Summer has officially begun: the season of travel and concerts. Yesterday morning, we returned from a three-day weekend in Alaska, last night I went to the first outdoor concert of the season, Arcade Fire at the Greek Theater, and tonight, I leave for New York and then Massachusetts for my tenth reunion. Our weekend in […]

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Yogotango opened yesterday, and I stopped by on my way home from work last night. They’d apparently opened at 3:00 that afternoon, and the place looked, well, brand-spanking new, with flat-screens hung from the ceiling showing videos of…their yogurt. I didn’t choose tomato; instead, I decided on peach, and was surprised to see that their […]

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georges Remi, a.k.a. Hergé, the creator of Tintin. The U.S. is still not much of a Tintin consumer, which is fine by me, but it means there isn’t much going on in terms of celebration. I can’t be at the reading and slideshow in New York, […]

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We spent Saturday afternoon at some friends of Aimee’s from school, using their amazing old Chandler & Price letterpress and touring their local community garden, where we snacked on some carrots, fresh from the ground. I’m re-hooked on letterpress now, and have been searching the web for a little press of my own to get […]

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Yet another attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Pinkberry, this yogurt shop called Yogotango that I pass on the way to work has been getting closer to opening over the past few weeks. I ask, though, if you sold five flavors of frozen yogurt, would one of them really be tomato?

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The coincidence of a 14 mile training run and a 14 mile trail race falling on the same weekend was not to be ignored, so I signed up for the Malibu Creek Challenge, another race in the Xterra Trail Race series that I tried out last fall. We rose early Saturday morning to head out […]

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I was very excited to read today of the existence, at some point in the near future (but also, apparently, now, for those already capable of time travel), of the latest in 826 storefronts to pop up around the nation, the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, coming soon. We visited the Pirate Store when we […]

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We had a super-packed weekend this….weekend, which was a lot of fun and good for us, I’m sure, but we’re both beat now. Saturday, we went for a 5 mile hike with some other Amherst alums as well as Williams and Wesleyan folks in Temescal Canyon, which was a lot of fun and a nice […]

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I found some really weird pasta tonight.

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The summer movie promotion engine is in full swing on Sunset this week, as the second try on the Transformers wrap seems to be a little more permanent than the first try. I also watched as a half-dozen workers put up a big display for Spider-Man 3; they were working from back to front, and […]

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I picked up Aimee’s car from the local VW specialist this morning, after a raft of repairs we had done over the past two days. After her car’s dashboard readout shouted “ALTERNATOR WORKSHOP!” at her last week, I found the shop on Car Talk, and it’s just a few miles from our house. For some […]

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Went for a treat at Mashti Malone’s last night (mmm, make mine a double!) and spotted the Wienermobile parked up on the sidewalk in front of the recently renamed Quality Inn on La Brea. When we came out to look for an apartment last summer, it was the Holiday Inn Express, and while not amazing, […]

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