Entries from January 2008

Cookies

January 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on Cookies

As seen at work today; I can’t say whether or not they were delicious, as my cow-orkers had already eaten them all.

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Tags: Noted · Photos

Rainy day movie weekend

January 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Rainy day movie weekend

It was an inside/outside weekend, with nomination screenings mixed in with some L.A. sightseeing and restaurant-going. We found the one moment of sunshine in each day of the weekend to do our outside activities: a hike in Caballero Canyon on Saturday morning, which was a nice little hour-long stroll through some rolling hills with a […]

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Tags: Film · Los Angeles ·

Winter is there

January 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Winter is there

And I thought 2007 was a busy travel year… We inaugurated another year of criss-crossing the globe and getting to know LAX far better than we’d like (13 trips planned in 12 months this year, up from 10 last year…) to with our now-annual January trip to Alaska. We celebrated my dad’s birthday and a […]

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Tags: Alaska · Film · Los Angeles

Scrumptious

January 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Scrumptious

Got in late from Anchorage last night, no food in the fridge for lunch, so what choice did I have? “Four fish,” please. Perfect.

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Tags: Los Angeles

From Franklin to Venice

January 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on From Franklin to Venice

We took advantage of the return of the sunny weekend with a couple of outdoor adventures this weekend, first in the heretofore unknown Franklin Canyon, a great hiking spot nestled between Studio City and Beverly Hills. We missed the Faery Hunt that was going on while we were there, but we did enjoy a two-hour […]

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Happy Birthday, Tintin

January 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Tintin

I even have a balloon.I was looking through old photos last weekend (it seemed like a rainy weekend activity) and found this gem from my semester abroad in Cambridge my junior year in college. I think I was coerced into holding the balloon, which explains the odd face. Anyway, it’s perfect timing, as today is […]

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Tags: Nostalgia · Photos · Travel

Changes at LACMA

January 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Changes at LACMA

Looks like they’re getting closer to being finished at LACMA – driving down Wilshire lately, I noticed row after row of lampposts begind the fence, and wondered if they were being set up before being deployed throughout the campus. Of course not; it’s an installation, of a work called “Urban Light” by Chris Burden. I […]

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NoHo #3

January 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on NoHo #3

So there’s NoHo in New York (thought it’s a bit of a pretender and was apparently invented in the late ’80s by a “cabal of real estate developers,” according to Wikipedia), and then there’s the Noho I know, lovely Northampton, Massachusetts – and now there’s our local NoHo, North Hollywood. We took another Walking L.A. […]

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Resolutions

January 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Resolutions

Aimee gave me a book of hikes in the L.A. area, and as part of my four-letter resolutions (read more, hike more, draw more), we took our first of the hikes on New Year’s Day. It was a good one to start on, because it doesn’t really qualify as a hike, but is more along […]

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