This past weekend, Aimee and I took another L.A. walking tour, this time around Miracle Mile, and met Michael halfway through for lunch ($12 worth of meat) at Pampas, the Brazilian churrascaria place in the Farmer’s Market at the Grove. We also took our “This American Life Live” poster to get framed, and ran some […]

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It’s been a busy week, particularly the last two nights, whenI went to see a few concerts at venues I’d never been to before. On Tuesday night, Jeff and I ate at the Bowery (great mac and cheese) and then took the subway to the (Wilshire + Western = ) Wiltern for the Bloc Party […]

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Things are looking up: our umpteenth plumber appointment brought a breakthrough, and on Friday morning, I took a real, working shower, complete with hot water. Turns out our shower head wasn’t allowing the level of water pressure required to make the hot water heater kick in. We chose a new shower head, and that was […]

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Every ten or fifteen years, Sherlock Holmes seems to sound like a good idea for a movie again. I’m not one to complain; my collection of Holmes books still takes up more than a few boxes in the basement of my the house in Anchorage, but it’s a strange trend. In the ’70s, we had […]

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I haven’t had time to write about it, but Aimee and I spent a day at Warner Bros. on their behind the scenes studio tour a few weeks ago. Warners has one of the better-preserved studios, with an extensive backlot (including the only remaining jungle set in Hollywood) and dozens of sound stages, each with […]

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We went to our third live taping of This American Life last night at Royce Hall, this time for their episode entitled “What I Learned from TV.” The house was packed, and its contents included the now-familiar duo of Jonathan Dayton (always with the hat) and Valerie Faris of Little Miss Sunshine fame, as well […]

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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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The good news is that my hard drive might be able to be rescued; the bad news is that my computer is dead, and dead to the tune of a $1000 repair fee, which I’ll be forgoing in favor of an altogether new computer. I still feel like mine is a new computer; I hadn’t […]

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I’m not sure why I was watching a preview for Underdog – maybe just to see the weird flying dog face – but someone involved with that movie should choose what their superhero’s logo looks like:

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As the last part of Aimee’s Christmas present from last year, I had planned a little weekend getaway to Pasadena for a night, which we enjoyed this past weekend. We left just after 9:00 on Saturday morning, and arrived…about fifteen minutes later. Not that I thought it would take very long to get there, but […]

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