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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It’s been a lot of fun being back in Rochester this week for the AMIA conference, seeing old friends and colleagues and visiting the old haunts. A drink at the Old Toad, some BBQ and cajun corn at Sticky Lips, and some gelato at the GEH cafe – though that last one is a new […]

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It’s official, this time: we went to the Los Angeles County Fair yesterday, the last of the fairs in the area this summer, and enjoyed a long day of deep fried Oreos – one was one too many – fish tacos, beer samplers, and photobooths. Lots of pigs, goats, sheep, and breakdancers on roller skates, […]

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Things look a little different here today, hopefully for good. After a week of fiddling around and a half-hour or so of thinking I’d solved things, my great Movable Type project of 2007 came to a screeching halt, and I decided to jump ship to WordPress. So far, I’ve been able to wrangle it into […]

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Happy to see word on the 826LA blog about groundbreaking for their Echo Park Time Travel Mart, formerly Fashion 5 #2 Women’s Apparel on Sunset.

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It’s been a busy week so far, beginning with Lucinda Williams at the El Rey on Monday night, the fifth night of her Los Angeles residency, during which she played shows consisting of an entire album of songs, in order (what’s the deal with that these days?), followed by a second set of other material […]

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Apparently, spelling is not the new management’s strong suit.

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Since I started at work a year ago, we’ve been attending the screenings of new releases that go on twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday nearly every weekend of the year. Our first movie was Talladega Nights, so it’s not as though the films are exclusively highbrow or serious. In fact, often enough, there […]

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Things are beginning to get back to normal. I finally got my boot off two weeks ago, and am enjoying walking around again, unimpeded. I’ve begun walking and taking the bus to work again, just in time for the super-hot weather, but it feels good, and it’s reassuring to see the same gentleman with the […]

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I’m not sure exactly how hot it got here this weekend, but if it wasn’t at 100?, it was somewhere close by, somewhere we’d never quite seen it get in our year here so far. The combination of high heat and heavy traffic didn’t sound too tempting for this Labor Day weekend, so we decided […]

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