So it’s been a week of rain, off and on, here in L.A., which for us has meant constant monitoring of the leak situation in our office. When it was the garage, no one cared that water got in, but now that it’s the office, a leak is not a good thing, so I’ve been […]

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After a slightly disastrous attempt involving our big stand mixer and gingerbread walls that wouldn’t stand up, we went back to the old reliable kit with the troughs for easy construction. The Necco wafers seemed a little paler this year, but we still managed to put some color into things. This, along with our wreath […]

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Having seen UCLA host USC at the Rose Bowl three years ago, it was only fitting that we got a chance to see the two teams play again, this time in USC’s home stadium, the Los Angeles Coliseum. The tickets were thanks once again to Michael’s dad, and we enjoyed the evening very much. We […]

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The annual film archivists’ conference took place last week in St. Louis, which means four days of screenings, talks, and hanging out with friends and colleagues. I also took a day after the conference to spend with Tim, my collaborator on Photobooth.net, which was a lot of fun as well. The day before the conference […]

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Now my trip is complete.

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I had planned on running along the riverfront path, but apparently it’s flooded. Which explains the street signs in the river.

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Technically, I’ve got a view of the arch from my hotel room window. You have to press your face up to the glass to see it, but it’s there. Off to get a closer look this afternoon, and the conference starts tomorrow.

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Tuna Melt returned for another run at the Muddy Buddy this year, albeit with a personnel change, as Sean stepped in for Brian, out due to injury this year. We ran a good race, I think; I know I felt better (or less awful, to be honest) than in previous years, probably because of my […]

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We had a great 24 hours in Avalon this past weekend, from the ferry ride over, which included some whale-spotting, to our nice little B&B, the tour of the Casino, and dinner on the water. It was just a half hour to Long Beach, then an hour on the Catalina Express, and we were in […]

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We’re spending the weekend, or 24 hours of it, at least, on Catalina. It’s a beautiful day out here, sunny and breezy, and we’ve spent the afternoon wandering around the harbor. We’re about to take a tour of the Casino (and that’s “Casino” as in Italian for “place of gathering” rather than place of gambling). […]

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Back when I lived in Connecticut, I returned after a summer away to discover that the basement, where I’d been storing my stuff for the summer, had flooded, and my photos, books, and film journals had been soaked. In some cases they were salvageable, and in other cases, I had to chuck them. So, I […]

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We had a pretty busy weekend here, with lots of our typical activities. On Saturday, I did my weekly long morning run, and we took in two new movies, The Invention of Lying — a funny idea, but not enough to sustain an entire film — and A Serious Man, which was a terrific, well-observed, […]

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I nabbed a couple of tickets to see Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco (the only member of the bizarro supergroup I’d never heard of before) at the Orpheum last night. I was able to get rid of my extra ticket (to someone who’d driven up from San Diego in hopes […]

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It had been a year and a half since I’d last been to New York, so I thought I’d use one of my last few days off of the year (this is before I took off three weeks for jury duty, but who saw that coming?) and spend a long weekend in the city with […]

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Just like clockwork, and within fifteen minutes of the day and time our judge had predicted a month ago, our trial ended today, and I finished reading the last of the 24 Tintin books Hergé wrote. We’d been deliberating for half a day prior to today, and I figured we’d be done, so I took […]

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