That’s what the guy who ran trivia last night would have called it. Yep, “lengthful.” As in “I’m going to pause lengthfully to wait for your answer.” Huh? It was the sort of thing where you couldn’t tell whether he just didn’t know it’s not a word or he thought it was a funny joke. […]

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So, a week after we found out we had to move out, we’ve signed a lease on a new apartment – wait, a bungalow – and we’re making plans to move. We went the Craigslist route again and found a nice little place on the edge of Hancock Park, a free-standing little house, all our […]

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Driving to trivia last night was a strange experience: it started out darker than normal, and just kept getting darker as we headed up the 101, until we crested a hill after the pass and saw bright sunlight creeping out from under an entire sky filled with smoke from the fires. The photo I took […]

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I was in the middle of a post about our fun weekend – brunch at John O’ Groats (where I had the famous “Huevos O’Groats”), a documentary seminar in honor of Pare Lorentz, a screening of the surprisingly solid Gone Baby Gone, and the amazing Ian McKellen as King Lear at UCLA…and that was just […]

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I’ve been pretty good about timing it so I can catch the DASH bus to work, which cuts my walk time in half and only costs a quarter. I wait in front of the Las Palmas Market, observing the new posters on the wall (Fat Nano ads this week), and watching the traffic in front […]

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We had a super-brief trip to Seattle last weekend, with just enough time for a delicious brunch with Amanda, some wandering around the Saturday Market in Redmond, and a stateside wedding celebration for an old friend from high school Saturday night. Gavin and Heather got married in Korea last month, and three of his high […]

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It was fun, actually, thanks for asking. We let our buddy Huell guide the way, and headed an hour and a half east of West Hollywood to experience apple picking in Oak Glen. We also experienced waiting in line at Law’s Oak Glen Coffee Shop, eating their delicious apple pie for breakfast, buying apple bread, […]

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R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People was released fifteen years ago today, October 6, 1992. Sometime in between the release of Out of Time in March of 1991 and the fall of 1992, I had become a massive R.E.M. fan, and Automatic was the first album of theirs that I was fully fanatical about and whose […]

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The trip to Rochester was a nice break, and a good chance to catch up with old friends, but it was completely exhausting at the same time, and I’m glad to be back home. Sessions started at 8:30, which isn’t so bad, but when we were staying in a hotel in downtown Rochester and the […]

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