were sitting in a […]

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We attended our first Dodger game on Tuesday, and though we stayed to the eighth inning, that turned out to be only half of the game, which went to 16, with the boys in blue prevailing around midnight. Half of the Red Sox – D-Lowe, Nomar, Bill Mueller, Grady Little – are here now, which […]

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