The Bing Theater at LACMA 5 Fingers Friday 7/31/09, 7:30 pm Price: Free with my badge. Concessions: None, though I did grab some tacos at Baja down the street beforehand. Audience: Surprisingly full, maybe 200 out of 600 seats Trailers/advertising: None. Projection: 35mm changeover. I made a last-minute change to my movie-going plans for the […]

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OK, so it’s not that hidden, but it’s not that obvious, either. Now that the paint has dried, I’ve been able to put our bedroom furniture back the way it was before the conversion of the garage into an office, and it’s pretty much exactly the same as it was before, except there’s now a […]

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Though it was only a few months ago that I took on my first Movie Week here in L.A., there are plenty of theaters to go around, so I thought I’d tackle it again, with an all-new set of cinemas, while Aimee is back in Boston. I’d better hurry, though, as we learned this week […]

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We’ve got a new office in the house now, and I finally have the secret door I’ve always wanted. I’m not completely sure about the single blue square of carpet – we may swap it out for a gray one – but the work is done, and I’m in the process of moving all of […]

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As bad as frivolous lawsuits are, I wonder if anyone is paying attention to the effects of grammatical mistakes on giant billboards. Or maybe to the way they affect us all. Either one.

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Over the past week, we’ve had contractors demo’ing, wiring, drywalling, framing, and otherwise converting our garage into an office. Today, they took the somewhat major step of breaking through the wall between the garage and bedroom, to make way for the door that will give us access to the new office. The doorway looks a […]

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It’s been a few days since we returned from our two weeks in New Zealand, and it already feels so long ago… We kept a pretty good account of our adventures in our journal, so it’ll be a truncated account that I’ll report here. We really enjoyed the trip, despite the rain and cold that […]

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We made the long-ish drive from Queenstown to Christchurch yesterday, passing through some varied and beautiful country, from snow-covered mountains to green pastures. We stopped in Tekapo for a look at this beautiful stone church with a stunning view (sadly, the majestic mountains are a bit blown-out by the iPhone camera). We also stopped in […]

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Despite the fact that Aimee’s Christchurch friends labeled it a bit of an “old lady” sort of activity as far as Queenstown goes, we had a lovely time trundling around Lake Wakatipu aboard the 1912 steamer the TSS Earnslaw. We took the trip across to the Walter Peak Farm, and got a look at what […]

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It’s impossible to capture much of anything about Milford Sound in a photograph, much less one taken on my iPhone, but this one came the closest: the deep blue water, clear skies, snow-capped peaks, sheer cliffs plunging into the sound, the sun streaming over the horizon, and a touch of mist on the water. I […]

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We were treated to our first cloudless day for our anniversary today, and we spent it exploring Queenstown’s surroundings: the old gold town of Arrowtown, the birthplace of bungy jumping at the Kawarau Bridge, and the vineyard and wine cave at Gibbston Valley. It was a beautiful day, cold and crisp, with a flawless sky […]

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We didn’t have any wifi in the youth hostel at Franz Josef Glacier, so I didn’t have a chance to post this then, but I wanted to put it up before I forgot. We went on a half-day hike on the glacier, which got us some quality time on the glacier and some good adventures […]

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Imagine waking up to this view every morning… We could stare at it all day, but we’re moving on to Queenstown today. We’ve really enjoyed our day in Wanaka. A car and toy museum, an outdoor maze, and a local, independent cinema: just perfect.

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We crossed the Southern Alps today, or rather, crossed below them, through the Otira Tunnel on the TranzAlpine from Christchurch this morning. It was a stunning ride, through snow-capped peaks and over deep ravines. We arrived in Greymouth, took a brewery tour, and then visited the Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki, a striking and mysterious formation […]

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We’re having a great time with Aimee’s friends in Canterbury. They have an amazing place; apparently this tree was in “Heavenly Creatures.”

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