We don’t get a lot of visitors, so when someone comes down just to see us, we try to make it worth their while. Brent flew down from Seattle on Thursday night to spend a weekend built around seeing Radiohead on Monday, so I knew we didn’t have to do much to make the trip […]

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We had a really great weekend in Anchorage, with lots of good family time, fun with Scott cleaning out the basement (sounds fun, I know), a 5k race, and most importantly, a surprise dinner for my parents’ 40th anniversary that went off without a hitch. Aimee and I arrived late Thursday night, after a delightful […]

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2008 is going down as the craziest travel year in history for us, and this week is no exception: we left for London last Wednesday night, spent a day there before driving to the Cotswolds, where we spent three days, and then drove back to London. We left for L.A. the next morning and got […]

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It’s been a great day and a half in England, with a fun day in London, a nice drive to the Cotswolds, and then the capper, a flat tire (tyre) as we drove down the driveway of the house where we’ll be staying for the weekend. We got the car towed to a garage (emphasis […]

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…and August will be over in a flash. We got back from a nice trip to Anchorage on Sunday night, which ended with a twenty-minute conversation with Wilco’s guitarist, Nels Cline, as we waited for our delayed flight at the (soon to be renamed?) Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. He was really nice and friendly, […]

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I never thought I’d see Jeff Tweedy standing on a temporary stage in a parking lot, singing “Misunderstood” while looking wistfully off toward the Sears Mall and the BP tower, but there he was, last night, playing the band’s second ever show in Alaska. It has been raining almost continuously the whole weekend, and last […]

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In between our trips hither and yon, we’ve been trying to make the most of our weekends, so instead of a screening on Friday night, we headed to the new-ish Father’s Office in Culver City, completely packed as usual, for dinner and drinks. We lucked out despite the free-for-all seating policy and managed to nab […]

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After a whole bunch of time out of town (did we really spend four weekends in a row in airports? Yes we did), we got back in the L.A. swing of things this weekend, with a couple of days filled with only-in-L.A. stuff. We started off the weekend with a screening of Wall*E, finally, at […]

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I posted a few tidbits from Hawaii over the past week, so this will be a brief catalog of our week, with photos. It was a terrific trip, a once-in-a-lifetime week of comfort zone-expanding activities (surfing, parasailing, snorkeling, ziplining), relaxation (in the pool or the ocean every day), lots of great food and quality time […]

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Now that I’ve knocked off Hawaii, here are the photos and stories from my visits to every state in the Union. It only took thirty-three and a half years… Alaska Colorado Arizona Washington Virginia ? // ? * Washington, D.C. Massachusetts New Hampshire Vermont Maine New York Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware Virginia North Carolina South Carolina […]

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These are the bio-diesel beasts that took us up to the top of the mountain for our ziplining yesterday. Very nice.

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As seen in Star Markets in Lahaina (not to be confused with the real Stah Mahket), during our requisite daily grocery store stop on the way back from dinner tonight.

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We took care of the one thing I really wanted to do in Hawaii right off the bat this morning, as Aimee and I rose at 3 am and drove 90 minutes to the summit of Haleakala, in the eastern half of Maui. We arrived just before 5 am, just as the sky was beginning […]

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Aloha from Lahaina… We arrived this morning with Aimee’s parents and met up with Mark, Katie, Jack, and Faith at Costco near the airport – a popular shopping spot on a Saturday morning, apparently. We’ve spent some time in the infinity pool, taken in the views from the house, caught a mouse in the kitchen, […]

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After an off-hours attempt and thinking I might have missed the show altogether, I spent my lunch hour in an old CBS studio at Mr. Brainwash’s Life is Beautiful: Art Show 2008. It was a pretty great collection of work, much of it familiar from parking lots, buildings, and electricity boxes around L.A., where we’ve […]

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